YUZHANKA: BOAT UNDER SAIL…

YUZHANKA: BOAT UNDER SAIL...Every year, more reservoirs becomes “closed” for motor boats. What in this case do Amateurs vodnomotornyy tourism? To put their vessels on the joke? In any case! It’s time to recall the sail. Sailing rig can be a real alternative to a rattling, smoky, polluting water bodies with suspended motor.

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INSTEAD OF CATERPILLARS — AUGER

INSTEAD OF CATERPILLARS — AUGEREvery year more and more intensive is the development of remote areas of the country that holds in its bosom untold wealth, so necessary to the national economy. Finding these hiding places of nature, there are numerous exploration party. They travel hundreds and thousands of miles of impassable tundra, cross bogs and swamps not freezing in the harsh winters of the river, deep snow.

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WINTER SKAKUNOK

WINTER SKAKUNOKThe elderly with a sense of humor remember the fun of skiing with the snow slopes on primitive boats — maskoobraznym the kruglyashi of frozen in the old city of wet hay. Or noisy slopes “small bunch” on a normal sledge, from which before it was shot shafts…

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THE TRACTOR FROM.

TRACTOR.Still, as they say, don’t have time to dry the printing ink in the magazine (see “M-K” № 2, 2009) report from Pereslavskogo district of the Yaroslavl region, as a new message — about the craftsmen from the village of Andrianov, nestled on the banks of the river Nerl. At this time, art project, created by the efforts of Evgeny Polukhin, Boris and Alexander Selakovich, is distinguished by its power and more like a wheeled tractor, manufactured at an engineering plant. About scratch from Andrianova says our special correspondent Nikolay Vasilyev.

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MOTOBLOCK-PORN

MOTOBLOCK-PORNMy walk-behind equipped with two knife cutters, soil processes, and after replacing them on the wheel turns into a tractor trailer truck with capacity up to 300 kg with a weight of 60 kg. the Size of power tillers is also small: height — 800 width 420, length — 1200 mm (with folded handlebar is 600 mm), so it easily fits in the trunk of the car. The engine of the scooter VP-150. The start is a kick starter, gear shift lever.

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SNOWMOBILING: WHERE TO START?

SNOWMOBILING: WHERE TO START?To the editor of our journal continues to receive many letters from Amateur designers: the interest in such type snowmobile technology among different age groups continues unabated. But the character letters often suggests that many builders begin manufacturing snowmobile, not very clearly imagining that they want to build and what the machine can see the future, why you want to work with. Naturally, because of this allow annoying mistakes, and end up with a design without the desired operational and technical characteristics.

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THE FUNICULAR TO THE SKIER

FUNICULAR TO THE SKIERFor tourists and skiers in big mountains with difficult terrain and significant elevation usually put a chairlift. At its traction-bearing rope they have special hangers with one or two armchairs. The length of such lifts is limited to 1.5—2 km: experience has shown that the rise in excess of time 10-15 minutes, can during winter lead to trouble — frostbite unprotected skin, especially the face.

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TRIUMPH: COMFORT PLUS SPEED

“They are not afraid of obstacles!” this is the motto of our magazine a few years ago began to publish descriptions of the designs of a homemade all-terrain of micro-technology, immediately attracted the attention and then the affection of readers. During this time in our regular sections “Public CB “M-K”, “Create, invent, try!”, “Competition of ideas” we talked about many unusual and original machines: all kinds of snowmobiles and amphibians, multiwheel and tracked micro cars, motonartah, sports-dirt cars buggy, snowmobile. In this opening year we introduce another interesting development — snowmobile “Triumph”, created by the designers-lovers from Saratov O. YAKOVLEV and V. SIDE.

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SURFING IN THE SNOW

SURFING ON SNOWOn the opposite slope of the ravine, where a tower stretching up gold under the bright winter sun the trunks of the pine trees, down the skier. He rolls down the fresh, the night fell and now fluffy clean snow. Here he turned sharply across the slope, holding up a snowy trail, I stopped for a second. And down again again towards. Steep sharp turns, dive and stop. Skiing will not do so, even on the mountain, even on a solid Naste. Yes and it is something special — that a back, face to the slope. Everything he gets is free and easy, only one little tilt of the body, it seems almost effortless…

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ON TRACK BUGGY

TRACK BUGGYMotorsport fans have long been familiar with the term “rally”. He is known and automodellista-skorostyam is one of the competitions cord racing models, in which miniature cars shall adhere to the set speed. And in the near future the word “rally” will appear in the lexicon of car designers-copies.

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