A Revy Sled Bum's Tale: Another Season with Lilduke

[lilduke]

Seriously guys I have 0 interest in those
fawking ski's....lol

lets move on please

 

[lilduke]

#nogrippersonmyskidoo

 

[Bnorth]

#skidoo
#skeedoo
#skidont
#ipeeyellow
#summersucks
#istherefreshpowyet

 

[lilduke]

Some parts showed up. Nose cone, bumper, new ball joints, new steering bushings. Just waiting on aftermarket brash bushings for the A-arms
then the front end can go back together.

Next will be the skid. which is probably the most exciting part of the project for me.






The RH roller for the running board showed up too. I have to drill the holes and get it powder coated though.

Was hoping it would come ready to install, but not a big deal.

 

[lilduke]

And speaking of ski's; I will be getting new ones because these ones are beat.

My favorite thing about the DS2's is the color. I love the fluorescent green. haha

 

[lilduke]

Sucks that photobucket crashed, but here is a few of my old riding pictures just because.

Hope you like em, I think they are not bad.

 

[snopro]

Wow! Incredible pics Dan.

 

[snowcannon]

I don't see no riding. More like flying!

 

[lilduke]

Bushings finally showed up! Now I can put the front end together and get going on the skid.

 

[lilduke]

Made a little progress tonight.

Changed lower steering post bushings. Nothing make an XM feel new again like replacing these:





Replaced upper ball joints. I have lowers too, but I just replaced them in May, so I'll run the lowers a bit longer before I switch them out again.



Now these brass bushing may not seem all that exciting, but I'm pretty stoked on them, cause I hate a sloppy suspension.




Front end is fully functional now. Mount the nose cone and front bumper on the weekend, pull the skid ext..

 

[Bnorth]

Seems like I need to do those steering shaft bushings twice a season.

 

[lilduke]

Seems like I need to do those steering shaft bushings twice a season.

yeah they don't last long in the moguls

 

[Summitric]

I don't see no riding. More like flying!

He probably has more air time than the RCAF ....

 

[lilduke]

Starting to look like a sled again

 

[lilduke]

I know some people like my terrain pics, so I am posting 15 oldies cause that's the max allowed.

If you know where all these are great, you must be a Heli Ski pilot. If not they are all Frisby Ridge.

All my pics I take are on Frisby, even my pics of the Boulder cabin are really at Frisby. Just a FYI haha

 

[JungleJim]

Thank for the great pics Dan! Always nice to get thinking about glorious blue bird days now that fall is just around the corner and mornings are starting to get darker....

 

[snowcannon]

Thank for the great pics Dan! Always nice to get thinking about glorious blue bird days now that fall is just around the corner and mornings are starting to get darker....

Less than 90 days left...

 

[lilduke]

In order to upload pictures to S&M or instagram I have to resize and lower the quality of the image to around 1mb.
But the original files are anywhere from 24 to 150mbs and very detailed. With those files I can blow them up into some large prints that are really nice.

Here's a pic of one I printed out. 24inch x 36inch. Decorated my shop a bit.

 

[BCAV]

In order to upload pictures to S&M or instagram I have to resize and lower the quality of the image to around 1mb.
But the original files are anywhere from 24 to 150mbs and very detailed. With those files I can blow them up into some large prints that are really nice.

Here's a pic of one I printed out. 24inch x 36inch. Decorated my shop a bit.


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very cool .....i have had a few photos printed on canvas and they have turned out pretty sweet and arent to crazy of a price ...got a couple done at costco that look great but also can order them from 'canvas on demand' ive tried both cant really tell if ones better than the other i think it all depends on quality of photo....

 

[lilduke]

very cool .....i have had a few photos printed on canvas and they have turned out pretty sweet and arent to crazy of a price ...got a couple done at costco that look great but also can order them from 'canvas on demand' ive tried both cant really tell if ones better than the other i think it all depends on quality of photo....

I got mine done at Walmart. Was 25$ a print. Good quality paper, fairly heavy duty.