dunefreak

Tim it was cool to meet you. It was a fun ride with you guys that day despite my hangover.

Actually the more up and down shocks are mounted, the better. But I hear what you are saying. I personally still like the 5 link rear end like on my car instead of the a-arms SST uses. TomPro and King might be close, but I'd say TomPro makes the best mini rail out there. He knows his sh*t and I've seen his cars go. They are badass. King makes a nice car too though.

yep... http://tomprodesign.com/ This car has been out the last few trips at comp. It is pretty fast.

Yeah his friends on the scene told me leg was pretty nasty. It was turned around the wrong way he said.

Damn that guy didn't learn huh?

Hell yeah...I did the same! I'll have to do that! That was awesome! Thanks, Michelle!

Yep me too. I saw it coming a mile away...especially when you said to turn our speakers on! Der! That gave it away right there!

I love my ShortSandCar other than some issues with teh cheap a$$ spindles lately. Well actually I can't complain. The only other time I broke one was when I landed very wrong from a pretty high jump. I myself wouldn't go with a Sonic or Sandbullet. I have heard very good things about KingSandCars, TomPro, and even SickSandTravel. I would still buy another Short car regardless of the few issues I have had though. I love my car and have a blast in it. You are gonna have things go wrong eventually with any car you choose if you drive it somewhat hard.

I read bout that after I posted about the rumor I heard. That's why I didn't want to post up that it was a for sure thing and that it was a rumor. I wasn't sure. I hope he is ok and recovers quickly.

yes...this IS true. It was still funny though.

You are very welcome, Michelle. We heard about your friend, Quinn, and retreived him from the dunes. Duners have to help each other out. You never know when you yourself will need help. It was nice meeting you and your husband as well as your friend Quin and his wife. You are all very nice peeps. Here's when we pulled Quinn out with Dave Larson's buggy. It must have been Dave that took your friends up the dunes after I left. I broke my buggy's suspension and was busy trying to get it in the hauler and strapped down properly. Sorry about your friend. May he rest in peace.

It's way legible for me. Try holding down CONTROL on your keyboard and scroll the scroller wheel on your mouse. That changes the font size on your pc for some sites.

Gerrit you saw me drive past you and say hi near vendor row right? You were hooking up to a stcuk truck. I wasn't sure if you saw and recognized me or not.

uhhhhhh NO. I am gonna beef up the front end. A rhino won't do what I like to do...dune fast. I like the look on your face when we flew past you in your Rhino in the dunes when we were on a buggy ride on Friday. :redhat:

yeah....and?

Thanks, Roy, but I think I am gonna have the front end of my car completely redesigned/ rebuilt with heavier spindles, heims, etc. I appreciate it though.

Me too...I kept looking at the finger dune Saturday expecting you to come cruising down it into camp! :redhat:

First off, welcome to the site. Second, that sounds like it would be nice to do for the people that have past. Where would you think the plaque should go? Out at Dumont somewhere? We could set something up here. Maybe a section of the board or website dedicated to "fallen duners"? It would be a good way to remember those that have died doing what we all love doing. It would hopefully also be a reminder to those that forget how fragile life is and remind everyone to be EXTRA cautious out there.

That was one of my guesses as to what happened ^^

:redhat: Hey, but I do have one up on you!.......Sandrail recovery vehicle! With or without a trailer behind me too. The Dmax did badass this weekend. That thing goes anywhere.....even with a long travel car or trailer strapped to the back of it! :redhat: Jon and I were even talking about your Robbie Gordon trophy truck incident as we were mobbing it through the whoops on the back stretch WITH JoeDuner hooked up behind us. We can do it too!

Yeah I saw it too. I was like are you freakin kidding me? I don't know what happened to it. I saw that it was gone on Saturday.

HOPEFULLY. Rumor has it that he died in the helicopter on the way to the hospital.

This last weekend I noticed so many people out there that are just plain RUDE. There seems to be no respect at all for others. I was roosted ON PURPOSE TWICE this last weekend. The first time was when we were coming back from the DDR buggy ride. Me, Scott, and ynot were taking the finger dune back to camp. We weren't driving like a-holes or anything and when I approached a quad (Banshee) on the top of teh dune I moved over as much as I could leaving plenty of room for the guy to pass safely. When I got to him he didn't move over at all. He looked at me like I was the one with the problem. I went even farther over almost sliding down the dune and went around him. As I got slightly past him he revs the bike and dumps the clutch and tries to roost me. I know it was on purpose too. He was trying to mad dog me and he seemed to have something stuck up his a$$. :redhat: Maybe he was in one of the camps that lined the top of the finger dune with rebar and cones. :redhat: I might have accidentally hit a few of those earlier in the day and he recognized me. A similair situation happened as we came back to camp in sanddunesaddict's car. A guy popping wheelies in between camps almost ran into us. All we did was shake our heads as he pasted us and then he did the same....dumps the clutch and rocked the hell out of us. I hope this doesn't become the mentality of people at Dumont. I try and treat everyone out there like they are friends from our camp. It seems there is a lot of "dune-rage" (like road rage) these days. Everyone wants to fight and cause trouble. All I want to do is go duning and be as safe as possible doing it. This last trip was fun, but I was pretty dissappointed with the people out there. I really really hope it doesn't turn into the Glamis crowd out there.