I am going to start this lil story with one of my neighbor. He purchased his griz last year and still only has about 10 miles on it. Not that he doesnt like ATV'n, but made a huge mistake.

He is employed by a local dealer (yamaha) and has ridden and worked on almost every ORV that has been made. Very nice guy. Very smart (except for once). And a true lover of our great sport. Well anyways, he purchased his griz from his boss new out of the crate. He made sure to just baby her till the break-in that he still has not achieved. While out in the park behind his house, he decided to just play around a little on his new bike. There was a dirt pile that the city had brought into the park for backfill. It was about 6ft in height and WAY to steap to climb. He knew this. But what he was attempting to do, was, bring the front end up in the air, slowly rolling up and back down. He just wanted to see how it felt? To feel the balance of the machine. To see where and how tippy this monster of a bike was. Well, he found out.

After a couple of times back and forth on the steep hill, he started gaining confidense in the bike. But, by total accident, he hit the gas a little to hard.

He hit the gas and the bike "grabbed" into the loose soil that the tires were resting on. Without even a blink...he was laying on his back and watching as the bike continued to climb the hill. The engine retarded without someone on the bike to keep pressure on the throttle and the bike started to stall. He decided that he was going to roll out of the way of the bike and let it ride the lil hill back to flat land. He rolled.....only to find the bike DIDNT roll back....it rolled and an angle, because the front wheels had turned and the bike was on its way..end over end to land right on him where he was laying. In that split second, he remembered several other times that he had been throwen from a bike and was able to push it away from landing on him. This time he was wrong.

As the bike was falling, he extended his leg's to "catch" the bike and push it off the side. As most of you know, the grizzly, wet, weights about 640 pounds. If you include that it is "FALLING" then that weight increases.

He caught the bike with his feet. One on the seat and the other partly on the tank. Not only did the bike weigh to much, but his legs where at a wrong angle to manuver the bike where he wanted. His legs collapsed, folding him in half like a slice of bread with peanut butter on it. The bike did fall to the side, but only after folding him in half and breaking two vertebrae in his back. At this time he didnt know it. He got up, rolled the bike back over, went to his home and climbed into his truck. He went straight to the hospital and spent this whole winter in the hospital and in therapy.

Today, he is walking everyday with his wife and trying to gain strength back into his legs and back. I asked him if he wanted to sell the new grizzly that he has only been able to make payments on and stare at sitting in his garage. With one sentence, he framed it all up for me........


Wanna go for a ride?

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Jonathan

 

sorry guys,

I will finish the story line that i originally wanted to type, but i had to share with you his story first.

He is a great man and i cant wait for him to pull the gizz out and go with us down the trail.

Jonathan

 

good story frog, bad result. Glad he'll be able toget back on the trail with you.

I did almost the same stupid ssssh on my warrior. Broke Ribs/broke arm. Healed up and bought a cannondale!

 

great story to read. not enough good storied, with somewhat happy endings to them in here anymore. i am glad to hear he is up and about. i guess i cant blame him for not wanting to sell it, couse if he did, it would win, and a quad should never win!!! get back on it, thing hard about the next move, but keep on keeping on. i am however, still waiting to hear about your little ride last weekend, lol.
ron


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Ron,

I promise that i will tell all soon...lol

I have been really busy here at the house trying to get my shop set up and clearing the trees for a house. ALSO, now that Joe has sparked a flame in me, i am going to start a ATV club here in the UP, if all are wanting one. We will see.

Promise i will get that story out to you as soon as i get a chance. (before i forget most of the details!) [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

Jonathan