2011 Kawasaki Built Teryx Rock Crawling in Area
BFE
By Jon Crowley, UTVGuide.net
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2011 Kawasaki
Built Teryx 750 4x4 UTV
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Irvine, CA (6/10/2011) - I picked
up a brand new 2011 Kawasaki Teryx back in late
February, and it has been a non-stop quest to get
a bunch of work done to it in time for my annual
trip to Moab Utah. The goals for this build project
are extreme suspension, lightweight, performance
and trail capability. I really like the Kawasaki
Teryx as a build platform because its' v-twin engine
has great power potential, there are some very nice
long-travel kits available, the chassis is stout
and aftermarket products are plentiful.
With phase one of my build complete, I showed
up in Moab with less than 10
miles on the odometer, and the only testing consisted
of hitting a few
speed bumps in my neighborhood. Not an ideal way
to start out on a wheeling
adventure 15 hours from home, but I was confident
in the components. The
first three days in Moab, we conquered Poison
Spider Mesa & Golden Spike,
Steel Bender and Cliff Hanger. I was thrilled
with how capable the Teryx
was in the rocks.
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The Fox Racing
Position Sensitive Shocks give the Kawasaki
Teryx much more ground clearance than
stock
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With three days of wheeling, our attention turned
to what to do for our fourth and final day in
Moab. The group started talking about "Area
BFE". I had heard of this place after this
year's Easter Jeep Safari. Lots of activity and
events held there and it piqued my interest.
Area BFE is an offroad park that is most well
known within the Jeep and
rock buggy crowd, but it is also a perfect place
to explore in your UTV.
The park was created by a few individuals that
had a vision to create a
place where people could go off-roading without
the threat of being kicked
off of a fun little playground. The area opened
in 2004, and since then
they have been working to make trails, a camping
area and many other fun
destination points on the property.
We locked in on Area BFE for our Thursday run
and I was really excited about doing a little
more extreme trails with my Teryx. In our group
for the day were my friends Bob in his RZR, Dave
in his RZR XP, Reid in his full tilt Teryx, Joey
D from UTVUnderground.com in a LT Teryx, Dean
in another LT Teryx, Jeff Knoll of King of the
Hammers fame in a bone stock Teryx, Casey Currie
in another full-tilt Teryx and Woody from RockCrawler.com
in his nicely setup RZR. The small group was a
nice change to the day before where we had 26
UTVs running Cliff Hanger.
Jeff and Woody had played around at Area BFE
in 4x4s previously, so they led the charge and
we headed for Greed Day.
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