heat checker Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 The other day, I took the atv back to work after dinner. 3 miles of gravel road. As it is an older polaris with the chain drive, when I heard a couple little clicks coming from the front drive area, I figured the front drive chain was too loose. So, I let off down to 35-40 mph. About 10 seconds later, the chain locked on sprocket and the ride began! What started as a slow sideways skid turned violent at about 90 degrees. Long story short, I hit the gravel in a roll and kept with it until I saw the machine stop. No helmet, lucky it it was cool so I had a sweatshirt on. Just a little sore on the side that hit the "dirt". Bent handlebars on atv looks to be the only damage on that. In retrospect, I should've limped it staight to town and bought a lotto ticket, it was obviously my "lucky day". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broken_line Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 OUCH!!! are you gonna buy a new one now?? this winter i was riding my sled around the lake witha bent ski and the bend decided to break at 40 mph and the ski dug into the concrete wind blown snow slowing from 40 to 0 in 5 feet rolled countlesss times then kicked my self in the face through the hemlet.. were you able to drive it home?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heat checker Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 Ya, limped it to work, got aride back for truck and ramps, all is "swell". I told "D" to tighten that up up before hand, guess he didn't "get er done". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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