you can get to 60mph easy on the drylake surface. getting passed the 60 is the hard part because its pushing/finding the extra mph to get faster.
Similar to driving your Ferrari its easy to get to 200, but how much longer does it take to get to 300+?
i've driven everything from a PL Classic to a Xxtreme ApeXX. The lighter the buggy the smaller the kite you can use, and if you start adding weight
you need a bigger kite. There is a fine line between kite choice and how much weight to use front vs rear.
if you're going for max speed you need a kite that sits more forward in the window than say a lower AR foil that sits more to the center. this is were
race kites come in handy, and also arcs too. in gusty conditions, race kites push forward past the window, and phannies / scorpions eat gusts for
breakfast. thats why most people dont like racekites for small parks because if they're having to turn every 15 secs, they arent as stable - i should
say requires more pilot input than your simple pull left/brake right method. one method of knowing if you're doing bad turns on your race kite is the
wingtips turn in. this is where you're turned too tight or too loose and dropped the air pressure inside. however if you have long rides/runs and need
speed go Race.
at speed, its pretty much, lock and GET loaded. the kite doesnt really wave up and down you're kinda holding on for dear life, in a sense with the
kite parked in one position. you're gliding the brake lines more than Right / Left handle movements. also the cool thing is that when you reach a
certain speed based on the kite, it actually stops pulling as much, its a bit like cruise control.
we used a PL RII 2.2m at first, but it kept sitting too back. there was footage from another Dutch NABX video that showed us all in the "tent of
buggies" adjusting/changing the bridles to give it more foward speed. By the time we're done the wind dropped so the size in the end was a 3m.
Kami can we get you to come to Vegas?
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