Offroad-Express

Next weekend
ON the 10th public viewing $5 dollars adults kids under 12 free at the Extreme park, also special stage at Kumeu AandP show sunday AandP show only. 4WD TV and TV 3 will be there all welcome

What time is start & finish?

You competing?

I is winch bitch for Steve (monstr)
We start 3pm fri and public viewing is probably 8 or 9 am saterday

Dion

I'll be there, driving up from Wanganui friday morning.

Cheers, Jeff.

Ill be there, Leaving Taupo lunch time friday, Watching this time .Klem

I'll be there

im there 2

Any updates, assume 2 stages have been run now?? Pics?? Cmon

saw a wee bit at the Kumeu Show grounds. Red Hilux, lexus powered I think broke rear end in big bog, both wheels locked. Apparently Stu in Project tinfoil blew the motor last night? - something about shouldnt try and start engine with NOS . GQTROL rolled on the showground course, missed it. Saw Steve McConnells Disco Hybrid on a truck heading back too town on the way home. Seems too be a bit of carnage.
Also saw the Performace Metalworks supercharged Lexus powered hilux entertaining the crowd between groups. Got some get up and go in that thing, S/C whine sounds awesome

Ive got close to 100 pics and 40 minutes of video. I will do my best to get it up on my website by the weekend. I will let you know when its done.

Here are the pics I took

http://www.kiwiracing.co.nz/photo_gallery/Norwest%20OHV%20Winch%20Challenge%202007/index.htm

Also, if anyone encounters any errors on site could you please let me know?


Cheers
Sam

Here is some of the video I got. (SS1, 2, 3)

There are 2 videos, they are both the same but one has music and one has just sound.

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... _album.php

nice work mate ! cool vid

Placings as far as I can rember-
1st Tony and Mike (SHRMIN)
2nd Donald and Rodger
3rd Justin and Mike
4th Flufee and dave
5th Steve and me
6th Arron and Mitch

Thats as far as my memory goes at the moment, still have a headace from hitting trees and things. 4 points the diferance between 4th and 6th.
Good fun comp.
Simon (4WD TV) had a $100 prize put up by his wife if we could hit him or run him down. We got within 2ft but we bounced off the tree he ran behind, she has now raised it to $500 for the next comp.


The red HiLux that died in the bog corkscrewd his rear drive shaft at blew a front C.V at the same time, not bad for his first comp.

mudhaw wrote:Placings as far as I can rember-
1st Tony and Mike (SHRMIN)

Hmmm - so my neighbour done good - I will have to drop off a couple of beers to him this week to celebrate


Congrats to you and Steve too

mudhaw wrote:1st Tony and Mike (SHRMIN)

mudhaw wrote:2nd Donald and Rodger

mudhaw wrote:3rd Justin and Mike

My bro was out there on the weekend taking photos.
A few more photos can be seen here

For any competitors who are interested, he can sell you all photos of you in action. Drop him an email at ishotimages at gmail.com for more info

SOme wicked photos he took - bit a camera buff by the looksie

Good one of the 4wd bits boys

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56386632@N00/page1/

...he's upload some more photos for your viewing pleasure (130 more!)

Real nice photos. Ill tell tell as many of the competitors as I can get hold of to have a look you should get a few sales

I'll post up some I took as well when I get them sorted, was a good event, the PTO winches didn't like it to much though, a few failures there, and damn, can someone please make the weather colder next year, it was BLOODY hot.

Cheers, Jeff.

mudhaw wrote:Real nice photos. Ill tell tell as many of the competitors as I can get hold of to have a look you should get a few sales

Thanks Dion - He's just bought a new lens so id imagine he needs to make a few sales to pay it off.

We thought it was a top event, with very technically demanding stages. Certainly the most we'd ever used a ground anchor in a comp!!!

Our rollover on 1st stage (DNF) at the Show Grounds on Saturday followed by busted winch on the 2nd stage (DNF) and breaking our ground anchor on Sunday (slow stage time) hurt us really bad, so were pleased to do as well as we did overall.

Maybe we can break the jinx next year!!

Hey Jeremy tell your bro next time to offer the photos to the magazines first before putting them on the net they might buy them.
Try them any way you may be surprised but be willing to wright a storie to go with it.
Never know your luck, he has a good eye for a good photo.
Id buy some some but he got my bad side

lilpigzuk wrote:SOme wicked photos he took - bit a camera buff by the looksie

Good one of the 4wd bits boys

The shinest part is the new hub Knew we should have washed it after every stage.

As track setters we were glad that the swamps still turned out to be relativley wet after all the hot dry weather.. Some of the tracks would have been realllly interesting if there had been rain

mudhaw wrote:Hey Jeremy tell your bro next time to offer the photos to the magazines first before putting them on the net they might buy them.
Try them any way you may be surprised but be willing to wright a storie to go with it.
Never know your luck, he has a good eye for a good photo.
Id buy some some but he got my bad side

Thanks dion, will keep that in mind for the future. Remember the 130 or so he uploaded are only a sample of what he took over the weekend.

He sold a few pics to Overlander mag in auz for the articles on last years Kiwi and Rotorua winch challenges and maybe able to do so again for a news article on the norwest challenge.

So when do we get to see the rest of them?

If anyone is interested there are some more photos up on the net at
http://www.imagesbyroyce.co.nz

mudhaw wrote:If anyone is interested there are some more photos up on the net at
http://www.imagesbyroyce.co.nz

Check this paint job out - awesome!

http://www.imagesbyroyce.co.nz/gallerie ... G_0014.jpg

Those are some top quality photos for sure

And another one of Kerri lifting both front wheels. As Borat would say NICE!

http://www.imagesbyroyce.co.nz/gallerie ... G_0037.jpg