The kite buggy tour of the top of the North Island I was last week went pretty much to plan. We couldn't have asked for better wind and we all made it home safe without injury. Not everything went perfectly smoothly though. In fact there was a bit of a hicup one evening at Baylys Beach which wasn't part of the plan. A kite control bar went through the windscreen of the van. The kite had been attached to Sam when it got caught in a violent gust. Luckily Sam managed to pull the safety release before it got to nasty. This is supposed to 'kill' the kite but leave it tethered. In this instance the tethering lease broke and the kite got ripped away, dragging the lines and control bar below. These collected the front of my van as the kite dragged them several hundred meters up the beach to the road. Here is the result....
Sam was so apologetic. I told him not to worry, windscreens are replaceable. We drove to Whangarei the next morning and had it fixed in no time. He felt so bad about it though that he decided to give me his buggy seat. Its one he made himself and I had been admiring it earlier in the trip. He told me he was going to build another 'updated' version of it soon anyway. Now this is a BGS (bum-grabbing-seat)! It locks the hips into the buggy so tight that when I try to stand up the buggy wants to come with me. Thanks Sam... Its fitted my buggy perfectly and I think you'll agree it looks good!
Old Seat:
New Seat:
BTW the new windscreen was all covered by insurance and had a nice tinted strip across the top that the old one didn't have.
9:08:00 PM 
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