Scotty
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After reading and replying to a topic on this site titled "what's the first sled you rode or owned" I had a wonderful memory... and had to add a new topic.
MY Mom understood what "Rider Forward" meant. My mom and Dad used to do a lot of sledding in the late 60's and early 70's and up until the mid 80's. They would ride with a group of aprx. 24 sledders, husbands and wives on all sorts of sleds from "Rupps to Cats" and all makes in between. They would make the trip to Radium BC about 1-2 times per year, from Edmonton AB. Forester Creek and the Bugaboo's were the areas of choice.
Anyways, My Mom rode a brandnew '72 Ski-doo Nordic and had a heck of a time seeing over the windshield, she was about 110 lbs and 5' 4" (short)... so she ripped apart the vinyl seat and added about 4 inches of foam, recovered the seat so she could sit higher and see over the handle bars and windshield... she says it made her riding experience more enjoyable. Remember this is back in 1972 - 1973!!!. She was probbably one of the first, if not the first, to start the "Rider Forward" era!
However, since then the Nordic was sent to pasture, Dad bought a '74 Panther 440, '77 Panther 5000, '81 El'Tiger 6000, etc... the family since then has been a "CAT" family.
The Nordic was pretty cool though! And is still a great memmory
MY Mom understood what "Rider Forward" meant. My mom and Dad used to do a lot of sledding in the late 60's and early 70's and up until the mid 80's. They would ride with a group of aprx. 24 sledders, husbands and wives on all sorts of sleds from "Rupps to Cats" and all makes in between. They would make the trip to Radium BC about 1-2 times per year, from Edmonton AB. Forester Creek and the Bugaboo's were the areas of choice.
Anyways, My Mom rode a brandnew '72 Ski-doo Nordic and had a heck of a time seeing over the windshield, she was about 110 lbs and 5' 4" (short)... so she ripped apart the vinyl seat and added about 4 inches of foam, recovered the seat so she could sit higher and see over the handle bars and windshield... she says it made her riding experience more enjoyable. Remember this is back in 1972 - 1973!!!. She was probbably one of the first, if not the first, to start the "Rider Forward" era!
However, since then the Nordic was sent to pasture, Dad bought a '74 Panther 440, '77 Panther 5000, '81 El'Tiger 6000, etc... the family since then has been a "CAT" family.
The Nordic was pretty cool though! And is still a great memmory
