Chris Abel

Got the trangia out, so we wont be having pot noodles, Spaghetti carbonara tomorrow night. It reminds me of Gold Duke of Edinborough days!! I spent 6 hours this afternoon fitting a 6" lift to the rhino so with 18" of ground clearance we might be driving over the rocks a bit better. See you all tomorrow we should get there about 4.30 ish.

sounds interesting!! im just happy ive only got half a ton to hang of my ground anchor rather than 2.5 ton! but my little rhino does not like big rocks and it does not look like im going to get the 6" lift kit in time it wont come until monday now because UPS miss placed my parcel in the USA. Im really looking forward to this weekend, is there a burger van on saturday night or have i got to bring some Pot Noodles?

Ill chuck a few logs on the trailer . my Little Rhino might be a little higher next weekend if i get the 6" lift kit in time, we struggled a bit on the rocks at walters. bogs wont be to much problem as we can always pick it up and carry it out!!!

Anyone been to Cowm Quarry? just wondering what its like?, i looked on there website http://www.cowmleisure.com I haven't got a ground anchor yet im guessing im going to need one for this event?

I too am sorry to hear the bad news. Tom and I will be at the next event as we really enjoyed ourselves and met some great like minded people. Cleaned the yamaha this evening and its all in good shape apart from the skidplate which will need a bit of hammering out! We are looking at lift kits now!

We had a great time in the Yamaha rhino at the weekend, it was our first event and we have alot to learn!! The rhino went well and proved it can do it. Tom my co-driver has not done much offroading and he too is on a seep learning curve but with a few more events under our belts and we should be working together alot better. We dont get to practice driving on rocks much in Norfolk!! We are going to get new coilover shocks to improve the ground clearence because the standard shocks were suffering with the extra weight that we have added to the vehicle. we will also have a snorkle and a set of road legal tyres!! We were thinking about some 35" simex tyres insted of our little 27" quad tyres (ARE YOU WORRIED NOW!!!!) We did the punch over the steel Pipe it was quite easy, ill get the Photo off Tom, the rhino looks quite funny with all wheels hanging! it was sad that someone pulled it out of the way kind of defeats the point of a challenge event! We also got to punch 38 and found it to be missing. maybe the Punches need to be fixed to bigger trees, I know its not always posible but i think alot of the ones that had broken off had bigger trees next to them.