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Originally Posted by 1100D  And what if you tried this climb in reverse? Extra weight of the engine in the front would have kept more traction pushing it up. Although the place might not have allowed you to turn back. |
its useful to do that with front wheel drive cars(did that a lot with my M800 in college), but in 4wd, the weight would shift to the rear wheels anyway and provide decent traction at the rear. the lack of visibility would be a pain while reversing up an incline offroad.
without a decent breakover angle, samurai san would have ended up see sawing at the top of the ridge whether going forwards or in reverse.
the other advantage of reversing up a steep incline is that the rear overhang is usually less than the front overhang.
but in samurai's case it was the breakover angle that did him in.
IMO going in reverse would not have helped. any other views from the experts?