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July 22, 2006
Fastest Kite Buggy in NZ
Perrin Melchior The SAND SIFTER himself is the fastest man in a kite buggy in New Zealand
Perrin owner of Kite Works in Auckland recently exceeded 100 kmh at Muriwai beach on the west coast, hear is a short report from the man himself and a couple of pictures.
Hi there
Here is my personal top speed in a buggy - 101 KPH \ 62 MPH
On the 03\03\2006 I finally broke the 100 kph barrier after years of trying.
I did it using a Peter Lynn Comp Buggy with upgraded 32mm extended side frames, a 1.4m giga strong axle and a 5 wheel kit.
Wheels were alloy rims with treaded tyres
Buggy mass is 35kg, driver mass is 70kg and I carried 40kg ballast
The kite was a 12m Naish Shockwave hard wired to the buggy frame
The beach was Muriwai, New Zealand .Soft, damp, black iron sand with a 2km run in 25-40 knots cross onshore (south west)
Most of the runs that day were.
Posted by craighansen at July 22, 2006 12:45 AM
Comments
Well done Perrin! Awesome. Interesting that off all the weird and wonderful buggy configurations out there these days that its the old classic PL five-wheeler thats still really suited to this sort of thing. (btw 70kg??? eat something man!)
Posted by: murray at July 22, 2006 11:13 AM
Congratulations Perrin! Awesome breaking the 100k mark. I would love to see pics of how the kite is 'hard wired' to the buggy and how do you attach the ballast to the buggy?
Sorry for all the questions, but I'm a frustrated speed freak, wallowing in your dust at around the 50kph mark!
Congrats again!
Posted by: JB at July 31, 2006 11:47 PM
100kph!
Mad as a bag of bananas! And there was I thinking 45kph was fast.
You have my deepest respect :)
What next? 120? Why not go for the world record?
Posted by: Rebble at August 1, 2006 10:53 AM
Very nice!!! Congrats!
I'm still trying to beat the 80kph barrier.
Keep it up!
Posted by: Basilio at October 16, 2006 11:43 AM