I found a cool toy for sale for $1200, lots of new parts n low hours. I was just wondering how to control it down a long steep dune or would I crash n burn at the bottom. I was told it floats on water too if you deside to shut it down n fish! lol

Nice...but it has minimum lateral control and no brakes so going down a dune is not such a good idea. Seems they are best for flat open surfaces.

That would be good for Drakman to powerslide over the puddles without getting wet!

Pilotman

I have actually seen one of these move on dry sand on Pismo beach. They create such a turbulence of air around them that anyone or anything near them gets pelted with sand and debris. I had to laugh when I watched this guy try to guide one up a small incline.....no go! But is was fun watching him try!

I think they would be a blast to play on over water or a nice grassy meadow. I believe they even race these things!

Rand

It seems that a person should be able to shut the power down and just slide down a hill, bigger problem would be getting the top in the first place, seems like a weight shift to the back end when attempting to go uphill would cause the machine to stall out with all the air escaping out the uphill side.

Craig, you should have seen the pond I tried to cross at Little Sahara last year, probably at least four feet deep and around 75 to 100 yards wide. I hit it at a pretty good rate of speed, but as it settled into the water as I got about midway, the water was coming over the hood at a rate that damned near drowned me, it knocked my goggles off so I couldn't hardly see. Fortunately it was a nice warm day.

one of the Para's at my school had a brother or husband or uncle or something that had one of those, and brought it and played around on the football field, it was the coolest thing ever, but yeah didn't do much for climbing lol

Definately have problems in the whoops section... Good news is, you won't need bark busters for the tight stuff...

What Engine?

Shit man this story made me laugh pretty hard... "damned near drowned me" LMAO
but glad you made it!

Without the miracles of modern medicine, I would have been dead long ago.

Should I tell the story of the 112 stitches in my head?

I never heard that one Jerry, sounds like a good one!

When I was about 6 or 7 years old, my family was hiking in the mountains. My dad, two older sisters and I were traversing a steep narrow ledge, when from above some moron threw a big rock down. That started a rock slide that I got caught in, my dad said it slammed me up against a tree which prevented me from going down a really long way. But, I was still pretty badly hurt. My dad carried me down to the bottom, put me in the guy's car (he was a family friend) where I proceeded to bleed like a stuck pig, ruining the mohair interior of the car. Not too long after, they got me to a small town doctor who stitched me up. Sixty years later, I still have a big scar and a crease in my skull. I would like to use that as an excuse why I am sometimes so stupid, but it is probably not the reason.

If that happened today, my family would own his house and business, back then, only an apology was needed. Guess my dad finally got even with him though, he took up with his widow after my mom died.

WOW
I never noticed the scar or the dent in the head must have faded away after all the years.

Damn Jer, sounds pretty brutal.112 stitches is a lot, especially for a 6-7 year old. Wear a "doo rag" to hide that scar? lol I never noticed it either.

He must be like a cat with 9 lives skull splitting, hart attacks who knows what else he is not telling us and how many lives he has left lamo

I have probably used up at least 7 or 8 lives, I better start being careful. I was 52 first time I was admitted to a hospital, been in probably a dozen or more times since then.

Most of the scarring is where what little hair I have left covers it, not all of the cuts and gashes were in the same place, that is just where the worst of it was. I looked like a 'towel head' for many months, it had a chin strap so I couldn't get it off. All the kids teased me, so I was really happy when it came off.

Here's one I was finally able to laugh about after. Went to the emergency room a few years back with high fever and really bad pains in my belly. They took some X rays and became alarmed, told me I needed a cat scam or MRI for a closer look. With my good luck, the 'chief' was there that night when they started the scans, he told me the prospects looked really bad, probably liver cancer, but that there was a chance it was benign. He had a long suction needle which at the time looked like a giant turkey baster, and that if I could stand it, they would take the biopsies while I was awake and going in and out of the machine. They finally located the first place to go drilling, they called in four big burley guys to hold me still while they 'probed', as he got the right spot, the doctor sounded happy, said it was soft and that might be good news. Upon sucking it out and some quick tests, they decided I had nothing more than four egg sized lumps of puss. I was on IV antibiotics for two or three months, actually went riding up at Walden for a few days during my 'treatment'.

I've got a bunch more, just not nearly as funny, that is unless you count when I had a calcium deposit in my salivary tube under the tongue, hurt something fierce, when it finally shot out, it looked like several pieces of rice.

holy cow your high maintenance surprised Judy has not traded you in by now lol

Ouchy on both counts! I guess I have been pretty healthy, no real stories and the only funny one was my Odyssey roll over concussion at Dumont with Hoser, too bad I don't rember it! LMAO

So when do i get to see that thing back in wyoming?

Just seeing if it is worth the investment,never been around one. but you never know....

Nah, lets hear about the eraser when you were a kid, that one always cracks me up!!

Why do I get the feeling he has many more stories to tell?

Yep, got tons of them, but to tell them all would show what a moron I've been.

You have to call them learning experiences! Some people just learn a little quicker than others,and pain is a great teacher!!!! LMAO! We gotta do another dune trip sometime soon, just for the campfire stories!