After lurking here for a month I thought it time to join and start being part of yfm350.com . Yesterday when I joined I was all excited to talk to the many Ohio riders and find out who to ride with where. Today after some weather advisories and tornado warnings my story became a sad one.
After working massive overtime all summer long I thought I would treat myself to an atv after my brother got me interested in riding again with his Blaster. I first bought a 95 Warrior that needed lots of work, one broken ball joint and a small no start problem. One used lower control arm and a used coil, both from eBay and I was on my way. After riding with my brother a couple of times I decided I wanted another so my girlfriend wouldn't be left behind, she is into trail riding but with a horse. Enter Warrior number 2, a 93 with a bad starter. After dragging it home I found it to have a front suspension with four bad ball joints and four bad tie rod ends and the bad starter turned into a bad starter clutch. But with a quick tug from another bike and it would fire and run like a champ.
Enter Warrior number 3, the parts bike. A complete $200 Warrior that had been heavily hillbillyized, but the front suspension was good. So in the past two weeks I have been slowly cleaning and preparing to make the 2nd and 3rd Warriors into one.
Until I came home to this.
The whiteish one is Warrior 1 and it runs great, has maxxis tires and a supertrap and some engine work supposedly. Warrior 3 is on its end after being stripped and cleaned. Warrior 2 there is dead, under a tree, bent to ****. The frame is bent down past the carb and after cutting the tree off it leans to the right. The girlfriend is unhappy for sure. So as you can see I have a good frame in one piece and Warrior 1 is unscathed even though it looks like it wouldn't be.
So Yeah!! Anywho sorry about the short story, I'm from southeastern Ohio Vinton/Hocking area, I Have lots of places to ride local to me and live very close to Wayne National.
After working massive overtime all summer long I thought I would treat myself to an atv after my brother got me interested in riding again with his Blaster. I first bought a 95 Warrior that needed lots of work, one broken ball joint and a small no start problem. One used lower control arm and a used coil, both from eBay and I was on my way. After riding with my brother a couple of times I decided I wanted another so my girlfriend wouldn't be left behind, she is into trail riding but with a horse. Enter Warrior number 2, a 93 with a bad starter. After dragging it home I found it to have a front suspension with four bad ball joints and four bad tie rod ends and the bad starter turned into a bad starter clutch. But with a quick tug from another bike and it would fire and run like a champ.
Enter Warrior number 3, the parts bike. A complete $200 Warrior that had been heavily hillbillyized, but the front suspension was good. So in the past two weeks I have been slowly cleaning and preparing to make the 2nd and 3rd Warriors into one.
Until I came home to this.
The whiteish one is Warrior 1 and it runs great, has maxxis tires and a supertrap and some engine work supposedly. Warrior 3 is on its end after being stripped and cleaned. Warrior 2 there is dead, under a tree, bent to ****. The frame is bent down past the carb and after cutting the tree off it leans to the right. The girlfriend is unhappy for sure. So as you can see I have a good frame in one piece and Warrior 1 is unscathed even though it looks like it wouldn't be.
So Yeah!! Anywho sorry about the short story, I'm from southeastern Ohio Vinton/Hocking area, I Have lots of places to ride local to me and live very close to Wayne National.
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