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Irate KoH Recap
- Thread starter Austin
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CDA 455 II
ANFAQUE2
Pits, welder, machinist, medic or rescue here. Lol.
2big bronco
Og irate
I can hang out and tell everyone how they are doing it wrong
Honky Lips
Welcome to the shit show.
Laundry after the hammers lol
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Sorry that i wasn’t able to see any of y’all. We were super focused on prerunning and making sure we finally got a finish (which we still didn’t in either race). Starlink worked amazingly well the entire 16ish days I was there. Definitely was worth the cost. I’ll do a race report soon, but here’s a couple pics of our races (my wife Alex did get to finish 4th with our buddy Fast Felix in the class 11 showdown)
Drakeslayer
Wet Trail Wheeler
After the 4400 race, the Blyler‘s decided to give away body panels from their vehicles with their autographs. My granddaughter got one, then she boldly asked Tom Wayes and Raul Gomez for body panels off their cars. She bet Raul she could tell him where he got his shoes for that panel on his car he lost the bet when she told him “you got them on your feet”. She ended up with panels from all three cars and a hat with autographs from Raul, Jason, both Blyler‘s, and Tom Wayes.
Drakeslayer
Wet Trail Wheeler
Honky Lips
Welcome to the shit show.
That’s funny as hell. On your feet. Haha. Good for her.
That is Awesome. Good for her, she'll remember that forever.
Roc Doc
2A SNBI
I swear Marlin has been wearing that same jacket for 25 years. It's gonna' be a sad day when he leaves us.The weather this year was excellent and we had a great time.
DuckTape
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True, I was really glad to be able to spend a few minutes conversing with him. Pretty sure I took a picture of him wearing that jacket back in 2014 in the springs.
CDA 455 II
ANFAQUE2
The weather this year was excellent and we had a great time.
Someone hand that Monster Energy gal a couple of cheese burgers.
💀
Sandy Johnson
Harry Member
Our trip was short- we only had a few days to take our 5 year old out of school and basketball, and get me away from work for a short time. A while back I asked the kids if they wanted to watch some rock racing, or some trophy trucks. At the time they were on a trophy truck kick so we headed down the Friday before the desert races and drove home the Tuesday after that(juust in time to many anything other than UTV power hour).
I was blown away by the amount of traffic that was already rolling in this early in the week:
The kids were practically bouncing off the walls of the motorhome with excitement, but somehow they managed to hold it together while we found camp and got setup.
In the morning we headed in the hammer town to look at some racecars and watch some of the slower classes leave the start. The kids were all in and I think this moment pretty much made the trip for my wife and I.
We also cruised around hammer town for a bit and the kids got to play in some cool stuff.
After that we set out across the desert to go see some desert trucks attempt heartbreak hill..... except I made it about 200 yards away from where people were camped and had my rear driveshaft blow up going slow through some pretty mild whoops. Don't think the whoops caused it, but probably my last local trip where I was trying to do wheelies on a metal teetertotter might have started the breakage and I didn't notice. Lucky for me, it broke at the centering yoke of the double cardan joint(I know, I know, it's going away soon). I pulled the driveshaft and drove back to camp in fwd. I was able to salvage the driveshaft with a new centering yoke, a new u joint, and some new bolts from a nearby napa. The cool part was the guys at the BFG Garage offered to put everything back together for me and even install it in the jeep for free.
One of my fellow BFG Garage Refugees:
It was pretty awesome to get to keep my kids entertained while someone else worked on my jeep.
One of my buddies has a pretty dialed in axial crawler and my 2.5 year old is good enough with RCs that he trusted him to drive it around the axial course.
That debacle took all day, but once it got sorted, we took her for a sunset shakedown cruise.
One of our buddies at camp is racing 4400 and he's pretty much our kid's hero, but more because of his exploits in this rig than racing
The next morning it was full speed ahead to have some actual KOH fun. The TTs were starting at noon, so we took a quick rip out to Turkey Claw. There was a crowd parked at the entrance, but no one on the course (maybe they thought it was closed?) so my buddy and I got it all to ourselves. We ripped up it quick before anyone else figured out it was open. Then had a chance to stop for a beer as the flood gates opened behind us.
We had just enough time to head back to hammer town, grab a pizza, and watch the trucks stage
The monster booth didn't have the best action for watching the start since the desert race was going the opposite way, but I had a sneaky spot to watch:
After that we had our own "desert race" out to watch everyone hit the Baldwin leap. I turned around and missed the one truck that sent it.
(My youngest actually napped in the jeep the entire time this went on...so I'm stoked I'm still able to run a soft top and doors)
After that, the kids were smoked and the shadows were getting long, so we headed back to camp.
The next morning one of our local-ish buddies took us out to a trail called Blueberry. Hadn't done that one before. It had some good technical spots.
Back for lunch, and then we went with all the recovery homies to pre-run thor's hammer so they could figure out where the winching spots should be and who was going to park their rig where during the race.
Bottom of big johnson on the way in:
Headed up Thor's
We got to the top of that trail just as the sun went down
Annnd, that was it! Other than some night time turkey claw laps, and some minibike action around the lakebed, that was my KOH this year... and it was awesome, because my kids loved every minute of it and want to come back next year.
Packed up and headed home
I was blown away by the amount of traffic that was already rolling in this early in the week:
The kids were practically bouncing off the walls of the motorhome with excitement, but somehow they managed to hold it together while we found camp and got setup.
In the morning we headed in the hammer town to look at some racecars and watch some of the slower classes leave the start. The kids were all in and I think this moment pretty much made the trip for my wife and I.
We also cruised around hammer town for a bit and the kids got to play in some cool stuff.
After that we set out across the desert to go see some desert trucks attempt heartbreak hill..... except I made it about 200 yards away from where people were camped and had my rear driveshaft blow up going slow through some pretty mild whoops. Don't think the whoops caused it, but probably my last local trip where I was trying to do wheelies on a metal teetertotter might have started the breakage and I didn't notice. Lucky for me, it broke at the centering yoke of the double cardan joint(I know, I know, it's going away soon). I pulled the driveshaft and drove back to camp in fwd. I was able to salvage the driveshaft with a new centering yoke, a new u joint, and some new bolts from a nearby napa. The cool part was the guys at the BFG Garage offered to put everything back together for me and even install it in the jeep for free.
One of my fellow BFG Garage Refugees:
It was pretty awesome to get to keep my kids entertained while someone else worked on my jeep.
One of my buddies has a pretty dialed in axial crawler and my 2.5 year old is good enough with RCs that he trusted him to drive it around the axial course.
That debacle took all day, but once it got sorted, we took her for a sunset shakedown cruise.
One of our buddies at camp is racing 4400 and he's pretty much our kid's hero, but more because of his exploits in this rig than racing
The next morning it was full speed ahead to have some actual KOH fun. The TTs were starting at noon, so we took a quick rip out to Turkey Claw. There was a crowd parked at the entrance, but no one on the course (maybe they thought it was closed?) so my buddy and I got it all to ourselves. We ripped up it quick before anyone else figured out it was open. Then had a chance to stop for a beer as the flood gates opened behind us.
We had just enough time to head back to hammer town, grab a pizza, and watch the trucks stage
The monster booth didn't have the best action for watching the start since the desert race was going the opposite way, but I had a sneaky spot to watch:
After that we had our own "desert race" out to watch everyone hit the Baldwin leap. I turned around and missed the one truck that sent it.
(My youngest actually napped in the jeep the entire time this went on...so I'm stoked I'm still able to run a soft top and doors)After that, the kids were smoked and the shadows were getting long, so we headed back to camp.
The next morning one of our local-ish buddies took us out to a trail called Blueberry. Hadn't done that one before. It had some good technical spots.
Back for lunch, and then we went with all the recovery homies to pre-run thor's hammer so they could figure out where the winching spots should be and who was going to park their rig where during the race.
Bottom of big johnson on the way in:
Headed up Thor's
We got to the top of that trail just as the sun went down
Annnd, that was it! Other than some night time turkey claw laps, and some minibike action around the lakebed, that was my KOH this year... and it was awesome, because my kids loved every minute of it and want to come back next year.
Packed up and headed home
Penetrode Offroad
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Do you think Big John or whatever his name is will take the company forward or sell it to TG?
xr-nut
GROUP W BENCH
ridered3
Low Talent Wheelin
Drakeslayer thats awesome on the panels and very quick witted for her on Gomez. Bet he’ll remember that time he won and got swindled for a panel 
If she doesn’t have enough room for all those panels I’d gladly pay for one for our little dudes room. Would look mighty nice next to Pitbullcruiser old number plate.
Sandy Johnson awesome write up and cool to see the kiddos involvement as well as ages. Eventually we will make the trip out with our little dude so seeing the ages help a lot.
If she doesn’t have enough room for all those panels I’d gladly pay for one for our little dudes room. Would look mighty nice next to Pitbullcruiser old number plate.Sandy Johnson awesome write up and cool to see the kiddos involvement as well as ages. Eventually we will make the trip out with our little dude so seeing the ages help a lot.
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Sandy Johnson
Harry Member
The 5 year old is leaps and bounds easier to take out there. I'd do a solo trip with him right now. For the 2.5 year old, 2 parents and an RV are highly recommended.
Also we had the added piece that there were 1-2 vehicles in camp that, when they fire up or come rolling into camp, I had to teach our kids to run like hell for the nearest RV(can't say trailer because there was one flatbed those vehicles liked to get a little air off of)or an adult.
Those light up shoes, glow sticks, and a little headlamp for night time are good to have too.
2big bronco
Og irate
Dont mess with my future wife/gf, shes perfectSomeone hand that Monster Energy gal a couple of cheese burgers.
Sandy Johnson
Harry Member
Monster girl: "Good morning babe! I made you some waffles..."Dont mess with my future wife/gf, shes perfect
2big bronco : "AAAH! What the hell are you doing out of your pleather skin tight pants?!?!"
ridered3
Low Talent Wheelin
That’s great info all around.
What kind of MPG do you get out of the motorhome when loaded like that?
Gtrplyr78
Nuttin’
I'd give her another project all together. Shipped to 84129Someone hand that Monster Energy gal a couple of cheese burgers.
Sandy Johnson
Harry Member
This thing is funny. Unloaded I get like 8.6 mpg. Loaded down like that... 8.0 or 8.1 mpg.
It MIGHT be that when I'm not towing I'm going 75 and when I am I'm going 55 - 60?
All in all, I'm really happy with whatever version of v10 and transmission this is(its a 2017). It kicks ass. Last year I surprised some of my diesel buddies by not getting dropped over the grade into Mojave. We all thought I was going to get left in the dust.
Gregj50!!!!!
Boob
This is a troll thread…. I was there from Sunday to Sunday and didn’t spot one Irate member….. not even a flag!!!!! None of you really exist except in the internet’s!!!!
I went alone…. Jeep JK, a cooler… some tools and dried fruit and nuts!!!! Failed miserably on finding jerky/pepperoni spot on the drive down….
I packed 2 six packs of good Washington beer in case I ran into one of you guys…. Saturday night Ended up stopping in at Pellegrino’s pit and giving it to them!!!!
About $500.00 in fuel will get a guy and a JK to hammers and back from Washington!!!
Saw this guy on the way back….
Great time…. Would highly recommend…. Don’t make excuses!!!!!
And as always, packed more garbage out than I took in!!!
I went alone…. Jeep JK, a cooler… some tools and dried fruit and nuts!!!! Failed miserably on finding jerky/pepperoni spot on the drive down….
I packed 2 six packs of good Washington beer in case I ran into one of you guys…. Saturday night Ended up stopping in at Pellegrino’s pit and giving it to them!!!!
About $500.00 in fuel will get a guy and a JK to hammers and back from Washington!!!
Saw this guy on the way back….
Great time…. Would highly recommend…. Don’t make excuses!!!!!
And as always, packed more garbage out than I took in!!!
You should have brought a 12 pack of exclamation marks over to 221 griffin express. There’s a thread in the race forum where everyone said where they could be found.This is a troll thread…. I was there from Sunday to Sunday and didn’t spot one Irate member….. not even a flag!!!!! None of you really exist except in the internet’s!!!!
I went alone…. Jeep JK, a cooler… some tools and dried fruit and nuts!!!! Failed miserably on finding jerky/pepperoni spot on the drive down….
I packed 2 six packs of good Washington beer in case I ran into one of you guys…. Saturday night Ended up stopping in at Pellegrino’s pit and giving it to them!!!!
About $500.00 in fuel will get a guy and a JK to hammers and back from Washington!!!
Saw this guy on the way back….
Great time…. Would highly recommend…. Don’t make excuses!!!!!
And as always, packed more garbage out than I took in!!!
ridered3
Low Talent Wheelin
Good info there.