Thread: BRAINLESS Revheads

yes they talk about sand flags to avoid head ons, but a coming around the corner flag could help as well.

Head lights on may help a bit but just slowing down is the answer. Unfortunately from the 4x4 action DVD's I have seen, the self confessed leader in 4x4 adventure and information seems to mention " give it the berries" more and more as the answer. Give it the berries is hi-tech talk for put you foot flat down and see how it goes this time.
They have found some guy with a Defender 130, who unfortunately, also seems to follow this Jap build way of 4x4ing.

Yep, giving it a bit to get over or through can sometimes be required, but flat out all the time is just a receipt for disaster.

Just to add to my recent post.

True you do need to give it that little bit extra certain situations.

one of these idiots abused us for going to slow. We were out to see the bush and nature not to concentrate about going over speed on gravel roads and spending all the time trying to hold the vehicle in a straight line.

But i guess like any activity or sport you get the DH component in it.

There the first to sook to when there vehicle get damaged from the road surface or is hit by another vehicle.

Great believer in tread lightly might even go as far to say i'm a semi tree hugger like most of the 4wders in the world

I appologize if I drove past and didn't stop to say hello.
We did stop for a quick hello to a black defender ute Monday at O'Brians Crossing.
I was part of the group from here camped at Upper Chadwick

We couldn't get over the people packed into and around O'Brians crossing.
Some were sleeping in tents no more than 5 meters from the spoon drains on O'Brians road too

As soon as I hit the dirt the headlamps go on.
We also found a front wheel drive company car(name all over the side) doing reverse donuts on Mondays trip out

+1 for the poor example being set by 4x4 action DVDs. I'm sick of watching the same old crap trucks with the same old crap mods (big lift, big wheels, big bars, big lights, small dick) being hammered up a muddy track. And WTF is with the crap cooking clips - wow, you can mix a bunch of canned **** in a camp oven and cover it with cheese, whoopy ****ing doo.

The knobbers out there ripping up wet and muddy tracks are the ones getting us locked out of areas, not the greenies.

<breathe, calm blue ocean, breathe>

Cheers,

Adam

I dont like the bush being wrecked, in fact I am definately on the conservation side of things. However nothing wrong with testing out your skills and car on a difficult track, as long as damage is minimised.

Also, there is nothing wrong with driving at a fair pace on a dirt road as long as it is safe to do so. Cornering on the wrong side is plain stupid, but nothing annoys me more than a slow driver on a dirt road that is not willing to pull over and let you past. Sure, it may be the drivers skill or vehicle limiting the speed, or their perception they are travelling at a reasonable speed, or it might be Sebastian Loeb sightseeing in his WRC car. I am fine with any of the above reasons, but just be considerate to others and pull over. This should apply to asphalt too!

And no I wasn't out at Wombat St Forest on the weekend.

Rob

Originally Posted by akelly

+1 for the poor example being set by 4x4 action DVDs. I'm sick of watching the same old crap trucks with the same old crap mods (big lift, big wheels, big bars, big lights, small dick) being hammered up a muddy track. And WTF is with the crap cooking clips - wow, you can mix a bunch of canned **** in a camp oven and cover it with cheese, whoopy ****ing doo.

The knobbers out there ripping up wet and muddy tracks are the ones getting us locked out of areas, not the greenies.

<breathe, calm blue ocean, breathe>

Cheers,

Adam

It's interesting the magazine takes regular digs at NP's gating and closing tracks. But when you see 4x4 action taking camper trailers into places that they simply should't, then get the vehicle air born in a rock spitting track trenching display of double diff locked right foot right down is a real eye opener. I can only imagine what NP think when they see the videos.
Then another favourite is to start filling bog holes, water, and ruts with logs. At least they appear to use ground laying logs, but then they do damage to vehicle under carriage, and then make out its all part of the day 4x4ing. I'm really left wondering what these guys are trying to do, besides sell camper trailers.

Hey i agree it is good to test your driving skills sometimes. However there is a time and place for such ego building ventures. A good confident driver has nothing to prove to themselves or to others.

It is foolhardy to drive like a total idiot on public roads given the location and the expected increase in traffic flows.

I myself will always move over and let them pass. and then laff when i catch up to them after they have lost it on a corner and the brown cayons have come out.