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Because social media. ie: Instagram and FB. I was still posting here for years even after it slowed way down when users used the social media apps, but it was like I was talking to myself so I stopped. Lol I still prefer the forum for discussion but the apps make it much easier to share videos and certain content. This site costs me a lot of money every month but I'll keep it going for as long as I can.

Once again, this weekend never disappoints. Whether it is the amount of cars that make it out or the people that belong to them. I have made it my thing to make sure I have my camera with me and get as much coverage as possible as you guys traverse the dunes. It was a chill weekend for me in my car as my wife is still trying to figure out how to beat motion sickness, but I didn't care we had fun just cruising the flats and getting the shots of the cars as you guys went by. Here are the links to the photos, as always you can right click and save. DO NOT BUY THEM!!! My gift to you all is hopefully a nice shot of your car in action. If you post any of my shots, be sure to tag DDR and the Round-up please. You can tag me if you like @619actionphotodotcom on IG. Tim All photos- https://www.619actionphoto.com/Desert/Dunebuggy-Round-Up-12 Instagram ready photos- https://www.619actionphoto.com/Desert/Dunebuggy-Round-Up-12-Instagram-ready-pics

We will be there

Well I finally made it back out to the sandbox after a long summer. This is probably the first time in 15 years that I have not made it out in October but it was so damn hot I'm glad we waited. Not only that I've had a bunch of other trips and things going on. We had some great weather except for some wind on Saturday. We had a handful of problems with many of the buggies in our group but we got through them all and got a bunch of great dune rides in. I even ran into the guy who bought my Tech 3 and he ended up running with us for the rest of the weekend. That was pretty cool. Lots of laughs and good times. I can't wait to get back out there in 3 weeks for Buggy Roundup. 🤟

Made it out Friday afternoon weather was great all weekend got a nice sunset ride in. Saturday woke up late for veterans parade but got out to veterans hill for flag raising great turnout for amount of people at Dumont. Got in some more good runs. Sunday relaxed most of the morning went on a long ride that went into the evening. Monday packed it up and headed home another good trip until next time.

I think this last Halloween will be the last for us as well. My group got in on Wednesday and had more than enough space for all of us along the ridge. By the time I got out there Thursday night, there was a car width between where I was supposed to park, and the camp next to us. My trailer got peppered by a RZR Friday morning. There isn't any respect for anything or anyone. I was a big fan of SXS and still am, but at the same time I despise them. Anyone with a 600+ credit score can go buy one with a 10 year loan for $300 a month, throw on the biggest speakers they can find, and go trash our dunes with no regard for anyone around them. I sold my $75k Can Am and bought a $15k sandrail and am super happy with it.

FYI, for those in Pahrump or driving through and hoping to get passes. Parker's Kawasaki is no longer selling any passes.

We arrived Thursday afternoon and left Sunday afternoon. You can definitely tell the difference between the "old school" dune-crew and the new breed of "spoiled, entitled brats" when you are out in the dunes. I won't even go into the whole trash left behind in the camps or the stops in the dunes. We spent almost as much time driving as we did picking up trash in the dunes. Some people really need to learn the whole "Pack-It-In-Pack-More-Out" rule. Our group for the most part will only be making day trips for the big weekends to support the vendors and other events. The comfortable friendly feeling seems to be there on the off weekends.

Halloween used to be my favorite weekend. I choose to skip it now. It's no longer my crowd out there. It's changed alot. I suggest going on an off weekend. That's what I do.

There's a decent amount of camping space/ area. It's accessed from highway 127. The dunes are little of course, but a fun little area. Mostly "finger dunes". There's the salt creek mines too. I put a bunch of info on those on the landmarks page. A section of little Dumont got washed away last year but it didn't affect much of the sand. They just plowed the entrance but it's pretty soft still unless they did something about it since Oct 15th.

Tried to buy this car months ago when you had it listed on FB marketplace. Didn't seem too interested in selling then, had cash in hand. GLWTS.

I have one of these gears that I purchased at $129 for my Lippert Happijac bed lift (2013 Attitude 34’) that ended up not being needed once disassembled. My issue ended up being the horizontal chains across the top that attach to the gears for the vertical lift rails. The horizontal chains were SO loose from the factory, which do not have any adjustment on them, allowing them to skip on the gear causing the bed to get out of wack on each corner. I made a set of chain tensioners and adjusted the vertical chains to ensure the issue was resolved. When I find some time I will do a thread on my issue vs the gear failure issue. Once apart I realized my gear from the factory was already an aluminum gear. (See pic of far right gear in GB) With that said, I no longer need the gear I purchased and will sell it for $75 to the first buyer. My recommendation, if you are having an issue is to pull the motor and gearbox first as to ensure it fits your model as there seemed to be a slight differences in this gear and mine without removing mine from the shaft. (Same size and # of teeth but mine looks to not have the keyway running completely through the gear. May still have worked but did not want to disassemble my good gearbox any further than needed. Lots more pics available that I will try and put together in another thread and come back here to update with a shortcut. Tozlakes