Here's some pics and vids of a trip we did this Saturday. Broke my panhard drop bracket off during some major flexing that you can see in some of the pictures.

www.toyota-4runners.com/windrock9-13-03.html

Chris

 

Looked like fun. How do you like the Revos? Have you had them in mud yet?

 

The trip was a lot of fun, and as always I wish the people that rode with me were professional photographers, but it never looks quite the same, you know. The revos have been doing really well. On this trip, we encountered a section that was a pretty steep downhill, that was rock hard surface, but had a 1/2" of slimy red clay mud. It was really hard to navigate, because I had to brake and maintain control the vehicle going down this grade. It really sucked, and that's the only time I lost traction with these tires. I had them aired down to 20 psi, not too low, and it stuck to every wet rock out there, which was almost everyone.

I don't have much to compare the tires too, as far as mud or rock tires go, but as far as every other all-terrain tire I've ever had, this is by far the best tire I've ever owned. At this point, even for the wet and slimy trails in the east that I run on a regular basis, I have not needed a rock or mud tire yet, and if I can stay away from them, I will. The on-road manners of this tire are great, with no squeeling around turns, no loss of traction in the wet (I can't even spin a tire in the rain at full throttle unless I'm make a quick turn), and I could be more impressed with the balance of them.

Chris

 

Who else went on your trip, Chris-- anyone from the boards? Looks like you had fun-- time to break out the welder.

 

Not anyone from the boards. I wish there was some more folks nearby that were on the boards, so we could get a bigger group to go each time. It's a lot more fun when you have a bunch of people, including passengers that can take good pictures and video. I had my Dad and my friend on his 4wheeler. Not the ideal setup for recovery purposes, but we had a big cumalong just in case something happened. We had a blast, and I'm going to try some harder trails this next time, and really break something probably.

Chris

 

I just laughed out loud at the pee pee time (brown's) avatar!

Nice pics/ videos ravencr. Looks like you had it in 4Low in the videos. Did you regear for those tires?

 

Nope, and I'm not sure I ever will, because I'm hoping with my Supercharger installed soon, I'll be able to get better gas mileage on the highway, but it would be nice to be able to crawl better. I don't know yet! But, it's definitely noticable off the line when compared to my 1998 with stock tires.

Chris

 

Anybody game for a run this Saturday on some difficult rated trails at Windrock?

Chris