Posts Tagged ‘broke’

My summer project, well project 1 of 2.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

After riding my sled so much this past year, I really started to notice the wear a couple thousand miles puts on a sled. I bought my sled with about 1100 miles on it back in August 2005. I have ridden it three seasons and put another 1700 miles on it, this season alone put 600 miles on it. Well, the wear and tear I’m talking about is stuff that you just don’t notice until it finally goes. I didn’t notice that both a-arms had started to bow and weaken until I noticed a crease in my left-lower a-arm. Can’t help my riding addiction, so I kept riding it “just one last ride”. That one last ride turned into 5 more rides…the last ride did me in. (more…)