That sounds great.

Love that old blowcart in that avatar too, classic.

And now maybe all the rich buggyers have somewhere to go for a big weekend away in W.A.

Maybe race the blowcarts.

All the best,

Nas.

Nas said...

That sounds great.

Love that old blowcart in that avatar too, classic.

And now maybe all the rich buggyers have somewhere to go for a big weekend away in W.A.

Maybe race the blowcarts.

All the best,

Nas.

THAT is not a blokart young fella. thats the A10 ,fastest LANDYACHT in the country in her day.. sadly her second last owner left her out in the weather,and spent all his time devoted to a blinged out Holden GEMINI( yes , a Gemini)

Gidday Andy,

Good luck with starting a joondalup club, I will call you later and chat for a while!

We are building a mini land yacht based on Pauls lake lefroy design-but with suzuki 10" wheels (and I want to build a couple of proper lefroy minis too)- aiming at having a bit of fun on local ovals and carparks- but if a local club starts up I would really be interested.

We live in wanneroo, and before I flew back to the mine last week I spoke to the wanneroo shire rangers about getting access to any dried up lakes in the shire- and they were not very encouraging.

I know there were a couple of shallow lakes in the area that tend to dry up in the summer months due to the water table dropping from all the water being used for irrigation and metro water supply, and I was hoping to get access- but the shire attitude was that we might cause damage just getting to the lake- let alone damage to the lakebed itself, When I mentioned that the landyachts are lightweight usually around 30kg or so and should not cause any real damage they didnt really want to know.

It seemed that it was easier to just say no- and prevent any future extra work for themselves.

Catch you later

Nas said...

That sounds great.
And now maybe all the rich buggyers have somewhere to go for a big weekend away in W.A.

Its called Lake Lefroy,young fella,lookit up and be amazed

just building the giant roof rack for the International Eucla Beach Expedition, Bill, How are your preperations coming along?
Also started cutting out the panels for a 5.5m version of the FOXTROT VELA sail. we're planning on taking a PROMO ,a mini,and a BLOKART. We have a new team member arriving early next month, Bastjin Demusyere. hes going to work for me ,and get some sailing in at the same time.

Well done!! Looks like a good venue!

Congratulations on the dealership Andy and especially on that sailing venue.

If you get some regular attendance to that site by a few blokarters you will probably make more money selling tyres than blokarts.

When I get to sail on those types of surfaces, I can almost see the rubber peeling off in the power turns.

A good 4 hour session on that surface and you can pretty well write off a pair of rear tyres.

I have a spare pair of rear wheels fitted with the "Deestone" 5" wide tyres that I use on bitumen and concrete. There is a sacrifice in performance due to the extra weight and poor balance in the tyre but the tyre and the rubber compound are a lot tougher so they will outlast several pairs of the standard "Deli" tyres.

They are not real easy to scource and tend to be quite expensive through normal tyre retailers. Ride on mower shops carry them. Some sell the "Enmach" plastic mower trailers which are fitted with the wheels and tyres which are available as spare parts from "Enmach". The "Enmach" factory is actually here in Bundaberg.

They buy the wheels from a factory in Whangerai, NZ, which I think is where blokart wheels are made. These wheels are the same as the older blokart wheels and will fit straight on to your blokart stub axles and bearings.

Hope this is useful info for you. Cheers Cisco

P.S. Can't wait to try the venue when I eventually get over to the West.