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 Post subject: Re: Snow Job....
PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 8:54 pm 
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How would it do if you went off the track into the deep stuff? I assume worse, but...

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 Post subject: Re: Snow Job....
PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 9:08 pm 
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Reminded me of my Grandfathers snowmobile he built for a doctor:

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 Post subject: Re: Snow Job....
PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 9:16 pm 
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Jim wrote:
How would it do if you went off the track into the deep stuff? I assume worse, but...



On the lake a couple of weeks ago, it was actually kind of fun. There was about a foot of powder.
KNOWING that there isn't anything beneath the snow that is going to buck you off is HUGE.
I was actually railing on it pretty hard. :twisted: I had it pinned in 3rd gear, and probably doing between 40-45mph. Huge sweeping, kicked out donuts.. Tracks were spinning obviously. On hardpack, 3rd gear wide open would be 55mph easy..maybe more. And that is suicide.
Where we were yesterday is "unknown" territory with Beaver Dams, clumps sticking out of the ice, etc.. And there wasn't a lot of open snow to do anything anyways.. The track was pretty much it.

Mark almost crashed a few weeks ago when he took it through an "unknown" field that had snow. :lol:

oh, and speaking of "spinning tracks", when you really get them going, the snow is thrown out THE FRONT of the machine, so it makes its own cloud to try to ride through... You can't see anything! :lol:


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 Post subject: Re: Snow Job....
PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:18 am 
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Location: Running Springs Ca
Makes you wonder how many where sold back it the day. I remember seeing the ads back in the old
magazines and always wanted to try one. So cool that you have one restored and running.


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 Post subject: Re: Snow Job....
PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:28 am 
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Location: Just north of Toronto, Ontario
The thing looks like a widow maker if you ask me!!! :mrgreen:
I suspect you'll high side that thing if you continue to test it's limits...

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 Post subject: Re: Snow Job....
PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 1:32 pm 
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Walms wrote:

I suspect you'll high side that thing if you continue to test it's limits...


that sounds like a dare.


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 Post subject: Re: Snow Job....
PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 1:49 pm 
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I bet the "word" got out pretty quick, that it's not the greatest invention....... :wtf:

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