Post by poorboy1 on Dec 21, 2004 1:01:10 GMT -5
Just to clarify a few things I'm gonna post this now.
I have been 4by'n since about 95' I know thats not a long time but I'm not that old. I've been a member of 4by clubs in California and then later up here. Not members of internet clubs but actual clubs that we met in a garage for our discussions and wheeled weekly and sometimes daily.
After moving back here I got out of the 4x4 stuff for a while and got heavy into sandrails. Being new on a job and a sport I used 3rd time around reject parts to build my rail and maintain it. This was early 99. It was always a joke between me and my brother who also ran 2nd time around parts that with scrapped together rigs we were out doing more than half the guys with $15,000 rails. We ran our stuff till it broke then patched it up and kept going. We drug our broken sandrails to the beach then fixed them and ran some more, this is when we started refering to ourselves as poorboy offroad. We couldn't afford all the good parts so we said the hell with them we can still turn heads with our wild driving and unique modified rails. Not that we really cared what others thought( If you saw our stuff and camp you would understand) So between 2 brothers our dad and some other freinds we started poorboy offroad.
About 2 years of recovering our broken crap from the dunes with our 4x4's we shifted our efforts from the rails back to our trucks. We only ran a small select group of people. In fact it took Trystan many runs and 2 broken rigs before we started refering to him as a poorboy. After many trips in the woods and a feeble little free website we posted a few pics but never really opened up the club. The website laid idle and no effort was going into it.
So we poorboy offroad showed up as a group and wheeled with another club. We met alot of good people and ran the fricken piss out of our rigs for nothing more than a good show. please see video if you dont believe me. We joined this other club but always remained true to ours first. After circumstances not to our liking or beliefs we began to withdraw our efforts toward other clubs and concintrated on our own, we put a little money into the website and opened enrollment to anyone who wheels or wants to learn. Still true to it's name poorboy we remained dues free and wheel as much as possible. We are about 8 months into our website and new members and we are growing in the right direction with many awesome people.
There are members here who belong to many clubs, I myself check out other sites such as pavement sucks and ck5. There is a lot of knowledge and experience to be found on these other sites. It really doesn't matter how many forums you belong to because none of this means crap when your out on a trail and having a blast with your freinds. Only after good trips or projects can you have anything good to talk about.
Just thought I would throw that out there so new members would have an idea how we got started. ;D
I have been 4by'n since about 95' I know thats not a long time but I'm not that old. I've been a member of 4by clubs in California and then later up here. Not members of internet clubs but actual clubs that we met in a garage for our discussions and wheeled weekly and sometimes daily.
After moving back here I got out of the 4x4 stuff for a while and got heavy into sandrails. Being new on a job and a sport I used 3rd time around reject parts to build my rail and maintain it. This was early 99. It was always a joke between me and my brother who also ran 2nd time around parts that with scrapped together rigs we were out doing more than half the guys with $15,000 rails. We ran our stuff till it broke then patched it up and kept going. We drug our broken sandrails to the beach then fixed them and ran some more, this is when we started refering to ourselves as poorboy offroad. We couldn't afford all the good parts so we said the hell with them we can still turn heads with our wild driving and unique modified rails. Not that we really cared what others thought( If you saw our stuff and camp you would understand) So between 2 brothers our dad and some other freinds we started poorboy offroad.
About 2 years of recovering our broken crap from the dunes with our 4x4's we shifted our efforts from the rails back to our trucks. We only ran a small select group of people. In fact it took Trystan many runs and 2 broken rigs before we started refering to him as a poorboy. After many trips in the woods and a feeble little free website we posted a few pics but never really opened up the club. The website laid idle and no effort was going into it.
So we poorboy offroad showed up as a group and wheeled with another club. We met alot of good people and ran the fricken piss out of our rigs for nothing more than a good show. please see video if you dont believe me. We joined this other club but always remained true to ours first. After circumstances not to our liking or beliefs we began to withdraw our efforts toward other clubs and concintrated on our own, we put a little money into the website and opened enrollment to anyone who wheels or wants to learn. Still true to it's name poorboy we remained dues free and wheel as much as possible. We are about 8 months into our website and new members and we are growing in the right direction with many awesome people.
There are members here who belong to many clubs, I myself check out other sites such as pavement sucks and ck5. There is a lot of knowledge and experience to be found on these other sites. It really doesn't matter how many forums you belong to because none of this means crap when your out on a trail and having a blast with your freinds. Only after good trips or projects can you have anything good to talk about.
Just thought I would throw that out there so new members would have an idea how we got started. ;D