Michigan Bronco Club

Cool news related to the MI Bronco Club. We have the website up and running. The functionality is pretty basic, but @JakeC and @yeet did a great job with ideas, editing and content. I will post this in the larger B6G forum, MI Roll Call, Bronco Nation and the email group. Yeet tells me it’s already been posted on Facebook. We couldn’t easily port the member list to the website, so please register there as a member. We will eventually use the website roster for all communications. Looking forward to building a great spot for MI Bronco owners to enjoy thier Broncos!!!! https://michiganbroncos.club/site

Had some fun at Holly Oaks as well. I’m new to off-roading so I took it easy but had a blast. Really loved seeing all your Broncos...Can’t wait to go back!

Took the kids had a great time. Need to repaint my driver side rings now. Made contact with a dirt wall.

From today. Fun time with the Broncos!

A small bit of irony, just one day after we get our letter from Ford basically telling me that I'm getting a 2023, the picture of my order finally updates to my 2021 order ;-). At least I can look at a two-door Black Diamond now instead of the four-door Big Bend I originally reserved.

Spring Break Trail Ride?

I usually go to AZ for Spring Break, but an earlier trip to golf and extremely expensive airfare has me thinking I will work, work on the cabin and maybe do a little off-road exploring. I am looking at March 26 to April 2nd.

My plan is to either start from Oscoda and run the ORV route, then map back roads to St. Helens and explore there, capturing some pictures and route info for the club website or-

Options could include:
- Starting West (Denton ORV Route) then heading to St. Helens, doing the same recon and mapping for the club site.
- Starting at St. Helens and exploring back to the West (Denton) or East (Oscoda).
- Just meeting playing at St. Helens Scramble area.

Anyone off that week and looking to enjoy some early spring wheeling? Fun to do some group rides in "other" areas of the state!

Everyone is welcome to come join me on the East side during that week too. Wife and I will be doing some painting and potentially remodeling work on the cabin, but there is always time for a Bronco ride.

Had some fun snow wheeling today.

Some members from our Facebook group are planning to go to Holly Oaks on 2/26. All are welcome!

Holly Oaks Park Meet Up

I talked to Matt Stanford at Varsity the other day about the possibility of painting the MIC top white. He said that his body group has done a couple of them and the cost was around $1,100. I also talked to my local Line-X dealer in Brighton and they told me the only thing they could do was black. I know that a dealer in Florida did it in white so I may still look around a bit.

Here is a picture of what Varsity sent me. Photos courtesy of Varsity Ford Ann Arbor.

Website update. @JakeC @yeet and I have been putting together the website. I wanted to give everyone a preview of one of the ride pages. More to come, but I think it's going to be pretty cool. Now back to my day job......

Any front window tint people out there? I remember growing up (a long time ago) Michigan police were super strict on front tinting the windows. Wondering if you all are, or if they eased up on that (law)?

Buddy of mine over at Horizon Global (Reese, Draw-Tite, Bulldog etc) just told me that they have released an aftermarket hitch for the Bronco that has an extended tube to put it out past the spare tire.

So, I dropped the tow package today. That will help my odds a little bit but still constrained on the 2.7 and probably the fact that it is a 2-Door. Still, every little bit helps and I can always get an aftermarket hitch (hell, I designed them for 5 years so)

So funny that @ArrickSports just posted this below about the aftermarket hitch, I was literally writing this up. Here was the work around I did. If you are someone that likes to haul bikes around I needed an adapter to extend to clear the tire. This is a Kuat Transfer V3 hitch bike rack. Because it folds up and down it has a large piece that hits the tire. I needed 3 inches to clear the tire. A local trailer company sold a 7" extender. It does lower the weight capacity of the bikes you can put on the rack, so I would recommend a different solution but it works for me for the time being (unless the weight of your bikes are minimal or you just have one bike). I will probably move the tire eventually and will get the aftermarket hitch mentioned below for our second Bronco. We like to ride bikes so it was important to be able to fit a hitch rack on the back of ours.

Just for fun, here are the Logo Poll results (we may tweak the designs slightly based on designer input)

As most of us know Advanced Fiberglass is going to be producing an aftermarket hardtop.
I've already decided that I will be purchasing one as the OEM hardtop appears as if it will never be available and honestly the aftermarket option may be superior quality wise.

Shipping is going to be quite cost prohibitive... but this can be mitigated with a group buy..

If anyone is considering purchasing the ADV top, let me know. Maybe we can throw something together and save some money.

Friday update for the MI Bronco Club.

We have:

- A web address and a basic setup for the content and function of the club website. Will share as soon as it's ready for prime time.

- Revising the logo with the website address incorporated shortly.

We should have some stickers and logo art to use/share in the next few weeks.

Now we need our next ride to share some swag

Our shop Bronco is in production currently!

Hopefully it won’t be long.

Please take a moment to express your interest in different content that we could include for the MI Bronco Club website. A few of us are meeting this week to work towards standing something up.

https://forms.gle/YJ7iadq5RcYpiiTk7

Seen a ford email on the day i was scheduled for production and got excited. Pushed back 2 weeks.

Odd request :

Does anyone in/around Oakland County have a Squatched Bronco with leather & power seats. I need my wife to see it/climb up in it before she puts in a new order and sells our Badlands with manual seats.

I'm in Rochester/Troy/Auburn Hills area.

OK everyone, here are the finalists for "Michigan Bronco Club" logos. I like all three and nothing says we cant use each in different applications. In my mind, first order of business is to get some stickers made. We will post this on Bronco Nation and the Facebook group for voting as well.

Finalists-



Poll-
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1...THgxfYKEMxFyR0Gmtg4kEuPg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Posted this in the raptor thread but thought my fellow Michigan people would wanna see it. The pics are bad but this guy passed me today

I keep missing the holly oaks dates, which is a bummer as I was out there all alone in September.

However, I fully except a mass meetup the second silver lake sand dunes are back open!

I explored some decal options for our Michigan club. This was sent out in email to the list Mattwings has below so if you were not on that list yet please vote on here at this link. Any feedback or other options you would like to see please send me a DM.

We are still working on a club name - Logo B is the only option with our club name in it. Someone mentioned that name is already taken so we could implement that logo with a different name.