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Have her park just off the highway at the entrance and pick her up. The fee is technically a parking fee, per vehicle. Or by the little dunes and go the back way out for a non street legal vehicle. Only option I know of.

Last time I saw this many people was Presidents day 2008. keep clicking until it's full size

I tried to find the video link yesterday, quirky Windows 10 decided to play hide and seek with it still.

Hey Pete, that 1st "oops" pic, just to the left of your visor at the very bottom, is that your front fender? Did you get to step off forward?. I stepped out of the motorhome Sat eve and saw that sunset and grabbed the camera, only took 1 pic the whole weekend. Check out the lenny, looks like a UFO. When I left and was about a mile before the Baker airstrip I saw 3 wild burros, 1st ones I've seen in 44 years of going to Dumont.

I know I'm late, just saw this. I believe this law is ambiguous, look at it again ---> A person shall not display a flashing or steady burning red or blue warning light on an off-highway motor vehicle except as permitted by Section 21055 or when an extreme hazard exists. I don't believe the halo lights are technically "warning" lights, wouldn't a "warning" light be marketed as such and be more prominently displayed to be visible from a angle greater than straight ahead? A "warning" light would have to be of significant brightness to be obvious during daylight would it not? And if any light emitting red or blue light is the issue why was "warning" added to the description? It appears whoever wrote the law didn't intend for it to be a blanket regulation prohibiting any and all red and blue lights on off road vehicles. Are the halos obvious attention getters during the day? Not "just saying", I'm just asking. Lee While here.... does LE say anything about spark arrestors these days?

What they drank, according to the article, was methanol which is wood alcohol but not the race fuel we use, I think the drinkers got their methanol and ethanol definitions swapped as ethanol is grain alcohol. Still pretty stupid even if it was ethanol, would live longer drinking Nyquil liquid.

He did exactly what was needed, check out his left front tire, steering into the bike, had he turned to the left he would have gone bye bye. From that viewing angle it doesn't look sketchy, it was sketchy..... LOUnatic, good one Pete, you are one smart fellow and Lou smelt .....

I think the military might have it all wrong, instead of flying miles up in a big a$$ drone and launching a high $ JDAM bunker buster at a cave in Afghanistan they could fly one of these "hobby" drones with a grenade right into the cave looking for the right dude and BAM, nothing left but doo rag and sandals.

Imagine using helium balloons for race course like watercraft and seeing the video of a string of drones banking around the markers and trying to pass, would sound like killer bees on steroids. Now we need to fab bottle rocket launchers for them..... ever have the feeling that good clean fun could take a turn for the worse, that's the best kind. We need a fleet of those $80 Costco drones, Dumont IROC drone-in.... or drone-off. What would someone think riding a quad and look back at a bunch of drones stalking them....

I can see it already, drone regatta, tethered helium balloons, line of guys on remote controls elbowing each other, new trash talking vocabulary....

If you attach a lanyard to the cam and then attach somewhere so if it falls off you can see the lanyard slack get tight, just do it so it doesn't take it's last frames of a paddle tire. Lee

As in with your projector so everybody and their brother can watch ?

Pete, I have DISH in the motorhome, will that work for the UFC?

I'll be there in the big group. Can't use AV gas, will catch up to you at Dumont on this, no term paper today {;o). Will try the Sahara/I15 Rebel, maybe I'll get lucky and find where a distribution center is hiding, they disguise their self to look like a card lock station but their big tanks and tanker truck and dock gives them away....(goofy icon here). Hey, I should run octane booster... NOT. Where's all the C-12 at? Or a dang Sunoco truck when you need one. Hey Pete, bring the goat with you to Dumont....NAAAAAAHHH.

All you Las Vegas locals, where is the best (least expensive) race fuel seller? I was going to go to Dumont after the Henderson 250 race and forgot to get more race fuel before leaving home base and figured some of you high compression buggy folks would know the best place (or any place if need be). Thanks, Lee

Sat about midnight, click it a couple to find your camp

cool, just had to kick this pic a little and wanted to post it back up in case the driver wanted it, awesome pic just needed a little pop. a web sized and a higher res version.

This is closed and done right?

Pete, when you install the critical stuff like heims, A-arms, trailing arms/links, use a torque wrench THEN make some reference marks (sharpie, finger nail polish) not giant marks, just enough that a glance will show the fastener is still torqued. Especially on bolts that thread into a part itself so you can catch it before it wallows out the threads and will never stay tight without a helicoil (better than timeserts) or drill & thread oversized. A buddy said lets go jumping one night {Desert Dynamics LS 8 shock/bypassed) and grabbed his MX helmet so I looked over the critical stuff and his left rear trailing arm big bolt next to the trans had no nut and the bolt was only an inch at most inserted with just the threads hanging up it in with the bolt about a 30 deg angle. Would have wasted the arm, axle at least. just a quick eyeball with reference marks is the same as hitting each one with a torque wrench. Purely preventive, easy to do during maint/repair and peace of mind of "Do it once, do it right". You may already do this but others may not. Lee

This Fri & Sat night, gates open 4:00pm and racing starts at 7:30. These are from 3 weeks ago in Reno, Renezeder and McGrath touched back tires at 98 MPH and McGrath got the worst of it. Only 1 weekend left after Vegas so all the drivers are amped up and going for it..... Lee

Pete, wassup? I may not be there, the Lucas short course race is the following weekend at Reno, could take the doo and quad and finish them up in Reno and test at Pyramid Lake and Sand Mountain...... glad you thought of that. Desert races are not the spectator event that short course is, especially when there's no loops. Last V2R wasn't pulling an enclosed and got lots of pics with some planning. Hell, I live in the MH so might as well since have to go that way anyways. This coming Wednesday is the V2R time trials out by the Gold Strike casino in Jean to determine start order for the trucks and truggies so I better get in gear. Did you see that Tatum buggie for sale here in classifieds, looks like a deal for $50K. You going to the Monster Energy Cup at Boyd this year? Their format last year was crap and not many of the top guys. You have to sneak cameras like ours in now also. Hey, check out the pic of the trucks rear end (kinda hard to see), no ring and pinion, uses side cut beveled gears from the final drive of an off shore race boat, the drive shaft attaches at the same height on the housing as the axles (better ground clearance), has small diameter axles and gun drilled, the torque multiplier is planetary gears out by the wheels. Less heat as the usual ring and pinion teeth slide, a shearing action that makes heat and requires high viscosity lube that robs power also. And check out the chromoly billet trailing arm, no weld or adjustment. Anyways.... See ya Pete. Lee

Vegas to Reno starts the 14th Fri am, but Thursday is Contingency at the Aliant Hotel Casino from 8AM to 5pm if you want to check out some heavy metal, a total of 339 entries, the most ever. Here's some pics from last Tuesday testing, I predict the winner of the Vegas to Reno. YouTheory Racing Throphy Truck driven by Jerry Whelchel. Lee 900 Hp Motec dash Chassis/Suspension by Armada Engineering, check out the Chromoly billet arms, no adjustment. Sideways at 90MPH

There's 2 costs, the initial cost of the equipment and the recurring cost of the batteries. For batteries (lead acid traction type) to live a long time the trick is not to discharge more than 50% state of charge. How much is that? 12.25 volts and every time they are discharged more than that you shorten their lifespan. Actually there's a curve based on 12.8 volts and the deeper the discharge cycle the shorter the life. It's not practical to use 12.50 for the recharge point, as the batteries age the charge resting voltage may be around 12.65 so not much useful power to get through the night and most knowledgeable sources recommend 12.25. The best battery type for cost and amp hour life is "traction" batteries, forklift & golf cart lead acid. Realistically if cost wasn't a consideration there's gel batteries that may have a longer life (but more critical charging levels and rates) but if money wasn't a factor one would just run the generator and not bother with solar. I got over 8 years out of the last group of batteries and they still had some usable life left, I doubled the number of batteries and not good to have different aged in a bank. Costco sells GRAPE SOLAR panels, 100W are $149 shipped currently and the MC4 cable/connectors can be found online for considerably less than the normally advertised retailers offer. Batteries have gone up in price, last I saw at Costco were $89 with a $15 core refundable. The golf cart type have thick lead plates and weigh about 65lbs each so a sturdy mounting place is recommended. Keep line losses to a minimum, larger diameter wire is more expensive but to use smaller is to lose power that could result in using more than your system can replace so either have to change your lifestyle or add panels/controllers/batteries so a little more expense for wire/cables can actually save $. If anyone has questions about this or other RV questions I've full timed in this RV since the year 2000/175,000 miles and have plenty of 1st hand experience and verified the saying "if you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it again". Lee

Put your inverter close to your batteries, starting with 12.8 it doesn't take much distance to drop voltage to 12.25 which is 50% state of charge and the wire size for low voltage DC is expensive (welding cable) but you can run 120 AC a much longer distance with 12-14 GA wire with lower loss. I have 4 x 100 watt + 4 x 80 watt, 1 Blue Sky Solar Boost 3000i 30 A MPPT and 1 Blue Sky 2000 25 A MPPT controllers, 8 x 6V Costco 220 AH golf cart batteries and an inexpensive 2300W cont/4500W peak inverter through Costco. I went the easiest wiring route without extension cords everywhere, 8 batteries behind front bumper with a 4ft max 12v run to inverter that sits where original tv was in the dash with a powerstrip that runs Satellite, TV, Computer, printer, etc and ran 1 120V feed to Galley wall with 2-3 way 30A switches for Micro and electric water heater option when controllers go to float charge (excess solar power) and can switch power source between Shore/Generator or Solar. That feed continues to the rear of motorhome so I can plug into inverter power for the enclosed trailer. The only time I have to string an extension cord is to run the air compressor or a battery charger for quad, Seadoo etc. Only use the generator after 1 1/2 days of total overcast and no driving. I have an RV evaporative cooler and Olympian Wave 6 catalytic heater (no power usage). Havasu heat is no problem unless a fall monsoon then the sun comes out above 100 deg, then a little uncomfortable but that's what a generator and AC is for. Started with 2 of the original Siemens monocrystalline silicon panels and 25A MPPT then added 2 polycrystalline silicon panels in 2001 and added the 4x100 W poly panels (Costco) and 30A MPPT controller about 4 years ago. With all the panels, 2 AC units, evap cooler, satellite dome, bathroom roof vent and sky light walking is like a sobriety test but shades the roof too. Prices have come down and efficiency up in 15 years.