OPS2147
Extreme
- Joined
- Jan 14, 2016
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- 86
- Age
- 42
- Location
- Ontario
- Country
- Canada
- Snowmobile
- 2009 APEX RTX(sold)
2014 Viper LTX SE (wrecked)
2016 Viper LTX SE (MPS SYSTEM)
2018 Sidewinder LTX LE 50th !
Bought a 2016 Viper LTX running tuners with a 6 inch and the stock 2 inch this season. I will be swapping them out for next season as I have a little shake still around 50 or 60. What are you running and what are your results ?
SnoNinja
aka "Plan B"
- Joined
- Feb 18, 2015
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- 57
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- Gaylord, Michigan
- Country
- USA
- Snowmobile
- 2015 Viper LTX-LE
2016 Vector LE For my Bride
2007 Phazer GT, 136" Stretch.
2002 SXR600 (still own)
1997 SX600 (sold)
1997 XT500 (sold)
2013 Can-Am Maverick 1000XRS
2006 Dodge Charger RT - Top Banana Daytona
7" Slydog Powderhounds with their 4" round bars. Turns better than tuners did on trail, and also good off. Don't float like the 8" dogs, but A good compromise for on and off trail riders. Like most aggressive single keel skis, The dogs are a it more darty than tuners, but it isn't uncomfortable. I shimmed them 1/8" at the back and it helped. After running both, I wouldn't go back to Tuners unless all I did was ride groomed trails. For me, the trails are only there to get me to the off trail spots. With the tuners, I ran 6" shapers inside and 4" round outside. It was too much bite on set up trails and too much push in anything loose. Powderhounds work better everywhere IMO. Curves and Mohawks also get good reviews.
Curves get my vote. Will be getting a set next year finally. Past 3 seasons I have been running 6.9 Pilots with 7.5 Shaper bars. No Push, no darting and work great for flotation but harder effort than Curves and getting hard to come by since discontinued. Also done with carbides on outside of ski since Railroad track incident. That outside Carbide can easily hit anything. Would rather just have plastic hit.
tapex_07
TY 4 Stroke Master
- Joined
- Feb 15, 2009
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- 1,160
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- USA
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- '10 Nytro MTX SE IMPULSE 174x3
'14 Viper XTX SE MPI 159x14x1.25
'07 Apex RTX SC2 MPI 128x1
Powderhounds here too. Shaper bar 4.5" I think, might be 6". I forget. Yes they are a little darty at lower speeds, but if ran hard they run great! I'll be going to the 7.5 or 9's next season since I got the studs installed late this year.
- Joined
- Apr 14, 2003
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- Hessel, Michigan
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- USA
- Snowmobile
- Sidewinder, SR Viper XTX, SR Viper XTX, 2016 Apex XTX and Pro-Line Pro Stock 1000
7 inch powderhounds here also.
Had the C&A 8 inch on it, worked good for off trail... but trail riding was ok, they would follow other tracks too much.
Had the C&A 8 inch on it, worked good for off trail... but trail riding was ok, they would follow other tracks too much.
larrypolaris
Expert
Curves with 4" leading edge and 6" carbides round bar. Will try Berstrom triple points next season.
Sled tracks and corners great. Floats nice in deep snow too.
Sled tracks and corners great. Floats nice in deep snow too.
yamahaguy
Ride SAFE
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2014
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- 1,393
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- Elmira, MI (center of the snow belt)
- Country
- USA
- Snowmobile
- 2015 Yamaha MTX LE with MPI
On our second set of 8 inch Slydog Powderhounds. They work very well for how we use them, mostly off trail.
Dirtbikekid1998
TY 4 Stroke Junkie
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- Mar 3, 2013
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- 27
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- Maine
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- USA
- Snowmobile
- 2014 Yamaha Viper LTX SE Hurricane 190hp Turbo.
Slp Mohawks here.
I run them with a 6" round bar. The did dart at first but after I correctly aligned my skis and added Bergstorm ski shims it eliminated 99% of the darting. Love these skis so far absolutely rail on the trails and have
easy-medium steering effort. Since we never had over 12" of powder I can't say how they did off trail but they are a 7" wide ski and every one raves about there off trail abilities else where. Overall this is a ski that does every thing very well.
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I run them with a 6" round bar. The did dart at first but after I correctly aligned my skis and added Bergstorm ski shims it eliminated 99% of the darting. Love these skis so far absolutely rail on the trails and have
easy-medium steering effort. Since we never had over 12" of powder I can't say how they did off trail but they are a 7" wide ski and every one raves about there off trail abilities else where. Overall this is a ski that does every thing very well.
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ck7923
Newbie
Simmons skis here (Gen 1). Big improvement in bite on trail, better turning overall off trail as well. Before I tried them, I was doing every adjustment in the book to reduce the pushing in turns. Once I put them on I immediately gave up on the idea of using the 2016 Tuner skis.
