Drifter
A lot of credit is owed to the stand up Jetski. Will off road motorcycles be the 'couches' of the forest? I will stick to my CRF450(dirt) and KTM SMT990(street) for plenty o' thrills. Would like to hear from riders though, but I would imagine the ride is a marriage of a snowmobile and a stand up Jetski.
roelfe
Yeah, just what the world needs now: another noisy machine for obliviouts to use to tear up the environment.
Ed Atkeson
Can't wait till one of these hits my favorite forest preserve. One person "shredding" will cause more damage than 500 hikers. It's well named.
chomper
I love all the tree hugging environmentalists that think the way they use the forest is the only acceptable way. Not to mention that most of these people complain from their chair and rarely, if ever, actually go to a forest. Not saying that none of them enjoy the outdoors, just saying that a lot don't.
500 irresponsible hikers can damage the forest just as bad as any motorized vehicle.
The same rules that apply to snowmobiles, motorcycles, four wheelers, etc. also apply to this vehicle. One of those rules is that motorized vehicles are not allowed in a forest preserve except for use by forest service personnel.
Todd Dunning
roelfe - as chomper says, the day you leave your dorm and go outside you'll find that tracked vehicles in particular leave an extremely small footprint.
And somehow, with billions of years of volcanoes, floods, erosion, ice and earthquakes, we outdoors people think the earth is holding up pretty well to a few wheels.
Fritz Menzel
I do see some value in this unfortunately-name Shredder for farmers and anyone who needs to do chores and land management. I wonder if they'll make some useful implements/accessories like snow plows, etc?
Oh, and just for kicks. let's give ol' chomper (see above) the benefit of the doubt and acknowledge that 500 of us tree-hugging environmentalist-hikers (what a delightful limbaughism) would somehow throw away all our beliefs to do as much damage as just 1 chomper on his Shredder. Even in that unlikely event, at least he won't be able to hear them despoiling his forest from a mile away. In fact, chomper, you'd hardly know we're there. Oh, I'm sorry, that's kinda scary for you, isn't it?
Gary McMurray
could be better than alot of ATV Vehicles which tend to roll and crush many farmers. Could also put a car seat on it and wheelchair users could use it...
Stephen N Russell
Looks like fun to rent for offroad use
nutcase
Orthopedic surgeons will love this new piece of junk.
Robert Felker
The thrill seekers who chafe at my post above don't wish to acknowledge it but one cannot be a good steward of the earth while pursuing short-term gains, i.e. adrenaline rushes, at the expense of the environment. I stand by my statement that machines such as these are designed solely for use by those who have callous disregard for the consequence of their destructive thrill-seeking. Wise -up, children! Acting responsibly does have its rewards, albeit long-term ones that are not easy for you to understand.