Muskoka Freerider

[maxwell]

Doesn't matter the brand/year......etc. These 3" and now 3.25" tracks will only be as good to you as you are to them. Spin them up a drainage in low snow over stumps/rocks/logs and frozen dirt and accept that you are wrecking that track. Ride up and down the trails like it's a snocross race and accept that you are wrecking your track. I do 50-60 kms/h up and down the trails and smile as guys go ripping past me wfo. I have about 1500 kms on my track and burn all the loose strands off I can get to with a mini torch after every trip; track still looks like brand new.......hmmmmm.

hmm i do the exact opposite of what you say and mine tracks are always wrecked, So your math checks out

 

[maxwell]

5000km, no missing paddles bud… you tell me.


Very good discription.

Let me add track speeds are way up with turbos guys. 15yrs ago that was the peak for most 08 summit x’s for sustained mountain riding. Now my 175 while screwing around can see and sustain 95km/hr. Big difference, this is where the real damage is done.

nailed it, we are riding in more tech terrain with much greater track speeds. The damage happens fast. These machines are a far cry from an old XP chugging along.

end of the day, if you baby the track on the trail and are very careful about things hiding under the snow the track willl last.

But if you ride hard and dont care to stop and smell the roses on the trail and like to wheelie through stump town then your track is good for one season. For hard riders they have pretty much become a wear item like tires. Sucks because they are expensive, but the loss in rotating mass makes them perform incredible. A guy could put a T3 track back on but you would feel the performance loss

 

[Shredder]

You're not living up to your user name lol

Lol......look at my join date. Closing in on 20 years ago now. Getting old and enjoying the hot tubs and beerz more; due to the recovery time from not respecting that age getting longer and longer. I'm well into the Silvertip Sledder territory now.

 

[06 Dragon]

One thing about Matt is he rides both doo and Polaris and now Lynx. He is not afraid to speak of his likes, dislikes, and show the failures. Whereas guys like KC, BT, and other sponsored riders are probably forbidden to speak negatively of the sleds and failures.

 

[tex78]

Hahaha, you believe the RT because it came up with Tex was my last blow up LOL, that baby blew up twice and no it wasn't.
Hey, I burnt down a few Phazer motors back in the 80's too hahaha.
Lost count on Cat cranks in the 90's.
Then switched from pistons one season to cranks the next on my Doo's from 2000-2010
Now I split the service between a 2 stroke and 4 stroke depending on conditions, hardest part is adapting for the ride LOL.
BTW. selling my 18 Cat, gently rode, moving to a 23 9R.
The 18 is OLD TECH....hahaha

Ooooooo , karebear gets a 9 r ???

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[maxwell]

Ooooooo , karebear gets a 9 r ???

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good way to get the wife to quit sledding. i should try it

 

[TylerG]

good way to get the wife to quit sledding. i should try it

we all know that your lady would be on your expert and you'd be riding the 9r

 

[jcjc1]

I don’t think they are. “Track issues”have shown up in the last 4-5 years. What’s changed? Everyone rides turbos, short tunnels and 3” paddles.

Skidoo since the 3” paddle was stock on summits had started putting it in the manual 2 pages worth of warnings for trail racers that states no prolonged riding over 45mph or tracks will delaminate. 3” lugs heat up on prolonged riding of hard ice pack trails. Never exceed 60mph on 3” paddles etc etc. how many guys forget to put their scratchers down?

Shorter tunnels mean more guys pulling on sides of trail and spinning their tracks for cooling (rocks, trees, branches) Pin and wiggle since the short tunnel makes a quick way of getting unstuck or preventing a stuck terrible snow conditions means rocks, trees ripping the track.

Everyone blames the track when I would say it’s operator fault. But as with everything it’s never the operators fault the machine failed


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get outta here with that nonsense! no room for logic and reason on a powersports forum!

 

[jcjc1]

could be wrong and frequently that's the case but i know the G5's use an even thinner aluminum on the tunnel plus BRP was also saying the new track was lighter. this tells me that if they're reducing material on these two parts to lose weight then there's not really any viable solutions to either cheaply and/or effectively shed significant weight in general. point is, is that i think we're stuck with roughly these sled weights for awhile and whatever durability or lack thereof that confers.

 

[FranktheTank]

If it cant go 100kmh down the trail id lean towards they are chit.

Does the ol’xp even hit 100km/hr any more?


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[lilduke]

Does the ol’xp even hit 100km/hr any more?


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That thing will do 140

 

[hbar218]

I might be even more extreme. I ride at full throttle most of the time. I took my sled into the dealer and they thought their computer was broken. Guy was like .....it says you were at full throttle 96% of the time!?? I just told him that's how I like to live my life. Super super extreme guy

It’s pretty hard to go off sweet jumps at 1/2 throttle, its a known fact that 96% is he sweet jump speed.

 

[niner]

I might be even more extreme. I ride at full throttle most of the time. I took my sled into the dealer and they thought their computer was broken. Guy was like .....it says you were at full throttle 96% of the time!?? I just told him that's how I like to live my life. Super super extreme guy

 

[Shredder]

It's crazy the amount of rides that Matt seems to be having sleds broke down, or smashed this year. It must wear on those guys always having to be figuring out how to get sleds back to the trucks at the end of the day. The whole group pushing the limits on running out of fuel thing is something I have never really understood. That's totally in each riders control to change your riding according to how much fuel you have left throughout the day. As well as not having spare belts on every sled and not packing essential tools on every sled. I ride like a damn sissy now and still have two spare belts with me at all times. Kinda some weird stuff I don't understand going on at times this year.

 

[Ghfalls]

lol. He buys more new sleds than spare belts. I think maybe part of it is that he wants a bit of drama in the day for the YouTube video. Look at what he names all his videos. Must get more views to say out of gas and broken bulkhead than another fun day on boulder mountain.

 

[NoBrakes!]

Could you imagine that? He's TRYING to get views? crazy

 

[niner]

I love it when he says he’s out of fuel then takes fresh snow all the back to the main trail. Poaching tracked snow makes a huge difference throughout the day on how much fuel you use.

 

[NoBrakes!]

they go a long ways on empty too... I had the BEEP BEEP when it was DEEP DEEP past the green tower before and easily made it to Glacier House without adding...

 

[+SLEDWRECKS+]

Last few bars are the largest part of the fuel tank

 

[sledneck__11]

Flashing fuel light always means a good day anyways always keep a 1 litre bottle of gas in the backpack to start a fire or get me back down never needed it yet