My Vault mountainboard turned up on a courier yesterday. I purchased it for $260 plus $24 freight from eskatestuff on eBay. One thing is for sure, eskatestuff have fast delivery. The advertised Vault mountainboard specifications are: 36″ x 9″ Canadian maple deck 11″ spring truck polished blue aluminium 200 mm X 50 mm rubber tyre wheels PU football style cushion removable foot straps with velcro leg leash rubber grip pads set allum keys hand tools. … more »
The wind was blowing, the sun was shining, and I took the opportunity to take my two biggest parafoil traction kites down to my local park for a back-to-back comparison. My wind gauge was indicating 5 knots to 10 knots, gusting to 15 knots. The two kites on test were a PKD Buster II 2m and a Prism Stylus P3. The Buster II with its four lines is more complicated to set up … more »
I have finally got around to flying my PKD Buster II 2m. I bought the kite second hand off eBay before going on holidays to the beach. I had grand plans of spending some hours flying kites on the sand, but sadly children and visiting relatives got in the way. Yesterday I got the chance to scoot down to my local park to put the Buster II up for an hour. According to … more »
I run a home office and use voice over IP (VOIP) as my business telephone line. I have an Optus cable broadband connection (10Mbps download/256kbps upload) and found that if someone was on a VOIP call and another person was browsing the internet or sending an e-mail, the receiver’s call quality would be distorted. I have three computers and two VOIP phones on the network and was running a Netgear FVS318 router, which … more »
Having just bought a yellow PKD Buster II 2m parafoil power kite off eBay, I thought that it was time to take stock of my kite quiver. Here goes: 1 x PKD Buster II 2m 1 x Prism Stylus P3 1 x Prism Hypnotist 1 x Premier Kites Speed Foil 1x 1 x High as a Kite Rascal Stunt Kite 1 x HQ Ready Sleddy 1 x KiteOL Speed Foil KM5009 (it flies crap … more »
I have ‘accidentally’ purchased a yellow PKD Buster II 2m parafoil kite on eBay. Sometimes I place bids on eBay to test the market strength. In this case I placed a bid fully expecting to be outbid and not being particularly concerned about chasing the price. When the auction closed, I found that I had bought myself a kite! Cool!! I bought the yellow PKD Buster II 2m parafoil kite for about $60 … more »
I finally got to ride my Phase 1 dropdown longboard, but in my initial impressions suggested that the skateboard did not carve as well as expected. The board was very stable, but perhaps too stable at the expense of its ability to carve. When I took off the trucks to remove the remaining pieces of plastic that the board was wrapped in, I decided to rotate the riser pads so that the thick … more »