Relax! Yamaha is not lying Down.

[20/80]

I believe Yamaha has been lying down to, it will be hard for them to break away from Textron with the amount of co-shared sleds they have together now, for Yamaha only to come out with a new chassis for their customers will turn the Yamicat concept upside down and out the window, Yamaha will still have to sell parts for the procross for a while after that and they probably are going to need a lot of them, this could be what's happening, that's why no new models till the release of their own new chassis, pray to god that its not co produced with Cat that it stays all Japan built only.

 

[74Nitro]

Every time I ride my Winder I'm thankful that Yamaha uses the Cat chassis.

 

[hibshman25]

Every time I ride my Winder I'm thankful that Yamaha uses the Cat chassis.

I have no problem with cat influence on chassis as far as ride and handling. If yamaha is involved from day 1 with cat in co-developing a chassis and chaincase I think we would truely have a fantastic sleds. Let cat design geometry and suspension and let yamaha put it together. Yamahas influence on the current procross was likely minimal.

 

[hibshman25]

20000 mi on a 19? Holy Cow would like to hear what you find Travis! Is that right?

Yep 20k miles. Dealer says guy was trying to set some world record for miles in season. Will get run down this week when I pick it up.

 

[Rtbo]

Just got home from the big east snowmobile show. The Yamaha area was 1/6 the size of Polaris and skidoo. They didn’t even have a carpet down. I think 8 sleds packed in a 30x30 space with 1 Yamaha guy there. It was a joke. the beef jerky guy had a better set up. I don’t recall even seeing cat there

 

[paradise]

I talked to Yamaha at haydays and they were really quite about everything I was drilling him with questions and all that he told me was that they were not going anywhere, but he would not say anything about new models.

 

[1nc 2000]

Yamaha needs to get really aggressive with the demo rides all winter long.

 

[ClutchMaster]

I talked to Yamaha at haydays and they were really quite about everything I was drilling him with questions and all that he told me was that they were not going anywhere, but he would not say anything about new models.

Well I guess I’m just going to have too do a little PI on yamaha this year. I know the exact trail and spot to turn. Trail 10 west of minouqua in the neighborhood of squirrel lake, been there before just need to refresh my memory. Actually I’ll probably play it safe and use my buddies Drone.

 

[ClutchMaster]

Here’s the spot!
Anybody have the phone number for Wikileaks?

 

[stevewithOCD]

Yep 20k miles. Dealer says guy was trying to set some world record for miles in season. Will get run down this week when I pick it up.

I wonder if this sled was that old guy from VT that went over 20,000 miles in one year.
My DOO bud kept sending the link to it...................every day!

 

[whitedust1]

I have no problem with cat influence on chassis as far as ride and handling. If yamaha is involved from day 1 with cat in co-developing a chassis and chaincase I think we would truely have a fantastic sleds. Let cat design geometry and suspension and let yamaha put it together. Yamahas influence on the current procross was likely minimal.

I totally agree the AC/Yamaha OEM Agreement was extremely exciting to me when it began. Unfortunately neither company maximized and harnessed the product development and the potential to produce a leading edge snowmobile with eps. They could have but just didn’t and shoehorned engines into the procross which worked well considering it was a piecemeal approach to product development. Something exciting could still happen if Textron cares to collaborate with Yamaha but Textron doesn’t seem interested which is totally understandable since snowmobiles was never part of their acquisition plans.

 

[cannondale27]

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Here’s the spot!
Anybody have the phone number for Wikileaks?

Hey let’s all storm the Yamaha R&D center! Was by there twice last year.

 

[ClutchMaster]

Hey let’s all storm the Yamaha R&D center! Was by there twice last year.

Yea yea that’s the ticket. OCD can tell’em jokes and when they are rolling around on the ground it will be easy to snap pictures or even take a test ride or two.
Then when Whitedust isn’t looking will pull off his spark plug wires so he gets busted by the cops........I love it when a plan comes together!

 

[20/80]

Yamaha had called a big meeting in Toronto Ontario last week, I know my dealer was there, wonder what Yamaha has on the table for 2020.

 

[whitedust1]

Yamaha had called a big meeting in Toronto Ontario last week, I know my dealer was there, wonder what Yamaha has on the table for 2020.

Unless pulling a rabbit out of a hat the 2020 line was revealed in Spring. 2021 line is the question. But no doubt leaks will come from this meeting so ask your dealer.