Yamaha Weight

[ViperTurboPete]

I just sold my 83 Enticer Trapper 340. An absolute bullet proof machine that has survived my childhood, my own kids, and now it is sold to a friend for his kids to enjoy. All I have ever done to it is add gas, oil, and change belts...that's it!!!!

It was cool when the first Enticers came out how they blew a lot of machines out of the snow. The litte ET 250 was really something else. I was a kid so all the Enticers seemed really fast!! Anyway, back then Yamaha was the king of the lighweights. Yamaha now is the king of the heavyweights. It just seems funny when you think about it.

 

[08NitroRTX]

Yamaha has been making quality sleds for many MANY years!

 

[Coondog2707]

its funny cause back when that sled came out me and all my friends had to have the fastest sled. I made no difference that not one of them would turn when you turned the bars. Then my friends dad bought the Enticer and after we all had a chance to ride it, we all fought over who was riding it that day. It was truly a revelation. Like night and day, when you got back on your own sled it was frustrating and disappointing no matter how fast it was! They were a turning point in sleds. Pun intended.

 

[JJWickenhauser]

Coon Dog-

Don't ride a turbo/Super Charged/NOS 4 stroker, it will make your sled seem slow also!!

 

[LazyBastard]

I always thought it was fun to blow away the 500's with the little ET300. Still have it in my basement where it is staying until a day when it may be called back into use.

 

[craze1cars]

Ah yes...the good ol' days...early 70's thru early 80's...

When one reasonably strong man with a bit of common sense could realistically load a sled into the back of a pickup truck ALONE...by lifting it in one end at a time.

Just try doing THAT with your new Yami 4 stroke!!!! Or even any of today's 2 strokes for that matter. Ain't gonna happen unless you're an accomplished dead-lifter in your spare time...

In many, many, many ways I genuinely miss those simple sleds and the type of riding we used to do on them. Back when a 100 mile day was a true accomplishment and not overly common...and local clubs would hand out patches as awards for those who got it done, so you could sew it to the back of your 1 piece suit just below your metal-flake green open-faced helmet to show off your accomplishment...

Yet in other ways (primarily in the 2 to 4 inches of travel rear suspension/leaf spring front, AND the days BEFORE reliable handwarmers were invented) I do not miss those sleds at all...

Many times today's 250 mile turn-key trail-ride days honestly bore me. Which is why I much prefer to boondock whenever I can find a good place to legally do it. But I was NEVER bored trying to travel 100 trail miles in a day on a 70's era sled...on 70's era trails...with 70's trail grooming methods (if you could call it that). Anyone remember Doo Alpines towing drags through the woods? Nothing like today's bulldozers...

And don't even get me started on the QUANTITY of snow that would be on the ground back then. Didn't seem to matter where you were or what year it was, there was consistent DEEP snow just about everywhere in the USA snowbelt, from December to March. Never had to search and pray for it like we do today.

 

[SlowPoke]

But I was NEVER bored trying to travel 100 trail miles in a day on a 70's era sled...on 70's era trails...with 70's trail grooming methods (if you could call it that). Anyone remember Doo Alpines towing drags through the woods? Nothing like today's bulldozers...

I remeber them pulling bed springs for drags!

 

[QCRider]

Chain link fencing as well.