Frid Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 ACTIVATE SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demargon Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Is a perfect association. Congratulations for the achievement! Now I anxiously expecting more videos from you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FULspeed Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Bellissimo! Un'accoppiata fantastica, iper ecologica! Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frid Posted June 15, 2017 Author Share Posted June 15, 2017 Thank you I think the best wheel for the pourpose should be high torque with great climbing ability, small and not heavy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrd777 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 This is just fabulous !! I paraglide and will give it a go too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichieV Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Great vid! Now you have me interested in paragliding Might I request that you post this to paragliding forums so some of them might get interested in EUCs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingfelder Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 That was great! I didn't know you could do something like paragliding with what looks like something you can just carry around in a backpack? So you can just hike somewhere and jump off? I had thought the equipment to do that must be incredibly heavy and take up huge amounts of space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kour Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frid Posted June 15, 2017 Author Share Posted June 15, 2017 A complete modern paragliding set weights 10 kgs, lightweight set even less. I've already posted here: http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=85278 because I thought it was of great interest for paragliders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 28 minutes ago, RichieV said: Now you have me interested in paragliding I wish you luck, I took early retirement last year after being made redundant, realised I will never again have enough money to renew my pilot's licence, and decided to learn to Paraglide, providing I've still go the physical strength to do it. It had occurred to me that my EUC would make a great tool to get back if I landed out. Unfortunately, having contacted every paragliding club within 60 miles of me that I could find so as to enroll on their 1-day taster course to ensure I had the stamina still, most never even replied to me or said they would contact me when one became available and never did. The only one that did, after 6 months of promising me a date, told me they decided to stop doing them. It would appear that in the South of England it is pretty near impossible to learn to paraglide. It took me less time to get a pilot's licence than it has to even get book a flight in one. So glad that there must be so many paragliders in the South that the clubs don't need to give a toss about new students! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichieV Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 14 minutes ago, Keith said: I wish you luck, I took early retirement last year after being made redundant, realised I will never again have enough money to renew my pilot's licence, and decided to learn to Paraglide, providing I've still go the physical strength to do it. It had occurred to me that my EUC would make a great tool to get back if I landed out. Unfortunately, having contacted every paragliding club within 60 miles of me that I could find so as to enroll on their 1-day taster course to ensure I had the stamina still, most never even replied to me or said they would contact me when one became available and never did. The only one that did, after 6 months of promising me a date, told me they decided to stop doing them. It would appear that in the South of England it is pretty near impossible to learn to paraglide. It took me less time to get a pilot's licence than it has to even get book a flight in one. So glad that there must be so many paragliders in the South that the clubs don't need to give a toss about new students! Wow, sorry you had such a bad experience with booking a lesson. Hopefully, when I'm ready to take the step, I won't run into the same problems here in the Washington, DC area. Have you considered trying your luck by chatting people up in the paragliding forum that @Frid mentioned above? If that forum is as helpful as this one is, you should be up and gliding in no time, I would think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frid Posted June 15, 2017 Author Share Posted June 15, 2017 paraglidingforum is a good place to find help and infos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abinder3 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 6 hours ago, Frid said: ACTIVATE SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE Would of been interesting to watch your launch from the perspective of someone watching you launch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frid Posted June 15, 2017 Author Share Posted June 15, 2017 It was the very first flight, I'll arrange better for the next.., are you a paraglider? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abinder3 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 2 minutes ago, Frid said: It was the very first flight, I'll arrange better for the next.., are you a paraglider? I use to hang glide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meepmeepmayer Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 @Frid Awesome! Does the weight of the wheel make a difference? Do you either have to use a bigger paraglider for the higher weight, or use your normal one but you will descend faster and have noticably less range? @Keith Maybe the problem is, there aren't too many usable hills in the South of England? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electric_vehicle_lover Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 GREAT!!! LOVE your usage of EUC!!! <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frid Posted June 16, 2017 Author Share Posted June 16, 2017 13 hours ago, meepmeepmayer said: @Frid Awesome! Does the weight of the wheel make a difference? Do you either have to use a bigger paraglider for the higher weight, or use your normal one but you will descend faster and have noticably less range? Yes the weight make a difference, every wing has a weight range (eg. 70-90 kg) and it's better stay within. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andress Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Now I want to see special unicycle for paragliding where you just ride to a starting point and then connect propeller to the unicycle and use it as a motor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainKBLS Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Thank you for sharing. That looks so awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stuart Leitch Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 While I've never fully incorporated EUC into flying, I use a KS 14C to transport my paramotoring gear (paragliding with a 2-stroke backpack propeller) to launch locations when not directly accessible by car. Both sports are similar in many ways and provide a radical sense of exposed freedom. Here is a video I shot on a glassy still day that captures the awesome adventure I experience in both paramotoring and EUC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingfelder Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 15 hours ago, Stuart Leitch said: While I've never fully incorporated EUC into flying, I use a KS 14C to transport my paramotoring gear (paragliding with a 2-stroke backpack propeller) to launch locations when not directly accessible by car. Both sports are similar in many ways and provide a radical sense of exposed freedom. Here is a video I shot on a glassy still day that captures the awesome adventure I experience in both paramotoring and EUC: Also very cool. Sports like these are absolutely amazing. Even though things like hang gliding have been around for at least 40 years that I know of, any flight without a true vehicle with a solid body wrapped around you still strikes me as very exotic and somehow both extremely visceral and ethereal at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolinger Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 I know that now i have to come back at this place to ride my EUC on the highest spot in Europe. ? May be with snow tires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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