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Alan
01-05-2010, 02:20 PM
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/05/video-articulate-this-chainlink-4x4-is-frighteningly-awesome/#continued

We aren't sure who built this or why – we're not even sure what it's called (we think it's "Chainlink") – but we're quite sure it's brilliant. Perhaps the new champion of wheel travel, the off-roading beast has around seven feet of articulation at each wheel, up and down.

Controlling all that climbing and dipping is a Rube Goldberg gear network: 5.38 gears and centrally-mounted ARB air locker, chain gears at the swingarm pivots, and chains inside the swingarms to work Hummer hubs at each wheel. But just follow the jump to watch it in action and you'll see what we mean. It's spectacular. Hat tip to Mike S!

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TROLL
01-05-2010, 03:44 PM
Ummmm... Not that impressive. They took off-the-shelf chains, stuck an off-the-shelf swing arm/Hummer hub at each corner, drove it around, and that's news somehow?

chinaonnitrous1
01-05-2010, 04:19 PM
Ummmm... Not that impressive. They took off-the-shelf chains, stuck an off-the-shelf swing arm/Hummer hub at each corner, drove it around, and that's news somehow?

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Alan
01-05-2010, 06:20 PM
Ummmm... Not that impressive. They took off-the-shelf chains, stuck an off-the-shelf swing arm/Hummer hub at each corner, drove it around, and that's news somehow?

Always naysaying Ashley. :rofl:

Dan
01-06-2010, 02:39 AM
Ummmm... Not that impressive. They took off-the-shelf chains, stuck an off-the-shelf swing arm/Hummer hub at each corner, drove it around, and that's news somehow?

:rofl::rofl:

For a whole 2 seconds I thought you were being a dick...then I remembered, haha

Edit: fuck, what am i doing up at 2:30am?

james_ls
01-06-2010, 12:08 PM
Or you could build something cool...

TROLL
01-06-2010, 12:25 PM
This thing is pretty wicked. I'd use one every morning to run down 95 on the center barrier and laugh at all the common folk in their non chainsaw cars.

giff
01-11-2010, 12:50 AM
I think it's cool and everything but... "we're quite sure," "brilliant," "hat tip to"... when did Autoblog become British?