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Surprisingly, these trail ride and truck show favourites are actually not a very accurate indicator of 4 x 4 performance. While the ramp travel index ramp (RTI ramp) may show off axle articulation to good effect, it does not always follow that a truck performing well on a RTI ramp will automatically cut it out on the trail.
Firstly, a RTI ramp cannot recreate the forces acting on a four-wheeler when it is driving a trail. Unlike true trail conditions, there is no way a ramp can hope to reproduce the full range of suspension movement a 4 x 4 may be capable of, or not. In the absence of these dynamic forces, all a RTI ramp can tell us is how bad a truck may perform off-road. What it cannot tell us is how good a truck may really be.
Just because a truck performs well conducting the limited range of tests available on a ramp does not mean it will be good when it hits the ground for real.
Firstly, a RTI ramp cannot recreate the forces acting on a four-wheeler when it is driving a trail. Unlike true trail conditions, there is no way a ramp can hope to reproduce the full range of suspension movement a 4 x 4 may be capable of, or not. In the absence of these dynamic forces, all a RTI ramp can tell us is how bad a truck may perform off-road. What it cannot tell us is how good a truck may really be.
Just because a truck performs well conducting the limited range of tests available on a ramp does not mean it will be good when it hits the ground for real.
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