Anyone ditch the thumb throttle?

[LazyBastard]

Tether? Who wants a tether?
Actually it would be interesting to see a sled slam into a tree at over 100 mph, i just dont want to see mine do it. Besides a kill switch im also looking into a tether for the parking brake so when i come off the brake is engaged and cant coast down the hill.

Tether... as in electrical. Turn off the motor when you fall off. The brake tether will NOT stop the sled, and the brake will quickly fail.

 

[Apex2006]

all I know is the the thumb flipper for my sled is fine along time ago road to copper harbor on a buddies back up sled[blew the motor in mine and the thumb distance was so large my thumb would cramp up and I have huge hands it was a 89 yamaha with the headlight that turned with the farr ing you talk about a uncomfortable 175 miles each way now own 06 apexgt Bob

Funny, that was probably the exciter or phaser, although many loved the headlight that turned with the handlebars. I like your choice of sled today LOL

 

[duste]

I thought about this too and tried it a couple years ago. I come from the dirt bike world also and thought it would be a big improvement. I hated it, I could not get smooth on the throttle at all , my rpms were constantly up and down. and the only reason I could come up witit where your feet are located and the way you transfer your weight when you are riding. I went back to the thumb throttle right away, but thats just me.

 

[LazyBastard]

*** one of the reasons why a twist throttle doesn't work so good on a sled (aside from the ice problem) has to do with the CVT TRANSMISSION!!! Bikes have fixed shift points. Sleds don't.

Because the drive ratio adapts to torque, the required throttle position isn't linear or constant for a given speed. Your thumb can easily compensate for this, but with a twist, you have to move too many muscles for this to feel natural.