YamahaMainer
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Hey all. Yet another question for all you folks out there...
I'm looking to get the Yamaha mountain skis for my new 06 Attak because I have heard a lot of horror stories about the stock skis in deeper snow. My question is: how do these skis handle on regular trails? I ride mainly on groomed trails up north (with the occasional off-trail jaunt) and I also sometimes require doing a little trailblazing to get to the local trails around my house. I just want to have a little peace-of-mind when I decide to venture off-trail but I don't want to give up too much on-trail performance. Also, just as a side note, I will be transferring my dual carbide runners from my stock skis to the mountains if I do in fact buy them.
I'm looking to get the Yamaha mountain skis for my new 06 Attak because I have heard a lot of horror stories about the stock skis in deeper snow. My question is: how do these skis handle on regular trails? I ride mainly on groomed trails up north (with the occasional off-trail jaunt) and I also sometimes require doing a little trailblazing to get to the local trails around my house. I just want to have a little peace-of-mind when I decide to venture off-trail but I don't want to give up too much on-trail performance. Also, just as a side note, I will be transferring my dual carbide runners from my stock skis to the mountains if I do in fact buy them.
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There is one ski that Yamaha makes that is great -- their regular old mountain ski....
Yammi Mountain skis are excellent. Best skis Yammi has ever made IMHO. I don't know why they dont put their mountain skis on every sled they make.
Now they aren't perfect. They do require a 1/4" shim in the rear of the rubbers and I'd recommend your choosing of good carbides. Don't stick with the stock POS's. Get Snowtrackers or Triple Points. Otherwise they will dart/ hunt a moderate bit....
But the have a very tall keel that really helps to hold corners. And they float almost as well as my Powder Hounds, but not quite as good as the Simmons, which I am currently running on my Attak GT.
On a side note, some carbides made for the stock skis won't fit the mountain skis because the mounting bolts aren't long enough. Be sure those babies are at least like 4" long or else they will not work for the mountain skis....
Yammi Mountain skis are excellent. Best skis Yammi has ever made IMHO. I don't know why they dont put their mountain skis on every sled they make.
Now they aren't perfect. They do require a 1/4" shim in the rear of the rubbers and I'd recommend your choosing of good carbides. Don't stick with the stock POS's. Get Snowtrackers or Triple Points. Otherwise they will dart/ hunt a moderate bit....
But the have a very tall keel that really helps to hold corners. And they float almost as well as my Powder Hounds, but not quite as good as the Simmons, which I am currently running on my Attak GT.
On a side note, some carbides made for the stock skis won't fit the mountain skis because the mounting bolts aren't long enough. Be sure those babies are at least like 4" long or else they will not work for the mountain skis....
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On my 08 MTX I'm running 8" woodys and it rides good.
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Well I just thought I would let you all know that I took the Attak out for it's first real ride on the trails this weekend and for the most part I absolutely LOVE the thing. I may write a review of it in the near future but I digress...
The one thing that I noticed that will REALLY have to be changed is the large amount of push with this sled. I am running stock skis with woodys doolies and it was just god-aweful in the corners...I would have to slow down to about 30 MPH entering turns and even then it would still want to slide in a straight line. Most of the time I would have to hope that it would catch someone elses' line just to make it through the turn. Now I am almost certain that it is not actually the Attak's fault, but rather a combination of sketchy snow conditions (it was about 40 degrees F all this weekend) and the doolys which everyone has said tend to push. Also, my buddy was using doolys on a Poo XC and he was having a problems making turns too.
Now the problem arises of whether I should stay with dual carbide runners or go back to singles when I get the mountain skis. I liked how my sled did NOT dart at all, thanks to the duals but I hated the push. Do you guys think that the snow-catching design of the Stud Boy Deuces will help aleviate the pushing problem? Or should I just go back to regular Shaper bars?
Edit: Super Sled, how can you tell if the bolts are going to be long enough? Just look at them in the store?
The one thing that I noticed that will REALLY have to be changed is the large amount of push with this sled. I am running stock skis with woodys doolies and it was just god-aweful in the corners...I would have to slow down to about 30 MPH entering turns and even then it would still want to slide in a straight line. Most of the time I would have to hope that it would catch someone elses' line just to make it through the turn. Now I am almost certain that it is not actually the Attak's fault, but rather a combination of sketchy snow conditions (it was about 40 degrees F all this weekend) and the doolys which everyone has said tend to push. Also, my buddy was using doolys on a Poo XC and he was having a problems making turns too.
Now the problem arises of whether I should stay with dual carbide runners or go back to singles when I get the mountain skis. I liked how my sled did NOT dart at all, thanks to the duals but I hated the push. Do you guys think that the snow-catching design of the Stud Boy Deuces will help aleviate the pushing problem? Or should I just go back to regular Shaper bars?
Edit: Super Sled, how can you tell if the bolts are going to be long enough? Just look at them in the store?
