while putting this thing together, I was optimisitic that it was going to work.
By "WORK" I mean that a guy should be able to turn, stop, etc..... At least to some degree.
As it sits, there is literally ZERO steering. Mark is going to hard-weld the wear bar on the bottom of the ski and sharpen it like a carbide so we have a fighting chance of turning. Even in the hard pack snow the thing is so WEIRD to steer... You just cannot figure out what to do with your body? Should a guy lean the bike and turn the handlebar? Or keep the bike straight up and turn the handlebar? or leave the handlebar straight and lean the bike? This next vid shows Mark riding it about 150 feet down the ditch in front of my house. Even this proved DIFFICULT...
You guys should know that Mark races vintage sleds and I've put plenty of thousands of miles on snowmobiles, so we both know how to "steer" them..
This thing is not a snowmobile or a motorcycle. The Snow Job is its own beast and has made its own set of rules....and we haven't learned them...........
yet
Couple this together with a notchy clutch basket, sketchy used mini-bike kill switch (will be replaced before the next round of test-rides
), and a baker's dozen of other "issues"....not to mention the fact that the carbs were icing up just idling which made it a short (but interesting) few test runs!
A pic of how much this thing LEANS within its chassis
and Mark (trying) to ride it down the ditch..
One other small thing to note is that the brake pads are the size of U.S. Nickels and are actuated with a CABLE to a lever on the front handlebars. I had the lever pulled all the way in when shooting down the driveway and I don't recall it remotely slowing down.
not much we can do about that really?..........
Maybe an EX500 conversion?
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