I found ExPo last week, I clicked a link from another forum, so here I am, and here is my Jeep:
Name is Doug, from the Tacoma, WA area.
This is my first Jeep, bought it back in October 06 with a budget boost and 265s on it. It's an 04 and had 12,800 street miles on it, only driven during dry weather.
I'm no stranger to off highway travel or 4x4s... I've had five 4WD rigs since 1988, only two of which were really worthy of doing any off highway travel with on ugly roads and what not: a '79 GMC Jimmy and a 78 Blazer. I did take my next rig, the 87 S-10 Blazer on plenty of fire-roads though. The other two 4WD rigs have been a 1996 Chevy K1500 e-cab, and a 2002 Chevy 2500HD CC. I still own the 2002.
I always enjoyed cruising around the forest service roads checking out whatever there was to see, but after getting in to motorcycling in 1994, two wheeled exploration became the preferred method of backcountry travel. (I'm on my 3rd dual sport bike since 1994.)
I will add that In the back of my mind, I thought it would be cool to have a Jeep probably since the day after I got my driver's license. I do a lot of dual sport (on/off road) motorcycling and kind of gave up on the Jeep idea about 10-12 years ago when I really got heavy in to riding. A lot of the areas I ride, are also Jeep areas, and I concluded I was happier on a bike covering the same distance in an hour or less, that a Jeep would take half the day to travel. I used to make a joke about that with my riding buddies when we'd come across a group of Jeeps on the trail... but something kept telling me "it would be cool to own one."
A few years ago when my brother bought a Jeep after moving to New Mexico, that rekindled the idea in my mind of getting a Jeep. I was on the hunt for a less expensive to drive daily driver since my 2500HD was a gas hog. I gave up on a Jeep as a daily driver since the mileage wouldn't be much better than the truck I already was driving. One of my riding buddies said "A Jeep is just another money sucking toy, and when you break on the trail, it costs a WHOLE LOT MORE to fix. (than a bike)"
Finally, I'd had enough daydreaming and found a nice white Rubi 150 miles away and bought it in October 2006.
Here's what it looked like when I brought it home in October of 2006:
I kept the Jeep a secret from my friends and riding buddies, but one day one of them came over to get some bike parts I had for him. I forgot to bring the parts in to the house from the garage before he arrived, and low and behold, he follows me in to the garage and sees my White Heep posing in the garage. A few weeks later he got irritated with the bike (a KLR 650) he'd installed the parts on that I sold him, so he sold it and bought an 01 Sport... so now we both have Jeeps (and bikes - we both own DRZ400s).
There's a lot more to come as time allows me to get online and post, so stay tuned to my build up!!
Name is Doug, from the Tacoma, WA area.
This is my first Jeep, bought it back in October 06 with a budget boost and 265s on it. It's an 04 and had 12,800 street miles on it, only driven during dry weather.
I'm no stranger to off highway travel or 4x4s... I've had five 4WD rigs since 1988, only two of which were really worthy of doing any off highway travel with on ugly roads and what not: a '79 GMC Jimmy and a 78 Blazer. I did take my next rig, the 87 S-10 Blazer on plenty of fire-roads though. The other two 4WD rigs have been a 1996 Chevy K1500 e-cab, and a 2002 Chevy 2500HD CC. I still own the 2002.
I always enjoyed cruising around the forest service roads checking out whatever there was to see, but after getting in to motorcycling in 1994, two wheeled exploration became the preferred method of backcountry travel. (I'm on my 3rd dual sport bike since 1994.)
I will add that In the back of my mind, I thought it would be cool to have a Jeep probably since the day after I got my driver's license. I do a lot of dual sport (on/off road) motorcycling and kind of gave up on the Jeep idea about 10-12 years ago when I really got heavy in to riding. A lot of the areas I ride, are also Jeep areas, and I concluded I was happier on a bike covering the same distance in an hour or less, that a Jeep would take half the day to travel. I used to make a joke about that with my riding buddies when we'd come across a group of Jeeps on the trail... but something kept telling me "it would be cool to own one."
A few years ago when my brother bought a Jeep after moving to New Mexico, that rekindled the idea in my mind of getting a Jeep. I was on the hunt for a less expensive to drive daily driver since my 2500HD was a gas hog. I gave up on a Jeep as a daily driver since the mileage wouldn't be much better than the truck I already was driving. One of my riding buddies said "A Jeep is just another money sucking toy, and when you break on the trail, it costs a WHOLE LOT MORE to fix. (than a bike)"
Finally, I'd had enough daydreaming and found a nice white Rubi 150 miles away and bought it in October 2006.
Here's what it looked like when I brought it home in October of 2006:
I kept the Jeep a secret from my friends and riding buddies, but one day one of them came over to get some bike parts I had for him. I forgot to bring the parts in to the house from the garage before he arrived, and low and behold, he follows me in to the garage and sees my White Heep posing in the garage. A few weeks later he got irritated with the bike (a KLR 650) he'd installed the parts on that I sold him, so he sold it and bought an 01 Sport... so now we both have Jeeps (and bikes - we both own DRZ400s).
There's a lot more to come as time allows me to get online and post, so stay tuned to my build up!!
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