![]() If it's a good day assemble outside you do need a lot of space. You need 10mm & 13mm spanners plus a mole wrench for the large wheel nuts. It does take more than five minutes to put together about 30 minutes by the time you trip over everything and tighten up the many straps. The buggy comes in three bits rear axle, frame with seat strapped in and the front forks with wheel attached plus the two rear wheels. Assembly is the same for the standard V Max but you don't get to adjust the rear wheel camber and toe in. Keep them if you're going to ship the buggy anytime and yes the buggy is still wrapped in German newspapers but the missus had binned these before I caught up with Helga on page 3.Īs noted elsewhere on this site there are no instructions but download from just make sure you get the English version (it's the one for the V Max race buggy). The buggy is well packed with massive sponge protectors on all the sticky out frame bits. Within three days I had a coffin sized box taking up most of the sitting room I'd sorted out an afternoon meeting to make sure I got back from London early to put the beast together. I bought on-line from, best price £398 (Oct03) and amazing delivery service. It's heavy, 20kg, but hey what's the point of having a strapping 15 y.o. Never tell your wife the price of anything but she thought I'd paid a lot more than the actual price, whew! I stated reading reviews and became besotted with stories of Libre buggies being used by their impressed owners as replacement sofas, just the ticket - heavy Germanic engineering. But I needed something with comfort in mind and robust engineering. The seat seemed to promise back aches but its obvious virtues are the stainless steel construction and light weight. ![]() Especially those twee bent up pipes doubling as foot rests. I'd picked one up a few times but was never really impressed with the build quality. Kite shops in Brighton and Tunbridge Wells generally have the Flexifoil buggy on display £250. Like most dads the excuse for buying something the price of a new washing machine just for mucking about in was justified to the missus by male bonding with my 15 y.o son. Ok i may have left 6 months short of my mech and prod eng degree but I dont think it should be that hard, I dont have the equipment to do stainless tig only mig all I realy would need to know is the forces involved, ie pull from the kite and where it applies, friction of the sand, amount of side slip.I've been toying with the idea of getting a buggy for two years now. One last thought, cant I just mod the whole front end to 60 x 40 ? I always welcome good advice chris and have seen that photo before, and when i get to that skill level ill most probably change buggies ( oh and my snobbery comment was only a dig to see who poked there heads up and bit ) Now I doubt that libre would produce a race buggy that does not perform within the spec they where aiming at, and with todays engineering analysis programmes for pc's there is no reason anyone should be producing designs that dont work as expected first time, agreed they can be improved and tuned.Īs it stands my reason to upgrade is the ability to run on the softer sand and therefore while having to increase the front fork size I thought improving the front geometry with a swan neck may be a good idea. But looking nice and being well put together means diddly squat if the engineering behind it is non existant. The winddragon front end does look nice,and carl's fabrication skills are legendry. I took a quick look at poppeyes top speed chart and there are 3 vmax's above chris B (They must have been living on the edge of a major disaster) I agree that the larger bugs are stronger but where do you stop? As far as I know its a full race, Is the front end different?
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