Here's a view that might give you a better idea of the steepness of that hill...

 

Oggy I have climbed hills in Kentucky on our trip steeper than Everest, but they were regular dirt hills. That coal dust will suck you in, with the tires I run all i could do is bury my quad to the floor boards.

 

It definitely would have helped if the guy in the video was using a good hill climb procedure. You know, standing up and leaning forward.

Then again that is a steep bugger. I've climbd things like that but it was more out of fear and adrenaline than anything else.

 

My approach wouldve been 2nd pinned leaning full over the bars and give gas as necessary as going up...should you bog and stall on a steep hill do not pull the clutch back in like "brad" did. Your quad should remain allright with you on the front brake and the clutch out then just slowly work it down with help [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

 

I have to make a comment in Brad's defense here. That video was taken the first day he owned that quad, and to my understanding, it may have been his first day ever on a quad. I'm sure if he chose to attack the hill again, he'd be more aggresssive, and perhaps wouldn't pull the clutch allowing the quad to roll back as Torbinx has said. That video was from Nov '04.

He has very good riding skills now.

BTW - the pics of the Brute Force that tumbled are not Brad's. It's another neighbor's.

I've ridden Everest on my KFX400 and BF650. On the BF, you can put it in 4x4 and just grunt up. On the KFX you have to be a little more aggressive, but defilitely not WOT. I probably wasn't going a whole lot faster than Brad was in the video when I climbed it last week.

I will admit - I always take the "easy" way - the chute to the right. I don't have the cajones to go straight up.

2TV, I looked at your Yahoo pics - you've got some great ones!!