Not sure if it is totalled till midweek.
I managed to get in some greasy, leaf covered roots on a long steep hill in Wayne Nat'l. Forest yesterday. Went up in 2WD, hit the roots, by then 4WD was useless. Started sliding backwards, I decided that I did not want to ride back down this hill in reverse, so I bailed! It rolled 7-10 times. Bent all racks, rear frame, handlebars and everything on the bars. All the plastic, except center section, all trashed.I am bummed. WAS able to ride it out 4 miles, after bending the bars and the racks with a log!
I'll send NYROC some pix for his site, if I can find his adress.
Looks like I am grounded for a while!

 

NYROC-- You have a PM.

 

Glad you are OK. I hope your rims, spindles, axle, steering knuckles are fine.

I put mudrunners on the back of my 650 because of a problem climbing muddy slopes with sur traks.

Now that I have mudrunners, I have to watch it on dry stuff because they don't bite well on dry. The difference is night and day between the two. I feel that my machine is safer now. The tire combo I had was very very bad. Your tire combo may be safe, and fun. Mine was fun, but not safe.

 

NYROC, you have me worried about my tires now. Did I make a bad choice when I bought them?

 

Sorry to hear about your crash. Tires seem to be the most talked about topic with the 650. I just took my 650 out this weekend to Loretta Lynns for the fall VISTA ride. I was its first time out (NEW). I had the dealer put on a set of Kenda Bear Claws- 26x12:00-12 rear 26x9:00-12 front on ITP C rims before I picked it up. There were a few slick hills with LOTS of ruts, roots, rocks. Even my wife rode it in 2w. We were both impressed. Now she wants one! ( see new topic).

 

gtchief--- That tire combo should be just fine. My little crash was purely rider error, and nothing else. I love the shur-trax.
NYROC--- I sent 5 pix of the wadded up P-650. Did you get'em?

 

Just saw the pics. You where lucky. Good luck with the insurance.

 

You guys tires are probably fine with the tires. I mixed a mud tire with a dry tire, and it caused a flipover during a powerslide on a muddy surface. I like the surtrak, it was just stupid to mix it with a mud tire.

TRX450's 5 photos are on my website, prairie650 area, starting on #50.

 

3TV, I had a similar kind of roll over. I thought I just broke a brake lever. Some time later I noticed my quad was steering hard to the right. It ended up being a bent steering shaft. 125.00 later and a lot on labor I had it fixed. I hope mine was just a freak accident and this does not become a problem area for this quad.

 

hope the 650 is running soon,as long as we are on the subject a few weeks ago before i tradded my mojave I was going up a steep loose trail at a gravel pit and at the top it divides in to one way is the same steepness and the other is steeper ,well i was trying this in second gear and at the part where the trail splits I gave it gas and realized that my tires are spinning and its either I bail or iam going down with the ship! the mojave started sliding backward so I jumped off and the wheeler spun around and some how compresion startd itself and ran in to a tree luclaly it only dented the bumper and cracked the fender but ill let the guy who owns it now take care of that[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]