Functional Advantages of a lift and/or bigger tires

Yes, you will definitely get laid more w/ a lift and AM tires/wheels!

 

Only if you drop the rear , put a 12” front lift on and $900 worth of visible LED lights.

 

I'm curious about lifts too, but my needs are different than yours, I'm more likely to put larger tires on that clear with no lift because the taller the bed gets for me the more difficult it is to load and unload dirt bikes. The same can be said if you are looking to camp with a RTT, or need to use the bed on a daily basis. These things all suffer the higher you go.

My point is just if you share some of the things you want to do (location, types of trails, skill level) you'll probably get better feedback to way your options.

 

I'm looking for other people's personal experiences in this thread as opposed to recommendations, but since you asked...

I'm in the Twin Cities. I live in an urban area, so most of the time, besides daily driving, I am just screwing around on snow covered streets or in a couple unused plots of land near me with some short slopes. When I get out of the city I go to places like this: https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/ohv/trail_detail.html?id=27
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/ohv/trail_detail.html?id=4

Am planning to go here in February:

http://www.rpm4x4.com/avf-events.shtml

And I want to go to here this coming summer:

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/ohv/gilbert/index.html

Trips out west would be fun too, perhaps first to the Badlands and then to the Rocky mountains.

 

Badlands last month. Pretty cool out there.