Re: Airing Down

On 6/12/2024 11:14 AM, pyotr filipivich wrote:

"Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> on Tue, 11 Jun 2024 07:32:44
-0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking  the following:

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Here in New England there's no lack of mud and boulders, but the most
challenging off-roading can be driving home from work an inch or two -above-
the pavement during an ice storm. Traffic almost never completely disappears
and the few times it did a friend and I would slide around on the iced roads
on our dirt bikes. The nearly empty roads became playgrounds for drivers
with vehicles that could handle them, mainly small foreign cars capable of
controlled sliding. Full time all wheel drive is somewhat disappointing
because it doesn't allow locking only the rear axle with the handbrake to
enter a spin or a J (bootlegger) turn. I could spin and recover my Ranger on
ice though I didn't see much stunting with full sized trucks.

  At the cost of trucks these days ... no surprise.

... and yet the money some folks spend on their off road rigs just to go out and try the hardest trails and beat them up is crazy.
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Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff
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