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As promised, here are more pics of my Stumpy and yours truly.

She's running Maxxis Detonators 26 x 1.25 semi slick road tyres now. I have a close up of the tyre and you can see that it's tiny which is not what you normally see on a MTB. These skinny tyres look more at home on a roadie bike.

I normally run 26 x 2.1's Continental Explorer Supersonic. Yeah, these tyres are made in Germany! I've never used German made tyres on my vehicles. Mostly Malaysian, Japanese and at one time used American made BF Goodrich Mud Terrains on my old Toyota Land Cruiser II. My friends shake their heads and say, WTF.....German made tyres on a bicycle?????? These Conti tyres cost RM120 each and for that price you can buy Kancil tyres!

I'm also going to post some pics of a 4 wheel drive training program that we did for the DOE (Department of Environment), KK if I'm not mistaken about 5 years back before I more or less semi-retired from the 4x4 scene. We did it in Kimanis and camped overnight in the secondary jungle with my good buddies. We used Ah Yin's Toyota Land Cruiser BJ46 as the training vehicle. We basically taught those fellas from the DOE methods of self recovery using winch and basic off road driving techniques.

We had real fun and I cherish those sweet memories of all my off road experiences when I first picked up the 4x4 bug in 1993 until 2000.

Memories like the first outing to Long Pasia which was not accessible by road at that time. We had a convoy of 40 four wheel drive vehicles and the journey took us a few days and we even had to camp next to our vehicles in mud and rain beacuse the convoy was bogged down in knee deep mud! Cooking rice from the deck of a Toyota Land Cruiser HJ75 pick up for dinner................ in the darkness of the jungle..........

Memories of going away on a week end with my buddies and went camping in the interior of Keningau/Nabawan. The adventure of going off road and locking the hubs in anticipation of adventure and using our winches and testing our driving skills aided by differential lockers such as the ARB air locker, Detroit, Lock-Right and the factory Toyota electric lockers. Setting up base camp in the jungle next to a river and enjoying the serenity and solitude of the jungle sounds.........waking up in the morning in my tent to the sound of water from the river......and the birds chirping.................... It was so peaceful. I felt at ease.........

Memories of rain water getting into my tent in the middle of the night while camping somewhere which I can't recall the place because we set up tent at the bottom of a slope and all the rain water was pouring down in buckets. We arrived at base camp way behind schedule and late at night and were too tired to check out the surrounding and just set up camp to get some rest.

Memories of our convoy crossing a stream in the middle of the night where the water was about 3-4 feet deep and we had to rely on our snorkel air intake to keep our engine from sucking in water. Now, that was real adventure.

I drifted away being disillusioned with all the politicking within our 4x4 club (Kinabalu Four Wheel Drive Club or better known as KFWDC). I'm proud to say that I served the club for many years in the committee and have done my share. I would love to pick up the hobby again but it's real expensive to mantain a real off road 4 wheel drive with all the knocks and bashes the rig gets. Furthermore, you will spend a lot of time out in the jungle and being a father and a husband I've got to be fair to my family.

Maybe, when I'm in my late fourties ...................I would love to do it all over again..............

Next update on my ham radio hobby.............

Cheers mates.