WINDROVER

The Windrover is made by BO Buggies in Texas

from their sales blurb:

- Wheels are 16" with sealed bearing hubs and steel rims.
- Front wheel hub, though quick release, is captive.
- Rear hubs are custom built by Phil Wood.  Hubs are guaranteed for life
  and have proven to take tremendous punishment and side load.
- The sling seat is adjustable and removeable.  The rear of the seat is
  designed to keep the pilot from hitting any part of the frame, especially
  the rear axel area, when the buggy is in motion.
- Frame material is 4130 aircraft grade chromolly
- Stops are included on the front fork
- Standard colour is Hot Green
- Suggested retail cost is $850.00.  Discounts are available for kite
  club members.
- We complete all phases of the buggy in our local shop, including welding
  and bending.  We contract out only the painting of the frame.

See also the entry for the Buggy Engine (4-line Parafoil) by BO.  They
offer discounts of approximately 25% on WindRover/Buggy Engine packages.

They also do T-shirts with a cartoon of a buggy pilot in motion: $20.00

They sent me a picture: The first thing that struck me was that they have
an ideal buggy site - beautiful blue skies and a wide expanse of cut grass.
The pilot, complete with skid-lid and BO T-shirt is sitting in a WindRover.
The fork of the buggy appears to be constructed using bicycle headstock
technology and is a loveley shiny chrome colour.  The matt black (grippy
surface?) steering foot rests appear to have pegs to stop your feet sliding
off, but these slope forward, almost parallel to the sole of the pilots
shoe and may be of limited use.  It is difficult to tell from the angle
of the picture, but it looks like the foot rests are shorter than those
on a Lynn buggy and that they have no angle built in.  The fork is raked
gently and is set at quite a low angle, it looks just a little steeper
than 45 degrees.  The brilliant colour of the hot green frame is rather
lost in the photographic process, but the seat webbing is obviously
chosen to match it.  The seat frame is, like the forks, built of tubular
components.  The seat portion appears to be longer and wider than a Lynn,
with proportionaly higher and lower corners, positioning the pilot in the
middle, with no part of his body in contact with any of the frame.
Noteabley, the webbing appears to sit the pilot a good two or three
inches forward of the rear axel.  It is not possible to see how the buggy
is adjusted, but from looking at the picture and reading the description,
we guess that the adjustment is made in the seat (perhaps by adjusting
the straps?) and not by changing the size of the frame.  The skinny spoked
tires appear to have a medium knobbled tread.  Rather dissapointingly,
the Pilot appears to be stationary in the picture, but we assume that this
is due to a limitation in the skill of the photographer rather than a
limitation in the performance of the buggy :-).

OK.  That's the manufacturer's sales blurb and our interpretation of their
photo, now who has tried this thing and can tell us what it is *really*
like?