I need new pants....

skully93 · Post by **skully93** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 4:14 pm

I was shooting down a 55mph road on my buddy, and I heard a horrible noise in the variator. Then, I smelled rubber. I knew the belt broke. no big deal...

The rear tire locked up. I skidded, swerved, and let out a very unmanly scream......but I kept the rubber side down. Pushed it half a mile to an intersection ( no one was behind me, thank heavens) and got a ride to teh shop. new belt, back on the road. no damage.

phew!

viney266 · Post by **viney266** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 4:48 pm

How many miles on it when it let go?

P.S. Glad to hear the rubber side stayed down.

Syd · Post by **Syd** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 6:09 pm

Way to keep your balance, skully. How far did you skid?

az_slynch · Post by **az_slynch** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 7:01 pm

Syd wrote:Way to keep your balance, skully. How far did you skid?

Street, or pants?

scootERIK · Post by **scootERIK** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 7:46 pm

Do you know which brand you had?

Normally I run the regular Bando but at one point I tried a Gates and it was a piece of junk chunks started to peel off. Whereas the Bandos just seem to get smaller, even after 14k then still looked good.

skully93 · Post by **skully93** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 9:37 pm

az_slynch wrote:
Syd wrote:Way to keep your balance, skully. How far did you skid?
Street, or pants?

A good 10-15ft, maybe more. Undies are done

.

I don't remember what belt I had. I think it was the standard one. It had about 6k on it.