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Renate wrote.....
Off list I said to Dennis that maybe the Salisbury thing might not be a workable idea for me,
1, your cars will be modified far in excess of what mine is, even though I have a snorkel and LRFT,
and 2, I don't do bells and whistles, my 80 has been modified very basically - there is no other beast modified less than mine!
3, self-esteem, riders who may be out there to prove something either to themselves or others.
In a nutshell, I need an idea of peoples abilities, what they have, general mods, whether they have the driver skill necessary etc.etc, I'm not saying that any of them are unskilled, far from it. But I've been on these kinds of things before, and enjoyment was not at the top of some peoples list for the day.
I guess I'm a sceptic and the severist critiq of them all, and certainly the hardest taskmaster for myself, and I guess, a bit of a loner really [rogue?]. Well certainly an Iraqi friend of mine was gobsmacked when I told him I drove alone in Libya, he thought I was kidding, I kidded him not.
So I dunno, I need some more info, and I need that info pretty soon.
Renate, I think I am one of the 'old hands' that Julian refers too (ahem !)
I was on the Plain at Easter with the Pajero boys and my only mod is a sump
guard. The rest of my little Mk1 Pajero is absolutely bog standard. I also
have very much road biased Avon TSE tyres not meant to tackle more than a
sticky grass field. I never got stuck - yes, I felt the old girl floating
at one point - but watched others get firmly stuck despite oversize knobbly
MTR's and bristling with all sorts of gismos. One got airborne on his sump
guard and was towed off the hump, but had the idiot looked where others had
gone and followed, there would have been no problem for him either.
So don't worry. Its about your driving skill and experience, not bolt-ons.
The idiot drivers with all the gismos get stuck first, the experienced ones
maybe later when the going gets very tough. I have too much grey hair and
ageing grandchildren which may indicate experience - apart from my everyday
work in my 80 out here. I try not to be a hero and always appear to get
home on my own !
Cheers
Jon
'92 HZJ80 ex UN surplus in Bosnia - where Ramadan is a blessing, about 4.45
every evening they are all so busy stuffing themselves when the mullah
calls end of the fast, that the supermarkets are just about empty and
shopping is done in a third of the time. Let's have a 12 month Ramadan we say.
Off list I said to Dennis that maybe the Salisbury thing might not be a workable idea for me,
1, your cars will be modified far in excess of what mine is, even though I have a snorkel and LRFT,
and 2, I don't do bells and whistles, my 80 has been modified very basically - there is no other beast modified less than mine!
3, self-esteem, riders who may be out there to prove something either to themselves or others.
In a nutshell, I need an idea of peoples abilities, what they have, general mods, whether they have the driver skill necessary etc.etc, I'm not saying that any of them are unskilled, far from it. But I've been on these kinds of things before, and enjoyment was not at the top of some peoples list for the day.
I guess I'm a sceptic and the severist critiq of them all, and certainly the hardest taskmaster for myself, and I guess, a bit of a loner really [rogue?]. Well certainly an Iraqi friend of mine was gobsmacked when I told him I drove alone in Libya, he thought I was kidding, I kidded him not.
So I dunno, I need some more info, and I need that info pretty soon.
Renate, I think I am one of the 'old hands' that Julian refers too (ahem !)
I was on the Plain at Easter with the Pajero boys and my only mod is a sump
guard. The rest of my little Mk1 Pajero is absolutely bog standard. I also
have very much road biased Avon TSE tyres not meant to tackle more than a
sticky grass field. I never got stuck - yes, I felt the old girl floating
at one point - but watched others get firmly stuck despite oversize knobbly
MTR's and bristling with all sorts of gismos. One got airborne on his sump
guard and was towed off the hump, but had the idiot looked where others had
gone and followed, there would have been no problem for him either.
So don't worry. Its about your driving skill and experience, not bolt-ons.
The idiot drivers with all the gismos get stuck first, the experienced ones
maybe later when the going gets very tough. I have too much grey hair and
ageing grandchildren which may indicate experience - apart from my everyday
work in my 80 out here. I try not to be a hero and always appear to get
home on my own !
Cheers
Jon
'92 HZJ80 ex UN surplus in Bosnia - where Ramadan is a blessing, about 4.45
every evening they are all so busy stuffing themselves when the mullah
calls end of the fast, that the supermarkets are just about empty and
shopping is done in a third of the time. Let's have a 12 month Ramadan we say.