[dent]

HI All,
I am new to the site, but old to the mini buggy world. This is a great site with lots of great ideas. Thank you for creating this great exchange of ideas.

To introduce myself to the board:
The first ride I took in a real mini buggy was in 1985 with Vince Laporte. He built a suzuki 750cc powered two seater that would go up anything. On my first trip to Dumont he declared the standard of driving I avoid to this day "If you dont flip it at least once per day you are just not driving aggressively enough."

Since then I have owned several minis including:
Drakart, Short Sand Car, 3 different XTCs, and "ho" made. The power plants have varied from the 750cc suzuki to the mighty Hayabusa. My favorite sand dunes are in St Anthony Idaho, specifically Choke Cherry Hill, 700' straight up.

This obsession is a reflection of my "vehicular promiscuity" problem that I have had since youth. I had bought and sold 21 cars by the time I was 21 years old. The best among those were a 1968 Corvette convertible and a 1972 Jaguar XKE V 12 2+2. Now I am 50 and my wife is glad that I limit my promiscuity to cars. *Every 2 years I get a different buggy.

I have a desk job, with lots of paperwork and meetings, so fabricating and wrenching is genuine pleasure for me, even though my skills, tools and garage space are limited. I have always followed the Hachey rule of precision engineering - "measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk, cut it with an ax".

Thanks again for creating this site.
See you on the boards.
Denis Greene
"Dent"