New
Kite Buggy World Speed Record 77.05 mph / 124 km/hour
Date line April 3th,
2009
Ivanpah Dry Lake, Primm NV
StateLine Nevada On Friday the 3rd
day of April, on a very windy day, Arjen van der Tol a dutch rider, riding an
Xxtreme Apexx Buggy , shattered the old record shared by himself and Luc Stanek. Mr.
van der Tol had set the bar fairly high one day earlier by tying the old record
held by many years by Luc Stanek at 72.8 mph. Using four(4) GPS units for
accuracy and redundancy, the North American Buggy eXpo recognizes Mr. van der
Tol's amazing feet of 124 kph or 77.05 mph! On Ivanpah Dry Lake Bed in the
Mojave Desert where many wind land speeding records have been set and broken,
it was just March 26th, 2009 on the same lake bed where Richard Jenkins a Brit,
in his Greenbird wind powered speedster went 126.1 mph, shattering the old record
of 116mph set ten years earlier by the Iron Duck at 116mph. What Arjen van
der Tol did might be even more of a feet however when you consider he did it riding
a three wheel kite buggy, steering with his feet, while harnessed to a four line
kite flying from handles! Dressed in Moto-cross gear with streamlined helmet,
wearing what many in the sport call perma-grin, Mr. van der Tol was elated to
learn he had gone so fast as his GPS was obscured by dust. He wasn't sure till
he rolled to a stop in front of a cheering crowd of enthusiast who had just witnessed
his amazing feet as he bullet trained across the playa floor.
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