Went for my first ride today. Needless to say we had a rough trip, but had fun...
We where about 13 miles back in some beautiful Alaska mountains. We were fighting some snow, but want to get to the top to get a breath taking view. The last small distance was a pretty steep hill. We made it, and got some great pics of the mountains and glaciers. On the ride down, the gal in front of me tipped a honda ranch hand on it's side. Not a big deal. She fell off, and rolled down the hill a bit, but was ok. The Wheeler was fine and we helped her down. all was good. Like a dumb a$#, I tried next, rather then waiting for help. The body rolled, I fell off and tumbled pretty good. I scrambled to get out of the way, and wathced as my brand new (15 miles on the odometer) Grizzly roll about 3 1/2 times, and luckily hung up in some small trees, or else it would have went many more! We turned it back on the wheels and let it sit a minute and assesed the damage. I bent the rear rack pretty good, and tweeked the front one as well. The handle bars got turned down, and broke my hand warmers switch. Other than that it appears to be fine! I got pretty lucky, but would really like to help the body roll out. Reading on here looks like I need to crank the shocks up and go with offset rims and radial tires.
After that whole ordeal, we were heading back, and were fighting the snow patches. I ended up getting stuck, so my buddy with his brand new Artic Cat 700, turned around to winch me out. In doing so he managed to pop a front tire off the bead!! We flagged the other buddy over who has an 05 King Quad. He back tracks about a mile, and when he gets to us we noticed his front skid plate had been pretty much ripped off. We got it some what fastened back on, then he was able to pull me out.
We went back to check out the tire problem. We had a small air compressor with us and we tried to pump it up to see if we could get the tire to seat again. We had no luck. We decieded to send the King quad back to the truck (10 miles of pretty nasty trail) with the other 2 quads. Once they got back to the truck they were going to take one of the tires off the other artic cat, then bring it out to us. They took off for the truck, and me and the buddy played with the tire some more. We had a couple bottles of water, and cleaned out the rim and tire the best we could. We propped it up with a couple rocks under the step so the front tire was completly off the ground. I took My grizz, and and nosed it up to the the tire. We ran out my winch line and rapped it around the tire. We sucked up the line a little so there was evan pressure all the way around the tire, then turned on the air compressor. We poured a little water on the bead and looked for bumbbles. Pulling on the tire a bit, it started to go seat!! A few minutes later, we had back on and aired up!!! We cruzzed back to the truck, and got back just in time, before they started taking off the tire!!
Needless to say it was a very eventful trip, and we had a lot of fun. I guess we have a have a few bugs to work. lol
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to sure this unusal experience with everyone!
We where about 13 miles back in some beautiful Alaska mountains. We were fighting some snow, but want to get to the top to get a breath taking view. The last small distance was a pretty steep hill. We made it, and got some great pics of the mountains and glaciers. On the ride down, the gal in front of me tipped a honda ranch hand on it's side. Not a big deal. She fell off, and rolled down the hill a bit, but was ok. The Wheeler was fine and we helped her down. all was good. Like a dumb a$#, I tried next, rather then waiting for help. The body rolled, I fell off and tumbled pretty good. I scrambled to get out of the way, and wathced as my brand new (15 miles on the odometer) Grizzly roll about 3 1/2 times, and luckily hung up in some small trees, or else it would have went many more! We turned it back on the wheels and let it sit a minute and assesed the damage. I bent the rear rack pretty good, and tweeked the front one as well. The handle bars got turned down, and broke my hand warmers switch. Other than that it appears to be fine! I got pretty lucky, but would really like to help the body roll out. Reading on here looks like I need to crank the shocks up and go with offset rims and radial tires.
After that whole ordeal, we were heading back, and were fighting the snow patches. I ended up getting stuck, so my buddy with his brand new Artic Cat 700, turned around to winch me out. In doing so he managed to pop a front tire off the bead!! We flagged the other buddy over who has an 05 King Quad. He back tracks about a mile, and when he gets to us we noticed his front skid plate had been pretty much ripped off. We got it some what fastened back on, then he was able to pull me out.
We went back to check out the tire problem. We had a small air compressor with us and we tried to pump it up to see if we could get the tire to seat again. We had no luck. We decieded to send the King quad back to the truck (10 miles of pretty nasty trail) with the other 2 quads. Once they got back to the truck they were going to take one of the tires off the other artic cat, then bring it out to us. They took off for the truck, and me and the buddy played with the tire some more. We had a couple bottles of water, and cleaned out the rim and tire the best we could. We propped it up with a couple rocks under the step so the front tire was completly off the ground. I took My grizz, and and nosed it up to the the tire. We ran out my winch line and rapped it around the tire. We sucked up the line a little so there was evan pressure all the way around the tire, then turned on the air compressor. We poured a little water on the bead and looked for bumbbles. Pulling on the tire a bit, it started to go seat!! A few minutes later, we had back on and aired up!!! We cruzzed back to the truck, and got back just in time, before they started taking off the tire!!
Needless to say it was a very eventful trip, and we had a lot of fun. I guess we have a have a few bugs to work. lol
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to sure this unusal experience with everyone!
