Rental ATV's SUCK.... They are all throttled down, throttle limiter. I have a Polaris 90 2 stroke for the little one, Raptor 350, YFZ 450 and Raptor 700 modified.I have not found much of anything I cant climb with the 700. The Oregon dunes are good fun but I also do trail ridding. My first Raptor 700 was stolen 2 weeks after I had rolled it down a 500+ cliff. It wasn't straight down just VERY steep angle and I went with it for part of the ride. At one point the quad was about 15 feet in the air, I was on the ground rolling and looked up as it hit and bounced off my chest. Thank god for riding gear. My buddies yelled at me not to get up of fear I had internal damage. They saw the whole things. Only a couple cracked ribs, sprained wrist and a twisted up quad I had to retrieve at the bottom and find a way out of the forest. I still rode for almost an hour back to the truck but not in a straight line. LOL I pity the guys who stole it. Thank god for insurance.
Stand up jet ski in the ocean is also good fun. I started riding stand-ups in 82. My first ski was a 1974 Kawasaki 440. I use to ride a 650 in the ocean and managed to completly break off the handle pole and crack the ski all the way around the body but kept it from sinking using duct tape. LOL The newer fat boy skis are still a blast out in the ocean, I have 2 of them because it gets a little boring riding by yourself on a stand-up all the time. SeaDoo 720 and 1500 GTX 4-TEC. You can get a LOT of air on those waves. Also, rental skis suck and are set to 1/2 throttle.
Here are a couple pictured of me way back when on my stad-up. Yes the helmit is a good idea especially when riding only a few feet from the shore line and your ski is falling on top of you.





I have not found much of anything I cant climb with the 700. The Oregon dunes are good fun but I also do trail ridding. My first Raptor 700 was stolen 2 weeks after I had rolled it down a 500+ cliff. It wasn't straight down just VERY steep angle and I went with it for part of the ride. At one point the quad was about 15 feet in the air, I was on the ground rolling and looked up as it hit and bounced off my chest. Thank god for riding gear. My buddies yelled at me not to get up of fear I had internal damage. They saw the whole things. Only a couple cracked ribs, sprained wrist and a twisted up quad I had to retrieve at the bottom and find a way out of the forest. I still rode for almost an hour back to the truck but not in a straight line. LOL I pity the guys who stole it. Thank god for insurance.
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