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Big skies…

Different views, same vibes on Saturday evening & Sunday morning mass ascents. Caught some new angles of the hundred balloons flying across the city.

What a weekend to live in this wonderful city 😍. Thanks for all the love on the previous photos too 🫶🏼.

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New KoolRida project - to Klunk or not to Klunk that is the question? Shall I dump a double arm stem, straight MX bars, MX grips and some Gnarly tyres on it….or just leave it be??? It’s an oversprayed Schwinn that floated my boat so I bought it.

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If you know me, you know I love obscure and interesting stuff. Well the Camel Trophy is full of lots of nuggets, one of which lead down a rabbit hole resulting in this build. In 1990 the Trophy took place in Siberia where they actually ran some Defender 130 hicaps as support vehicles. If you're not familiar with defenders, the short wheel base 2 door is traditionally a 90 and the 4 door, single and double cab pickups are 110's. Land Rover made some extended wheelbase 130's including some double cab pickups which were high capacity (hicaps) where the bed is wider than the body and deeper than usual. However...

I prefer the lines of a unibody defender and discovered that Land Rover's special vehicles division actually produced some 130 double cab unibody pickups in the early 2000's (so after the Camel Trophy ended). These were made exclusively for the Dutch market for tax reasons, meaning they're all left hand drive and fairly rare now.

I like to think of the Camel Trophy had continued for a few more years these might have seen this become a reality, though realistically the hicaps probably served a more practical purpose.

I'm really happy with how this thing is driving, I'll get some videos soon. It's running the FCX24M Tacoma wheelbase with a working winch and managed to get the golden 60/40 weight ratio on it, which with this sort of scale setup took some work.

What do you think?

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@sam4x4rc & @araf.works crossing the mountain path @reactiveterrainrc

#rc #rctruck #rccars #rccrawler #landrover

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Up close and personal on Clive. Yeah he has his dings, but they tell a story. #vwsinglecab

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Super cool to see @sam4x4rc new creation, and what a monster it was! Eat up multiple lines you couldn’t imagine doing in a 4x4 and was really interesting to see the details, especially since I hear it was scratch built 🫣 @araf.works tagging along in the camel trophy, so cool with all the lights on 🥵 @reactiveterrainrc

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Finally getting round to going through all the clips from @reactiveterrainrc the other weekend and had to start with this beast!! @araf.works such a cool build, underneath that body had my mind boggled! 😵‍💫🤣

#Scx24 #rccrawler #microcrawler #meusracing #yepspec

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It took us a while. But we're nearly there...
I've always thought the proportions of the MWB FJ73 was the best, but Toyota decided not to make it with the new face. When I saw @landcruiser73series creation, it proved how good it can look. May be in 40 years time that one might look a bit more like this...

More to come...

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I’m holiday ready! Just assembled my last few @tailfincycling bits, huge thanks to them for all the bags and gear. Just need to get my rolled dry bags on the carry cages and I’m good to go, backpack free!

Don’t judge me, I know the bike needs a good clean.

My monster truck gravel-converted 29er Hardtail will be getting a hammering this coming week, with some wild camping bike touring.

I’ve also installed a leather Rolls saddle and a Hashiki bar-end bell for some extra ease.

As mentioned on previous post, we’re now shut until Tuesday the 21st, anyone’s welcome to drop off after that.

Bye for a bit ! ❤️

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Roll up! Roll up!

We are collaborating with @araf.works to do a community ride-out on the 21st March, we’re looking to leave from the workshop at 10am, so get here a little bit before that (welcome to make your coffee’s ect at the workshop beforehand and have a look around the place, if you’ve not seen it before).

We have a route planned, which should be roughly 2-3 hours max and will be a slow, steady space. No spandex required!

We will release the route a few days before on Komoot ect, so gauge some numbers. Could be a few hills and some very light off-road, but nothing your bike won’t handle.

ALL BIKES AND PEOPLE WELCOME!

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BTON // BTOL // BDAY // AVMH

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