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Thats some pretty good air you are getting their!! Not with out some consiquences thought I see [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]. I noticed that you have aftermarket heel guards. Did you make them of buy them from somewhere? If you bought them I would be interested in a set the stock ones are way flimsy.

 

ryan made those heel guards, shots of me are in ds pics, he was still jumping it that way and didn't know it was trashed, he wondered why it pulled to the right every time he landed hehe,VIDEO OF HIM JUMPING 120FT AT SILVER LAKE SOON, MY 14 acres i just bought will have jumps like that everywhere and bigger.

 

Man those jumps are crazy ! Too much for me.
At least it was just a bent shock, if it were a Raptor it would have folded in half & you might be stuck inside like those fold up beds in cartoons.

 

Great pic's Jimmie!

Look forward to the invite to come over and ride.

Later,
Swy

 

Excuse me but I am Jimmie's wife and ride a Raptor, Ryan the one on the DS jumping said he also done the same jumps on a Raptor. Why does everyone have to cut down a Raptor without knowing? Funny nothing happen to the Raptor when he jumped it.

 

Angel,

Well, it's funny you bring that up. Mr. Thomas actually e-mailed me several months ago asking my opinion on the Raptor, as he was having a hard time deciding on which quad (rap or DS) to buy. I don't make judgements and am not brand biased (I think both are very good), therefore I told him to ride both and go with his gut feeling. Now, everytime I see this guy he is putting down the Raptor. It's guys like this that make the forum un-enjoyable.

I do have to say that through my years of offroading, none of the manufactures stand behind their products as well as they should. I hear good things about c-dale standing behind their product but, obviously I have not experienced this for myself.

Take care,
Swy

 

Thank you very much, I feel the sameway. Plus I really do not know what I am talking about, but I will say I would rather have my Raptor then my husband's DS. Some should let their quad's blow the hot air instead of them. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Actually I was looking at Raptors. But between being the next "me too" quad & every other post in the Yamaha forum being titled something like. "Raptor broke in half", Raptor fell to pieces", Raptors 5th tranny broke", I thought maybe Yamaha didn't exactly live up to their own hype. The older I get the less time I have to work on quads. The problems with the Raptor falling apart worried me. Plus $6,500 was enough to spend on a quad, I can't afford all the repairs too. I don't hate the Raptor. It's Yamaha's ad campaign that really bothers me. It was suppossed to be the end all quad & at one time I was really set on getting one. I guess I'm upset at Yamaha's people for letting me down. What is really comes down to was that I felt for my own safety I couldn't buy a quad that breaks (into pieces) so easy.

 

Holy bent shock batman!