2023 OFF-ROAD EXPO POMONA, CA 9/30-10/1

[Cleandezert]

what a killer weekend. We had a ton of fun, and so stoked to have BLGT in the booth with us, made for a fun weekend.
Great to chat with so many people we dont see all that often.

Thank you for everyone who came by and grabbed a sticker and some merch. We appreciate the support.

 

[dwphoto]

what a killer weekend. We had a ton of fun, and so stoked to have BLGT in the booth with us, made for a fun weekend.
Great to chat with so many people we dont see all that often.

Thank you for everyone who came by and grabbed a sticker and some merch. We appreciate the support.

Thank you dude for having us... Such a great weekend... It was great to meet a bunch of peeps and see old friends. Stoked on all the support and great conversations we had over the weekend.

Super grateful for the Terra Boys. Letting my shit box into the building 7. Super cool experience to be there.

I already got my wheels turning about a possible Bad Lines Good Times Section... with a bunch of Grass Roots white fender kids.

Thoughts?

A few reels from the gram... I've got a bunch of photos to post up as well.

 

[dwphoto]

Such a rad weekend! Super stoked to have had the opportunity to have the truck in the Expo. I think back to 2007 just had join DR and met all the GFO guys...when first got into offroading and I met @Giant Geoff at my first expo... didn't even know what any of this was all about...

Fast forward 16 years.... in the mix with the Terra crew dudes.

Had to pull a little line for the Izzy fab dudes after their winch died on them... @IZZY-FAB

got truck parked then @DialedShockPrep needs a little tug... so fired her back up and pulled a little more line

And then the @Cleandezert boys letting us hang out in their booth was just rad...

Black male ( ) for later....

5:30 Sunday loaded up and hit the pike home... no trailer needed Yea, drove it there and back haha

Good Times !

 

[dwphoto]

few other photos I got

@Prepbyhelton

@AiiRaciing

@NODNARB

@ChristianEwing @RW81

didn't get too many, as I was flapping my gums most of the time at the booth

 

[WW_RANGER_X]

Had a blast as always. The BLGT and Clean Dezert guys made us feel very welcomed at their booth. Free candy and coloring board for the kids was a hit. Adam gave my son a CD hat. At the time it didn’t Seem like it, but he was so pumped on it! Last week he won a “wear a hat to school day” for getting a good grade on a test. Which hat do you think he wore all day? Haha. This event is what I look forward to every year. It’s unfortunate that they seem to get smaller and smaller. The whole experience for us is a blast, from the drive down from cen cal to dinner after the show then back up all in one day. A solid 17 hour day. Looking forward to next year!

 

[Cleandezert]

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Had a blast as always. The BLGT and Clean Dezert guys made us feel very welcomed at their booth. Free candy and coloring board for the kids was a hit. Adam gave my son a CD hat. At the time it didn’t Seem like it, but he was so pumped on it! Last week he won a “wear a hat to school day” for getting a good grade on a test. Which hat do you think he wore all day? Haha. This event is what I look forward to every year. It’s unfortunate that they seem to get smaller and smaller. The whole experience for us is a blast, from the drive down from cen cal to dinner after the show then back up all in one day. A solid 17 hour day. Looking forward to next year!

your wife sent me a message saying he wanted to sleep in the hat. So awesome man. Like you said he didnt seemed overly excited when i gave it to him, but its rad he is enjoying it. I am stoked we could make his day.

 

[WW_RANGER_X]

your wife sent me a message saying he wanted to sleep in the hat. So awesome man. Like you said he didnt seemed overly excited when i gave it to him, but its rad he is enjoying it. I am stoked we could make his day.

Thank you again. Yeah he gets super shy randomly.

 

[Cleandezert]

Thank you again. Yeah he gets super shy randomly.

So does my daughter... that is why i was trying to get him to color with her.

 

[59sled]

Guess I will dump my pics here. Unfortunately I deleted a lot of them already (phone storage issues).
Sorry, Most are Ford Rangers.

 

[59sled]

 

[59sled]

 

[BFR_Built 🇺🇸]

Very cool to see some event coverage.

 

[Carlos_G]

It was so good to see so many old faces again.
last expo we did was in 2019 so it had been a while for us.
didnt take many pics, but it was good catching up with alot of you guys.

my fave truck this weekend. Reminded me of my single cab

 

[Flapjack935]

man...... i need to have my junk there and check out all this other cool junk
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[ChristianEwing]

Does anyone know whos building this? Im assuming its the Kirby Racing that built the one car that was in the old Dirt Alliance movie, but do they have some sort of social media showing this thing being built anywhere? It was pretty fuckin impressive

 

[Bajadog]

Does anyone know whos building this? Im assuming its the Kirby Racing that built the one car that was in the old Dirt Alliance movie, but do they have some sort of social media showing this thing being built anywhere? It was pretty fuckin impressive

Brian Kirby unlimitedawd IG. Justin Bodewitz freedom_designs_fab IG

 

[charlie brown]

what a great time. needed 2 days to check out all the cool products and builds. there is nothing better then being able to see and hold a part upclose to check them out that just pictures cant do. should be 2 a year. spring mini expo so i can drop my cash for summer projects.

it was great so many people in a different environment.

cant wait for the desert clean up event in november barstow. bringing a newbie prerunner friend that just bought a busted nutz crew cab chevy down from south lake tahoe for his 1st drive.

 

[_kq_]

Is it just me or did this years expo seem to be the smallest one yet? Still had a great time showing my son all the trucks and watching the terra crew guys putting on the show. It was good to meet Elliott and Scott at the booth, let’s get a buggy section going on the forum!

 

[dwphoto]

Is it just me or did this years expo seem to be the smallest one yet? Still had a great time showing my son all the trucks and watching the terra crew guys putting on the show. It was good to meet Elliott and Scott at the booth, let’s get a buggy section going on the forum!

Good meeting you too dude ! Just made you your own buggy dork sections. Hope to see ya out at the clean up

 

[Cleandezert]

Is it just me or did this years expo seem to be the smallest one yet? Still had a great time showing my son all the trucks and watching the terra crew guys putting on the show. It was good to meet Elliott and Scott at the booth, let’s get a buggy section going on the forum!

I had some interesting take aways from this event.
1. yes the offroad expo seems to be getting smaller, lots of open space that wasnt filled.
2. with the sand sports show so close, i asked our rep if they thought about doing 1 in spring 1 in fall, he said no
3. our rep did say that next year the two shows will be back to back weekends
4. about 4-5 of the vendors i talked to said they wouldnt be back next year.

I have a soft spot for the offroad expo.. I remember when it use to be huge. Not sure what we will do next year, but thinking maybe just sand sports show as it seems it had twice the attendance.