Yeah, I agree that his statements at the end of the video suggested that he was blaming Polaris atlas to some degree. I found those comments disappointing as well.
I don't know how anybody could watch that vide and come to the conclusion that he "thought it was a good idea to sidehill with the panel off". he made it pretty clear that he FORGOT the panel and didn't realize it was missing until he got to the bottom of the hill. That is a mistake, we all make them. If he DID do it on purpose, then I would agree, he was a dumbfuck but that is not what happened. JMO.
I agree. the point I was making is that there are prices for making thing light. Doesn't mean we want to ride tanks out there. There is a fine line between light weight and durability. 1980 Ford pickups come to mind.
Are you sure it's not the fact this guy has his Matryx and these guys don't yet? ?
I said that wrong. I dont see how you could be missing a side panel and not have the situational awareness to realize a side panel is missing.
Fair enough. For ME, I also find it difficult to wrap my head around how that could happen. However, that is largely because don't have a cooker can and therefore I never open my side panel when I stop to eat and even if I did, I am pretty sure that I would just open it, not take it off like he did. If I were to take it right off and lean it against another guys sled, which is what happened I. this case it seems to me, I could quite easily see myself riding off without it, especially if I had electric start. I have forgotten to zip uo my pockets more than a few times and filled them with snow. Have forgotten to zip uo my tunnel bag a couple times. Early in the season, good snow, excited to rideing a new sled, maybe never had a cooker before so, like me has never in the past had the panel off while stopped to eat, jump on and go. Not that much of a stretch and the fact that it DID happen shows that it can. I dunno, I'm make my fair share of "whoops's". Still think it takes courage to post not only the forgotten panel but ALSO having put the pulley on backwards for all the sledding world to criticize. He could have easily edited out all that and posted only his best riding footage to make himself look like a super sledder on the net. Just sharing my opinion.
Is this guy related to you so you feel the need to defend him?
For the record, I am not "defending him". He made a mistake and IMO needs no "defence" for that. No, I don't know him, don't even know his name. Never seen another video of his before or since. Just stumbled onto it the other day. Just my opinion but it seems that some of the respondents here are not connected with reality to me. REALITY is that people make mistakes. I have yet to meet the perfect person that has never made a mistake or forgotten to do something yet some here seem to think that this guy is a douche nozzle for making one. I guess because I know that I am not perfect I can understand and accept that others may not perfect either. You know, People that live in glass houses..........Situations like this remind me of something that happened about 20 years ago when I was at a black powder shoot. Someone on the line "dryballed", not an uncommon mistake. "Dry balling" is when you load your gun but forget to put the powder in. A friend on the line laughed and LOUDLY stated "How can ANYBODY dry ball. I've been shooting muzzleloaders for 25 years and have NEVER dry balled". Well, the VERY NEXT station, Roy dry balled. Yup, he never heard the end of that. I suppose some here would have made him walk out since he was so "stupid".
LOL, I noticed that also and thought, "yeah, it didn't just slip off that pulley is crooked".I like when he say's " I think the belt got a little wet and slipped off" When the bottom pulley is sitting sideways.
