Recent content by mickey_rubicon

Tamarack Lake and Twin Lakes - out of Castella on I5 before Dunsmuir, by the Castle Crags National Park. Also Trails off of Sims road and out of Sweetbrier. PM me for details. I dont want to give away all my fish.

i ordered christo's drag-link on monday - but he was out of tre's so i ordered those from marlin - the tre's are all the same thread for the tie rod and the drag link? if i remember they are different thread diameter

so while it was bending - I had no left turning or the re-bending was feeling like no steering? - makes sense in some weird geometrical way.

I am truly amazed that it bent after 237,000 miles of severe service (well prolly should take off the ~ 50k when it belonged to the dentist). Anybody that ever asks me what 4x4 to buy - I tell them, buy an 80 series because I am pretty sure i would have broken everything else into a million...

It felt locked. And I was pretty much moving straight, and then had to turn to the left. That is when I could not turn. We stopped, but may have not noticed the bend yet. Then I moved again and turned right then left and then it worked again. I am scared of the birfield locking up. I did service...

wow - mine has that exact bend in it - we are bent link brothers - I am speculating that I had an initial bend as well.

Incident / symptom: During an outing last weekend, I was not able to steer left at all, the truck would just go straight. Not like if loss of power steering but a total seizure, not even a hair. By steering the other direction the ability to steer either direction came back. But during the...

nobody ever complained about meeting me in person -its just sometimes they cant separate reality from the internet - the mickey rubicon entertainment gets blown out of the internet into out of proprtionality :) - peter gave great ammo for my friends, when I bent my drag link in half last...

I need an 80 series front drag link in SF Bay Area? I live in the SF Bay Area and I am looking for the entire front tie rod assembly. PM me with what you have. Thanks for the help. I can pick up anywhere in the Bay Area. Also if you are within reasonable shipping distance like Nevada, Oregon...

I used to ride DH then sold my two DH bikes to buy my crawler, now I have a hardtail kona and miss the 9 inches of travel in the back and my marzochi super 8 in the front. maybe soon I will get a santa cruz nomad maybe and get my a$$ back, I used to ride northstar, mamooth, santa cruz trails...

I love showing all the 'un-off-road educated' co-workers the 80 series pictures on the rubicon. A little touch of reality for them because they have been in the misbelief that only Humvees can go off-road :) LMAO.

lot of euros on the trail this year (me including) - was this covered by any sort of media? :) I cannot wait until the big one next year - very good times - very good times. Its my most beloved TLCA sanctioned event so far.

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see you 2008 - if you want a link to my shutterfly just pm me your email

Those of us who stayed were treated to previously hidden kegs of beer, bags of pork rinds, more carne asada, more campfires, more music, and entertainment provided by none other than the notorious Mickey Rubicon. I won’t give you all the details here, but suffice it to say that somehow, someway...