What is so hard about.....?

[snobuilder]

Did you even read the article and try to understand WHY they believe hand signals are unsafe and based on flawed logic, or did you just glance at it and start hammering on the keyboard because "we always use hand signals, and they make us safer" without even considering the possibility that you could be wrong? Just because you have
"always done it this way" does not make it right.

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Right, it's always a good idea to F with complete strangers, because they couldn't possibly be way more of a badass than you, right? Good luck with that behavior.

Who were you quoting in the BOLD????….sure wasn't MY post....and yur complaining about ME not reading something????....LMAO!!!!


As far as the second quote , that was OA's assumption....I give only the "1 sled following" signal to the incoming misguided missle pilots.

 

[old abe]

no, I meant the chest and head high stuff the goggles get some nasty scratches...got caught with a few stingers under the chin too.....believe me my stuff looks ridden.

Agree! If your sleds hasn't got and "FUN" marks, you didn't have much fun, eh! We ride em, and have fun, but we don't intentionally abuse em.

 

[DamageInc]

https://nhsa.com/snowmobile-hand-signal-debate/
"Miraculously I had lifted my left leg in time and did not suffer any injury. The operator of the other snowmobile also did not suffer any physical injury. They did, however, suffer a bruised ego, as well as possible hearing loss after I finished expressing my displeasure with their reckless riding style. After I composed myself, I commenced to writing that operator a ticket for Operating to Endanger. Once I issued the ticket, the rider informed me that he thought it was a law in New Hampshire to use hand signals while riding! After several deep breaths, I educated that operator that he was incorrect.

How did this accident happen? That other rider thought he needed to use hand signals. He took one hand off the handlebars in an attempt to tell other riders how many snowmobiles were behind him in his group. In doing so, he could not turn his machine into the bend in the trail with one hand and lost control of the machine. As I type this and recall that day I can feel my blood pressure rising. Where do I begin in detailing how dangerous using hand signals while snowmobiling is? How can anyone think it is a good idea to take a hand off of your handlebars, while operating, in order to tell oncoming riders how many people are behind you?! You do not know how many actual machines are behind you!


Nobody knows how many snowmobiles are behind the riders in their group. Anyone who rides snowmobiles should always anticipate other riders on the trail and around every bend because inevitably there will be."

 

[xcr440]

You must be the most unluckiest rider in the state of Wisconsin. Getting "clicked" by three sets of ski's and having to avoid a head-on.....I ride lead for my crew all the time, ride all the busy weekends and have never had anything close to this happening. I'm pushing 2000 miles on the season I can count only one time that I had someone even in the middle of the trail coming at me.

Vermillion is in MN - FYI.

Too many weekend warriors with their kitchen passes acting like A-Holes on weekends - just be careful and ride like someone is coming around every corner. That's all you can do.

 

[POLARISDAN]

dont forget about the morons that stop in the corners..group of way too many..so many he couldnt see he stopped and left his group end right at the end base of the turn..of course i anticapate aholes and avoided him but immediately worried about my buddy..who luckily avoided them..

stopped and told the lead and i swear its like i was talking about a ufo on the trails..he had no idea and seemed to have no care..if i climb up his riders rear he the one who gonna be serioulsly hurt

big groups are too big and cause too many problems IMO..they should split up

 

[slimcake]

Riding with Fuji here a month or so ago. Heading towards Iron River and the trails Dan were "PERFECTION" Come around this sweeper corner to the left and here is this dude stopped, mid-corner, on his side but oh crap here comes the dudes wife at a good clip. She goes wide to not run into hubby and guess who ends up in the tillies?? Mr. Slimcake. WHO DA F STOPS IN DA MIDDDLE OF A CORNER??? I am sure she chewed him a new one!! I wasn't very happy but knowing the misses got the crap scared out of her was enough to just keep on keeping on!!

 

[snobuilder]

Wait...the no hand signals guys say you need to be riding as if a moron is around every corner, NO?

 

[towtruck]

Uh oh, here we go with the hand signals again. I'd prefer that people just stay on their own side of the trail and keep their hands on the bars. If you take a corner any differently because you received a hand signal for more riders, that means you planned on taking it recklessly without the signal. Every blind corner should be treated as though a rider is coming.

I've been riding a long time, and people on the wrong side has always been an issue. But it seems to be getting worse. My favorites are the people (on their left side of the trail) who get mad when they almost hit you, as if you had no right to be in their way, LOL. Or the people who ride right down the middle of a bumpy rail grade with their left hand in the air, struggling to control their sled. I can see the other 3 riders in your group, and the other 8 sleds that you didn't know were there. Just keep your hands on the bars and stay to the right, please.

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