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Udink · Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 1079 Location: Price, Utah

I'll just post the short short version here--only a few photos and the video. If you'd like to read about it in-depth, you can check out the entry in my blog here.

This is the cliff that the ATV fell down:

This is exactly how the ATV landed:

Damage to the left-rear:

This shows the first ledge that the ATV hit before falling down another cliff:

View of the ATV from where it went airborne:

The hill I was trying to climb up:

This view shows the ATV in the bottom of the canyon where it came to rest, and the cliff which it tumbled off of on the right side of the photo:

We brought my wife's ATV to help pull my mangled machine out of the canyon:

The wrecked ATV finally out of the canyon and loaded up to go home:

View of the rear after getting it home. The rear axle wasn't visibly damaged, but I jacked the rear end up and spun the tires, and the left axle shaft wobbled.

Bent left-rear rim, inside:

Damage, left-rear:

Damage, right-rear:

RedMan · Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 1726 Location: Colorado???

That sucks, I'll assume you didn't ride it out.

I'm thinking a RZR is in your future.

1Aussie · Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 67

Glad you are ok, that hill looked slippery. Hope you & your wife can get another 4 wheeler soon, nice vid' work too :nod:

James_B_Wads2000 · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:08 pm Post subject:

Props to the wife for keeping the camera on the action. :2thumbs:

James

ExpUt · Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 270

Ouch, sorry to hear that. I know EXACTLY where that hill is, I took my pickup towing a small offroad trailer through there about this time last year, a definite workout. I had to use my winch attached to a vehicle above us to pull up that loose section with the ledges. Sorry to see that happen. We were camping just south of the Moore Cutoff Friday night and Saturday morning, wish we could have been there to help out.

BruteForce · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:33 am Post subject:

Glad you didn't go over the cliff with the machine.

I've had many close calls just like that where it's rolled, but I was able to (luck was with me) stop the machine from going over the edge.

Didn't you just get this machine back from service recently?

Hopefully it's just body damage and nothing mechanical or frame related.

tanya · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 6489 Location: Henderson

Very glad you are okay!!! :2thumbs:

Jaxx · Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 2636

That was an intense video. Your poor wife. I feel so bad for her when she started crying. I thought you were going to slide down the mountain with the ATV. Glad everyone is OK. Sucks about the ATV though. I would have thought that there would be more damage than that. It looks like a pretty good fall.

You don't have full cov on your ATV do you?

JP · Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 7656 Location: Not Sure

Good job in getting off that thing, great job on the wifey keeping that camera rolling :2thumbs: Sorry that quad took that nasty header :eek2:

Those damn short wheelbases :mrgreen:

accadacca · Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 9971 Location: On my Beemer

Holy sh*t man. Glad your okay. I cant believe you kept filming, although I bet your glad your did now. :popcorn:

Udink · Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 1079 Location: Price, Utah

BruteForce wrote: Didn't you just get this machine back from service recently?.
Yes, I've only ridden it a couple of times since I got it back after being in the shop for three weeks. In a way I'm glad it got totaled out, because if it takes the Honda dealer down here three weeks to replace a simple oil seal on the front differential, it would have taken them years to rebuild my machine.

Jaxx wrote: You don't have full cov on your ATV do you?
I did have full coverage on it, and the insurance company already totaled it out and is going to pay my credit union the full amount of the high NADA book value. Unfortunately I owe a little more than it's worth, so I'm stuck paying the balance of the loan. :(

If all goes well, however, I hope to have a new machine next week, or maybe the week after (depending on whether I get another Rancher or opt for something else).

BruteForce · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:26 pm Post subject:

Udink wrote:
If all goes well, however, I hope to have a new machine next week, or maybe the week after (depending on whether I get another Rancher or opt for something else).

Go for the 2009 750i BruteForce or the new Polaris 850 XP! You won't regret either.

A bit more expensive than another Rancher, but you'll have speed, pulling power, IRS, Diff-lock and some ability to get through almost any amount of snow.

Sombeech · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:02 pm Post subject:

Wow dude, that's a freakin drop!

fourtycal · Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 1143 Location: Midvale

Oh Man. It sucks your machine is wrecked but what a sweet video :2thumbs:
Thanks for the post

Don · Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 2176 Location: Happy Valley

Holy shit. Glad you're ok man. You know you're going to give your wife a heart attack right? Intense.