Loerie 4x4 trail near PE
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Loerie 4x4 trail near PE
On Saturday I joined the EC-Offroad outing to Loerie arranged by Barto.
You can see his trail report here: http://www.ec-offroad.co.za/trip-report ... nuary-2009
It was a great day out, with a big group, but still a lot of fun. It is also nice to see what the other vehicles are capable of, especially the expensive Disco 3's etc. I must say they were quite impressive being computers on wheels on the one hill climb.
On the one hill climb called Golaith, my trusty Hilux was one of only a few vehicles that attempted it to actually get up the steep and loose rocky trail. Two other SFA double cabs (a 4Y and 22R) got stuck half way up. But success was not altogether without it's incidents...
Just near the top of the climb, in 2 low at 5000 RPM, I ventured slighty off the spoor to look for more traction, and hit an ant hill which bounced me suddenly to the left, and into a game fence, snapping one of the fence poles with my bull bar. I also lost the corner of the bumper :) Battles scars for the day
All in all, a great day, with some real fun.
You can see his trail report here: http://www.ec-offroad.co.za/trip-report ... nuary-2009
It was a great day out, with a big group, but still a lot of fun. It is also nice to see what the other vehicles are capable of, especially the expensive Disco 3's etc. I must say they were quite impressive being computers on wheels on the one hill climb.
On the one hill climb called Golaith, my trusty Hilux was one of only a few vehicles that attempted it to actually get up the steep and loose rocky trail. Two other SFA double cabs (a 4Y and 22R) got stuck half way up. But success was not altogether without it's incidents...
Just near the top of the climb, in 2 low at 5000 RPM, I ventured slighty off the spoor to look for more traction, and hit an ant hill which bounced me suddenly to the left, and into a game fence, snapping one of the fence poles with my bull bar. I also lost the corner of the bumper :) Battles scars for the day
All in all, a great day, with some real fun.
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Re: Loerie 4x4 trail near PE
nice report and pics by Barto. Thanks Andrew!
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Re: Loerie 4x4 trail near PE
Andrew as far as I know the grey hilux has a turbo diesel and the white one has a 2.7VVTi engine. Or at least that is what the guy from LA Sport told me.
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Re: Loerie 4x4 trail near PE
Look like a lot of fun you had Andrew.What is the difficult rating of this trail.Would like to try it some time.
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Re: Loerie 4x4 trail near PE
The hill where Andrew hit the fence is a grade 4, the rest is grade 2-3.
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Re: Loerie 4x4 trail near PE
AndrewSifu-Lux wrote:O Battles scars for the day
Do I see a project for a home built integrated bullbar on the horizon?
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Re: Loerie 4x4 trail near PE
If thats the case then I feel even better Power to the Ford V6Zantus wrote:Andrew as far as I know the grey hilux has a turbo diesel and the white one has a 2.7VVTi engine. Or at least that is what the guy from LA Sport told me.
I am sitting in the airport in Hannover, Germany now, waiting to fly to Paris and its flippen cold outside (-2 deg C).
Will be good to be back in warm SA on Thursday.
No nice Hilux's here
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Re: Loerie 4x4 trail near PE
Hmmm, I almost took the bullbar off a few weeks ago to do some measuring, glad I didn't...BenHur wrote:AndrewSifu-Lux wrote:O Battles scars for the day
Do I see a project for a home built integrated bullbar on the horizon?
Glad to hear you weren't to badly hurt in your accident, and hope you recover soon.
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Re: Loerie 4x4 trail near PE
Thanks, hope you dont freeze too much, whats you upto there in the cold?
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Re: Loerie 4x4 trail near PE
Business trip, looking for some equipment for our plant. At least Paris is warmer 3 deg C :)
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Re: Loerie 4x4 trail near PE
Looks like anothe project :o) let me know when you back in PE
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