"Wife-to-be, I gots some bad news about the honeymoon money..."

Well, he might have failed to execute the original plan, but that still was a pretty good entrance.

Lesson number one in Monster trucking. They're expensive and the they break often.

*love *fail

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Anyone who understands this particular hobby knows this wasn't a fail, it was proof he did the jump correctly. It was big enough to break the truck, but not his ass.

If you're not breaking the truck every time you go out, you're a pussy and need to back to the city.

Well there's your problem right there. The wheel came off.

I happen to have a time share camp in the deep deep Canadian woods. When I look at an accusation of being a pussy against the reality of my post-fishing-season SUV repair bills, I'd clearly and kindly take the former with a big fat economical smile.

Driving off road in a 4wd != monster trucking

If you drive a 4wd in the wilderness like a monster truck... well, you're probably gonna die.

And if you're driving a monster truck in a safe and sensible way that doesn't damage the track you're on.... you're doing it wrong

And if your truck breaks every time you drive it, you're a piss-poor engineer. Get some training, and learn how to properly design your equipment. You'll get more out of it for less money.

Not at all. Just watch any monster truck freestyle competition and you'll see clearly that even with the best equipment and engineers, they break nearly every time...except for the trucks that score less than 10 out of 30 points. If you aren't breaking some stuff, you aren't flying high enough or hitting that wall of cars hard enough. Simple as that. True enough, they often leave the big jump(s) for right at the end of their time, or even after time's up, knowing it may end with them driving a tricycle or worse....and then again, sometimes that doesn't slow them down much. It all depends on the truck's design and the driver.
When I did off road racing, I always put the sentiment another way. "If you aren't bleeding, you aren't really trying." I had my rear tire/wheel pass me numerous times after a hard jump. It just happens. Even chromemoly is only a little stronger than regular steel, and stub axles only come so big. It's one of those things where you just have to make the weak point an easy fix, because there's always going to be a weak point.

...but if you were talking about his 4x4 truck, not monster trucks....never mind! :-)