Tell Me About Yamaha Sno-Sports & Sno Scoots?

[whitedust1]

Please tell me about Yamaha Sno-Sports & Sno Scoots. What years where they manufactured? What are differences. Any major problems? I want sleds for grandkids 4-10 but would also use them to ride adults on lake for ice fishng if possible. We had soooooo much fun with old Bravo but way too much hp for little kids. Any website I can go to to get specs & cost? I appreciate anything you can tell me.
TIA
whitedust1

 

[srxguy]

I can tell you that the sno-scoots were 80cc and the sno-sports were 120 or 125cc. I have a sno-sport that I bought for my daughter about 8 yrs ago and I can ride it around so I would say if you were going to use it for anything go for the sno-sports .just my 2 cents

 

[08fz6]

sno scoot:
http://www.mercurysnowmobiles.com/yamaha_sno-scoot.htm

the scoot was a 80cc
88-90


the sport was a 125cc
90-91

 

[whitedust1]

What a shame...why did they only make for 3 years?

 

[PureBlue]

I don't know, but i think Polaris copied the rear suspension from it.

 

[millstreet]

sno sport 1990

 

[Vmax540]

What a shame...why did they only make for 3 years?

I remember in the fall of 1997 my dealer had 3 brand new snowscoots/snosports left over. Back in the day they couldn't give them away and people wonder why Yamaha doesn't produce a kids sled. Heck my son was three years old and he offered me any of them Below his original costs ! I called him a couple years later and he said if he had 20 more he could sell all he had go figure...... !

 

[blueironranger]

I think Yamaha should re-introduce the Sport with a YZF250 engine in it!

 

[SledFreak]

I think it was bad timing for them... The market did not want them at that time, but know I believe they could see alot of them..

 

[Vmax540]

I think it was bad timing for them... The market did not want them at that time, but know I believe they could see alot of them..

In the lean Years ~1982 till the early 90's Yamaha tried to introduce new people to the sport with Enticers, Inviters, Phazers, Snowscoots etc... and Yamafests. Towards the end of the 80's they started to lose market share and were widely critized by the media because they were not focused on the Big Iron/Big cc. sleds and hence, came the Vmax4 in 1992 and they have never since, focused on entry level sleds.