ow often ya usin difflock, low range??

lerk said:

Regarding gear selection (admittedly I'm a newb to 4x4, but have done a fair bit of greenlaning on two wheels!), I've always been in the 'the higher the revs the less the revs can rise when you lose traction' camp.

The thinking is that should you need a hefty dose of throttle, with a high gear the wheel will spin upto the max. speed of that gear. With a lower gear selected the wheels speed when spinning will be lower and will take less time to regain traction - especially important on a bike as any lean will send the rear wheel out in the opposite direction.

Are there also two trains of thought regarding this with 4x4's or is this purely a motorbike sort of thing??

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I think what you say makes a lot of sense. Personally I dont think there is one answer for all situations! So the more experience you have the better prepared you are full stop! There is no advice better than getting out there and doing it yourself. Ideally with someone more experience than you!

there's also no harm if you feel yourself sort of grinding to a halt to let the engine back off slowly come close to a stall...

Many will deck the go pedal thinking that it will increase momentum, instead just making the wheels spin loosing grip and loosing momentum.

As the engine slows down to an almost stall, the torque dies off and can sometimes regain that last ounce of grip to start to build it up your forward motion again. Of course momentum is king!

If you were destined to get stuck at that point, you might as well stop the wheels turning anyway as you're only diggin' in deeper for the iminant recovery or trying to go forward when really you should be concentrating on how you should be going backwards!