A good day of riding turned bad.

2, 2005 sp 500 , 1 with 1 hr , 1 with 30 hr's
2 scramblers, 1 2005 500, 1 2002 500

Short story,

Rolled (10-11 times) a sp (30 hrs) 400 ft down rock hill ( totalled) . Rider, broken rib, jammed finger
Rescued,winched into truck 3 hrs total

Rolled (5 times) a sp (1hr) over 600 ft down dirt/rock/tree hill ( totalled). Rider 23 stitches right leg below knee.
Used my shirt as a bandage,back brace as a splint
Rescued, winched 550 ft (up hill)into truck 4.5 hrs total

Rolled (3 times) scrambler 2002 100 ft down same hill as above avoiding sp. Rider,uninjured.
Drivable, broken lights/handle bars

1 scrambler 2005 OK, Rider (myself) OK

Note to self,
Sportsman can't go were Scramblers can.
Look into King Quad for better/lower center of gravity
Don't go down something you can't go UP
Buy pants with built in pads.
Take a first aid kit with you
Don't go were there is NO cell phone coverage
Always ride with someone

THANK WIFE FOR FULL COVERAGE INSURANCE.

 

Forgot something.

Who hates the 2 wheel engine braking?
Who knows how to disengage the 2 wheel engine brake?

 

did these happen all at the same time? if they did you didn't learn too quickly....

going down hill takes some serious skill and riding techniques....I hauled my elk out on my '05 700 EFI last year....in the dark, I had to climb some serious hills in the dark and then come back down....not an easy task, especially in the dark....

I don't rely on engine braking, although it can help in certain situations, i quick blip on the gas usually keeps the EBS going, but have to be careful....

The heavier utility machines are obviously harder to control due to weight, than say a scrambler, etc., just take alittle more care when riding down steep hills....

this is not the best picture as I took from aways back, but if you see the writing 'here', this is where I shot my elk and had to haul it out this year, not an easy task:

here

 

Hello scarabrick. I got to say it seems to be clearly a case of exceeding the capability of the quad. I think Clint Eastwood said, "A mans got to know his own limitations of his quad". I am glad to see no one was more severly injured. But only a question. After the first quad crashed and burned, what ever possessed the second one to follow him?
BryceGTX

 

It started like this,
Saturday at 1pm, While Exploring new trails, we were tring to get out of this canyon. we found a trail down the hill side so I checked it out. I noticed that it was tooooo step so I turned around. While I was looking for a way down, all the other riders stopped. We all were on a decline side hill. My Bro put the sp in rev to back up when his front wheel slid down the hill causing the bike to almost roll if he didn't bail. He did a forward roll down the hill 20 ft and somewhere in the rolling he smashed his knee on a shapr rock. We all stopped and helped him thats were I saw his knee sliced open . I wrapped it with my t shirt and back brace then carried him up the hill. We gat the quads turned around and were trying to get him out. I looked over the range and saw another trail down so I said lets try it . We were 15-16 miles from the starting point. I knew that if we go down the hill we were close to a road by 2 miles. The sp not with the injured rider, went down first and thats were he rolled the bike 10 + times. I sent the injured rider and a scrambler back the way we came and i stayed with the crashed guy. I went down the original trail that I said we couldn't go down and to my surprise i made it down to the canyon floor and drove him out. Well an hour later on our way back my Bro still wasn't home so we went looking for him. I asked a couple of motocycles and they said they saw 2 guys on 1 quad about a mile up the road. Well sure enough we found them. My bro was going in and out of coniousness so I took him on my scrambler and rode him out and to the ER. We found out that later that he only had 1 hill left to climb before it was all down hill. 3/4 of the way up the last hill he hit a rock out cropping and the bike (sportsman with 1 hr) rolled over and down the hill some 600 ft. When the bike was flipping down the hill, the other scrambler had to get out of the way as this 700 # machine was coming at him. he turned sideways and rolled his bike 3 times but held on. My Bro crawled up the hill and the scrambler rode up . We went back the next day with the trucks and winched the 600 footer rolled SP up the hill and in the truck. Monday we went and found the 1st rolled SP and winched it out and up into the truck. Well that was a weekend to remember/forget

 

that sucks scarabrick, what is going to happen to the quads? are you gonna scrap them or did the insurance company pay them off or what?

 

Mine is totalled and awaiting a call from my allstate guy.
The other one is covered thru his homeowners so I don't know what he's going to do.
I do want to buy mine back as the engine/trans/running gear is good.
One control arm is bent but other than that, everything outside of the frame is junk.

 

i said damn!

 

At lease everyone is ok now.

 

That makes me sick to hear something like that. Man that has to hurt-both ways.