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  2. Afternoon Fewbie Plus Desert Drive - Star Trek Voyager: The Climbing Challenge - Sharjah - 10 Feb 2023

    in Offroad Drives

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Ale Vallecchi said:

    Dear Desertnauts,

    a quick head up before tomorrow's drive.

    We'll meet quite far from Dubai (plan a bit more than 1 hours, depending on your origin). You may refill just before Madam. 

    The drive plans to move from one pyramid of star dunes to the next, all the way to Badayer. There are around 13 such pyramids in the area, and we'll attempt to climb and circle as many as possible, keeping in mind the exit time around 6:00PM. The extra element of difficulty should be that we'll be moving generally from the slip-faces to the hard faces. The bonus may be that we'll find less tracks and convoys then on a weekend (yet tourist will be crawling the dunes near Badayer, no matter what).

    The convoy order, at the moment, is the following:

    @Joji varghese in Second Lead

    @Richard Franks at #3

    @Senthil Kumar #4

    @Ashutosh Garg in #5

    @Beide Worku at #6, and 

    @Pacific in Sweep.

    We'll pick the radio channel at the meeting place.

    Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

    Dear Mr @Ale Vallecchi

    I hope you doing well.

    I don’t see my name in your convoy order list. 

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  4. Body Trimming

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    Posted · Edited by Ali Abas

    Hi everyone 

    I have fitted bigger tire on my GX460 and it’s rubbing

    can someone please recommend me a nice professional garage for Inner fender trimming in Ras Al Khor or Sharjah? 

  15. COVID19 Compliant - Afternoon Fewbie PLUS Desert Drive - No Man's Land: to Ganthoot and back - Dubai - 20 Apr 2021

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    1 hour ago, Ale Vallecchi said:

    @Thomas Varghese and @Ali Abas, thanks to the outstanding support the convoy is getting by very experienced seniors, and with a couple of changes to the routing in mind, the convoy will be increased to 10 members. Both of you are in this drive. Please confirm if OK with each of you.

    @Arda Yagciogluyou are now #1 in the WL.

    Thank you very much @Ale Vallecchi

    See you on Tuesday 

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  17. COVID19 Compliant - Tuesday Afternoon Short Intermediate Desert Drive - The Slip Side of Al Qudra (reloaded) - Dubai - 13 Apr 2021

    in Offroad Drives

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    Dear @Lorenzo Candelpergherthank you so much for the wonderful drive. as my first intermediate drive, it was Quite challenging for me at the beginning, I had to focus on steering wheel control and acceleration.   I was Sweeting for the First thirty minutes. then I got used to it. I enjoyed  fast pace driving on the dune crest, . I was feeling the heaviness of my car on some higher dunes and soft sand I got stuck a couple of times, fortunately I was Able to self recover with help of @Ale Vallecchiand @Gaurav Soni I see that there are fewer refusal and stuck in Intermediate level, which add more fun to the drive. I had Memorial drive as my first Intermediate level. every one Had nice car with suited pumpers for intermediate level. I was worried about my front pumper, which may had Interfered in my driving skills. and I skipped with few damages on it. 

    As I didn't want to bring My family with me, but they insisted that I couldn't refuse it. I had my two daughters And my sister with me, It was fun For them as well, but it was little bit scary for my little ones, and got motion sickness at the end. They were fine once we stopped for inflating. 

    Once again I want to thank and appreciate Mr @Lorenzo Candelpergherfor helping me to fix my popped out tire. and Thank you very Mr @Ale Vallecchi for helping me with my self recovery. 

     

    1 hour ago, Thomas Varghese said:

    Thank you Richard @Wrangeld for your kind appreciation.

    Todays drive was real adventurous. Yes your drives were exciting too. 15 minutes into the drive I was wondering what have I got myself into. I was contemplating whether to gracefully exit by giving some lame excuse as @Lorenzo Candelpergher was like riding an Unicorn instead of driving a Rubicon. I was going easy on the suspensions of my Xterra and was lagging a little behind @Shehab Alawadhi. As it is his F150 is like a tank destroying everything in its path. Most of the time I had to slightly deviate from his tracks when climbing uphill and had to change the angle of approach. The advantage is, that beast flattens any ridge it treads on. Still I managed to get stuck twice. The support from @Lorenzo Candelpergher, @Ale Vallecchi & @GauravSoni made these stucks looking like nothing serious. Once the feel of the fast paced desert driving started to slowly creep into my brain then it was easy and fun. By the time I warmed up completely the drive was over 😢. It was a surprise to me that @Ali Abas was also a debutante as I could see he was matching every move I make with the same steps and closely following behind me. I actually thought he had much experience in Intermediate drives.  The rest of the team were all experienced Intermediate drivers and performed what was expected of them.

    Thank you all the lead marshals who I have driven with and have trained me into these desert driving skills. I had to use all that knowledge gained while driving with them to keep pace with @Lorenzo Candelpergher. My only suggestion is that the drive could have extended little more into the evening which would have made us drive under our lights. After the last few night drives I really enjoy them. 

    One thing I kept hearing over the radio today was gain more height from Prof @Ale Vallecchi. I still remember @Frederic instructing us to the extent of even screaming the same during our Absolute Newbie drive. I always remember that advice and follow them like its the essence of all slide sloping. Of course don't fight gravity and lose fatally is another important lesson. Whenever driving a ridge try to keep the wheels on both sides. I don't remember exactly who told this first but its etched in my brain. Every time I think of @Rahimdad his stern class on throttle control crosses my mind and puts a smile. I was wondering what is he trying to teach me in throttle control when I have over 40 years experience driving on tarmac. @Rahimdad I think now I have made you proud by practicing it. (Secret- it was the best lesson and advice I got). In fact the whole essence of sand driving is merely throttle control.  

    Thank you all again for your professional classes to turn a novice like me into an Intermediate driver over sands. 

    Thank you Mr @Thomas Varghesefor encouraging me.

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  21. Ali Abas has been promoted to Intermediate level

    in Announcements

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Mohamed Seidam said:

    Congratulations @Ali Abas well done pal 👍 long time no see buddy 

    @Mohamed Seidam Salaam alaikom 

    thank you brother 

    how are you?

     I had sold my 4Runner on October so, I was afraid of damaging my other car, but could not resist not have fun in the desert so, I seldom join desert drives. 

    46 minutes ago, Abdul Rahman Abdul Kader said:

    Congrats @Ali Abas!

    Thank you @Abdul Rahman Abdul Kader

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