A little update:
I stopped by BadAss Tents in Poway today, little did I know they are an off-shoot of a brand I was buying long ago in my motorcycle days (HotBodies). They don't have a front-end retail store but were happy to show me around and I was able to see their roof tents being built by some folks hard at work.
They have a roof rack for the Bronco I got to see some nice renders of. The reason for the visit was to put eyes on the spare tire side mount. At the top position the center taillight will make carrying there very difficult as well as block the tail light. I got a bit lucky and was able to buy one of the kits, but my maxtrax order is probably another month away, so it'll be some time before I can snap a picture of that.
Now one REALLY nice tidbite of info, was discussion of how much weight the tailgate could hold. One of the crew there told me he basically used the spare tire as a ladder while doing the buildout of their roof rack, and he stood on it, jumped on it, for many hours over the course of a few weeks without issue. Granted thats a little different then a bunch of weight loaded up while rock crawling, but it did put my mind at ease a bit over loading some weight onto it.
I stopped by BadAss Tents in Poway today, little did I know they are an off-shoot of a brand I was buying long ago in my motorcycle days (HotBodies). They don't have a front-end retail store but were happy to show me around and I was able to see their roof tents being built by some folks hard at work.
They have a roof rack for the Bronco I got to see some nice renders of. The reason for the visit was to put eyes on the spare tire side mount. At the top position the center taillight will make carrying there very difficult as well as block the tail light. I got a bit lucky and was able to buy one of the kits, but my maxtrax order is probably another month away, so it'll be some time before I can snap a picture of that.
Now one REALLY nice tidbite of info, was discussion of how much weight the tailgate could hold. One of the crew there told me he basically used the spare tire as a ladder while doing the buildout of their roof rack, and he stood on it, jumped on it, for many hours over the course of a few weeks without issue. Granted thats a little different then a bunch of weight loaded up while rock crawling, but it did put my mind at ease a bit over loading some weight onto it.
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