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June 29, 2005
China Buggy Report
China Kite Trip
I was recently in China for the 22 Weifang Kite Festival and a smaller festival in Quigdao (Tsingtao) they make real good beer hear.
The Buggy connection is two fold firstly it was a kite fest, and I get as much pleasure from flying single line kites, large and small as
I do from sucking free power from the sky and turning it in to speed or height as the mood takes me. And secondly I found a Chinese buggy Crew doing there thing on the kite field pulling power out of the sky the Chinese way.
Man what a rush to see them and ride there home made buggies and kites and lend them mine (just had to take a small Rebble) we had a blast Kite power is an international addiction and language.
I have included a link to a photo gallery of the trip below.
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June 21, 2005
Blue Balls Buggy and Board Bash
Well we had the Blue Balls last weekend a good turnout 12 altogether.
The weather sadly did not turn out so good but a lot of Kite porn videos watched and a coupla mad motorcycle clips taken in, along with the playstation competition fun was had by all. (Thanks for the Big Screen Peter)
Day one
On day one woke to rain and a blustery offshore so bad it was that the beach was littered (ok there were two of them) with kite fishermen gleefully baiting hooks to hunt and kill poor innocent fish. It was suggested we drive south to find possible location a quick look at the map and off we went, we found small rock strewn beach with a gusty cross onshore that was buggy and boardable, Perrin Dave and Peter got amongst it in the rain for a bit of fun in the wet with Perrin doing some rock impact damage to his buggy in the wet conditions, Dave managed to get very wet and covered in sand and Peter got in 1 and a bit runs down the beach, Kent whose idea the trek south may have been could not be moved to board using the excuse it was wet and raining, the fact that he boards and that generally takes place in a wet water type environment similar to the rain was not sufficient argument to get him on to a board.
Day Two
It became evident that the choice of hostess in the friendly sea side camp ground venue was a little generous in the friendly part of the description but this was made up for by all the attention we received from the other natives of the west coast, that were more than pleased to see us (The sand flies They got away with about 2 itres of my blood while I was not looking), other than that once the Ramp was constructed we waited for wind with much watching and speculation of the visible but un reachable wind line, just off shore which spent most of its time teasing us, we did however get some wind. I was able to launch and fly the 8 mt Rebble and the 18 mt phantom and have a bit of a buggy but no boarding was possible.
there were other kites in the sky Paul from UK had his PKD up and flying we had David from France flying his Quadra foil, John ex CHCH fame with a 6.3 mt Cquad, Perrin From KiteWorks on his Monster Engen and The organiser Paul with a Peel
There was some tame jumping action when the wind allowed.
There was a spectacular wind shift towards the end of the day that left John and myself way down the beach eventually becalmed and in the rain with only the long wet and windless walk of shame in front of us, after this final frustration the lads called it a day and that was the Blue Balls.
Thanks to Paul Carfer for organising the event and we will see you all at THE MOOSEin October.
PS: MAD MEN WANTED Moose Special!!!! to take place after or before THE MOOSE with a trip planned to visit Bailey’s Beach, Tepaki Dunes, 90 Mile and more all in the week before or the week after (Tide Dependant) THE MOOSE (Head count to date 6 MAD MEN
on board)
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