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hills
hills
SA
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SA, 1622 posts
1 Sep 2008 10:59pm
From Vic's thread it looks like we landyachters have more than just landyachts in common. Seems we also like to have plenty of other toys as well, so lets see them!!

landyacht
landyacht
WA
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WA, 5921 posts
5 Sep 2008 10:03pm
No[}:)]
landyacht
landyacht
WA
5921 posts
WA, 5921 posts
6 Sep 2008 8:24pm
Since your a mate,I show you one. warning ,this bike should only be ridden with a small child on the back as pillion passenger. riding it alone makes you look a bit daft.

Gizmo
Gizmo
SA
2865 posts
SA, 2865 posts
7 Sep 2008 9:16am
Paul, in the future your kids will look at the family album with such fond memories of their childhood.....
Promo girl
Promo girl
259 posts
259 posts
7 Sep 2008 10:48am
Trouble is Giz, they have to survive their childhoods first - with some of Pauls *inventions* it has been a close thing
Everytime I go away they get up to some mischief or other. One time they made a working scale model of a treboche and launched the kids barbie dolls down the length of the street! If that was not enough they all made costumes and dressed up in medievel clothing.
It can be a scary thing on the other end of the phone when your child says guess what we did today mum...
hills
hills
SA
1622 posts
SA, 1622 posts
7 Sep 2008 9:30pm
Haha! That looks great Paul. It make my latest bike look boring in comparison, but what the hell here it is anyway

landyacht
landyacht
WA
5921 posts
WA, 5921 posts
7 Sep 2008 8:12pm
round here something that beautiful is a calthrop( double gee) magnet..
I picked up a nice bike today from a rubbish bin . full suspension,CrMo forks and rear, tires good and pumped up. nly needed a new deraileur .
the sweetest bit was that I saw it in the bin when I visited Crazy TRavs place in Kambalda, but he wasnt home and didnt see the bike i the bin for himself sorry cousin Trav , first in ,best dressed
landyacht
landyacht
WA
5921 posts
WA, 5921 posts
7 Sep 2008 8:18pm
Gizmo said...

Paul, in the future your kids will look at the family album with such fond memories of their childhood.....

They will also remember being guineapigs in Dad fork angle test, the statistics test with the Trebuche which established that 2 in 10 launches will go straight up in the air and fall back on the catapulthence the hardhats ,kids
I know that 10yr old Josephine enjoyed driving the landcruiser

aus230
aus230
WA
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10 Sep 2008 9:46pm
Not as interesting as Pauls pic (that is way out there)
1968 shovel
Royal endfield

Arjay
Arjay
VIC
267 posts
VIC, 267 posts
11 Sep 2008 1:30am
I have a yearning for a trike!! or a 4wd beach vehicle someone can come and get me from the botton of Sandy Point!!
hills
hills
SA
1622 posts
SA, 1622 posts
11 Sep 2008 7:52am
Wow, nice looking bikes Arjay!! I can see why you've got both, I couldn't choose between them either!
Arjay
Arjay
VIC
267 posts
VIC, 267 posts
11 Sep 2008 9:25pm
oh they are not my bikes!! Closest thing I own to a motorcycle is a new motorcycle helmet, for coming off the blokart at 80+ kph, even on sand!!!

Ummm cracked the last helmet, old Blokart one and on the walk home I lost it, probably for the best!
hills
hills
SA
1622 posts
SA, 1622 posts
11 Sep 2008 9:35pm
oops sorry, I mean Vic!!
hills
hills
SA
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SA, 1622 posts
11 Sep 2008 10:25pm
Arjay said...

oh they are not my bikes!! Closest thing I own to a motorcycle is a new motorcycle helmet, for coming off the blokart at 80+ kph, even on sand!!!

Ummm cracked the last helmet, old Blokart one and on the walk home I lost it, probably for the best!



Is that when you bent your front fork? What happenend?
cisco
cisco
QLD
12365 posts
QLD, 12365 posts
12 Sep 2008 2:54am
Arjay said...

I have a yearning for a trike!! or a 4wd beach vehicle someone can come and get me from the botton of Sandy Point!!


Would this be any use to you Russell?


It's actually quite a bit of fun on it's own. Does about 50 kmh and I think you get a couple of hours out of a tank of juice. Bought this one out of Melbourne via ebay for $750 plus $250 delivery. (I think he touched me up on the delivery charge.)

One of the local mower shops here now has them for $950. I took the trouble to replace some of the bolts and washers on it for better quality high tensile. I will also be fitting a seat belt in the near future.

Cheers Cisco.

hills
hills
SA
1622 posts
SA, 1622 posts
12 Sep 2008 7:47am
Is that the Queensland Blokart Club recovery vehicle?
cisco
cisco
QLD
12365 posts
QLD, 12365 posts
12 Sep 2008 12:27pm
No. It is the Bundy Bombers Blokart Recovery Vehicle.

Not a bad little toy for the money. I was considering building a "Dirt Devil",

see www.diyden.net but when I started pricing components and assessing the time factors and likely problems with building, I had to stop to ask myself a question.

Where do I want to spend most of my time, in the workshop or on the beach? You know what the answer was.

Cheers Cisco
agamackay
agamackay
QLD
58 posts
QLD, 58 posts
12 Sep 2008 5:16pm
Other wind toys:


This is a photo we call Mr.Pain. It is my younger boy Ryan on our Peter Lynn kite buggy.

Last summer school holidays the boys & I built a 12'6'' day sailer ;Lolligagger


This story fetured in: "Australian Amateur Boatbuilder" #62 Jul/Aug/Sep 2008 pages 19-23

aga
aus230
aus230
WA
1660 posts
WA, 1660 posts
12 Sep 2008 9:50pm
My home built kite buggy on Lake Lefroy (behind Speedway track)

Graybeard
Graybeard
7 posts
7 posts
13 Sep 2008 3:23pm
Baja California ready 1994 DR 650 Suzuki dual sport. 6.6 gal. tank, dual Hella 500's and customized progressive rear shock link to lower the seat height since I have the legs of a short Hobbit.

hills
hills
SA
1622 posts
SA, 1622 posts
13 Sep 2008 6:10pm
Nice Bike! I was hoping we'd see some more petrol powered toys, here's mine

5ltr VK SS Brock Commodore

landyacht
landyacht
WA
5921 posts
WA, 5921 posts
14 Sep 2008 6:04pm
heres a little dinghy the kids and I built. 31'6" x5' folding gaff schooner, designed by Phil Bolger

Arjay
Arjay
VIC
267 posts
VIC, 267 posts
17 Sep 2008 10:37pm
lol looks good Cisco!! No thats not when I bent the fork. It was the day I hit 83kph top speed, on a dead true wind run, still had about 18-24 inches sheet between the pulley whip and boom end, with a 2m sail drawing beautifully. Imagine if the wind had've been a bit further round??? All I do is wonder! Can't remember what the wind speed was but it was Blowin!!!!
aus230
aus230
WA
1660 posts
WA, 1660 posts
22 Sep 2008 5:09pm

My strip built Kayak fitted out for sailing



Promo girl
Promo girl
259 posts
259 posts
24 Sep 2008 7:10pm
For those into other Toys, there is a book called Big Boys Toys that is getting lauched in Nov. (I have no financial interest in this book). I have only seen a couple of draft pages. Paul with Vindicator (built by the fabulous Faze 5) is one of the boys featured with his toys

So hopefully later this year lots of people will see this and also want a big landyacht for their toy?
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