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Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:18 pm

Hey sorry, I'm only sharing, stating facts, and answering questions. I am not making any sort of "political" statements, or making any sort of derogator statements. As stated, I love going to the USA and have met some of the nicest people there. I've traveled thorugh most of the north east and most of the states down to Florida. If I could pick a place to live it would be Hood River Oregon in a blink of an eye. Jeesh, maybe I've made few tongue in cheek comments here and there but lighten up Hambergerdude.

Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:56 pm

My intention is only to keep a health care debate out of the off-road forum, where people are intended to discuss baja bugs, rails, etc, and not the current state of national health care. Please don't view this as a personal attack one way or another.

Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:07 pm

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Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:08 am

riNR, glad to hear you're on the mend, a broken hip is no little issue. A good friend went through it a couple years ago, and he can't stress the rehab enough, i guess it's easy to slack off on the rehab which will manifest itself later in loss of mobility. My sister lives in Toronto and from what I've seen and heard from her you're HC system up there is nice, I think the taxes part works itself out since we pay allot of hidden stuff here. Opps off subject, get well soon so you can get in the buggy come spring.!

Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:27 pm

So I finally made some video of the buggy. Not my favourite type of riding as I much prefer trail riding but its the only place I thought my son would be able to video half decent. I actually got the car up to 57 mph in some of the tighter forest trails later that day and up to 97 mph on the highway last night. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAbrQ7Zb4OU

Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:54 am

rINR, cool vid. Looks like a fun place to goof off in the rail. Hey, strap your son in sometime get some vid rippin up the trails, it'd be interesting to see how your terrain is up that way.

We were out playing over the weekend and shot some vid of one of my buds jumping his rail. I still haven't worked out the export settings on Premier to get the best mix of quality and size.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56589462

Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:33 pm

riNR,
It sounds like you are all healed up, congrats on the quick recovery.

Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:50 pm

Oh I'd say I'm a ways from being "all" healed up still. I'm still quite weak in my right leg. It's still hard to walk on uneven ground or long distances.

Chris,
Did you shoot that with a GoPro camera?

Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:42 pm

riNR wrote:
Chris,
Did you shoot that with a GoPro camera?

Oh i want one of those, the wide view one, i can use it when i dirtbike to.

Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:37 pm

Yeah, it's a go pro, it actually takes decent videos, I'm not optimizing it correctly for the web though. I use it on the bike too.

Here's a bike vid I did a couple weeks ago. Next time I'm mounting it on the helmet to see how it works:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56272398

Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:26 pm

Those cameras are absolutely amazing to me. I can not believe how stable the picture is. I would love to get one but more for my windsurfing than anything. I'd love to get it on a helmet mount for when I'm doing back loop attempts and when I'm ripping next to friends and other sailors. The videos I've seen are quite amazing.
Check out the mast top mount videos on one of my sailing buddies web site: http://philipsoltysiak.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=gallery.view&catid=9&assetid=124&page=1

Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:30 pm

Some very cool fab work there.

Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:38 pm

riNR wrote: The videos I've seen are quite amazing.
Check out the mast top mount videos on one of my sailing buddies web site: http://philipsoltysiak.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=gallery.view&catid=9&assetid=124&page=1

Those guys are good! Cool video

Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:48 am

Oh he's beyond good. I think he's now ranked 14th in the world in Freestyle windsurfing.

Tue May 05, 2009 8:32 pm

I finally decided to mount a shovel on the car permanently after getting stuck a few times without one. I found this broken scooter a while back while I was at the dump and was intrigued with the parts on it and how well it was made, so I held onto it. Well I finally found a use for it. I removed the steel threaded sleeve part that went to the front wheel and kept the handle. I welded the sleeve to a shovel blade and reattached to the handle and fabbed up a system to mount it onto my rack. It's works great. The handles plug into a holder on the shaft. It is extendable, light weight, and strong too. Check it out:

Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:18 pm

I did a little goofing around near home on my test track. The day before I knocked the crap out of the right rear tire and trailing arm. The tire was knock way off and I had to realign it all. These cars don't like it when you use the cutting brake into a burm to have the tire kick into the burm and the car go up onto two wheels side ways.
Here's some pictures off a little jump on the track:

Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:47 pm

I've been pretty busy with both my business and my buggy making time to work on the buggy has been pretty much confined to work times between 9:00 pm and 1:00 am.
Recently I took two teeth off of second gear so I had to take it all out to send for a rebuild. This time we put in stock ratio Weddle first and second gears.
I bought a power washer that was on a great deal and power washed the snot out of the engine, etc. and while I had the down time I changed out the leaking valve cover gasket, changed out the plugs, did an oil change, fixed my exhaust leaks (turbo winds up better now) painted up some things here and there, painted up the tranny all sparkly, fixed up the holes and cracks in the body and painted it all up. I call the paint job "off road vintage chic". What ya all think?

Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:07 pm

riNR wrote: Did some work on the trailer a while back now. I added ramps that fold down so that it wasn't such a PITA to load and unload everytime and made room for the spare tire up under the front of the back bone. going to wait until next summer a lay a coat of tremclad black on once a little surface rust has formed so it will stick really well.

Can I ask how you actually get the car on the trailer up front. Seems like it would slide one way or the other

Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:40 pm

The T trailer has a back bone of 2" square tube and the buggy slides up it when I line up a cleat under the car with the tube and slide it along. A hitch pin with a cotter pin through it holds the buggy onto the back bone......see picture of cleat:

Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:06 pm

I really like the new paint, car looks great.