Did Avery make the Back Door Shoot Out?

Jays siik xj said:
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Good show Last night... Here are the standings... I forgot my camera in my buddies truck... Ill post pics/vids as soon as I get it... that recovery team really needs to get it together... they had a small CJ with a kid doing recovery at the top... 30mins to get one rock bouncer outta there.
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Agree with the recovery team comment. Its hard to get volunteers, especially a large number of good ones with the right equipment and training/skills. It had an amateur monster truck jam feel about it this year. You could hear the dip in the announcers lip.

John
 
nosigma said:
Agree with the recovery team comment. Its hard to get volunteers, especially a large number of good ones with the right equipment and training/skills. It had an amateur monster truck jam feel about it this year. You could hear the dip in the announcers lip.

John
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It would have been a lot better if he would have stopped yelling all of the time.
 
GSequoia said:
It would have been a lot better if he had stayed in Alabama.
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It would have been a lot better if some of the rock bouncers stayed in Alabama as well.

David Bricker / SYR
 
David_Bricker said:
It would have been a lot better if some of the rock bouncers stayed in Alabama as well.

David Bricker / SYR
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They slowed things down sometimes but it was somewhat amusing to point and laugh at them from the warmth of my house.
 
Now hold on a minute there guys......

22.5 Seconds?
The first 8 places were taken by guys east of the rockies and you had to go all the way west to flat lands of KANSAS (my home state) to get someone west of the Mississippi to find a rig capable of FOURTH Place.

I like SoCal a lot but you have reach all the way down to 12th before a Californicator shows up. The bouncers are loud, the bouncers are garrish, the bouncers always have someone hold there beer (preferably Bud Light), the bouncers may blow up, they may roll over but when they hook up they fly high and they fly fast AND no one had the red neck balls to even come close to puttin down the hammer like those good ol boys did.

1 Bobby Tanner TN SRRS 22.547 Winner
2 AJ Rockwell TN SRRS 26.171
3 Bill Baird KY ULTRA4 26.22
4 Ryan Bramhall KS SRRS 27.583 West of Miss Winner
5 Jamie Whitaker TN SRRS 27.668
6 Nick Cooper MO SRRS 27.8
7 Tim Cameron TN SRRS 28.301
8 Clint Evans MO SRRS 30.236



http://instagram.com/p/ylBoUIsJA_/?modal=true
 
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nosigma said:
Now hold on a minute there guys......

22.5 Seconds?
The first 8 places were taken by guys east of the rockies and you had to go all the way west to flat lands of KANSAS (my home state) to get someone west of the Mississippi to find a rig capable of FOURTH Place.

I like SoCal a lot but you have reach all the way down to 12th before a Californicator shows up. The bouncers are loud, the bouncers are garrish, the bouncers always have someone hold there beer (preferably Bud Light), the bouncers may blow up, they may roll over but when they hook up they fly high and they fly fast AND no one had the red neck balls to even come close to puttin down the hammer like those good ol boys did.

1 Bobby Tanner TN SRRS 22.547 Winner
2 AJ Rockwell TN SRRS 26.171
3 Bill Baird KY ULTRA4 26.22
4 Ryan Bramhall KS SRRS 27.583 West of Miss Winner
5 Jamie Whitaker TN SRRS 27.668
6 Nick Cooper MO SRRS 27.8
7 Tim Cameron TN SRRS 28.301
8 Clint Evans MO SRRS 30.236



http://instagram.com/p/ylBoUIsJA_/?modal=true
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All good points. From a completely inexperienced observers point, it seemed the rockbouncers simply floored it, and hoped for the best. Given the performance characteristics of those rigs, and their theoretical strength, it would seem like many more of them would have completed the course.

Yes, they posted many of the fastest times. But there also were a far higher number of broken rigs. And some of the folks didn't seem to show any finesse whatsoever.

It would be interesting to see the challenge be the best times of three runs. I suspect that finesse would play a far larger role then, rather than luck of that specific single line. It would require one to not just floor it, and hope on a single run.

Nonetheless, it was entertaining, and I have to respect the effort these guys put in. But I kind of would have expected 700 HP machines on huge tires, built to take the abuse to not have broken so often.

David Bricker / SYR
 
kinda like mr brick said....

show up on 54"s and turn em with 5x the hp needed for crawling and your grandma could make it up backdoor faster than avery.....

wheel some big bear trails on stock shit.....then wheel on 35s.....not so difficult or fun.

backdoor used to be doable on 35/37s.......

i hope these rock humpers dont go out on trails and destroy everything.

i do respect their happy gilmore approach to the sport. rock crawling is a boring spectator sport normally and much more fun to actually do. they are entertaining.
 
David_Bricker said:
All good points.
Yes, they posted many of the fastest times. But there also were a far higher number of broken rigs. And some of the folks didn't seem to show any finesse whatsoever.

Nonetheless, it was entertaining, and I have to respect the effort these guys put in. But I kind of would have expected 700 HP machines on huge tires, built to take the abuse to not have broken so often.

David Bricker / SYR
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That pretty well summarizes how I see them. I hate being anywhere near them, your not even safe 200' off the trail behind 4' diameter oak tree, no one is fast enough to corral all that energy and they get out of control way too often. When they roll they usually floor it and screw anyone who is in the line of fire if they hook up again. One of them tried to go straight up the hill into the crowd on the right after "blowing it", and he tried several times.

What David said pretty well summarizes the wheeling style. Go all out and every 20th time they will so something truly amazing will happen. The other 19 they fail spectacularly. Monster Truck Jam.

I was really saddened to see Eric Miller break on his run. He was fast, he was controlled and he got up over the top in what looked to be a record time.

John

PS: Rockwells (as common as 60's back here) are not all they are cracked up to be. Can you say unsprung weight?
 
JohnX said:
I think unsprung weight is an advantage in crawling. ;)
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Operative word is CRAWLING. that's clearly not what the rockbouncers were doing on Backdoor.

David Bricker / SYR
 
that was a terrible run.....

My steering wouldn't go fast enough at the beginning and I couldn't turn fast enough to get around the big rock. Then as I moved to the main obstacle, I flat spotted two wheels and punctured a hole in the 14bolt. Took me two attempts to get up this time as well. By the second ledge, the passenger rear tire was low and flat by the end of my run.

Ended up 52 seconds and 24th place...... lastara
 
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