Pick up a cheap light bike to learn on especially if you are in the market for a dual sport and plan to do some off-road riding. Your skills will improve dramatically faster and having a 250cc bike fall on you when you crash isn’t nearly as bad as having a 1000cc 500+ lb chunk of steel rock your world. Build your…

I’ve always liked the 3000GT VR4 and that is one of the cleanest examples I have seen. Good call on keeping it!

I like the Raptor/GT350R combo, it is in the same vein as my current FJ Cruiser/Challenger Hellcat combo.

Speak of the devil!

That is an awesome setup! I like the idea, most of the purpose built off-road rigs I see barely leave the pavement so it’s good to see a softroader out there playing in the woods and getting used properly! Nice addition on the roof top tent, I try to get out and use mine as often as possible. I love the “tree house”…

Hey that photo is of my buddy Jonathan Harris’ 100 Series. He was President of the Bookcliff Cruisers 4x4 club and now runs the FJ Summit in Ouray. My FJ is just ahead in this photo.

Wow, we had similar Sundays. I decided to swap out my suspension. Everything started out just fine, perfect weather, I had been soaking all the fasteners in penetrating oil for days prior. Everything in the rear broke loose without so much as a complaint. Rear shocks and coils practically fell off and the new hardware…

I am installing coilovers right now and the lower shock mount bolt is seized into the bushing sleeve. I’ve tried penetrating oil, torque, heat, etc. Going to have to cut it out and replace. Don’t be stingy with the grease and anti-seize when reassembling your vehicles people.

Awesome article, I wish I would have seen this a couple weeks ago. I ended up picking out an SJ4000. It is a GoPro clone action cam but has the Time/Date Stamp, Auto Start/Stop on Power (Can also set stop delay), Cyclic Recording, and ability to automatically start a new file ever 3,5 or 10 minutes. I picked it up for…

I'm not a fan of eliminating the spare tire, but I also can't imagine buying a new car and not checking the spare, toolkit, figuring out how to check and fill all the fluids, familiarizing myself with the nav/infotainment etc. Day One. I realize I'm a car guy, and we are the minority, but I also imagine the people who…

I am hoping this comes to market, if it does I will buy one in a heartbeat. For me it is perfect. I have other cars, but they A) Get TERRIBLE mileage and B) I want to keep them forever so I don't want to drive them into the ground with my insane number of commuting miles.

I got to drive one a couple weeks ago. It was a balmy 27 degrees out but the roads were dry, though you would never know it from behind the wheel. With the summer tires and those temperatures a minor muscle spasm in your ankle would send you sideways. I took it up to 75 on the interstate and even at that speed you…

Is it just me or does the rear end of the new 'stangs look a bit porsche-ish? From the windshield back that line looks like it could be a 911 to me if you nixed the decklid.

That's a little excessive perhaps but a few ice screws can make winter riding entirely possible. I was doing an engine swap on my DD from December to February a few years back and decided a snowmobile suite, heated vest and gloves for me and some ice screws for my KLR650 were the answer. I did a 110 mile round trip 5…

If they made a compact-ish SUV with the Raptor drivetrain I would actually consider trading in the FJ... a vehicle I currently intent to own forever.

? Snow tires absolutely make you stop faster. For years I lived at the top of a very steep hill with an intersection at the bottom. I could roll down the hill at 25MPH on icy days and come to a complete stop with zero issue on snow tires. The few couple icy days each year before I got my snow tires swapped on I had to…

I do this hauling ass off-road. There might be a small ditch or something I can't avoid, accelerate hard right before you hit it to un-weight the front suspension. Do it right and you can cruise right over something with barely a bump that might have swallowed the front end otherwise.

I know how you feel, my first car was a 2Dr Jeep XJ, I broke and fixed just about everything on that damn Jeep. (Ripped the front control arms completely off the Unibody, had to create new "frame rails" to weld them back to, filled the alternator with mud 200 miles from anywhere, coil over conversion, grand cherokee…

I was concerned about that but so far the thin sidewalls haven't been an issue. The chunky side lugs seem to do a pretty good job of deflecting the worst of it and they've held up well. I usually air down to 18psi front and 16psi rear on the trails. My rig is fairly heavy as it has front/rear bumpers, full skids, and…

Wow, just checked those rims out, I like them a lot! Those get my vote (Not that it counts for anything) I think you'll like the Duratracs. I assumed I would be giving up a little on-road performance for better off-road and winter performance but they are actually a lot stickier than the BFG's on dry pavement and in…