Sasquatch
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Installed heavy spring front and rear in the skid and am now finally starting to like the proaction skid. While it will never be as good as my Cat skid was for ride it is not that bad of a skid for trail riding. Once the rear shock is shot I'll try the rebuildable, set up for my fat #*$&@ and see how that works. For now I'm happy.
The motor is awesome. It has that whistle or whine that sounds allmost electric when powering up. Gives me a woody and makes steering a challenge ( the woody does, its in the way. RX = Viagra in different form ). When out on the lake today on the packed trail putting along at 30mph nailing it would jump the speedo to 55 instantly. Going back and looking at the tracks. It was pilling up snow and digging a trench for 100 ft plus. Thats stock thats awesome! I spun the mounds down so as to not piss off my fellow sledders when they hit them at speed.
Lets just say trail rideing this thing is a blast. Throttle response is fantastic and so much fun from corner to corner. Ease into throttle coming out speedo jumps up ease off plant ski's add gentle throttle through corner and ease into coming out again. Once you get the timing right its fun city.
Simmons ski's are great. Push a little in the soft fresh snow but still steer. Backing off all the way or even touching the brakes a little brings the rear around and plants the ski's better. To much throttle comeing out of a corner can make push worse so in soft stuff later throttle is better.
Packed trail ski's bite in and work great. Push very little with power on and don't bite to hard power off. On a packed groomed trail I love the way it handles.
On super hard pack it gets hard to steer a bit but steer it does.
Gas mileage ranges from a high of 20mpg to a low of 14.7. Oil usage since last change is next to nil in 300 miles.
All and all I love the sled the ski's and this forum. I've gleaned much info from this group and only hope someday I can repay you all for your words of wisdom. Damn I think I'm drunk
Finally I can say this
If I'd have used those before it wouldn't have meant anything so I refrained, now I can say it and mean it.
The motor is awesome. It has that whistle or whine that sounds allmost electric when powering up. Gives me a woody and makes steering a challenge ( the woody does, its in the way. RX = Viagra in different form ). When out on the lake today on the packed trail putting along at 30mph nailing it would jump the speedo to 55 instantly. Going back and looking at the tracks. It was pilling up snow and digging a trench for 100 ft plus. Thats stock thats awesome! I spun the mounds down so as to not piss off my fellow sledders when they hit them at speed.
Lets just say trail rideing this thing is a blast. Throttle response is fantastic and so much fun from corner to corner. Ease into throttle coming out speedo jumps up ease off plant ski's add gentle throttle through corner and ease into coming out again. Once you get the timing right its fun city.
Simmons ski's are great. Push a little in the soft fresh snow but still steer. Backing off all the way or even touching the brakes a little brings the rear around and plants the ski's better. To much throttle comeing out of a corner can make push worse so in soft stuff later throttle is better.
Packed trail ski's bite in and work great. Push very little with power on and don't bite to hard power off. On a packed groomed trail I love the way it handles.
On super hard pack it gets hard to steer a bit but steer it does.
Gas mileage ranges from a high of 20mpg to a low of 14.7. Oil usage since last change is next to nil in 300 miles.
All and all I love the sled the ski's and this forum. I've gleaned much info from this group and only hope someday I can repay you all for your words of wisdom. Damn I think I'm drunk
Finally I can say this
If I'd have used those before it wouldn't have meant anything so I refrained, now I can say it and mean it.
Mookster
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Ditto!
I feel the same way in most of those comments 'Squatch! It's a change/learning curve from my Viper, but I'm liking it more and more as I get used to the changes.
Took it for the first real ride last weekend, where I could push it a bit through straights and twisties and really learned alot about the handling, it isn't worse than my old reliable Viper, its just different and takes a bit of getting used to.
different sled, different characteristics.
Just need more snow now in Ontario now.
-Mook
I feel the same way in most of those comments 'Squatch! It's a change/learning curve from my Viper, but I'm liking it more and more as I get used to the changes.
Took it for the first real ride last weekend, where I could push it a bit through straights and twisties and really learned alot about the handling, it isn't worse than my old reliable Viper, its just different and takes a bit of getting used to.
different sled, different characteristics.
Just need more snow now in Ontario now.
-Mook
