What have you done to your 200 Series this week? (23 Viewers)
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I believe that configuration is under 185 all in. The Richlite adds around 40 lbs and the tables add something like 8 lbs each. If you opt for our standard birch with no tables you're closer to 130.
We've gone to extensive lengths to make the lightest system possible for any given configuration. Lots of carbon fiber nylon (very strong, industrial 3D printed parts) and aluminum in everything we do.
-Andy
Thank you. I was going to do a home brew system similar to your product, but without drawers. Need room to slide a couple Pelican rifle case's under the platform, while keeping the platform as low as possible to stack loose soft gear on top, and also double as a sleeping platform. My only concern is to have something that doesn't require drilling holes in the floor of the vehicle, and utilize existing third row seat mount points and cargo tie points, is that possible with your product?
PM me directly if you're willing to configure a one-off simple solution to fit my needs. I'm in NW Colorado.
Thanks again!
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ADGU use existing holes. No drilling required. Also forgot to mention but NO RATTLES!
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I’ve seen a VW rabbit 15 miles from the nearest pavement. The road was just standard FS , but it’s been a rain year and the potholes must have been brutal on those unaired down 15” low profile tires.
If they got in and out under their own power, I struggle to see how that makes them an idiot. If anything, they're smarter than the lot on here that have bought/built $100k+ rigs to go drive forest service roads.
Our group of friends rates trails by using the term "subaruable" and yes, Subarus can get through some pretty tough terrain if competently driven, though regularly doing so would certainly eventually break things. Other mighty off road vehicles Texans might look down their noses at, but can get to remote locations: vw bug, volvo 2-series and 7-series, '77 oldsmobile 98 (my favorite) or really any old-school domestic boat car. Maybe it's a Colorado thing 
Lol..the crown vic was the best I've seen so far. Love seeing different cars/rigs on trails. To me, if you can wheel it without leaving parts of the car, the whole car, or need rescue services to get you; go for it.Our group of friends rates trails by using the term "subaruable" and yes, Subarus can get through some pretty tough terrain if competently driven, though regularly doing so would certainly eventually break things. Other mighty off road vehicles Texans might look down their noses at, but can get to remote locations: vw bug, volvo 2-series and 7-series, '77 oldsmobile 98 (my favorite) or really any old-school domestic boat car. Maybe it's a Colorado thing
One LCDC, there was a car abandoned one of the rougher trails, like a VW or a Kia or something and we were like...how the hell?
I didn't imply that all Subaru drivers are Idiots, nor that all Idiots only drive Subaru's. I've seen my fair share of both.
The classic idiot moves I see in my area are those that take their vehicles on groomed snowmobile trails, and then when their tires break though the hard surface snow, they're done. Sometimes they only make it a 100-ft, and can get rescued, othertimes they make it much further, where the vehicle stays put until Summer.
Same. I drove our then stock LC200 up to the trailhead of Uncompahgre Peak and felt really cool right up until I was setting up camp and a stock Subaru Outback rolled up next to me. I'm sure he scraped more than a bit coming up, but otherwise it looked brand new. I'm consistently impressed by the ability of better drivers in lesser vehicles when I head into the mountains.
I've also run across a group of French tourists in a Hyundai Santa Fe coming down the Poughkeepsie Gulf Shelf Road when I was dirt biking in the area. To their credit, the road was technically "on the map"...
I don't think I've ever seen a more out of place car/driver pairing in my life.
Check out the "Grand Tour" episode describing the French relationship with their cars. It may shed some light on this.Same. I drove our then stock LC200 up to the trailhead of Uncompahgre Peak and felt really cool right up until I was setting up camp and a stock Subaru Outback rolled up next to me. I'm sure he scraped more than a bit coming up, but otherwise it looked brand new. I'm consistently impressed by the ability of better drivers in lesser vehicles when I head into the mountains.
I've also run across a group of French tourists in a Hyundai Santa Fe coming down the Poughkeepsie Gulf Shelf Road when I was dirt biking in the area. To their credit, the road was technically "on the map"...
I see what you did there...
I ran into a 70+ year old Brit in a rented X1 a few miles up the alpine route outside of Ouray, just above the nasty bit. Poor limey bastard muttered “but it’s so tantalizingly close” as he was almost there to town and had to turn around.
A group of us were on a Jeep trail years ago (when I owned a 2003 Rubicon) on the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation in Southern Cali. About half way in on this pretty rough trail we found an abandoned Audi TT. Probably stolen but I have no idea how they ever got as far as they did.
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A few years back, I was visiting Cades Cove in Tennessee and the traffic on the one lane, one-way road was bumper to bumper and moving at 10-15 MPH. This guy in a Subaru WRX pulled out of a parking lot and barged right in front of the car behind me and then would ride up on my bumper and then back off and ride up again, honking his horn. Ther was no place to pull over or for him to go. I had planned to take Parson's Branch Road out, which is a dirt road through a rather beautiful hardwood forest. The road is one-way for most of the distance. I turned off, the WRX pulled ahead and then suddenly pulled back behind me using the opposing lane (it was a "Y" type intersection). About a 1/2 mile in there is a big sign that states high-clearance 4X4 only. About another 1/2 mile, there was a rather long, steep, rutted and muddy hill. My Tundra negotiated it with no problem. The WRX made it about 50 feet and that was that. Single track one-way dirt road with no place to turn around and a long string of cars behind him. I waved to him as I watched him disappear in my rear-view mirror. For the next hour, there was not a single car behind me. Had the road to myself. Even if I had offered to tow him out, the hill was so rutted and muddy, I would have ripped the recovery point off his car. Then, further on, there were a number of deep fords that he would not have been able to cross even being towed. No choice but to turn around.
Cades Cove road can be a nightmare. We got stuck in dead stopped traffic for 2 hours; finally, the forest rangers showed up and traffic started to move. The cause of the traffic, a bear in a tree… I kid you not. All the city dwellers were stopped and getting out of their cars to get pictures regardless of the rangers objections. Never again will I drive that road.
Typical.
I always get a kick out of the city folk in Yellowstone backing up traffic for a mile because of a coyote. There is a pack in my area that has a real bad habit of collecting outside my bedroom window at 3 AM to start yelling at each other. God, what a racket! Happens about once a month.
It is sad that Cades Cove has essentially turned itself into a parking lot. Smoky Mountain NP is the most visited NP in the country though. I have found it is much quieter down Robinsville way in the Snowbird Mountains. Some very nice campgrounds in that area.
If we see a coyote here in Texas it gets smoked, no questions asked. Backing up traffic for a coyote, silliness.
