On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Richard A. Jones wrote: > Anyway, I did it a lot. The secret (as in a lot of > Jeeping) is speed. You have to have enough > momentum to get over the rough spots and gain traction > again. I agree. It has to be speed with finesse, though, especially on sandy surfaces. You want to keep your momentum up, but you *don't* want to spin a wheel or you'll dig in and get stuck. Anyway, it'll do okay for two-tracking and logging roads. Not real "off roading" (as in no road at all), though. A lot of vehicles you wouldn't think of as off-road candidates can be coaxed down fairly rough two-tracks without much trouble if you're careful. I used to do a lot of exploring in a '90 Ford Econoline. (The price of this was a fair amount of time spent driving in reverse -- it takes a *lot* of room to turn around an Econoline. It was an awkward vehicle, but the suspension was tough as nails and could take all kinds of abuse.)
David Brodbeck, N8SRE '82 Diesel Westfalia '94 Honda Civic Si |
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