I am going.. anyone interested?

Had a great time as usual..


Hooked up with some fine people, even ran into a few Zuks..

I didn't take too many pics..  was too busy driving..  But here are a few.. Check out the Blue Sammy, it was right. Super nice trussed out Yota axles under it... and all sorts of neat little trick stuff...

Here is the link... just a few, but they are pretty good sized..  nice shots of a Chevy (with a Jeep front clip) coming up a monster rut.. (looked worse than it was)

http://www.forumsigs.com/users/quaddawg605/HaspinMarch18/


 I showed up, and went around the side trail to Devil's Backbone, to show the kids that hill from the bottom. I had been wheeling for about an hour, mostly easy trails, but a few sorta nasty side hill climbs.. nothing truly challenging.. and the Track was doing..well.. just OK..   It climbed the side trail back around the 'Bone (without going up it...) and was really starting to think something was a little wrong.. it just wasn't walking where I usually walk, I was having to use a lot more throttle.. This was the first trip with the 5.62's.. so I was starting to think they were too low in 1st and too high in 2nd and I had screwed myself (but that just didn't make sense either...) 

SO..... I got stopped trying to go up one fairly nasty looking muddy rut.. but I should have been able to force it through..

I backed off the hill, and tried to go around it couldn't pull myself across another set of ruts..  then it dawned on me.. I had asked my boy to lock in his side.... I locked in mine.. but he never locked his in (that is my excuse and I am sticking to it..LOL)  I got out and slopped though the mud, and sure enough.. "FREE" ... LOFL... bet we have ALL done that before.. at least I had my 11 year old to blame.. (BAD daddy!!)

I locked it in , and the thing was unstoppable again...  Just glad noone but the kiddos were around to see that... LOL...... (redfaced...) When I think back to a couple of the hills I had just climbed.... in two wheel drive... I was just floored.. I would have never, in a million years tried to go up a couple of them in two wheel drive (on purpose)

Once again the little Track has proven to be a pefect tight trail machine. I was able to follow all the tall fancy caged machines everywhere they went, and it seemed I did so much more easily, little or no backing up or hitting hills twice like most of the other guys (Except the Sammys....of course..they walked it ALL) 

There is definately something about these TracKicks....  the geometry is just right for the kind of trail riding I do. What it lacks in flex and ground clearance, it makes up for in approach/departure and short wheel base/break over angles...