snowmobile wreck
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From: inver grove heights MN
Originally posted by Fordzlla
It's Idiots like you who make it impossible for the rest of us to get affordable insurance on our sleds.
It's Idiots like you who make it impossible for the rest of us to get affordable insurance on our sleds.
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From: Sarnia, Ontario, CANADA!
Originally posted by BuiltToughF250
wow Fordzlla. youve never once sped in your vehicle, had fun on an atv or rode your bike really fast down a hill when you were younger risking that you or one of your friends falls off their bicycle and has to go to the hospital and get stitches payed for by insurance; which too raises insurance and puts you in that particular category of not so intelligent people? i wish i were as cautious as you. but then again, id propbably be so bored and unhappy with life id have to sit on websites and attack people who were out having fun, until bad luck hit them.
wow Fordzlla. youve never once sped in your vehicle, had fun on an atv or rode your bike really fast down a hill when you were younger risking that you or one of your friends falls off their bicycle and has to go to the hospital and get stitches payed for by insurance; which too raises insurance and puts you in that particular category of not so intelligent people? i wish i were as cautious as you. but then again, id propbably be so bored and unhappy with life id have to sit on websites and attack people who were out having fun, until bad luck hit them.
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don't be thinking that you have to be going 90 to get in trouble. Last January I was giving a little boy a ride on my sled, were were only doing about 25 because he did not like the bumps. He was sitting in front of me. As we came over a hill I saw a glint I knew exactly what it was so a wraped my arms around him but i did no good, his face was slashed and my arms were a mess. The windsheld was smashed and the headliight gone, so I had to dive us back to the yard in pitch black. I knew my arms hurt and he was crying but I did not know how back it was until I got under the yard light to see his face covered in red. Both of us had a trip to the emergency room and both of us still have difiguring scars, his are much worse than mine. He is four years old. Now I was not dinking and were were not going fast it was just an accident plane and simple. And for people to think the way Fordzilla does really makes me angry. I am sure that all those that have been in a accident snowmobile or otherwise feel really bad and having people with superiority complexes dictationg to you really does not help the situation.
JJ
For those who didn't get it we hit a barbed wire fence.
JJ
For those who didn't get it we hit a barbed wire fence.
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jj i couldnt have put that last sentence better myself.
theres all sorts of dangerous items covered by snow, culverts, logs, rocks, i hit a sign post one time, it nailed my running board just barely missing my knee, i was doing less then 20 mph...
nature has a good way to camoflauge its dangerous side... be as cautious as you want to be, that doesnt insure you that your not going to be put in harms way.
last year my friends dad came over the hill and hit head first with another snowmobile. hills can be steep enough to where you might only be doing 10 miles an hour, you still dont know whats on the other side of it.
theres all sorts of dangerous items covered by snow, culverts, logs, rocks, i hit a sign post one time, it nailed my running board just barely missing my knee, i was doing less then 20 mph...
nature has a good way to camoflauge its dangerous side... be as cautious as you want to be, that doesnt insure you that your not going to be put in harms way.
last year my friends dad came over the hill and hit head first with another snowmobile. hills can be steep enough to where you might only be doing 10 miles an hour, you still dont know whats on the other side of it.
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I did not mean the last statement in a sacrastic way. After posting I realised that it was not made clear and I did not want to go back and edit the whole thing. Sorry to those who may have misunderstood.
And thanx Builttought after the accident i got alot of flack from people saying how reckless snowmobilers are so this is kind of a sore spot for me.
JJ
And thanx Builttought after the accident i got alot of flack from people saying how reckless snowmobilers are so this is kind of a sore spot for me.
JJ
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jj it only takes 1 person to ruin it for everyone. last year or the the before some 15 year old kid was drinking and took off on a snowmobile, and went riding in a place where young kids go *sleding* after jumping over a hill he landed on a 2 or 3 year old boy, killing him. then he decided to take off. he was later caught, dont remember what his punishment was. sad story. and its that type of story that ruins it for everyone.
by the way i understood your last sentence, and it didnt seem sacrastic to me.
by the way i understood your last sentence, and it didnt seem sacrastic to me.
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From: Black Hills of SD
I have been riding for many years snf have owned fast sleds, drove them fast and also did a little drinking judiciosly. I have never done much more than bend a bumper or crack a nose-cone and then it was breaking trail for a bunch of city folks. I ride so fast that I only have a couple buddys that I really enjoy riding with. Three or four sleds is the right amount and if you get more it is too many people to keep track of and there is always one or two that forgot to carry spares or put in oil or something. If you crash it is your own fault, even if you were only going 20 you were obviously over-riding the conditions or familiarity of the trail.
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speed is a dangerous thing on snow be it on a snowmobile or in a truck never go too fast for conditions and um unles youre driving a NASCAR vehicle on a track 100 MPH is way to fast
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Originally posted by Miller Tyme
Gotta be careful at night, especially if you're pushing 90-100 in unfamiliar territory. When I had my Polaris, I made sure I knew the lay of the land. How close were you guys following each other?
My boss got clobbered by a buck in Northern Michigan a couple years back. Tried to jump over the sled, the cowl and windscreen were destroyed, and the boss spent 3 days in the hospital with cuts, bruises, and a broken collar bone.
Gotta be careful at night, especially if you're pushing 90-100 in unfamiliar territory. When I had my Polaris, I made sure I knew the lay of the land. How close were you guys following each other?
My boss got clobbered by a buck in Northern Michigan a couple years back. Tried to jump over the sled, the cowl and windscreen were destroyed, and the boss spent 3 days in the hospital with cuts, bruises, and a broken collar bone.
we were any where from beside each other to 10 feet behind each other we were racing so thats why.
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From: Iowa
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Are there mountains in Iowa??
Are there mountains in Iowa??
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Originally posted by willowbilly3
As an avid snowmobiler I can tell you that was a recipe for disaster from the start. You are all so fortunate. Were you drinking too?
As an avid snowmobiler I can tell you that was a recipe for disaster from the start. You are all so fortunate. Were you drinking too?
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From: Iowa
Originally posted by Texan1983
100 mph? i'm sorry, a little off i think. if you went air born. not knocking your story or anything but i have seen much worse at slower speeds. either way you got lucky.
on this note you know what else is really dumb? those snowmobilers that ride in the center median on highways. went to a crash where a car had slid out of control into the median and hit one of those guys on the sled. he went into the air over the car. another guy was riding like a slolom thing or what ever and bonced funny and lost it, launching his sled out onto the highway into a car going 70 mph. aren't there better places to ride? i mean come on when car lose control they go into the ditch so why would you want to ride there? sled vs. car.... i think you know who wins.
100 mph? i'm sorry, a little off i think. if you went air born. not knocking your story or anything but i have seen much worse at slower speeds. either way you got lucky.
on this note you know what else is really dumb? those snowmobilers that ride in the center median on highways. went to a crash where a car had slid out of control into the median and hit one of those guys on the sled. he went into the air over the car. another guy was riding like a slolom thing or what ever and bonced funny and lost it, launching his sled out onto the highway into a car going 70 mph. aren't there better places to ride? i mean come on when car lose control they go into the ditch so why would you want to ride there? sled vs. car.... i think you know who wins.
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