J J

Quick crude video

Fantastic drive today and high level at that ..from @Ale Vallecchi . The first half started off as a teaser to tight and technical dunes , but the second half was such a joy with a Friday brunch consisting of only criss crossing and long range ridge riding Easily my best carnity drive till date. Thanks for the second lead post in the second half Ale . @Kalahari always a fun personality to drive with and @Javier M good to meet you - that's a mean machine you have there . Some pics in the gallery . See you all next time 

Great smooth drive with excellent pace !  Thanks @Emmanuel and @Kalahari for the last bit . All drove like pros ! Pics in the gallery!

Happy birthday @Vanessa8580 !

So what you guys think !

Congrats @Newton Rozario

3 hours ago, Ilya Golubinsky said:

That was an epic drive! Thanks a lot

Short video from the drive:

 

Nicely done ! @Ilya Golubinsky

Great drive guys !  Good support from @Tero Vallas and second lead @Mohamed Seidam.  Apart from few refusals @Ashok chaturvedi  @Ammar Naji @Ilya Golubinsky @Sreejith Sreenivasan handled their self recoveries well.

@Andrei had a bit of issue with clutch on his manual jeep but nothing that cant be sorted. You ll definitely grow and love your manual car on more drives Impressed with how @Islam Hassan@Hatim Patharia and @Newton Rozario handled their vehicles . Was wondering if there would be a time I might have to tug the mighty Ram

Gave me good memories of the thrill during the newbie drives back then and gotto stretch my rope finally !  Thanks for the recovery tips @Gaurav and the great lead ! Added some pics in gallery

See you soon in the sand.

6 minutes ago, Ale Vallecchi said:

Hi @J J. For sure (you are currently #4 on the waiting list). Are you aware I will do the same route for Intermediates on Saturday afternoon? 

@Ale Vallecchi Yep wish it was morning  Can't do afternoons unfortunately -  family calls !

Let me know if something frees up

We might lose 2 legends this year

That was some crazy race 

Hands down .. one of the best terrain and routes , I have driven with carnity. Great lead by @Gaurav taking the fewbies into this terrain , had some real metal pants Very good support from @Tbone and yes , too  bad we were just half a km from Iftaar Bowl - have to leave something exciting for next time anyway ! I must also say  were impressed with @Anish S and @Pancho who were mostly in front of me ,  on how they have handled their vehicles in this route.  Posted some pics and the below timelapse .. where you ll mostly see @Pancho , but yeah there were so many good moments - I had a hard time to choose and compress this to 2 minutes . 

Great drive route from @Frederic and support from @Brette. Everyone did great on this drive I initially thought Lisaili was going to be challenging based on what I heard from last week .. but yeah Lisaili conquered !

Posted some pics already and below video timelapse . Enjoy !

Thanks team ! Cant wait for 'em recoveries:)  .. and I am aching to do a full long ridge ride  with all you @Gaurav @Srikumar @Wrangeld @Ale Vallecchi @Rahimdad @Frederic@Brette @Shamil   along with a cool drone shot

1 minute ago, J J said:

Thanks team ! Cant wait for 'em recoveries:)  .. and I am aching to do a full long ridge ride  with all you @Gaurav @Srikumar @Wrangeld @Ale Vallecchi @Rahimdad @Frederic@Brette @Shamil   along with a cool drone shot

Damn that alone is a convoy..  wonder how would that combo end up .

Eid Mubarak!!

Congrats @Veedooshee , Chief Detective,  heard about that story and I still remember your very first drive . Fantastic that you have grown , of course there is Anish the sidekick too .. I actually enjoy reading your trip reports,  quite extensive and its as if I am live on that drive and it definitely saves the writing off the leads haha.

@Wrangeld Dont  think I ll make it for this drive , yet to get the car. Others in the waiting list can join .

On 7/19/2020 at 9:37 PM, Rinelle Sanaani said:

Any update sir @J J

Had to replace the tyre ! The debris on the road did this unfortunately  

On 7/19/2020 at 9:46 PM, siddharth maheshwari said:

Hey @J J thank God you are fine . How many kms done on these tyres?

10k Km 

21 hours ago, Gaurav said:

@J J sad and truly shocked to see such incident. Glad you and Jeep are fine. Keep us updated.

@Nivin If you drive a lot then 2019, if not then 2020 will be fetch additional 1 year of RTA passing.

Yeah had to change ! oh well  

My garage guy says it's the most rubbish tyre just because it's cheap.. well.. I l try t get more info .. so hold your horses

Just now, Frederic said:

How much tyre pressure do you normally put ? With this hot weather maybe it got too high ?

Normal at 35 psi .. I cannot deny .. I saw some sort of debris on the road at the time and I ran on it and then this happened 

I might have spoke too soon ... had an issue with the Mastercraft  tyre , it just busted in the middle of a normal drive around the bridge .. my garage is still figuring out how ..and it is not repairable apparently .. such a bummer 

Got some.big upgrades happening on the jeep this week... hopefully it gets done by thursday .. if not I ll.update and pull off 

Congrats !

Congrats - two jeeps promoted  and Rinelle

Congrats !