How to prepare yourself for snowmobiling

APEX320

Active member
Joined
Jan 18, 2009
Messages
42
Reaction score
3
Location
ALBERTA
1. Go to your local snowmobile repair shop, smile and give the first guy you see $200. This will get you used to spending money there on a regular basis.

2. Fill a 50-gallon barrel with sand. Lower it into a hole. Now lift it out. If you can, add water to the sand and try it again. Do this 5 times per day. This will get your back in shape for lifting your sled out of the deep snow.

3. Tie a rope to a heavy-duty spring. Pull the rope repeatedly with each arm until the pain in your shoulders meets somewhere in middle your back. This will get you in shape for starting your buds sled,
which he conveniently forgot was out of gas. It's best to do this exercise while someone is spraying starting fluid into your nose and eyes also.

4. Drink four ounces of cod liver oil mixed with a strong laxative. Dress with long underwear, wool pants, snowmobile bibs, insulated boots and heavy coat. Walk far into the woods without any paper products and wait for a personal emergency. This get you prepare for the Beer shits that come out of nowhere, and at the wrong time.

5. Place your hands in a bucket of ice water for 20 minutes. Put the carburetor from your lawn mower in the bottom of your deep freeze. Now climb in the deep freeze, shut the lid and overhaul it while holding a pen light in your mouth. This gets you prepared to work on your sled in the freezing cold and black of night. Advanced riders do this with a leatherman tool

7. Dress up in your new $350 snowmobile bibs. Pour 2 stroke oil down the right leg, gasoline down the other and Peppermint Schnapps and Beer all over the front. Fill your boots with ice cubes and ask your wife or girlfriend to dance. This will prepare her for the stops at the local bar after a ride.

8. Put on a Balaclava and a full-face helmet. Attempt to drink hot chocolate through the opening. Advanced riders attempt this while riding a lawn tractor over in the nearest farmers' field.

9. Find a place where you can pay $3.50 a gallon for regular gas; $19.99 per quart of oil; $16 for a hamburger and frozen French fries; $3 for a coke and $60 to sleep in a cold cabin on a bed with springs sticking through the mattress. Stay for two nights, minimum. This will prepare you on the high cost of your future winter trips.

10. Practice explaining to your banker why you need another loan for a $40,000 truck to pull the four $10,000 toys, in your $9,000 trailer that you still owe $40,000 on.


Now, you are 50% ready, and somewhat conditioned to head for the trails and ride your sled.

We think this is pretty much accurate.

Although the wife/girlfriend still thinks it is an inexpensive sport the guys love.
 

NosRX1

Active VIP Member
Joined
Jan 24, 2007
Messages
2,487
Reaction score
535
Location
Sundre
Yeah thats so true!...basically kiss what you have saved up all summer good bye!..lol:d
 

ferniesnow

I'm doo-ing it!
Joined
Dec 2, 2008
Messages
112,077
Reaction score
86,103
Location
beautiful, downtown Salmon Arm, BC
.........
5. Place your hands in a bucket of ice water for 20 minutes. Put the carburetor from your lawn mower in the bottom of your deep freeze. Now climb in the deep freeze, shut the lid and overhaul it while holding a pen light in your mouth. This gets you prepared to work on your sled in the freezing cold and black of night. Advanced riders do this with a leatherman tool

I just bust a gut at this one....can't you just see some peeps in the deep-freeze, hands shaking, pen light bobbing around as he shivers, and then jumps out only to step on a loose frozen wiener and fall, carb flying, arms flailing and banging his head on the floor......

PS where is #6.....were you saving that for page 2 or 3???
 

jeremy8

Active VIP Member
Joined
Feb 22, 2008
Messages
310
Reaction score
75
Location
Alberta
And if you, your better half, and your three girls are all addicted to sledding x that by 5:)

Priceless
 

APEX320

Active member
Joined
Jan 18, 2009
Messages
42
Reaction score
3
Location
ALBERTA
And if you, your better half, and your three girls are all addicted to sledding x that by 5:)

Priceless

That is funny because my wife and I ride and I have a 3 year old daughter who will be riding a 120 this year and 2 year old twin girls, Between snowmobiling and Hockey it should be really cheap hey :eek:
 

jeremy8

Active VIP Member
Joined
Feb 22, 2008
Messages
310
Reaction score
75
Location
Alberta
I could give a chit about cost. I just love watching my family enjoy mountains.
 

APEX320

Active member
Joined
Jan 18, 2009
Messages
42
Reaction score
3
Location
ALBERTA
I could give a chit about cost. I just love watching my family enjoy mountains.

Neither do I you cant put a price on the smiles you get!! Bought a snowcoach for behind the XP. Wife wont let me pull it with the Turbo haha. :d
 

mallard d69

Active VIP Member
Joined
Jan 23, 2009
Messages
1,400
Reaction score
168
Location
spruce grove
jesus way to scare the guy that literly just bought his first sled holy crap number 5 doesn't aply to me though i got EFI
 
Top Bottom