I know that there are a bunch of you who are members of the board.

I have a question for all of you.

Now that the event is over, and life is back to normal, and your trucks are hopefully fully repaired........



Taking everything into account would you do it again?

I know that there are most likely more than a few people on the board who will try to get into next years event, and in future years.

If i'm not mistaken, I think there is a rule about you can't be in it again the next year... I could be wrong on that though.

A lot of TTC competitors are asked back as judges.

If i'm not mistaken, I think there is a rule about you can't be in it again the next year... I could be wrong on that though.


I would imagine....but I am not implying that they will......I am asking a hypothetical question. "IF" they could....would they?

There is the possibility that I might enter in the next year, and I am wondering if with all the time, expense, damage, and work, if it is worth it?

I think what he's saying is more "if you had to do it all over again, would you still go?", not "would you do it TWICE?" ;)

IOW, he wants to know if the experience was positive or negative so he can decide if HE should apply :idea:


TEX

i competed in 01 and yes i would do it again if allowed. And considering i won i still was not asked to come back as a judge even though i had heard the same thing. Probally because they still have too many people from years past that are still filling those slots.Oh well.

It's worth it.

I learned a ton, had a great time, and met some great people.

My advice though is to have your truck ready to go at least a couple months before the comp. Don't finish it in camp the day of the competition.

:D

Tim.

good advice wolf359 but if you are anything like me, when most of the wheelers in the country/world i couldnt stop working on it until they said line um up for the pictures and then i am wondering what i might have forgot? or remembering things i wish i would have worked on!

Originally posted by bigblaze
good advice wolf359 but if you are anything like me, when most of the wheelers in the country/world i couldnt stop working on it until they said line um up for the pictures and then i am wondering what i might have forgot? or remembering things i wish i would have worked on!

wheeling is all about fixing all your junk all night the night before any comp or before you go away

i seem to get more done on the night before, than at any other time!

I was a spotter this year for Mudtruk44 and i had a ball. I made a lot of mistakes but it was still worth the 26 hour drive each way. I'll definately go back if i can get in. If fact i'm going throught photo right now trying to pick one to send in.

And Wolf is right about making sure your rig is ready before you go. He has first hand experience in what to do.

Originally posted by bigblaze
i competed in 01 and yes i would do it again if allowed. And considering i won i still was not asked to come back as a judge even though i had heard the same thing.

I'd do it again. I was under the impression that it was a "once--ever" thing, that you couldn't go back again, except maybe as a spotter. I'd go back as a spotter too.

The driver's seat in the little green truck is currently being argued over, for who gets to send it in for TTC '03, BTW... my wife gets first rights, but she hasn't decided if she wants to do it. :)

I went this year and have to say, who cares about the 48 hour drive each way, who cares about broken parts, who cares about the hundreds of hours I spent working on my truck ALONE. It was so worth it. It is the kind of thing that you can looked back on years from now and say that may have been the best time of my life.

If guys make it from this board this year, I think we will have a lot of helpful advice for them. I think Wolf359 and I had similar problems of untested equiptment. I had never even owned a winch until April. So much of the truck was new that I didn't know how things would work. Get your truck ready and wheel hard a few times before you go.

Matt, you better find a good picture!:D

Well you know me, I will try yet again to get in:p Be the third year in a row to try to get in. I have all ready took spot 9 and 71 in the mag. If I get in the mag this year wonder what number I will get :D

Frank :usa:

wheeling is all about fixing all your junk all night the night before any comp or before you go away

Amen to that... Few years ago I was competing in a SAE student competition in Kansas. fabrication was finished 4am the morning we left from N Cal. , the car was painted at rest stops, and test&tune was in the motel parking lot.

Yeah, I'd do it all over again, but I wouldn't do it twice. The deep water and mud was fun, but hard on the equipment. (at least,mine)
TTC was fun because there is a small (10-11 rigs) group of people
competing. You get to know people, make friends and share the experience that probably will only happen once in your life.
It was absolutely a blast! I mean, how many people have pulled a 35 ton dump truck up a hill? It's a funny feeling when you have pulled it as far as you can and then suddenly, the shear weight of the dump truck starts pulling you backwards - your tires still turning forwards! The hill climb is a funny thing. Nobody knew what the ideal time was. Ned Bacon, head judge, set the "ideal" time. All we knew was that it was niether too fast nor too slow, but "faster" than last year! Now TTC is a mind game, we're trying to "guess" how fast Ned and the "killer Bee" would go up the hill climb - a little faster than last year! I remember slowing down towards the top because I thought I was a head of what Ned would have done in the 'Bee. ( turns out I was wrong, He went faster!)
Hell yeah, TTC is just Fawking fun! Damn, I can't wait until next month's issue of Four Wheeler comes out so I can find out who won! :flipoff2:

Ive been in the top 70 in the mag ..Ive never been a competitor in TTC but I help do recovery every year for TTC and I helped a bit on the judging this year... Its hard work but its worth it.. Ive had competitors at my house in hollister welding there rigs up at 3 in the morning ,gave people spare parts, But thats what it is all about everyone helping each other and having fun...our thats what it should be about.:) [

Dan
LOL. Good one JR so who did win anyways??????

There is only one thing that comes imediatly to my mind, HELL YES!!!! The experience of the TCC is unbelievable. There are so many cool things related to TCC that you would never realize without competing, like being out wheelin and having people come up and ask how you did in Top Truck or saying, hay I saw your jeep in the magazine. To me thats some of the coolest things about it. Or seeing someone put a post on the Pirates web site and ask for responses from Top Truck guys and know that he is talking to you. I had it a lot easier than all of the other guys there because it only took me about 20 minutes to get to Hollister and I didn't break or even scratch anything, but I think most and probably everyone who responds here will say they would do it again. I don't think anyone who has actually competed in TCC will ever say it wasn't worth it, if they do it is most likely there own fault they didn't enjoy it :flipoff2:. It's kinda ironic that one of the things that makes TCC so special is one of the things that kinda sucks, it is once in a lifetime! I gueas you could all ways get plastic surgery and change your name :rolleyes: .

Damn Toby I thought I was a newbie

Originally posted by Scott@Rockstomper
The driver's seat in the little green truck is currently being argued over, for who gets to send it in for TTC '03.
Why? It doesn't seem like it'd do too well... You need HP in the frame twister, mud pit, dump truck pull, maybe the hillclimb, the obstacle course... it just seems like you might win the mini-rubicon and that's about it. A 120 Hp motor turning 44s through 223:1 gearing doesn't exactly seem like the recipe of choice.

Enlighten me, Scott - since you've been there and I haven't.

Yeah, while you guys are typing I'm wheelin:flipoff2: