For sale Litespeed RS4 $7,000OBO

Litespeed RS 4 full carbon LE, sprogs, battens, zoom frame w/carbon bar, smoke sail, gray, red black, 130 hours, minor scuffs on LE.

I'm in Florida and can ship, I will also be in LA in March.

$7,000 OBO

alexcuddy@ymail.com

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My A.D.D is starting to kick in, the weather here in Florida has been windy and crapy for the last week since I have been back so I'm staying at the Aunt and Uncle's house here in jacksonville.

With flying on my brain I went to the hobby shop today to have a look around.I found this little jem it looks exactly the same as the one I had flown but it was $30 cheaper so i got it. It is tons of fun after a little bit of getting used to it I felt right at home buzzing around the TV room here!

The only down side is the battery life on the remote sucks I might get one or two flights and charges out of it(the remote charges the Heli battery).

I'm hooked I have been flying this thing around all day!

Here is a short video I made from a few flights and different angle's(yes I'm pretty board)

Litespeed S5 on performance enhancing drugs

We'll maybe just performance enhancing parts.

I haven't had much to blog about, the last few months in florida being pretty slow with crappy weather and not much flying other than a few tandems at Quest and flying tandems of the boat with scott at Paradise Hang Glding check out his web site HERE

I flew out to LA to hang out with Kriag do some flying and a few sail replacement' s. One of them was upgrading my Dad's old 2004 litespeed 5 to a brand new Litespeed S5 with the zero sail and zoom frame!

Its pretty sweet for $3,650.00(that's a 1/3 the price of a new one!) he has a brand new glider! You can't beat that, you'll most likely see me flying at a few comps this upcoming season(assuming the old man lets me :-)

OLD

NEW

Bruce also put a new sail on his glider and it looks great also $3,650.00 and BAM a brand new RS

Old Sail

New Sail

The trip out here started a bit ruff with the airlines destroying my helmet and bags, getting deathly sick with the flu, but it turned around with the sail swaps going pretty smooth, some good flying at marshall, and a super fun day at the Milestone motocross track with Kraig,Tanner and their friend Mike who has been out a few times with them. He and I had some good fun racing each other all day.

Tanner got a new-to-him 250 so he was pumped to be out riding that thing. Towards the end of the day I started to get the hang of riding and was keeping up with him(almost), little did I know he was way holding back, he noticed I was keeping up with him and stepped it up and left me in the dust :-). Either way it was a lot of fun hope to go riding with them again.

Here we are unloading the bikes, I didn't get any other photos because we rode all day only stopping for a quick bite to eat and a drink.

Above base

Today was the nicest day I have seen since I have been in Florida warm but pretty overcast. With not much going on the last few days I was super keen to fly. Don form north Carolina set up so I figured I couldn't let him fly alone so I set up and so did Dustin.

Cloud base was 1,300 so we got towed up to 4,000ft high above base to check things out. you fell so detached from the world up there above the clouds.

If you look closely you can see Dustin

Where am I?

I got to my Cousin Heather and Amanda's last night, we went out had a nice dinner and got caught up(not much to get caught up on as I talk to them all the time). We came back to house they opened a bottle of wine, and Amanda started baking a pie for thanks giving dinner while Heather and I watched:-)

The Raleigh sky line

The girls had to work today, but they woke up early and made breakfast and headed off to work so I decided to go for a bike ride(thanks Aunt Cathy and Uncle Jeff for the new tires) and explorer Raleigh. The first part of the ride went well, I was on nice back country roads till I mad a turn on to a busy street that out of the blue turned into a high way(40 I think) but I took the next exit/turn off the highway and kept on going. None of the roads around here have a bike lane(non that I was on) very different from home every street has a bike lane or a shoulder. Anyway felling pretty good about being on the right track to downtown Raleigh I found my self in a not so good neighborhood, I just looked forward and pedaled as fast as I could:-). Just out of the neighborhood a car bulled up beside me I looked over to see them pointing and laughing(I'm assuming at me a white guy in spandex riding a bike in the hood pretty safe bet haha) I'm pretty sure they knew I was lost,need less to say I was happy to be out of there.

Once into down town Raleigh it was very pleasant. I soon found my way to the Historic part of down down. It was pretty cool there were many statues and a few old buildings and churches. I stopped to read a few of the info boards and take pics but zigged my way through down town before heading home or should I say try. be for I left I figured I'd take the same home I took to get there but once down town I wanted to see some thing different so I figured I'd just go for it find my way back. About half way home I knew I was lost and remembered I had my Iphone with me so I took it out and look on google map ended up I was a little off track it was pretty easy to get home from there. Fun little ride I rode in a big circle around Raleigh pretty cool to see the landscape.

Lost

It felt good to get out and ride the bike for a few hours after driving cross country and now down the east coast in the last week! since leaving LA last Monday I have put 3,2xx miles on my truck! she'll be due for another oil change when I get to Florida.

My bike Trek DCLV 110 carbon

The Big Apple

getting on the train(Aunt Cathy saying you better get on the train will leave ya)

On my way to Florida for the winter I'm making a few stops, the first one was my Aunt Cathy and Uncle Jeff's house just side of Philadelphia. I got here late Friday, Saturday we went to a few of their favorite wineries for some wine tasting.

We figured since they were only 2 hours from New York and I had never been that's what we would do to day. So this morning my cousin Jennifer came over and Aunt Cathy, Uncle Jeff and mack and I drove into Hoboken,NJ where we took the train/subway into the city.

inside ST Paul's chapel

nothing better then street food!

We did the whole tour, We came out at ground Zero saw the Church that the fire men used to eat,sleep get away from all the chaos. The fire station across the street from ground Zero, with the big memorial plaque. After that we went to Battery park to see the illegal street vender's but they were all packed up there must of been cops around but we still got to see the statue of liberty, she look pretty small from that far away but it was still cool to see her in person.

Battery Park

The lady

From there to the south side sea port we didn't spent much time there as none of us were really into shopping. Then we went up to china town we just walked though I have been to china town in SF so I didn't fell like seeing that. It was getting dark so we went up to time square to check it out. It was pretty cool to see it all light up.

Times Square, I took this before it got to dark but it really lights up something every one should see) I would love to here for new years

After that we went up to Rockefeller center to see the Christmas tree(there were still putting decorations up) and the ice skating rink. It was getting late so we got back on the subway and headed back to the car.

The Swarovski Star(I'm pretty sure its going on the Rockefeller tree) its 9.5 feet wide

New York is pretty cool very busy city lots of stuff going on. Its pretty funny to see the illegal street vendors they will all be lined up on a street with fake or stolen purses,watches,sunglasses laid out on a blanket with a pull string when the lookout runs buy and tells them the cops are coming they all pull up on the draw string the blanked picks up the stuff they are all off running down the different streets. They have it down to a since. We did see one person get busted looked like some of the merchandise fell out and she stopped to get but was a bit to slow.. oops shake down:-) didn't stick around to see what happened.

Its been non stop since coming back from Ecuador I have been super busy. flying hangout in LA.

This week has been a bit crazy Monday I drove home from LA Tuesday packed up every thing I was going to need for the winter in Florida. Got on the road Wednesday morning and drove for 3 days straight only stopping to sleep for 4 hours on the last day.

I got to My aunt and uncle place here in Reading,Pa. I'll be here for a few days then off to Raleigh,NC for thanks giving. After that off to Florida where I'll hibernate for the winter.