What NOT to do with your brand new M8 Turbo

[Powertool29]

Well we headed up on Sat and Sun to McBride and rode Bell Mountain on Sat. A buddy of ours broke in his brand spanking $24,000.00 M8 "Turbo" with 25 Kms on it by driving it into a tree !! Broke the bumper and cracked the hood all up on the right hand side ! I guess he thought it was a wood chipper ! At least he had an audience in the background to see the whole thing ! LOL

 

[Work2Ride]

... WOW!! Thanks for posting this, seems like a pretty open area to smoke the 2 little trees chilling.

 

[Powertool29]

Ya it was somewhat embarrassing going over to help him pull it off the tree and pick up the broken pieces.
Not quite sure what he was thinking !

 

[m8cat]

My heart goes out to him........had mine for two days and hit a culvert . Good to get the first wreck over with then have a great season ahead of us..

 

[blastoff]

maybe his vision was blurred should be good for $1500.00 damage

 

[Jenkie]

Ouch...hate to see em wrecked like that, but hey, sometimes chit happens

 

[rustyrocket]

Looks like the sled has to much power for him .

 

[Powertool29]

Looks like the sled has to much power for him .

I kinda think so also..
But I was not going to discuss that with him just after he spent so much money on it. With his first ever ride in the mountains and with that sled (235HP) , it was a bit overwhelming for him. I am a little sore today, not from sledding but from pulling him out all day long. LOL
He also drove into a deep creek just down from the cabin at Bell and went over the bars and broke off one of his expensive handguards. I figure the weekend carnage will cost him about $1,500.00 even before he makes his first payment.

 

[Dean10]

But he IS good for the economy.....

 

[99summitx]

Don't look at the tree, Don't look at the tree, Don't look at the tree

 

[SLEDBUNNYRACING]

Shame he hit a tree but lets look on the positive side, met a guy a few years back who took his new Turbo Apex for a ride in Renshaw, throttle stuck and you can guess the rest....writeoff...lol...
Sorry to hear about his bad luck.

 

[Hudson_M1000]

First time out to the hills and he bought and built an M8 Turbo?? lol expensive way to learn..Hope he doesn't total it off...good luck

P.S. Halarious pic.. Needs to be in the WTF thread.

 

[94fordguy]

Sounds about right... the only obstacle around for a mile is the one you will wind up meeting....

 

[05blazerboy]

lol that's awesome! Cat's love trees, don't know what it is. Especially at bell, had to pull two out of them on our last trip! How was the snow there? We're heading up on friday, hopefully there'll be some powder

 

[Powertool29]

lol that's awesome! Cat's love trees, don't know what it is. Especially at bell, had to pull two out of them on our last trip! How was the snow there? We're heading up on friday, hopefully there'll be some powder

Well there was at least 5ft in the trees! and it was snowing like crazy when we left on Sunday ! I am guessing a whole lot more !

 

[Big kid 33]

it sucks to smash on the first day out
been there done that

 

[storch]

LOL .... funny

 

[AreWeThereYet]

Why would you spend $25,000 on a sled

 

[Powertool29]

Why would you spend $25,000 on a sled

For your "first" mountain sled I have to agree..The salesman saw him coming !!
he could have got two of them for that price, one for him and one for his girlfriend.
OR a nice sled and a nice new quad also.. JMO.

 

[stuckenough]

Or one as a spare when you crash the first one.....:d