Dual Carbides

[Zrxpilot]

The guy doing my shocks spoke highly of dual carbide runners for my 09 FX Short track with stock skis.

Was surfing ebay and found several choices. Anybody got a preference? 4", 6" Woodys, stud boy?


Flatlander

 

[Radar22]

I just put a set of 4" studboy duece carbides on and noticed a huge difference in the handling compared to the singles I had.. Not sure if the 6's would be better but with the stock skis the duals are the way to go.. I mostly trail ride so I was recommended the 4", and in the corners worked great, didn't push through it at all..

 

[yamahinn03]

Before I put Tuner Skis on I ran 6 inch Duallys, they work very well, no darting, but they can push alot in the corners.

 

[canadianhunter]

To my knowledge duallys first came out on the 02 Polaris Classic with FAST M-10 to combat darting, they were called Accutracks. They worked very well for both darting and push with poos front end adjustment. So much so that 5 people that rode our sleds converted to Polaris Classics in 03
In fall of 05 I moved to Yamaha only cause poo had nothing new except the Fusion.
With the poo's we could always tell where we were and if we were last there by the dually tracks.
Our new Rages had Woodys duallys dealt in. Right away I noticed that above about 15mph( a crawl) you no longer could see the dually track just a furrow unlike on the poo. Also push was very bad. After trying every adjustment to no avail I could think of I looked close at the duallys.
Polaris duallys are 1 1/2" wide outside leaving approx. 3/4" space between, Yamaha duallys( to fit the ski keel) are 1 1/4" outside leaving about 1/2" between.
Soon as your above idle speed the Yamaha 1/2" is not enough to clean thus causing push.
It was enough to cause me to cut my Yamaha woodys apart and widen the 2 carbides, what a job but boy what an improvement. Push was more than the poos but much much better.
In time due to Yamahas poor skiis I converted to Slydogs with my own design of ski savers with a sharp edge, not darting. I am happy. Rode new Yamahas with power steering and although steering was easy the darting was terrible so we still have our 06's
If we don't get something new soon I'll be back on Polaris.

 

[nitris223]

I made up my own dually's . Had a set of woody's in the garage for a friend so I looked them over and decided to make my own.. Did the same thing as the PP did by making them wider. For the length of carbide depends on studs or not. I think 6" would be max with no studs. 4" is just fine. 8" carbides and you will want to run studs . To much carbide and the back end can't keep up with the front end. The carbide does nothing unless you are on ice. If it is a groomed trail they don't really do anything for turning. The depth of the runner is more important there. The carbide also helps the runner from wearing out faster then if they were just regular soft steel runners.

Did 20 miles on new carbides , crossed the highway once and the sharp edge is gone of the carbide.