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Check out the new Yamaha Side by Side!! 
Seriously though, the new one should be out in a couple days, anyone seen any of the leaked photos yet? Should be a pretty kickass little toy!
Seriously though, the new one should be out in a couple days, anyone seen any of the leaked photos yet? Should be a pretty kickass little toy!
The Shop
why not just buy a beater badass offroad jeep. street legal. less than half the price and you dont need a trailer.
what did he do with it? drive around the neighborhood like a dork.
kinda like those guys with the 60k wakeboard boats that just cruise around with sunglasses blasting the stereo.
Then you take those same people, who have no respect for anything, and put them out in the desert...and they assume that if someone else went down a trail-never mind if its single track-then they can take their rig down it...they trash all the trails, have no respect for anything, litter all over the place, and ultimately provide a whole bunch of Ammo for all the folks that want to close public land to ALL OHV's.
The only good thing about them is that they are bringing more business than ever into the small towns that the trails run through, many of which (bars, gas stations, restaurants) wouldn't be around if it weren't for the trails we have in northern Michigan. Also, a lot of dealerships were saved by the influx of SxS customers in the past 10 years. During the recession a ton of dealerships took pretty big hits on their pocketbooks and it's just now starting to turn around for the better. In fact, most of our business these days comes from SxS customers. We make a shit ton of money off of them. We make absolutely zero dollars off selling motocross bikes and gear, thanks to the internet... So, if you want your motorcycle dealerships to stay alive and thrive, we may have to suck it up and deal with these things for a couple years until the fad dies down...
Pit Row
this weekend i did an adventure ride camping trip up to Manuta, UT. the dirt-road down from the top of Inspiration Point to Manuta is about 11 miles long and i lost count of how many of them were coming down or going up. it was insane. Saturday the DNR had a field day giving tickets and DUI's, our campground was a half mile away and the tow-truck couldn't keep up.
anyway... Yamaha is just cashing in on the cow that has become SXS ownership, good for them. my favorite is that Joey Stayathomedad is now able to have a high-performance machine with long travel and a turbo to take his fatass wife and two kids hauling ass on dangerous terrain... fucking up the trails, roads, and coming around blind corners like a madman because his machine is capable... Cherry Creek and the entire Jericho area is a frenzy of idiots hauling ass in these things. i'm nervous to ride down there because last time i was there i almost ran into a few hauling ass down whooped out trails. just spooky
I watched TJ Hannifen's helmet cam from the Firebirds Hare and Hound out there last year, and he is leading the race and comes over a hill and a dude is coming the down the race course (the wrong direction). Scary stuff.
And I hope its an actual couch, like in their living room, that replaces the SXS's. lol
luckily, there are still some major ATV/dirtbike trail areas that have the posts at the trail-head that limit the width of the vehicle that can be on the trails.
i wouldn't mind seeing them go away, but at the same time i know some of our local shops run strictly off the Joey SXS group that dump their second mortgages on these over-priced and over-powerful machines.
So I'm not sure how bad off the shops would be if SXS's didn't exist.
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