What are you running out in the dunes?

What are you running these days?

  • Sand car/rail

  • SxS

  • Quad

  • 2 wheeler

  • 3 wheeler

  • Jeep or 4x4

  • RD SUX

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If something other than what's listed, name it, and I'll add it to the poll. 👍🏼
 
Once this POS back of mine heals anyways.
 

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I'm running nothing because I sold my 2017 Can Am OG Maverick in April, and now I'm missing the dunes (and off-roading in general) as the season is about to start. I'm wondering if I should buy a new SxS, or rent a SxS in Glamis, or just continue to mess around on semi-maintained desert roads with my 2004 Armada or 2021 Ram 2500.
 
Everything but a 2 wheeler…

DMV loves me
 
I’ll run a few miles down gecko road. Usually will go from the loop to roadrunner and back. Nobody can get ready for a ride before 11 so may as well.
 
Been riding various DS 650's since 2003. Have found that age, and the "side by side chop", have made quads more and more difficult to ride in Glamis. Tend to feel sore from head to toe in the morning. Making the switch to a Polaris RS1 this season, feeling kind of nervous about it. Not so much nervous for the desert, more so in the dunes. Don't have much experience with side by sides, but they seem awfully top-heavy to me.
 
hello_newman said:
Been riding various DS 650's since 2003. Have found that age, and the "side by side chop", have made quads more and more difficult to ride in Glamis. Tend to feel sore from head to toe in the morning. Making the switch to a Polaris RS1 this season, feeling kind of nervous about it. Not so much nervous for the desert, more so in the dunes. Don't have much experience with side by sides, but they seem awfully top-heavy to me.
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huh, i guess only sxs make tracks in the sand and nothing else does. Good luck out there, i hear those pesky sxs only steer towards the beer stops and hang out spots.
 
megadesertdiesel said:
huh, i guess only sxs make tracks in the sand and nothing else does. Good luck out there, i hear those pesky sxs only steer towards the beer stops and hang out spots.
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SxS are not the only ones who make tracks they just make the worst ones for a guy on a Quad.

I rode a quad thru the HELOC boom and it was nothing compared to the SxS chop of today.

Side by Sides have 3 times the HP as a Quad so they move a lot of sand, they also have just about the same width tire. The distance between most side by sides is also just over the width of most quads so you cant comfortably ride in between the ruts and if you try you get slammed from side to side as you try to pick a line. When you have to roll across them, they are to close and deep to be able to lean back and skim over the top.

One of the last quad rides I did was leaving the Flagpole after a Vet Ceremony even with a well set up suspension and a high dollar steering stabilizer I was done. I couldn't even get up to speed to try and get on top of all the chop. It was like rock crawling out of that valley. I knew then the Quad days were done
 
When we dicided to buy a house I sold all my dirt bikes and went without for a few years.
well, I couldn't go completely without brining something so I made my Race-Chair!
Complete with 5-pt harness. It's pretty fast and handles awesome....
LOL
Since then moved up to my latest 2022 Can am20230918_145812.jpg
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hello_newman said:
Been riding various DS 650's since 2003. Have found that age, and the "side by side chop", have made quads more and more difficult to ride in Glamis. Tend to feel sore from head to toe in the morning. Making the switch to a Polaris RS1 this season, feeling kind of nervous about it. Not so much nervous for the desert, more so in the dunes. Don't have much experience with side by sides, but they seem awfully top-heavy to me.
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I am not going to lie, when I switched, I hated it. I went from being so comfortable in the dunes to the point there wasn't much I worried about hitting and I could make that quad do whatever I wanted it to. It took me almost a season until I felt like I wasn't a rookie holding the group back, part of that was the car ( YXZ) but a lot of it was me. I didn't know what the car was capable of and every trick I knew to save my ass did not transfer. So it was a lot of re-wiring my brain to get me back on track.
Now after a few seasons behind the wheel, I am still not as comfortable, but I can drive this car (X-3)
 
MWB said:
SxS are not the only ones who make tracks they just make the worst ones for a guy on a Quad.

I rode a quad thru the HELOC boom and it was nothing compared to the SxS chop of today.

Side by Sides have 3 times the HP as a Quad so they move a lot of sand, they also have just about the same width tire. The distance between most side by sides is also just over the width of most quads so you cant comfortably ride in between the ruts and if you try you get slammed from side to side as you try to pick a line. When you have to roll across them, they are to close and deep to be able to lean back and skim over the top.

One of the last quad rides I did was leaving the Flagpole after a Vet Ceremony even with a well set up suspension and a high dollar steering stabilizer I was done. I couldn't even get up to speed to try and get on top of all the chop. It was like rock crawling out of that valley. I knew then the Quad days were done
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ALL dune toys make tracks!! I just tired of hearing the crybabies whine about ruts in the sand and blame it on SXS. Yes the SXS boom hit and took over the majority of sand toys, even the big sandcar guys have them as second cars. And yes MOST SXS drivers are clueless half wits with no respect who drive(not even dune) to the "look at me" popular stops only.
 
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