With no good wind I've been going crazy staring at my new board. I finally lost it and talked my wife into pulling me behind the ATV. I attached a
wakeboard tow rope and handle to the ATV and off we went! Not bad...it's a different kind of pull, closer to wakeboarding but I got a good feel for
the board. In fact, I managed a couple of hop 180's.
I was trying to come up with a better tow point. Has anybody gone down this particular crazy path already?PHREERIDER - 1-2-2009 at 06:39 PM
atv is fun and sick fast , golf cart had a little more weight but not real speedy
i pull my daughter with my mountain bike on the beach can't get my wife to pull me thoughnwsurfwakeskate - 1-2-2009 at 08:25 PM
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Originally posted by PHREERIDER
atv is fun and sick fast , golf cart had a little more weight but not real speedy
i pull my daughter with my mountain bike on the beach can't get my wife to pull me though
isn't that what wife's are for? hooking a rope to and having them pull us around. :p
AHAHAHAHA!MadKiteBoy - 1-2-2009 at 08:45 PM
thats the way i did.... ski rope behin a quad... all sorts of good stuff can happen....:eureka:kitedog - 1-2-2009 at 09:37 PM
I'm liking this...I'd like to mount the rope about a foot or two higher but that's gonna take some hardware. I'm also a little concerned about
tipping the ATV if I load up on one side or the other. As it is I've kept the rope fairly short (about 20 ft.) Pretty fun!PHREERIDER - 2-2-2009 at 08:38 AM
don't do the high pole!
the it will pull over the atv
at speed and hard edge snatch will be a rough tumble for the driver
quite dangerous
roll bar/ jeep much betterkitedog - 2-2-2009 at 09:04 AM
I agree Phree. Not worth the risk or the effort. Still, with the low tow point and short rope, it seems pretty stable and I'll get my board
fix/workout.
I've tried hooking my dogs sled-style and have had some success but its usually a melee. The dogs go berzerk and it becomes a completely different
kind of activity.
The bottom line is a I need more board time and the wind here is erratic at best. I'm gonna go find a good hill!MadKiteBoy - 2-2-2009 at 05:14 PM
yeah.... i can only ride hills around here..(no quad) we used about a 6 or 7 ft section when we road and it wasnt to badkitedog - 5-2-2009 at 04:45 PM
Had another ATV landboarding session tonight. The pasture where I'm riding has some contour and I found that if I rode on the down hill side of the
ATV it helped simulate the angle of the pull from the kite. We also ramped up the speed to about 12-15 miles per hour which livened things up a bit.
Still haven't experienced the dreaded speed wobbles with the new skate trucks...I will probably have to be going a bit faster. It's not kiting but at
least I'm getting my board on!PHREERIDER - 6-2-2009 at 08:13 AM
more like 30- 35 mph and we would" cut it up " like go carts on grass
most speed wobbles i've experienced are from lack of commitment to balance through the board or interrupted like after a hop /surface change
oh yeah give it some toeside time slowly....with the turnBeamerBob - 6-2-2009 at 08:28 AM
about 30 years ago, I had my cousin drive her gokart with a skirope attached and I rode my skateboard behind it. Had fun for about a half hour before
I broke my wrist catching myself in a fall. A landboard in a field would be much more stable.kitedog - 6-2-2009 at 09:39 AM
It's pretty amazing how stable this thing is...I went right over a couple of anthills and expected the front wheels to dig in but they plowed right
through. The ATV is really hauling a$$ at 35 mph. I was doing some turns behind the thing at 12-15 which probably had my speed around 20 or so. I
don't know if I'd like to go a whole lot faster behind the ATV. Toeside is not a problem...I've been practicing riding goofy. That's a real workout!
It's cool using the hills!
