MudRunnerTD's GQ From the Ground Up

[MudRunnerTD]

First car through that big hole at the start of my Build!!

[MudRunnerTD]

[taslucas]

The pics with the bikes in them have the same type if tracks that we drive here. Hundreds of k's of them all around my area. Slick clay and over grown forestry tracks, water bars on hills and tight corners onto steep long clay hills, My favourite driving.

[MudRunnerTD]

The pics with the bikes in them have the same type if tracks that we drive here. Hundreds of k's of them all around my area. Slick clay and over grown forestry tracks, water bars on hills and tight corners onto steep long clay hills, My favourite driving.

Seriously need to organise a West Coast Tassie Trip!!

[Winnie]

The pics with the bikes in them have the same type if tracks that we drive here. Hundreds of k's of them all around my area. Slick clay and over grown forestry tracks, water bars on hills and tight corners onto steep long clay hills, My favourite driving.

You'd like it in my area then, they are all just like that too.

[NissanGQ4.2]

You'd like it in my area then, they are all just like that too.

You all would hate my area, there is literally thousands upon thousands upon thousands of hectares at my back door step but illegal to 4wd or dirt bikes for anything other then a dirt track a 2wd could drive down easily Welcome 2 the Blue Mountains National Park where you can do ABSOLUTELY SWEET F!CK ALL! Still need to travel 2hrs just to go somewhere legal

[Winnie]

You all would hate my area, there is literally thousands upon thousands upon thousands of hectares at my back door step but illegal to 4wd or dirt bikes for anything other then a dirt track a 2wd could drive down easily Welcome 2 the Blue Mountains National Park where you can do ABSOLUTELY SWEET F!CK ALL! Still need to travel 2hrs just to go somewhere legal

Are you serious? What a waste!

[MudRunnerTD]

You all would hate my area, there is literally thousands upon thousands upon thousands of hectares at my back door step but illegal to 4wd or dirt bikes for anything other then a dirt track a 2wd could drive down easily Welcome 2 the Blue Mountains National Park where you can do ABSOLUTELY SWEET F!CK ALL! Still need to travel 2hrs just to go somewhere legal

Are you serious? What a waste!

The same deal in the Otways! nothing worth driving in there unless your of the grid. most has been permanently shut or made into a Blue Diamond Track.

Our Club ran an event in the Otways every year for many many years and catered for Easy, Medium, Hard and Extreme. about 4 years ago we had to relocate tot he Mt Cole area as there was simply nothing left to drive beyond Easy Medium.

[NissanGQ4.2]

Are you serious? What a waste!

OK maybe hr n half but with all the road works they have been doing on our hwy for the last 20 years it really does take 2hrs

Just did a screen capture of where I am to show you the National Parks I have around me, I can drive not even 10mins away and be in a national park

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The same deal in the Otways! nothing worth driving in there unless your of the grid. most has been permanently shut or made into a Blue Diamond Track.

Our Club ran an event in the Otways every year for many many years and catered for Easy, Medium, Hard and Extreme. about 4 years ago we had to relocate tot he Mt Cole area as there was simply nothing left to drive beyond Easy Medium.

Yeh its a shame, all of the tracks around my way have been closed, the only way you will go offroad here is with a portable angle grinder / bolt cutters and do it illegally, which I don't believe helps our cause so won't do.

Excuse my lack of knowledge but what is a blue diamond track?

And sorry for the hijack off your thread *L*

[MudRunnerTD]

Excuse my lack of knowledge but what is a blue diamond track?

About 4 years ago we rolled out a Track Classification system in Victoria. then the DSE and Parks vic ran out of money and it all got put in a Drawer. Unfortunately they really missed an opportunity to engage the 4x4 community as their classification system went from Green, Blue, Black Double Black, from memory. the problem is that the Double Black is where we want to Start not finish! and it did not take much to make a track into a Double Black. it was a Mess. Because the system ends at double Black there is simply no way of grading say a Double Black (DB) level 1 track (Just a DB) that you'd get through if you were trying hard enough in an AWD Soft Roader and the Extreme end at say DB9 where there should be an obstruction that requires a certain level of vehicle and driver to attempt even to get on the track.

They chose to leve it as just DB! I lobbied hard to ad the numerical grading to the DB to give the system some level of perspective but they were not listening! What they Wanted! and what they Got was a system that would allow them to provide an Iconic 4WD Track system in Victoria that could be graded as Blue and allow every Mum and Dad in their AWD Territories to tackle with the kids on the weekends! What a Waste.

So i am a Certified Track Classifier. Did the Course. Got the certificate. Never got off the ground.