To me it’s not about that. It’s clear these clowns haven’t done any builds of their own, or at least are very new to it. If you’ve built something you know how many painful hours it takes and how much money it costs. I hate bro trucks, but I would never ever stand in front of somebody’s pride and joy and mock it. …

Jalopnik, loving the stock cars that we approve of, every other vehicle is crap. Doesn’t quite fit with the ethos of “jalopnik”, does it?

This is bullshit.

With the exception of the trucks- which are like strapping a threshing combine to the front of a vehicle and then spray painting the windshield black- the rest of these are fine. Sure, the Challenger is kind of sad, and the fake Maybach has an air of desperation, but shhh. Let people enjoy things.

That ‘perfectly good Lamborghini Gallardo’ was a scrapped shell of a 19 year old car that had been wrecked twice. I personally hate the ‘cummins swap everything’ mind set as much as I hate the ‘LS swap everything’, but this was a crazy project car.  Hell, THIS might be the most SEMA car here.

This is TERRIBLE!  When I buy some piece of shit vehicle and set some arbitrary deadline by which time it has to be roadworthy, WHERE am I going to drive it to NOW?

But there was a good management plan. They did balance conservation and access. They just didn’t do it to the exact amount or ratio that you wanted. It’s not about what you want. If they hadn’t balanced conservation and access, you’d have a helluva lot more than 317 miles closed. Sure, it sucks not being able to go on…

That’s exactly what they’re doing. Balancing those things. You’re crying as if they closed every single mile of trail and you won’t be able to take your brodozer stomping on any land whatsoever. Reread the article my guy. They closed less than 50% of the trails. They did it to help recondition some of the land. That’s…

Maybe silly question: How do they enforce this?

Right?  It’s hard to have fun when some pear-shaped retiree goes blasting by on an offroad e-bike.

Good. I’ve been going to Moab since the late 90's and it wasn’t until the wide adoption of SXS’s around 2013-15 that things started getting really out of control. Those things have basically become the 4x4 version of a Rascal scooter at Walmart and enabled hoards of people who had no business being out in those areas…

I work in environmental science and land reclamation. I manage a federally-protected wildlife sanctuary. I agree that this sucks for the off-road community.

Mountain biking might as well be dead.  It’s all people on overpowered electric motorcycles now.

Fair point....god help us if Gaetz gets his hands on a RZR.

We as a society can’t get ahold of the 10% s*****heads in politics, i don’t know how we are supposed to control those in the off-road community. 

I have trail ridden in moab several times and I have to say that there are still a lot of trails open. ATVs and SXS are the issues right now all over the country in trail closing due to damage. We jeep and truck owners did our damage and learned our lesson in the past. I will continue to go to Moab and trail ride in…

While I’m not familiar with the off-roading scene in Moab, if it is anything like where I grew up it can be summarized thusly:

Just rolled in (Customer states...). Not exactly wrenching videos but close enough, could be educational, mostly entertainment.

I had car bomb.  I’m saying that is close enough!

I had Moose and Squirrel.