Bronco Off-Roadeo Full-Trail Ride!!!

[DesertBronco]

Almost an hour of footage of the actual Bronco Trail ride from Bronco Off-Roadeo Texas!!

You have a review of the fundamental skills of off-roading on a course and then you go out in a Bronco provided to you and drive this trail at the direction of the Trail Guides.

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[Lilj4425]

When are the reservation holders ever gonna be able to do this? Never?

 

[DesertBronco]

When are the reservation holders ever gonna be able to do this? Never?

It'll start for reservation holders this summer. Right now they are getting all of the dealers familiar with the Bronco and the Off-Roadeo program by taking them through it.

 

[Toccoa]

Thanks for posting!

 

[SamG]

I wonder why we have not seen any deep water testing or driving in any videos..

 

[DesertBronco]

I wonder why we have not seen any deep water testing or driving in any videos..

Bronco has 33.5” s of waterfording capability- best in class- not too shabby!

 

[Hoofnmouth]

I wonder why we have not seen any deep water testing or driving in any videos..

Because if one of those thousand connections under that hood get wet its all over

 

[indio22]

Thanks for posting! Nice to see off-road footage.

Although lockers seem overkill for that terrain. Makes sense to test them out though.

And dang, Texas needs hills.

 

[FTBronco9]

Almost an hour of footage of the actual Bronco Trail ride from Bronco Off-Roadeo Texas!!

You have a review of the fundamental skills of off-roading on a course and then you go out in a Bronco provided to you and drive this trail at the direction of the Trail Guides.

Did you get to drive it?

 

[JAC]

That was fun to watch with morning Coffee. Appreciate you sharing.

 

[jsharpe]

Almost an hour of footage of the actual Bronco Trail ride from Bronco Off-Roadeo Texas!!

You have a review of the fundamental skills of off-roading on a course and then you go out in a Bronco provided to you and drive this trail at the direction of the Trail Guides.

The black one in front seemed to have issues with throttle control and/or clutch engagement in a number of places in this video. (E.g. around 17:15 when they actually bounced backward starting up the hill). Then at the very end there was a radio question "how's that manual treating you?" that seemed to be for that same vehicle. I'm guessing it was just inexperience, in part because they took a number of less ideal lines compared to the driver in the video. Still it didn't make me yearn for the days of off-roading with a manual, especially after watching how smooth and easy all the automatics seemed to handle the same segments.

 

[indio22]

The black one in front seemed to have issues with throttle control and/or clutch engagement in a number of places in this video. (E.g. around 17:15 when they actually bounced backward starting up the hill). Then at the very end there was a radio question "how's that manual treating you?" that seemed to be for that same vehicle. I'm guessing it was just inexperience, in part because they took a number of less ideal lines compared to the driver in the video. Still it didn't make me yearn for the days of off-roading with a manual, especially after watching how smooth and easy all the automatics seemed to handle the same segments.

Good info. I'm going manual, and will have to watch those video segments more closely. Probably part driver inexperience as you suggested. Although I wonder how well the non-traditional parking brake performs in those situations.

 

[da_jokker]

Three questions

1) the rodeos are not open yet correct? I tried to make my "reservation" and all it allows is for me to create a profile. Found nothing about actually picking dates, let alone these folks that have already done it?

2) I noticed in the video, the guide was constantly having folks turn their lockers off and on. I know back in the day lockers required manual hub locking, so folks were not jumping out and twisting hubs as often as that. I thought you hit dirt, rears go on and only fronts were switched on and off as needed. And actually I was surprised that nobody was using the goat modes..why not? Would you switch between mud and rock crawl instead of manually turning everything on and off?

3) sort of tying into 2 ... If I have to turn the rear locker on and off constantly...would it not just be better to put the think in 4A and just take the whole course in that? Wouldn't that mode engage the lockers when needed and turn them off when not needed? (Or is 4A just the center diff)

 

[TheWoo]

Three questions

1) the rodeos are not open yet correct? I tried to make my "reservation" and all it allows is for me to create a profile. Found nothing about actually picking dates, let alone these folks that have already done it?

2) I noticed in the video, the guide was constantly having folks turn their lockers off and on. I know back in the day lockers required manual hub locking, so folks were not jumping out and twisting hubs as often as that. I thought you hit dirt, rears go on and only fronts were switched on and off as needed. And actually I was surprised that nobody was using the goat modes..why not? Would you switch between mud and rock crawl instead of manually turning everything on and off?

3) sort of tying into 2 ... If I have to turn the rear locker on and off constantly...would it not just be better to put the think in 4A and just take the whole course in that? Wouldn't that mode engage the lockers when needed and turn them off when not needed? (Or is 4A just the center diff)

1. Not yet open to the public to register for an event.

2. You could probably do that whole course without lockers on at all. But this is education on how they work/what they do/scenarios where they make things easier.

3. 4A does not activate lockers. It's basically the same as an all wheel drive vehicle.

 

[DesertBronco]

Did you get to drive it?

I'm one of the Trail Guides in the video.

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