fitzmotor
Active Member
I drive a lot of fire roads and crazy trails (Deer Peak trail and House Trail and others) so as I'm tooling along slowly at times, it gave me time to think, as I was trying to thread the needle between all the stiff brush that has given me the pin stripes I already have.
I got to wondering how many Raptor owners carefully wind their way through the brush, vs those who disregard such thoughts and and point and shoot through the trail/road.
In the beginning I just shot right through and after a mild set of pinstripes, I figured that I better try to pay attention or I will turn a almost clean truck into a POS looking truck.
The problem really comes from the width of a Raptor, many many vehicles go down the trails/roads on a regular basis, but they are narrower vehicles, they are the ones who push the brush back to where it is, so when I come through as the wider vehicle, I can see in my mirrors that I only have a inch or two, or even zero on either side for clearance.
So if I'm in a Ivan Stuart (Ironman) mood, I hammer the throttle and forget about it, later in the driveway I'm commenting to myself how stupid that was, but it was fun, if I'm in a casual parade speed cruising mood, I thread the needle and avoid most of the brush, not nearly as much fun and it takes forever to travel any distance.
I even went as far as to bring my cordless hedge trimmer to cut back the brush, but I never got out and used it, just drove the slow boring way through.
Eventually I think the brush will win and I will have to repaint/replace the flares and buff the paint.
Of course this post is more for the offroaders vs the concrete queens.
Around here all the Raptors are pretty and shiny, I have yet to see one like mine with scratches in the paint and gouges in the skid shields.
Maybe I should start a poll, LOL
I got to wondering how many Raptor owners carefully wind their way through the brush, vs those who disregard such thoughts and and point and shoot through the trail/road.
In the beginning I just shot right through and after a mild set of pinstripes, I figured that I better try to pay attention or I will turn a almost clean truck into a POS looking truck.
The problem really comes from the width of a Raptor, many many vehicles go down the trails/roads on a regular basis, but they are narrower vehicles, they are the ones who push the brush back to where it is, so when I come through as the wider vehicle, I can see in my mirrors that I only have a inch or two, or even zero on either side for clearance.
So if I'm in a Ivan Stuart (Ironman) mood, I hammer the throttle and forget about it, later in the driveway I'm commenting to myself how stupid that was, but it was fun, if I'm in a casual parade speed cruising mood, I thread the needle and avoid most of the brush, not nearly as much fun and it takes forever to travel any distance.
I even went as far as to bring my cordless hedge trimmer to cut back the brush, but I never got out and used it, just drove the slow boring way through.
Eventually I think the brush will win and I will have to repaint/replace the flares and buff the paint.
Of course this post is more for the offroaders vs the concrete queens.
Around here all the Raptors are pretty and shiny, I have yet to see one like mine with scratches in the paint and gouges in the skid shields.
Maybe I should start a poll, LOL
