Pete Z

Agree on the PWC thing to some extent, but on the snowbikes I beg to differ. Ride one and then get back to me. BTW - 400 km trail days don't necessarily equate to fun.

Max Webster was cool, first album I ever bought was Universal Juveniles, lots of good tunes. IMHO the flip to the Kim Mitchell persona was a bad move - always been gayer than a bag full of dicks.

That looks like a good clean original one.

If they continue to gain in popularity, I wouldn't be surprised to see them allowed on the trail some time in the future.

I love the winter and sledding but sadly the trail system just isn't what it once was. I'm glad that I was riding during the mid-90s heydays, but those days are long gone. In my area less than half the trails we had back then remain today and many of them are also in peril of being closed. Throw the aggravation of invasive OPP trailside paperwork checks, spotty grooming, oncoming boneheads on the wrong side of the trail and so on and getting a snowbike seems that much more attractive. Getting a snowbike is almost like a return to my roots of just playing around on sleds without need of any sanctioned trails. The ability to use it year round is icing on the cake.

From my limited exposure to snowbikes I would agree with everything dirtybeacher posted. I didn't experience any arm pump at all and it's been a few years since I have ridden a dirt bike in any significant way. One other thing he didn't mention is that they are ridiculously easy to side hill with.

The way they are geared it doesn't really take a lot to get them rolling. We were playing around in a pit and it was all 2nd, 3rd & 4th gear work with really no need to lean on the throttle too heavily at all. That was one thing that I was curious to see - how badly the track kit taxed the bike's engine and driveline. I would say that it wasn't a whole lot harder on the bike than regular usage and in some ways it's even easier on them.

Most enduro bikes have pretty big tanks, but the Camso kits have a built in cargo rack that will easily hold a 2 gallon jerry can if not two.

You stuck on a Kitty Cat for your man cave decor? If not maybe broaden the search to include the Moto-ski Mini Sno and Alouette Mini Brute. Both cool vintage kids sleds.

There are tons of places to ride in my neck of the woods. Several pits to play in, unpopulated lakes and 1000's of acres of Crown Land virtually across the road from my house. Plenty of trails that have been abandoned by the local snowmobile club too. In fact the way things are going there's not going to be any OFSC trails left out this way.

Went to a snowbike demo day yesterday in Kearney sponsored by Rally Connex, Flybyu, Klim and Beta motorcycles. To say that I was impressed would be an understatement. Tried the Camso and Yeti snowbike track kits on a few different bikes and had an absolute blast. Much more motorcycle-like to ride than my Snowhawk ever was and it was immediately apparent the ability of these things to climb and boondock far surpasses that of any sled I have ever been on. I have no doubt that if I had one of these in the garage my sled would be collecting dust. I'm thinking that one of these kits on a big bore Euro dualsport (think KTM500EXC or similar) might just be the ultimate year round toy. I could even ride it to work on nice days in the summer to save on fuel and wear & tear on my truck.

Everyone knows that you don't drink cookies. Personally I like to crush them up then snort 'em. Unless they are Oreos, ya gotta free base those suckers - mmmmmm.

No - you are right. Stevenson's Shelter is on my property. It was getting pretty run down when we bought the place, but we've been fixing it up over the past few years. That's B trail between Hwy.118 and Uffington Road. It's still a hoot to ride. Best trail that Snowcrest has.

Locally it's known as Stevenson's Shelter named after the man that built it, but yes the previous owner to us name is Bob and he had a Bob's Backyard sign up for a number of years. Both pictures are of the same spot. You can see the Shelter picnic table to the left in the picture looking down B trail.

That was a huge problem for a while, until the insurance companies got involved and now no kid can afford to insure a crotch rocket. Starting to see the same thing happening with sleds. Lots of younger guys posting on Sledcore that they can't find anybody that will insure them on an 800.

When I was 16 the biggest sleds out there were 521's, 540's and 600's. Not to mention it was fairly rare to see any teenager riding that "big iron ". Now you see kids on new 800's all the time and it's no secret that new eights and even sixes pushing 120 hp+ are pretty much weapons. No argument that at 16 years of age most kids have the size, strength, reflexes and even experience to ride those sleds and ride them well. However what they lack is the maturity to make good decisions that can keep them from getting hurt. I know that I was invincible at 16 and somehow I survived, but I'm not sure it would've turned out as well if my RZ350 was swapped out for an R1 or my Moto-ski GPS was upgraded to a new 800 with 150 ponies.

No, but I hear that it's worth the drive.

B Trail east of Gravenhurst this afternoon.

It was from a Gmail account. Do you recall if it said that the login attempt was from Acton or some other location?

I was doing a little cyber-housecleaning this evening and deleting emails when I noticed this from a few weeks ago in the social media folder. Anybody else ever get something similar?

I'm going to have to check my snow stick back at the Shelter on B Trail when I pack my trails later today, but I figure that we have close to 2 feet of snow now after the squalls last night.

There you go again - trying to force your nut juice on people.

We will have to get together for a ride sometime this winter. Lots of catching up to do, better stock up on MGD and Crown Royal - lol.

As per my usual Christmas I'm spending it alone, however what is quite unusual is the heavy snow literally puking from the sky right now. Shaping up to be a great start for the season, which is all I really wanted to find under the tree anyways. Merry Christmas and happy trails to all.

It actually would be great to see new Canadians (or more likely their 1st generation kids) take up snowmobiling. Could only help the sport in the long run.