Polaris Recall Announced

[gary_in_neenah]

Just saw this on our local news....

MEDINA, Minn. (WBAY) - Polaris is recalling almost 3,000 all-terrain vehicles because the throttle release switch can fail, increasing the chances of a crash. There were nine reports of the throttle failing and two minor injuries.

The recall involves all Scrambler XP 1000 ATVs from the 2014 through 2017 model years. They were sold since April 2013 and came in black, white, red and lime colors or trim.

Owners should stop using them immediately and contact a dealer about free repairs.

 

[G]

If you look at a tourism map of Minnesota you will find a recreation area called Bemis Hill. This is an area kind of out in the middle of nowhere located about 30 miles south and east of Roseau. It is a great big mound out in the middle of a swamp. There is a shelter there and snowmobile trails as well as horse trails and hiking and berry picking. In the winter people bring their kids there to slide down the great big hill. Not a National Park by any means but more of a local attraction.

But it was not always a hill.......

60 years ago Bemis Hill was not a hill at all. It was known as Bemis Ditch. It was nothing but swampland with gnarly trees and nobody lived there and nobody went there. Not even to deer hunt. It is very possible Bigfoot could have had a huge family out there and nobody would have ever known. Tangled underbrush, infertile snakes and confused birds was all it was known for.

But then some very creative men that owned a couple of arc welders and worked out of unheated pig barn started one of our favorite companies. POLARIS was born!!!!!

Make no mistake these men were ambitious and creative. They tried many ideas and while they have ultimately had success there were a few missteps along the way. When something didn't work out and there was no fix the Polaris employees would drag the corpses of these failed machines south of town and bury them in Bemis ditch. This was before the MN DNR turned into Nazis and controlled everything. So it became a normal sight to see a few trucks a day go south with stuff that either didn't work or was recalled because it killed somebody. There are many Polaris watercraft buried there. Also there is a smaller berm next to the main part of Bemis hill that is called Fusion Peak. They kind of cheated there because they started with a bunch of Storms to start that hill. The Storms were good for the first 30 feet of Fusion Peak. There was a time when more product was going to Bemis than was being sold. As you can well imagine it didn't take long for Bemis Ditch to be filled right up. But Polaris somehow stayed in business and kept churning out more junk. So the ditch has gradually turned into a very large hill. Bemis Hill. You can thank Polaris for making this wonderful attraction possible. It should actually be part of the tour when you go and tour the Polaris factory. Now you know the rest of the story.

 

[gary_in_neenah]

Well, you had me going right up to the point where you mentioned Bigfoot.

 

[garageguy]

Recalls old news 400,000 in the last several years

 

[snobuilder]

recalls are a result of the regenerating sissies that increasingly pollute as well as dumb down the gene pool and the lawyers who use them.

....sleds used to spit gas on yur scarf.

With today's safety standards applied, sleds and other rec vehicles wouldn't a made it out of the 1960's

 

[old abe]

Perhaps we will take a look at a BadBoy before next UTV purchase. Although I have to say we have had excellent service from our Polaris ATV/UTV's.

 

[CrossfireLOW]

If you look at a tourism map of Minnesota you will find a recreation area called Bemis Hill. This is an area kind of out in the middle of nowhere located about 30 miles south and east of Roseau. It is a great big mound out in the middle of a swamp. There is a shelter there and snowmobile trails as well as horse trails and hiking and berry picking. In the winter people bring their kids there to slide down the great big hill. Not a National Park by any means but more of a local attraction.

But it was not always a hill.......

60 years ago Bemis Hill was not a hill at all. It was known as Bemis Ditch. It was nothing but swampland with gnarly trees and nobody lived there and nobody went there. Not even to deer hunt. It is very possible Bigfoot could have had a huge family out there and nobody would have ever known. Tangled underbrush, infertile snakes and confused birds was all it was known for.

But then some very creative men that owned a couple of arc welders and worked out of unheated pig barn started one of our favorite companies. POLARIS was born!!!!!

Make no mistake these men were ambitious and creative. They tried many ideas and while they have ultimately had success there were a few missteps along the way. When something didn't work out and there was no fix the Polaris employees would drag the corpses of these failed machines south of town and bury them in Bemis ditch. This was before the MN DNR turned into Nazis and controlled everything. So it became a normal sight to see a few trucks a day go south with stuff that either didn't work or was recalled because it killed somebody. There are many Polaris watercraft buried there. Also there is a smaller berm next to the main part of Bemis hill that is called Fusion Peak. They kind of cheated there because they started with a bunch of Storms to start that hill. The Storms were good for the first 30 feet of Fusion Peak. There was a time when more product was going to Bemis than was being sold. As you can well imagine it didn't take long for Bemis Ditch to be filled right up. But Polaris somehow stayed in business and kept churning out more junk. So the ditch has gradually turned into a very large hill. Bemis Hill. You can thank Polaris for making this wonderful attraction possible. It should actually be part of the tour when you go and tour the Polaris factory. Now you know the rest of the story.

IF, they were thinking they would have just gone a little further southeast. I have heard the Big Bog is riddled with craters from early cold war military bomber training runs. They could have just filled all of those craters instead of building a hill.