Power Kite Forum

Snow buggy in Norway

snowbuggyer - 5-3-2010 at 02:57 PM

Below a link to a video of my snowbuggy.


It performs very,very well in powder snow : it builds up speed easily, can go upwind, half wind and downwind.

Most importantly, it behaves identical to riding on beach sand.

http://www.vimeo.com/4390368

Rgds

Eric (a.k.a. MTwater on www.vliegerforum.nl)
The Netherlands

flexiblade - 5-3-2010 at 10:10 PM

Welcome to the forum and that is one great design - if I was able to get up to a nice snowy area with some wind I would definitely mod my buggy off of your design.

lad - 5-3-2010 at 10:36 PM

I like it! It looks very practical and simple. I wish I had one last month for the 2 ft. of snow we got!

cheezycheese - 6-3-2010 at 07:06 AM

great video, one of the more enjoyable ones that i've seen. great design for the steering system...!!!

highazakite - 6-3-2010 at 11:07 AM

Excellent buggy!
love the steering.
I wonder if some fins on the rear outer edges would help hold the tail in place?

snowspider - 10-3-2010 at 05:59 PM

Very nice! Thanks for sharing. There are a lot of buggiers that would like an all season all terrain buggy. I built a light weight sled using skis and found that putting the center of pull in front of the center of gravity the "break out " will be in a direction that follows the kite forward instead of backwards.I find that I'm more comfortable going forward out of controll than backwards out of controll. Good luck .Have fun.