Rode quartz yesterday afterall, in all honesty it was a good day of riding. Challenging and a bit risky in places due to low coverage down low, but played in a few areas of old cabin valley that were really deep. Got stuck a few times good and helped countless others get unstuck aswell. Some of the little play pockets through the trees above the old cabin were filled in really well. Moved my clickers up to 3 and was pulling about 7900 under load in the deep stuff, end of day I had 2.6 hrs run time so will leave the clutch alone until it hits this magical 6 or 7 hr mark.
The trail ride in was rough as all hell. On the way in when the body was fresh I pinned er and skipped off the tops, on the way out my body was exhausted and I was limping out a crumpled a-arm, I went up and down on every one of those f'in bumps, that sucked! Yah I nosed er into a creek left side heavy, stuck in, didn't hit ground really but close to, few guys on some orange Poo's helped me out (thanks) and I didn't notice it until later that the impact had folded my lower a-arm. Not sure what else it has injured, looks like the little wish bone attached to the sway bar is also toast, guess this is my chance to remove the sway bar and try it without. After I was out one of my saviors noticed that his rear suspension was nuked from the ride in, wouldn't do anything but sit on the bottom, full sag. Was one of probly a dozen injured sleds yesterday. I saw so many sleds getting towed out, it was crazy!
All in all I say it's ready for playing and exploring, but common sense is required. It was snowing hard like mad when we left, and most of the afternoon really, I bet today would be good again or even better!
nate
The trail ride in was rough as all hell. On the way in when the body was fresh I pinned er and skipped off the tops, on the way out my body was exhausted and I was limping out a crumpled a-arm, I went up and down on every one of those f'in bumps, that sucked! Yah I nosed er into a creek left side heavy, stuck in, didn't hit ground really but close to, few guys on some orange Poo's helped me out (thanks) and I didn't notice it until later that the impact had folded my lower a-arm. Not sure what else it has injured, looks like the little wish bone attached to the sway bar is also toast, guess this is my chance to remove the sway bar and try it without. After I was out one of my saviors noticed that his rear suspension was nuked from the ride in, wouldn't do anything but sit on the bottom, full sag. Was one of probly a dozen injured sleds yesterday. I saw so many sleds getting towed out, it was crazy!
All in all I say it's ready for playing and exploring, but common sense is required. It was snowing hard like mad when we left, and most of the afternoon really, I bet today would be good again or even better!
nate
