I found this freebie posted on another site and thought I would pass it along.
Right Channel Radios is giving away complete Uniden Off-Road CB Kit that includes everything you need to install a CB in your 4×4 vehicle.
All you have to do is submit your email HERE by June 15, 2008.
Good luck.
NOTE: I am in no way associated with this give-away or the site.
Just released is the 2nd anniversary issue of the JPFreek Adventure Magazine. Content in this issue includes:
This issue also features integrated video footage.
Visit www.jpfreek.com
While you’re out exploring the web on your virtual adventure, make a stop by Dan Hilton’s site at 4WD Traveller.com. Dan (who is actually based out of Victoria, British Columbia) has put together a great international flavored 4×4 adventure travel site. You’ll find a nice selection of 4×4 related adventure articles, reviews, videos and more
Dan has built quite a resume, including 4×4 travels to Russia, Mexico, Japan as well as the United States and Canada. Again, check it out the site at 4WD Traveller.com
And Dan, you need to come down and join on us on one the this year’s trips. And let us know when you have any trips planned.
Steve
You’ve seen indoor carting and even some indoor motocross tracks, however this is the first indoor 4×4 course that I have heard of. I’m not sure if it is the first worldwide, but it probably is in Australia where this course is set up.
Just like in many of the indoor carting facilities, you pay for 30 minute sessions on the course, just this time, its well equipped (44 inch tires and 350 Chevy power) 4×4 buggies that you get to play with. It looks like a fun time whenever you visit Melbourne, Australia.
Maybe this concept will catch on in the United States.
Read more at Ragged Edge 4×4.
On Saturday, 02.16.08, I made the 170 mile trip from my home to participate in the All Wheelers Off Road Club Presidents Day Run at the Slab near Zillah, Washington. After meeting up with the Backroad Drivers Northwest group at the McDonalds in Zillah, we made our way to the area outside of town known as The Slab.
With a name like “The Slab”, one would think that it is a rock crawler’s haven. Well the slab is exactly…a slab of concrete from an old pole building. That’s it. Well anyway, everybody uses the area around the slab and meeting place before heading out to go play in the surrounding countryside.
The surrounding area is on private land and consists of several hundred acres of rolling hills and sage brush. There are dirt roads and trails that cross every direction, something to challenge everybody.
The members of the All Wheelers Off Road Club are a great group of people. Very friendly and helpful when somebody gets stuck or breaks down.
The photos I shot are posted at All Wheelers Off Road Club Play Day at the Slab
You can view additional photos and read the write up of the trip on the forum at All Wheelers President’s Day Slab Run
I just came across a new release of a digital magazine from the folks at Difflock. The downloadable first edition is available HERE. The magazine is produced in the UK and gives us an European perspective on our sport. Of course, there is plenty of information on Land Rovers. Beyond that, there is great overland travel articles from areas in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. True overlanding indeed. Check it out.
Here’s a great short video from the Expedition Americas on how NOT to seat a tire bead out on the trail. Enjoy.
Lets say that you are out on an off-road adventure with a group of other people and the vehicle in front (or back) slides into you and causes damage to your vehicle. What is the right thing to do? Should the person who slides into you pay for the damage? Should you take the responsibility because you should have recognized the situation and waited for the other vehicle to clear the obstacle? Do you call it even and move on?
What are your thoughts? Join the discussion on the forum at Accident Protocol.
Most of you with a c-clip rear axle knows what happens if you ever break a rear axle shaft. If you don’t know, just remember that most likely you’ll be leaving your vehicle near the location you broke your rear axle.
Now there is a tool that may help you limp off the trail and to a more accessible location. Its called the Broken Axle Tool (very fitting name indeed) and it’s available on the web from Off Road Trail Tools for $109.95.
I’ve never physically laid eyes on the tool or read a review on its use, but if the idea works as well as it sounds, this would be a great addition to your recovery gear. Now if I only had a full floating rear axle in my Land Cruiser.
