haha nice. Koukis13 calls them the boobies. Ive used mine a lot too. except mine are showing damage now, i have several large cracks in them but they r still pushin!hearse83 wrote:So most people who park a stick either do so with the parking brake or leave it in 1st. This has come in handy with the parallel parking in front of my girlfriend's building. Sometimes you get some jerk that you could easily have fit behind if he had only moved up a few more feet. So those two little plastic black pads on the front of the bumper get placed nice and flush behind the other person's vehicle and then I switch to 4L, and just gently nudge that vehicle forward until I can fit in that space comfortably. To this date, I have not damaged anyones vehicle or even left dirt marks. And as for the plastic pads on the front of the QX they are very resiliant pieces. I happen to know from one incident where my truck decided to hump a right-turning minivan that if heated, they will pop back out like a milk jug. True story. I (yes my stupid fault) rear ended a guy and crushed the black pieces of the bumper in. The temperature increased quite a bit over the next two days, and the bumper slowly retained it's natural shape over those couple of days.
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Re: R50 Adventures (hearse83)
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Re: R50 Adventures (Adnan)
Oddly enought, last night I had a dream it was winter and we had a huge snowfall. Gigantic snowbanks and I was driving over them like they were nothing. I even distinctly remember switching from Auto to 4Hi. Must be itching for hockey season to start. 
Haven't pulled much off-roading in the Pathy. My brother is prepping 30 acres of undeveloped land for building a house on. He won't take his Cherokee out there; he'll just jump in the Pathy and let me drive around there while we do various tasks.
Dirt roads out there are fun too.
Was out in the rockies this month, and when there's nothing but open ditches around for miles, it's nice to be able to drive down into the bush to take a piss break in privacy.
Other than that... urban and winter use rocks. Great for hauling around loads of hockey gear; with cars it's a pain finding space to put a gigantic bag of goalie gear in, but the Pathy handles it with ease.
I'd much rather have a Pathy and have it chug gas than have a 50mpg subcompact that can't drive through six inches of snow and would be completely obliterated in an accident. Call the Pathy's gas mileage "insurance"... that's what I do.
Haven't pulled much off-roading in the Pathy. My brother is prepping 30 acres of undeveloped land for building a house on. He won't take his Cherokee out there; he'll just jump in the Pathy and let me drive around there while we do various tasks.
Dirt roads out there are fun too.
Was out in the rockies this month, and when there's nothing but open ditches around for miles, it's nice to be able to drive down into the bush to take a piss break in privacy.
Other than that... urban and winter use rocks. Great for hauling around loads of hockey gear; with cars it's a pain finding space to put a gigantic bag of goalie gear in, but the Pathy handles it with ease.
I'd much rather have a Pathy and have it chug gas than have a 50mpg subcompact that can't drive through six inches of snow and would be completely obliterated in an accident. Call the Pathy's gas mileage "insurance"... that's what I do.
Re: R50 Adventures (Densetsu)
Densetsu - Speaking of 30 acres of undeveloped land - I'm sure you can identify with me in knowing that any place good to off road is quickly being swallowed up with houses. The trails by my house I used to bmx on got developed over. Pretty soon we'll stretch from fort mac to red deer. I have to agree about the snow, especially since they stopped the residential clearing program a few years ago and started doing those winrows...which by the way I drive through and over just for fun...and mainly to laugh at all the other people who complain about them.Densetsu wrote:Oddly enought, last night I had a dream it was winter and we had a huge snowfall. Gigantic snowbanks and I was driving over them like they were nothing. I even distinctly remember switching from Auto to 4Hi. Must be itching for hockey season to start.
Haven't pulled much off-roading in the Pathy. My brother is prepping 30 acres of undeveloped land for building a house on. He won't take his Cherokee out there; he'll just jump in the Pathy and let me drive around there while we do various tasks.
Dirt roads out there are fun too.
Was out in the rockies this month, and when there's nothing but open ditches around for miles, it's nice to be able to drive down into the bush to take a piss break in privacy.
Other than that... urban and winter use rocks. Great for hauling around loads of hockey gear; with cars it's a pain finding space to put a gigantic bag of goalie gear in, but the Pathy handles it with ease.
I'd much rather have a Pathy and have it chug gas than have a 50mpg subcompact that can't drive through six inches of snow and would be completely obliterated in an accident. Call the Pathy's gas mileage "insurance"... that's what I do.
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Re: R50 Adventures (hearse83)
There are very few places to do any decent off-roading around here. The housing development boom is certainly one reason, another is just because it's the flat-land prairies. :P The biggest extent I've done offroading locally on is just having fun in muddy farmer's fields.
There's some gems in the mountains and foothills, but that's a 4 hour drive away.
Personally, winter driving is much more entertaining than off-roading. Could be because I've done so little of the latter, though. Edmonton side-roads can be adventures in themselves. My last vehicle was a large mid-size sedan, and that barely made it through the winter roads (albeit with a shovel and kitty litter at some points)... can't imagine what it'd be like in a compact or smaller.
Since they're not plowing the side roads, I propose anyone driving large vehicles that pack down the snow should get a tax break. I'm just saying.
There's some gems in the mountains and foothills, but that's a 4 hour drive away.
Personally, winter driving is much more entertaining than off-roading. Could be because I've done so little of the latter, though. Edmonton side-roads can be adventures in themselves. My last vehicle was a large mid-size sedan, and that barely made it through the winter roads (albeit with a shovel and kitty litter at some points)... can't imagine what it'd be like in a compact or smaller.
Since they're not plowing the side roads, I propose anyone driving large vehicles that pack down the snow should get a tax break. I'm just saying.
Re: R50 Adventures (Densetsu)
yes snow wheeling is some of the most fun EVER!