My brother called me on Tuesday and said more snow is dropping this weekend up north and he’s heading up and asked if I was ready. Not completely but I’ll make it happen.
Same day my carbides showed up. Got my MoHawks mounted.
I only have one panel wrapped though. I didn’t like the digital camo vinyl that I started wrapping it with. It was hard to work with because there was barely any stretch, so going around hard curves I had to make cuts which means seams. I decided to wrap it because I didn’t want to buy a precut graphic because of all the seams. So I tore the camo vinyl off and got some gloss black metallic that matches the color of the hood. It’s Vivid brand, much better to work with and much better adhesive. Sucks that I’m only gonna have one side done for this weekend, but I want to ride so I’ll run it.
My brother also told me that when he was up a few weeks ago our dad was really draggin #*$&@ on his sled. When my brother asked what’s the deal, he said he was just enjoying the scenery. “Dad, you’ve been coming up here your entire life. You see one tree, you’ve seen them all. Try to pick up the pace a little. 20MPH is not working.” He also told me when dad gets off the sled, you can see he’s hurting. He’s driving an ‘01 SXR trailing arm sled and we’ve been telling him he needs a newer one. But my mom put it in his head that he only has a few seasons left in him so there’s no need to buy one. So my brother and I decided we’ll get him an Apex with EPS and we think he will be able to ride more than a few more seasons if he’s not getting beat to death. So we found an ‘11 with 6000 miles that seems very well maintained. Guy is selling it because he bought a Sidewinder.
I test fit my new cover that the wife bought for me. I’m worried that it’s gonna pull in on my hand guard and they’ll be ruined. Maybe I’ll remove them when I have to put cover on.
I’m tired of using a 2 place tilt trailer. The wind is gonna beat the cover against the sled and when we are all up north and we want to go somewhere else to ride, we put my nephew’s or my dad’s sled in the back of my brothers truck and then he pulls a two place and I pull a two place. We’ve talked about buying an enclosed trailer but we keep our sleds up there so it’s kinda a waste. We built a separate 2 car garage that has a single garage door on front and one on back so we can drive thru so we don’t need an enclosed trailer for storage. Last trip of the season last year we vowed that this season we weren’t putting a sled in back of truck. So I reminded my brother of that and told him that if he bought the Apex I would buy an enclosed trailer. Or we could go half on both. So I searched for trailer. Seem a bunch of steel frame trailers, I don’t want a steel snowmobile trailer. Found a lot that are only 7 foot wide, “in-line” trailers they call them. No thanks. Couple 8 foot wide with Vee and front drop down door but they weren’t deck over so they had the wheel wells inside. Nope. Then I found a Forest River, all aluminum, deck over, 26’ but it was 230 miles away, east of Indianapolis. Gotta travel when you find what you want. Made the trip today, well, yesterday now cuz it’s 1am. Left at noon and got home at 8:15.
The SkiDoo logos will be gone before I come home on Monday.
Getting some sleep and heading north first thing in morning. Instead of driving straight up the state, I have to head toward Green Bay to pick up the Apex. Then I’m still another 2-1/2 hrs drive from there.
My dad has no idea about either. He’s coming up with my brother and his son but not leaving until my brother gets off work at 3:30. I should be at the house or just about there at that time. So when they get up there he’s gonna be surprised and happy that we have a trailer that we can load everything in. It’ll be late when they get there but in the morning he’s gonna want to look at the trailer and when I open it up he’ll see the Apex for the first time. It won’t even dawn on him that it’s his. I can’t wait to see his face when we tell him. This is gonna be a good weekend. I might even set up the GoPro and record it.
