I read this in another forum and just had to pass it along with full credit to the original author. It is funny but surely someone can learn something from it.

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Originally posted by TonyHolden What I Learned About Buggying Today As a novice: If the wind is strong enough to keep the tide in for an extra hour, it is probably not blowing at between 15 and 18mph. If a 3m kite feels even nslightly overpowered in gusts, the wind is too strong. If the kite can accelerate a combined weight of about 165 kilos of buggy and pilot to 20mph+ in less than 100m, as a novice you're probably overpowered. If the kite drops for no reason don't turn away from it, it is going to power up again. When the kite does power up in a 30mph+ gust, do expect to enjoy your first OBE when you're doing 15mph in the opposite direction. When you land 3m from where you started, that pain really is a broken collar bone and ribs. Do expect to spend hours in A&E waiting to get laughed at by the staff. I'm not going to stop though, the feeling I experienced before the OBE was like nothing else, I want more of that. I also owe a huge vote of thanks to the people who helped me out, they were brilliant and I'm not sure I can thank them enough.

Nice find Bob. Funny how we kiters seem to be the kind of people that actually have to pee on the electric fence before we will believe its really on...

You're not wrong

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Originally posted by mgatc Nice find Bob. Funny how we kiters seem to be the kind of people that actually have to pee on the electric fence before we will believe its really on...

That will really help me explain this to my non-flying friends. "Why in God's name did you do that?" To which I reply "Dunno'. Seemed like a good idea at the time."

I don't think a lot of us realize what we are doing looks like to people unaccustomed to it. Case in point: at the beach hot launching my 4m in some fairly stout wind, scudding off on hard pack at a good clip (that never gets old) when I hear my GF's sister say nervously "Umm.. does he need help?" to which my girl says, without looking up from her nintendo DS, "Nah, he's fine." Electric fence wizz #1256.

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Originally posted by heliboy50 I don't think a lot of us realize what we are doing looks like to people unaccustomed to it. Case in point: at the beach hot launching my 4m in some fairly stout wind, scudding off on hard pack at a good clip (that never gets old) when I hear my GF's sister say nervously "Umm.. does he need help?" to which my girl says, without looking up from her nintendo DS, "Nah, he's fine." Electric fence wizz #1256.

lol, nice!

wow triple post glitch... sweet

...lame ... triple post... sorry

wtf just happened?

ive had like 3 or 4 OBE's and EVERY single time i got up laughing my ass off--even after the last one, where i rolled over about 5-6 times and the buggy hit me upside the head

Is there another way to test an electric fence?

Great find BB! I'm going to print that out and memorize that so I have the first few commandments of bugging when the time comes to get my first bug

That might help but if you are like me you will forget most of the stuff you thought you knew very well, but especially the stuff you are just trying to memorize. "Brakes? What are brakes"?

the question is there another way to test fence ....


get someone newer than you to test for ya

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Originally posted by stevep the question is there another way to test fence .... get someone newer than you to test for ya

Hopefully only after all the proper amendments have been made to the will. :saint:

ATB,
Sam