Allseasons
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Every now and then I get a thought in my simple head... I wish manufacturers would just stop. Stop raising the bar, stop making lighter, stop building power and deeper lugs.
Im not the best rider, not even close. Like trees, meadows, climbs, technical **** till I'm so tired I can't hold the bars. Afraid of big air, no balls for drops, and trying to enjoy a sport and raise a family of 5, do my damn best to not wreck my junk because then I'm out for a season or two.
My introduction to riding the white was somewhere in the 80's, chilliwack lake road, 300? Skidoo olymique. Big graduation to a 440 prowler lol. Then a 650 Indy. All short track flat landers.
Ended up working with a guy in Prince George, he had about 10 years on me and all he did was yap about mountain riding, summer he would ride a quad, cut trail into alpine, winter ride that crap outta his cat. I figured hell, why not try it. I found an old Indy 500, threw in a 650 triple motor, piped clutched and jetted, lightened it for everything she was worth, added some sort of a 1.5" 137"something or other, man I was ready for the steep and deep. First ride, totalled. Ski hooked a small tree on a face, I flipped off and down she tumbled done... Heartbroken. I owned a few more sleds through those years till I moved to Alberta.
I love raw horse power. I've owned a turbo sled till I couldn't afford to ride and tinker with it, family happened, kids grew and got hobbies and sports, I left the sport. Been back into it for 3 years. Bought a well used M1000, built some power, lightened it up, gave it a track that worked. There's been days I'm so tired from riding the balls off the ole b***h that I wanna puke. Garsh darn fun. A new cat on the way for next season but I'm a bit torn...
Here lies the problem, my dilemma. My new purchase is the problem. I haven't earned it. Stay with me here. We all buy this new iron cause it easy. It's new. It goes further than before, it's less effort. We haven't earned the steep and the deep. The back back backcountry in a sense. Since getting back into this sport, I can't believe how many injuries I see, dislocated shoulders, broken collar bones, broken leg. It's crazy out there. But in my youth, I was part of the problem. Always reaching further, spending more, building lighter trying to cut that new trail. Driving an industry to be better. There's still lots on the table with these machines for improvements, especially a cat lol. But where does it end. I read a website saying that these stick machines at 15-17k+ is crazy. Man for what these things do compared to how our old crap did, man these things are cheap..... In a sense, for what we are getting.
Well I'm done. I was really bored, nothing new been posted to read, hoping this starts some others going, wanting time to fly till when the snow flies.
Flame away, don't care. Please share if you too are bored.
Allseasons
Im not the best rider, not even close. Like trees, meadows, climbs, technical **** till I'm so tired I can't hold the bars. Afraid of big air, no balls for drops, and trying to enjoy a sport and raise a family of 5, do my damn best to not wreck my junk because then I'm out for a season or two.
My introduction to riding the white was somewhere in the 80's, chilliwack lake road, 300? Skidoo olymique. Big graduation to a 440 prowler lol. Then a 650 Indy. All short track flat landers.
Ended up working with a guy in Prince George, he had about 10 years on me and all he did was yap about mountain riding, summer he would ride a quad, cut trail into alpine, winter ride that crap outta his cat. I figured hell, why not try it. I found an old Indy 500, threw in a 650 triple motor, piped clutched and jetted, lightened it for everything she was worth, added some sort of a 1.5" 137"something or other, man I was ready for the steep and deep. First ride, totalled. Ski hooked a small tree on a face, I flipped off and down she tumbled done... Heartbroken. I owned a few more sleds through those years till I moved to Alberta.
I love raw horse power. I've owned a turbo sled till I couldn't afford to ride and tinker with it, family happened, kids grew and got hobbies and sports, I left the sport. Been back into it for 3 years. Bought a well used M1000, built some power, lightened it up, gave it a track that worked. There's been days I'm so tired from riding the balls off the ole b***h that I wanna puke. Garsh darn fun. A new cat on the way for next season but I'm a bit torn...
Here lies the problem, my dilemma. My new purchase is the problem. I haven't earned it. Stay with me here. We all buy this new iron cause it easy. It's new. It goes further than before, it's less effort. We haven't earned the steep and the deep. The back back backcountry in a sense. Since getting back into this sport, I can't believe how many injuries I see, dislocated shoulders, broken collar bones, broken leg. It's crazy out there. But in my youth, I was part of the problem. Always reaching further, spending more, building lighter trying to cut that new trail. Driving an industry to be better. There's still lots on the table with these machines for improvements, especially a cat lol. But where does it end. I read a website saying that these stick machines at 15-17k+ is crazy. Man for what these things do compared to how our old crap did, man these things are cheap..... In a sense, for what we are getting.
Well I'm done. I was really bored, nothing new been posted to read, hoping this starts some others going, wanting time to fly till when the snow flies.
Flame away, don't care. Please share if you too are bored.
Allseasons
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