Cool, I'm less than an hour from Salem! I'm over on the Expedition Portal as well, I'm organizing a couple group trips in the area, I'll try to keep you posted if you want?!
If your thinking of selling it I may be interested. But I think you should keep it and turn it into a nice DD/weekend toy! I would hate to see another Trekker bite the dust...
Unless you need it, I wouldn't/I'm not with mine. Straight axle is nice but unnecessary unless your really wheeling hard. But IFS rides better for driving and exploring. There are some folks out there that run their IFS through some gnarly stuff and they keep on going.
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