Hello Everyone, this is my first post up here but thought you may like to know about an expedition my brother and I are doing (starting this monday!) in Brazil.

We are attempting to break the World Record (unofficially) for the longest distance travelled in a kite buggy, unsupported. Two brothers from Buckinghamshire in England, who until a week ago, have never actually kite buggied before! Sounds mad? So many people think, but our sponsor's have been incredible in supporting us, and agree that we can pull it off. See these incredible companies/people below.

For more information, 'Like' our facebook page (always helps with the sponsor's!) http://www.facebook.com/kitebuggyadventure
and see our website http://www.kitebuggyadventure.com

We are raising money for Centre Point UK, a charity which houses and supports young homeless people. We didn't want to join the queue of people asking for donations from your hard earned cash. Therefore we wanted to do something a little different, and attempt to give something in return: http://www.justgiving.com/brazilkitebuggyadventure

Also, we have a SPOT GPS, so people can track us making progress up the coast! Currently it shows we are in the not so exotic Buckingham, 6 days time it will be the very exotic Brazil! Link can be found on our Facebook page.

Our Support:
Craig Hansen from PLK Buggy Shop in New Zealand, and Computing Solutions - provided Outlaw buggies, and literally thousands of advice emails from his experience gained doing the Mad Way South expedition in the Sahara
Ozone Kites - provided 2 x 4m Access kites, and 4 x Frenzy kites, plus bars and lines! Beautiful kites, easy to fly and perfect for the job.
Sb Kites in Poole (UK) - huge amount of advice and help in actually learning to buggy! Fantastic teacher, and a really nice guy.
www.OceanSource.net - helping organise the logistics of the windsurfing holiday at the end of the expedition! Specialise in water sports holidays 'off the beaten tracS-P-A-M-L-I-N-K-
Jon and Helen at Buggy Bags - phenomenal ability to build the best quality bespoke bags, at such short notice! Couldn't have done it without them
Club Ventos - specialising in watersports holidays have provided accommodation in Jericoacoara

More on our website!!

Here's a call to anybody who feels they can help us gain exposure for the expedition. Do you have any contacts in Magazines / BBC / Newspapers etc who would be willing to run a story on us? If so, attached is a generalised press release. Bare in mind, we are leaving for Brazil on the 25th, and returning a month later with potentially very little chance to get onto internet in between.

Many thanks for reading down this far! We look forward to hearing a few replies - comments about how mad we are etc.

Oh, and why are we doing it? Well, partly to show people this is a sport that's easy to join as long as you get safe, prior instruction. (Hopefully it is anyway!!). As Craig Hansen said, we want to encourage more people to put down their playstation consoles, and try a new sport; whether that be traction kiting, windsurfing, kitesurfing, sailing etc etc.

Cheers,

Charlie and Harry Thuillier

Good Winds!
I am sure you know it won't be easy. Nothing in life worth while is !
:bigok:

Im jelly... I want to go to brazil and kite :sniff:

Have fun guys!

Thanks very much Drewculous and Bladerunner! Indeed, we definitely know nothing about the whole trip is going to be easy. However, often in these adventures getting to the start line is the most difficult thing. Getting sponsorship, planning route and logistics etc etc. However we're nearly there! Just the fun bit to go. We've only had 2 months to plan though, as the idea came about rather late!

But indeed, if it was easy it wouldn't be as fun (although I may retract that in a couple of weeks!), nor would we have got sponsorship and the huge amount of interest, or would we be as pleased on the finish line.

Cheers for sharing your thoughts. Again, if you could 'Like' the facebook page, it would really help us out!

Wow!!! This sounds epic good on ya and may the wind and weather be your friends on this adventure!

Hi,
Best wishes to you guys.
I had a look around at the website and read a few threads.
2 Frenzies and one 4m Access for each pilot. I at first thought that would simply not do until I saw the wind study for your area and wow that's windy.
One thing to add is... when space is at a premium....an option to adding(carrying) extra kites (bigger/smaller sizes) is to use/carry extra line sets of longer and shorter lengths.
Paul

Hi Paul,

Indeed, that's what we've heard we can do. On light wind days we'll double the length of the lines, and I guess what you mean then is that it would also work the other way if we halved the 4m lines on heavy wind days? Brilliant!

Bespoke buggy bags arriving tomorrow from Jon and Helen at BuggyBags.co.uk! Can't wait.

zero wind to train today, so we decided to take a couple of promo shots instead for Centre Point Charity. Check out the bespoke Outlaw buggy provided by Craig Hansen at PLK in New Zealand (Mad Way South participant): www.facebook.com/kitebuggyadventure Hope you all agree it looks pretty cool! We've had laser cut aluminium luggage racks built on to the back axel to support a month's worth of luggage, spares, tools, 6 kites, food, water, hammocks etc etc!

heres wishing happy and safe winds from the central oklahoma guys. wish i could join you my flow is feeling neglected latly. havent buggied sence corpus cristi in early june.

i want to do something crazy like this. i was thinking about buggying down padre island to the end it wouldnt take long though. something insane like this would be epic. my wife would kill me though.

They finished earlier today just thought I'd bump this for them. Congrats guys.