SayatodaU.P.eh?

Anyone with a double digit IQ has him beat. Add to it that he’s a lib, so he loves himself some Big Gretch and he’s doesn’t even live in this state. You know, the one that’s been under repug control for all these years yet it’s still a fucked blue state.

I’ve had great luck with their goggles until the 2.0 Aviators that I bought last year. Complete garbage. I’ve been through 5 lenses. The foam that separates the two lenses keeps coming out of place and allowing snow dust in between the lenses.

I had an ice cobra on my Fusion. It worked well for on and off trail. Ended up going back down to an ice ripper though, when I took the 136 kit out of it.

Most of our trails end up with an ice/hard base. A studded short lug track always seems to run cooler on them. I wouldn’t want a BC track for trail riding either for the same reasons, noise and lack of traction on icy trails.

Except for the fact that the only gas engine that Flint truck assembly uses is the 6.6 L8T which will continue to be used in the HD trucks going forward into the foreseeable future and is built at Tonawanda.

Touché. Sounds like a really warm helmet though. If I had something other than my Klim F3, I’m sure I’d be ok. The F3 isn’t meant for trail riding though and that’s not what I bought it for but it’s comfortable so that’s all I have for a helmet right now. I have heated 509s. They weren’t melting anything yesterday until I stopped and left them on.

I was riding in a very light freezing drizzle mist today. While I hate those cords too, sure wished I would have had one today. So, that’s a non-point with me. Plus, I haven’t found a helmet that I can’t fog, even if just a little bit, without a heated shield. I’m fat and out of shape. I breathe and sweat a lot. Even if a helmet can evac all of my breath, it’s usually sealed tight enough that my sweaty head will make it start to fog.

I’ve been on the scene of two bad sled accidents in my life where someone had a modular type helmet. One made it but their face was all scratched up to shit (BVS2). The other was my brother in law. He’s no longer with us. His helmet (SD Modular) was in 8 pieces. I’d rather have something with a real chin bar. Close enough, imo. Plus, if I was going to pay that much for a helmet, I’d just buy an oxygen, tbh.

Still a modular type helmet. Hard pass.

Well, last season I bought a 509 R3L Ignite and tried to like it. Rode with it twice. Couldn’t stand it and sold it. Since, I’ve tried ever none modular helmet I think I can find (Castle X, 509 Delta V, etc) and can’t find anything that will fit me or that I like. So, I’m trail riding in my Klim F3 and goggles this weekend and while it’s a little chilly, even in 25F temps, at least it fits and is comfortable. I was just at the large Polaris/Doo dealer tonight and still couldn’t find anything I liked or would fit. 99% of full face helmets they had were module and I won’t ride in a modular. Sorta beyond over it. Might be time to buy an old HJC CL series heavy ass bucket and deal with it.

Again, tell me where you plug the cord in, to charge the battery. I’ve done my “research”. Seems you haven’t.

Show me where the cord plugs into the car. I’ll wait.

The base car is still a really good car. That noise the Z06 makes, while very nice, can get hard on the ears during longer drives.

A lot of alleged “purists” have written it off because of the mid engine layout. Best Corvette GM has built yet, bar none, imo.

It actually has both.

TUT has been for shit, for years. It’s more for SXSs anymore.

Yeah I guess the big tall backers are even more surface area.

Honestly, unless you’re using some sort of large chisel type designed stud, I don’t know what a super long stud is even doing for traction with say a 1.5” lugged track, in a loose snow/trail type surface. I mean, maybe it’s doing a little something and once the track spins down to something resembling ice it’s doing more but that’s about it. I think a storm track would be fun with a bigger CC trail sled but with usual Michigan conditions, you’d probably be overheating too much with that much lug, to even make it worth it. 1-1/4 with studs would be better all around.

I can remember going up to Seney for a long weekend in the February of ‘98, with my brand new 98 Vmax 600 SX just to be completely skunked. Had to keep driving west to find snow. Found just enough to ride around Wetmore so we stopped, got a hotel room and rode from there. Got caught trying to come into the north end of Shingleton through 3-4 miles of mud just to get some fuel because that POS 600 twin Yammie wouldn’t make the trip back to Munising from Grand Marais because we made a side stop at the Bear Trap. Rode the side of M-28 back to the hotel in Wetmore, packed it up and headed home after one full day of riding because it was so shitty. That was the closest year that I can remember to this. I’m sure there’s been others but they all seem to blend together anymore. That and I think my old brain just tries to block out the trauma anymore. We use to ride out of Houghton Lake every weekend practically, from just before Christmas until mid-late February back in 2000-2013ish. I don’t think you could even ride a sled around that area more than a few weekends a year the past 3-4 years.

The only turned up 4S Cats that I’ve seen that can put it down are studded to the hilt but rightfully so. Seems common practice for people to put 96-108 studs in a stock 800-850 around here these days. Not everyone studs their sled strictly for drag racing. Personally I think that anyone that bought a Polaris Boost low elevation sled for anything other than a lake racer/max effort trail sled is wasting their money. That’s just me though. They do have a boost gauge in the display but I don’t know if it shows an actual number. 3-5 lbs sounds about right to me for a low elevation sled on pump gas as well.

Back on topic a bit….

Well, the last woman I dated before my wife was a redhead, owned horses, was a runner but only owned a 120 lb female Bullmastiff. So yeah. Again, can confirm. 100% on the rest of it. Our club got a $40,000 grant from the state to grade all of our trails before the snowmobile season started. They were torn to shit before December 1st.

I shouldn’t bitch too much because honestly, until all of the rain today, almost all of the UP has been good trail riding. Should have been just making the trip up there to ride but I don’t have many riding buddies that trail ride anymore. Plus, it’s 5-6 hour drive. That Duramax in my garage doesn’t run on cheap gas either.

Sounds like all of the Michigan based pages too. Yup. I enjoy reading those. Especially after a weekend like last weekend. Can confirm. Yup. Same over here.

Correct. A lot of these newer sled engine management systems don’t alert you to an issue all the time. Consistency is key though and if the engine performance/driveability is consistent, you’re fine. Also, snappy and turbo 2S sled engines don’t usually go together. The mountain guys have been talking about this for years and a lot of them are running modded NA sleds again (SLP twin outlaw pipes, etc) because of it. Trying to clutch the secondary around it is probably futile. Load it up in the primary and learn to drive around the lag. That’s most likely your best bet. Traction will also be an issue with these things because once you start getting the power through the clutches, the track is going to have a hell of a time putting it to the ground. Stud accordingly.