Today, I took a good Friend on a ride; he drove one of our machines, I in the other.
We took off, rode a while, and he told me that the rear end was squirrely in the corners. I had told him before we left that if he's in a corner, and there's loose pebbles etc, it'll slide real easy, so that's what I thought was going on. My friend, (who will be joining this forum shortly) is the MASTER of understatement.
We stopped, 35 miles into our ride, looked for some Morels for a little bit, when I noticed his right rear tire was flat. Real flat, not low, but gone.
So; we rode out of the woods to a county maintained road, (we can ride on them here legally) and we switched vehicles, so I could ride it the rest of the way home. I asked him if the ride changed, since we stopped to look for morels, and he said, "nope, same as before".
So; I drive the machine the rest of the way, probably another 15 miles, on the flat.
"Squirrely"?
No, Sir. Dangerous.
You make a left turn & this thing will HAPPILY throw itself off the road to the right, no problem. I have no idea how this fella, who never rode a SXS before, was able to pretty well fly through the woods on it, for 35 miles....and he loved it. Wants one. Is going to buy one. Maybe today. He wanted all the links, so I sent them to him, including this forum.
Now, the rest of the story.
I call the dealer, because the tire's wrecked, I need a new one.
"$315.00 plus shipping, here in ten days, maybe more".
WHAT?
So, next he tells me he'll sell me Sedona Mud Rebels for it for $121 apiece, & I end up buying (2) sets of them on Amazon for $290.00 for a set of (4) tires, delivered. Now, I know these won't be top of the line tires, but I'm hoping they're not junk, they got pretty good reviews, anybody have bad experiences with them? They're radials, 6 ply, and that's good....
So, in the end, my friend, he rides my 800 EX for about 35 miles on a flat tire, and like a dummy, I didn't check it, just thought he was sliding around corners, is all. I think he was more like trying to save his own life....
Tire store in town is going to put a tube in the malcontent tire so we can use it between now & the time the Sedona's get here.
Coming probably next week:
"For Sale, 8 ATV/UTV Tires, 4 are 26x9x14, 4 are 26x11x14, one has a tube in it, 500 miles on them, $400 OBO"
Now, somebody tell me; how much of a testimonial is it that a Guy goes & rides 35 miles on a flat, then goes to the dealer to buy one of these machines for himself? Huh?