does anyone know if there is any buggy races going on within the US? i see the 3 main events during the year, but is there more than this?

if anyone is trying to host a buggy race event, please let me know i'd like to help sponsor it. thx

how about in Canada? just might happen or at least training and riding.

Cheers

hey racers. I'm in Oregon and would participate in a small series. Maybe we could meet once a month or so just to keep the dust off us. I REALLY HOPE THE ORGANIZERS OF NABX ACTUALLY SCHEDULE RACES THIS YEAR. Or I'm going to start following the FISLY Land Sailors to their races. Ellis and Bison would be the best for organizing the races because they have all the experience needed to pull them off!!! Since Challenge 2000!

Yeah, I'd make the drive down once a month to race, let me know if it's on, I'll help run a second class as well as long as I'm not racing in it.

We should shoot for march, the riding is awesome, it's easy to get low 60mph with the amount of beach we have end of winter. WE SHOULD organize a new nothwest US CA group, we could represent at the larger events. Ellis or Bison and a combination of reps could restart the club scene again. More racing, we could run an SOBB style meet once a month. I'm super psyced that the Freestlye Buggy riders are rippin it up. Maybe "The SWAV" could organize the nor and so cal riders and Nevada riders. RIDE ON!!! :tumble:

Ya know we gotta do this right?

Count me in. Shall we use the net for voting and use a sign up type blog area private to the racers? Eli as you know I am ready with marks, scoring sheets, stop watch and so on. Jon

which site should we use, is there a new site, or could we put a NWBPA section on this forum? Everyone seems to be here on this forum. What sort of time line should we create. Lookin at Nov, dec, jan, feb, then March? And every rep should build up there 'Region'. And over staffed regions should reach out as far as they can. Every Rep could, submit a journal, or notes as to what's going on with who, what, when, where, and we know why, sometimes:moon:

I could organize something here on OB in San Francisco.Only thing would be to find place to stay for You.There is not much camping action in the city as far as I know and it's prohibited on the beach,so probably motel.But I could get BBQ on the beach and big event tent.Parking is next to the beach.I know about RV park just 5 miles south in Pacifica.SF is kind of half way for people from NW and SW so it would work.Our beach is not as great as in Oregon but in winter months We have nice storms and there is enough room at low tide.I know all local pubs for no wind days to keep action going and they are next to beach in case it will pick up

Would you be running one big circuit, or have smaller areas with the best of each going on to compete in the main event at NABX?

Either way, I'm in for sure. I learn more in a couple races than I do in a month of kiting by myself.

meow, meow

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Originally posted by zloty I could organize something here on OB in San Francisco.Only thing would be to find place to stay for You.There is not much camping action in the city as far as I know and it's prohibited on the beach,so probably motel.But I could get BBQ on the beach and big event tent.Parking is next to the beach.I know about RV park just 5 miles south in Pacifica.SF is kind of half way for people from NW and SW so it would work.Our beach is not as great as in Oregon but in winter months We have nice storms and there is enough room at low tide.I know all local pubs for no wind days to keep action going and they are next to beach in case it will pick up

Hey Zloty,

Before organizing a big event similar to SOBB or DBBB, let start a new thread and invite locals (within the bayarea and vicinity) and have a weekend sesh at Ocean Beach one of these days, and subsequent weekends after. Let's see how many are interested. Maybe do a practice race, discuss racing tips and so on or simply hangout and talk kites. Invite kiters like Gilligan, art_lessing, goreo95033, dagon, khooke (though recovering from surgery at the moment), KYTE-SLINGER, strasher, elton, and other buggiers from the bayarea who are not members of this forum.

elkiter

sorry, i have not followed this thread, since I've posted it. Here in Winter Vancouver, BC, Canada ... we have started our race practicing. most of the locals have signed up to www.powerkitecanada.com were we have a small little section for racing.
as we are in winter season now, it's going to slow down for the buggy scene, but we could race on boards and skis. : )

if need be, there is for sure 8 buggiers that would travel as far as Oregon to race on weekends. Maybe the OR Buggiers could meet us halfway north, in Wash. State for a few racing events?

Wash away beach in Westport, Wa is one of the only spots we can get permission from the state for a sailing event. Does anyone know more about Washington State Beach Regulations?

I was told years back, no buggying allowed on Long Beach, Wash ???
Do they even do buggy demos at WSIKF anymore?

there is a huge field by the water, at an old army base at Whidley Island.

Hey Ricardo, didn't know you were starting up a race crowd up this way, you should drop a line at the other local forum to let the rest of us know when you'll be running, make it interesting.

As for OR/WA, let me know when and where, I'll be there for sure, both to help run and to race.

look up Westport, Wa. Years ago we would raid wash away beach, get our permits through a local state park. That's one of my first races ever, about 15 years ago.

Fort Ebey State Park on Whidbey Island was a cool place like you said Ricardo but a Washington State college took that area over and will not let us buggy there anymore because of insurance problems.
jellis

WSU should create a power kite club sport!!!!

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Originally posted by elkiter ..let start a new thread and invite locals (within the bayarea and vicinity) and have a weekend sesh at Ocean Beach one of these days, and subsequent weekends after.

So do we have anything planned yet? I haven't been checking the OB tides recently so I don't know when would be the next best time, but keep us posted when you're getting something together, and give us at least a week or so notice if you can so we can make plans!

I have been kiting for about 3 years, and just bought a GI board from above it all kites in June of 07, and I would not race, but would love to help in anyway I can to help get this started. I would defenitly be available once a month for anything that needs to be done let me know..

Name of club?
Racing rules?
Officers to run the club by use of member votes.
Election of officers.
Bi-laws of the club?
Blowkart has insurance for us, costs are low.
Dues.
Officers to assign racing numbers and abilities ratings.
Racing packages made and sent to all the clubs.
Racing schedules for regional and nationals dates chosen.
Trophies made by the club headquarters using dues.
Records kept of each race at club headquarters on web site also.
Protest; solutions should be found at the local level, then on to the club officers if no solution is found.
Just a few things to get us started.
Jon Ellis

Jon for Pres!!!!

Thanks Ricardo but it is going to take all of us to get this one going. So far all I see is about five of us. If we don't have participation even with this post then how will we get it off the ground? We need buggiers to voice their opinion; even if it is only to say yes we want this to work, but keeping silent will not work.
Jon

we are going to enter our snow season soon. but lets get together in Jan/08 to talk more.

maybe we can setup some weekend events at Sunset, OR. shoot me an email and we'll post it on the different forums. even if its not official racing, at least we can get the masses together more often to discuss ideas. we're here and your group is there, we need to meet in a central place. seeing how Wash/OR has more than BC. we're (not speaking for everyone) are willing to travel for space. I know Elkiter is working on something for the Cali area.

is DBBB doing any racing?

what happened to the old committee for NWBA? That should get started up again. If sport kite can keep their club/assoc. going, i dont see why we cant as buggiers/kgb.

I keep coming back to the whole rules thing, While I agree that most classes would need the full rules, I think it'll really scare new people away from even trying in the newbie class. We ran a really basic set of rules down at SOBB and a fair number of the guys down there gave it a go. Somehow I think if they had to start memorizing stuff most of them would have wandered down the beach instead.

Same goes with the BC crowd, Currently I see probably 3 guys that are serious enough about racing to go through the rule book, learn it, and adapt their riding/gear to fit into it. But there's another 4-6 people easily that'll go out and run a few cones for fun.

Everywhere I look on here seems much the same, there's a number of experienced riders that were around for the hay days of racing, then there's a gap and now there's a ton of new guys entering the sport. I think some part of our long term plan should be focused around making it easy/fun for newbies to get out there and give it a go. Ya know that once many of them get hooked they'll quickly want to play with the big dogs.

I agree to what Pablo is saying in regards to the rules being a bit complex for most anybody new to the sport of racing. I also understand and agree with what others are saying about one set of rules for all.

What I don't agree with though is how just a "basic" set of the same rules is really considered "different" rules. Not only then can the new buggypilot go out and experience racing with others in their same situation without feeling the need to spend more time studying rules, than time that some may have actually even buggied. I also see the benefit of how much easier it would be to understand the rules more in depth, after doing some races.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is, have the same rules, BUT, in the lower categories perhaps the governing committee can determine which rules are a must and which can be simply (for beginner ease), overlooked. I would consider that more of a building block approach to learning the rules, than it be "different" rules.

Pablo makes a great point about getting newbies (like me) into the sport.
Something that worked great in the hang/paraglide community was team events. The experienced guys would pair up with the newbies, like in a proam. The competion between the experienced guys is always really heated so they are motivated to "mentor" the s4!T out of the new guys and pass on a lot of info. and tips.
Do you think something like that could work?

Why not start with a weekend get together to just fly have fun and talk more about this face to face to see where we can take this, I would be up for pretty much most weekends. I would be willing to drive as far south as needed and up to canada as well. do you need passports to get into canada now?? I am a newbie and just learning to use my board, and would love to get into a club that gets together once a month

Lots of room up here in Vancouver BC, just need the right tide and be willing to walk out for a bit to get to the flats. I'm thinking the same thing, probably worth it to simply start having a monthly GTG, up here one time, down in OR a couple more, possibly inland if someone has a good location. But start off with an unofficial series, more laid back and see where it goes.