There’s just something so right about seeing a Scout Trooper get massive air off a sand dune on a motocross bike. If you haven’t figured it out by now, I have a bit of a geek streak to me.
This is testing footage for a proposed new series called Stadium Super Trucks. Bangshift.com calls it a cross between desert racing trophy trucks and sprint cars. It looks like it would be some exciting racing.
Here’s an interesting point in my case to prove that electric vehicles are cool. This is the Green Rock Dawg. It’s a rock crawler that has hydraulically actuated legs and electric motors driving each wheel. The hydraulics can be run electrically or with a small gas engine. The wheelbase, track width and ride height all have extreme ranges of adjustment and each wheel can be steered individually. It’s basically a robot spider truck that works because of the flexibility offered by the placement of the electric drive motors.
I never thought I’d see the day where I’m trying to figure what videos to post and I have footage of somebody whose skills are more impressive than Sebastien Loeb in a rally car, but that’s exactly what has happened. Meet Takahisa Fujinami, the first and only Japanese rider to win the Trials World Championship. This is sideline footage of him riding in the Japanese Grand Prix of the SPEA FIM trials championship in 2009. Some of the stuff he clears made my jaw drop and a most of it is terrain that I wouldn’t want to attempt on foot.
Bowler Motorsport is a company run by two brothers in Derbyshire, UK. They produce Land Rover based rally raid trucks used in desert racing events like the Paris-Dakar Rally. One of their early models was the Tomcat. It was designed by one of the Bowler brothers and then taken over by a company in Wales. The Tomcat was featured in the Iceland jet kayak race on Top Gear: