Video: Articulate This! Chainlink 4×4 is frighteningly awesome

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Chainlink extreme 4×4 – Click above to watch video

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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