MARYLAND TACOMAS

I'm just messing with you, and don't blame you at all. I watched the video of all you guys up in the woods on the trails (was great by the way), but that would be the absolute limit of my off-roading at this point in my life and even then there would have to be 15' wide trails with absolutely no chance of scratches. Sorry, I am just into this thing for too much money and I am too OCD to have it any less than perfect all the time. But yea, the fact that you are up there by yourself (being a street rider myself previously for nearly 25 years, and understanding the dangers of riding alone) is a accomplishment in itself. If I were you and did that I would most certainly let at least 2 or 3 people know your itinerary, and when they should expect to see you again. Anything could happen and the last thing you want is someone to say, I didn't even know he was wherever......I would also have some sort of "find me" app enabled on an electronic device. The easiest and cheapest is "where's my droid" if you have an Android phone. If you phone is on and someone you know has the app, they can find your phone/you very easily. As long as there is service where you are. There are cheap GPS trackers too (I looked into these for my drone). Hate to sound like a downer or noid but as I get older I realize I am more prone to mistakes and harm... LOL Not to mention riding home wet and muddy.........especially wet......

As far as riding through puddles....My first real motorcycle was a Honda CR125 (how old am I really?!) and I used to laugh at the guys on the fancy Yam's and Suzukis trying to retrieve their bikes from 3' deep mud pits out at Quad Ave: 39.304232° -76.528645° This was where I used to also take my 1980 Bronco.

 

I spent most of my life riding quad ave on my CR500's. Back in the day it was nice. Until the, ill call them "hoodlums", ruined it for everyone. I got my 78 bronco with a 10" suspension lift on 40's stuck in some sand while crossing the river. Front diff went out while attempting to climb out over the bank. It sat there stuck for 2 nights but luckily it was mid December so no one else was there to mess with it. During my teenage years before any of us had a license we would ride our dirt bikes on the rr tracks from Boston st in Canton to quad ave.

 

We have so much in common......I broke a rag joint in that Bronco out at Quade Ave and had to use speaker wire and duct tape to get home, and we used to ride our dirt bikes all the way from Highlandtown out to Golden Ring swim club along the RR tracks east of 40.....then to the Big Gunpowder. We used to ride side saddle through the city so we could walk them when we saw the po po, because back then they chased you till you crashed or got away. Mostly though we just went from Highlandtown to Armistead or to Bayview.......man, that's going so far back. Like the mid 70's to mid 80's......no one had a trailer back then?! LOL No place to keep it.

 

I think I have the "find my iphone" set up but i always know where i am and can get to a few friends houses near by if I would have to stay down there. But like you said, anything can happen. I just wish I could carry while i was on the bike down there

 

We also side saddled thru the neighborhood so we could quickly dismount. I was always getting chased but I knew the canton alleys so well I usually got away, they got me a couple times. I remember my dad would whip my ass when he would have to pick me up at southeastern. One time right in their parking lot, cops watching & laughing but that's how it should be. Not like nowadays, now they call it abuse not discipline. That's why these juveniles now are out of control, no discipline at home. I remember the cops in those big square body caprices flying thru those tight alleys scrapping utility poles and hitting trash cans lol.

 

Carry? For what, bears? Bear mace? Yea, the misconception about the "find my phone" apps is that you can find your phone, but the app needs to be on both phones and the other, concerned party needs to know to use it in the event of an emergency. Know what I mean. Either way it sounds like a heck of a lot of fun to rip through the woods on your own terms! Keep the rubber side down!

 

This is my old 78 bronco. Best thing I did was sell this and bought a lifted & locked 85 Toyota p/u. I took that yota places the bronco would never make it.

 

Wow! Fancier than mine. Mine was blue and white and only had the hard top. My wheels were the white wagon wheels too. I sold it a guy Named Steve McGee with the 42's and he lifted it so high he had to mount a double tube bumper with the bull bar attachment upside down to the one right side up in the front and then another upside down in the back so that the "bumpers" (which at that point was the bull bar) were at the legal height from the ground LOL I think I was getting 8 mpg at the time LOL

 

How is that possible? The bronco had bigger tires and lift! Why is the yota better?

 

The yota was locked. Diff locks are the shit imo.

 

You have to admit though, that 351 Cleveland was a beast!

 

Mine had the 400M. Back then I had built big block Chevelles so that bronco wasn't that impressive lol.

 

My buddy and I use to tool around in his Chevelle.......so many likes you and I........

 

Around highlandtown?

 

Yea, he had a army green chevelle ss with white stripes, and his brother had a blue torino with white stripe, or was it white with blue.....I think blue with white, like starsky and hutch. They lived on Curley St, a half a block north of Pratt by the Park. Aburn was their last name.....Jimmy and Bobby, they had a younger brother too, Ronnie.

At a period in time when "Here hold this" did not refer to a cell phone or a venti macchiato. LOL

 

Cant remember a green chevelle. I knew a guy over that way near a school that had a couple 70 or 71 Buick skylarks. The one was nasty. You probably knew Gigolo, he had some nice old hot rods that lived over that way near Linwood ave. The 1st floor of his rowhome was a garage.

 

Sounds familiar, there were some nice hot rods in my hood back then.........I remember there was a greek guy, I think, that had a 60's or 70's Red Baron camaro (fire engine red with a black on black rag top, real hottie magnet. He dated a girls on Decker Ave. I lived in Va from 1980 to 1983. That's when I had the El Dog! LOL

Back then we just partied and, well, partied. We fished too, and rode our dirt bikes, camped out at Patapsco, but mostly partied and worked. The cars to us were more for getting to the hangouts to party. Oh, I knew some people over in Canton, Johnny Dimario, Mike Chick, Michael Hubbie. My wife and I used to live on Clinton St @ Elliot St, way down there. That was a long time ago.....eons.

 

We use to ride dirt bikes & go carts on Clinton & toone in the empty grass fields.

 

We drive through Canton every day to and from work. I see a dark green Taco with Mickey Thompson black wheels and duratracs on Hudson street all the time near the Cardinal Bar and a couple other flavors of tacos too in that area too.

God, then you remember Tulkoff's and the smell of that horseradish being processed! I still buy that over everything else for my steamed shrimp and roast beef sandwiches.

 

Anyone on here? Silver first gen with an ARB front bumper. On 32 E near Ft. Meade.