Elan tripple 600.. slayer sold !!! - YouTube
came across this thing today, thought it was pretty sick
came across this thing today, thought it was pretty sick
Anybody else see this beast?
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I thought for sure it was going to be this
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moyiesledhead
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Brings back memories. We used to stuff 440 Everest engines into Elans, and they were unstoppable in their day. Couldn't ride one of those bone crunchers now, but it sure was fun back then.
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my buddy had an elan 250 growing up and man it climbed just about anything, and good torque for pulling stuck friends out haha
maxwell
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that thing cant be stock?? or did he drop a engine in to ?
oh sorry didnt read the end where it has the specs of the sled
neilsleder
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The three big pipes hanging out didnt give it away?
Rotax_Kid
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Some of our ditches are pretty steep...
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remember Maynooth, Ontario?.............I'm thinking that is pretty much like Saskatchewan as far as flatness goes!
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you should buy that sled joey!!i know for a fact its flickable!!!
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Bogger
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I dunno, have you seen his sisters??????
Its too bad you haven't been around longer, you would have laughed your ass off at some of the stuff we used to climb on those old sleds. Elans and 440 TnT's and 440's Everests were all I grew up on. We used to go into some crazy sh!t with those sleds, we weren't deep pow elitists.
In the spring we had a tons of areas (most of them no longer able to ride there thanks to closures) once the snow would set up in April and May, we would get up at 3:30 AM, and be on the snow by 4:30 when it was like pavement. Those old sleds would climb anything on that kind of snow, the Elans would just chug along like tractors, and 440's had a little more balls. Keep in mind those sleds only weighed around 250-300 lbs. There is not much too them. Once plastic paddles came out we were unstoppable! LOL We'd get up on the ridges and ride right up to the peaks, then watch the sunrise and have breakfast.
If you think you got balls, you should pilot a 1976 sled off a ridge on hero snow down about a 1500 ft vertical drop around 45-50 degrees. That will get your hair standing up. Chains over the skis used to help you slow down some but sometimes not enough!The only brakes we had were mechanical, and they would fade out pretty fast if you were on them at all. By noon we were heading down to the truck since the snow would get too rotten and those sleds didn't have great cooling in +15 C, the fuel lines would get too hot and the fuel would vaporise and then you'd vapour lock and have to stop for 15 mins til it cooled down. Taking the hood off helped a lot with that, sometimes not enough though.
Man the sledding world has changed a lot since then, now the sleds would not even run until noon when the snow starts to soften a little (without scratchers anyway). I have some great memories of those mornings with my old man on those sleds, not too many people get to experience those kinds of things or see those kinds of places.
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I wouldn't know, I have never ridden in Saskatchewan. but I have ridden them in northern Ontario and there are some pretty damn big hills out there. we were 11-12 years old and most of our sleds were built from spare parts lol they did pretty well for costing us next to nothing
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