hom many frames are breaking and if so ..how hard is everyone riding ...or how high are they jumping...

 

if yur referring to the z i only heard of 2 dudes on here and they broke theres from high jumps

 

the one guy said he was gettin like 20 ft of air and then it broke

 

And were these actually the frame proper, or just the front shock mount????

 

The frame where the shock mounts attach has broken in half on two quads that I see often. WP broke and Jeramy Schells broke.

Smitty

 

I think last week a guy said he broke his but he kinda ran it into a tree!!

 

Bottom anything out hard enough and it will snap the frame/shock mounts. I think that's mostly what's going on here.

 

Two weeks ago I wanted to know this same thing. I have two young fellers who live by me and race on the weekends. I was curious because on both thier machines and another fellers I know the rear fender support was broken rather quick.

I walked around the staging area at the track and looked at every ones front end on the Z's. Out of seven of them only two were not cracked at the front shock mounts. One of the two was a brand new machine and the other was owned by a rather new rider. But the five others were cracked and it looks like any type of abuse as far as jumping or aggressive whoop or rythum section riding takes these things apart.

But, haven't ever seen any quad hold up to MX series racing.

I blame the shock mount problem on the front shocks them self to be honest. The ride is so plush poeple seem to go a lil further over the edge than they would on others. If they just got a fore arm stinger one time they would lay off the front end. But as it sits, soft front end makes them abuse it more.

 

Between two different forums I have only seen 2 that actually had cracked frames.
Also, there is a big difference between a cracked frame, and cracked paint. The metal will have a lot of flex before it actually cracks, the first time it flexes, the non-flexing paint will crack at that spot.
I think this is only a problem for MX'd bikes, and in those extreme conditions anything made will have issues.

 

I know of 2 that have broke. I like the Z, that is why I sold the raptor. If mine breaks, I will add some support braces and weld it up. No big deal and cheap to fix.