sleepybrew

yeah we are leaving an hour later , but parking 45 minutes closer. trying not to ride in -20 or lower. looks like it will be -11 or so when we hit snow. once i'm dressed i'm good. gonna be a sunny day , haven't had one of those yet. i'll try for some pics. gopro does not like subzero , but i'll keep the batteries close to my body. maybe get a bit of video.

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i do as well.

i rode a 21 vr1 matryx chassis and didn't care for it. i'm about 6 ft , and it felt cramped and the seat felt lower. one thing i liked about the axys was the seat being nice and high. so i bought a 2021 xcr 850 128 while i could. i rode that 5k and loved every minute. i did some changes in the rear and it was very comfortable to ride. i bought the 25 xcr 850 136 last march. did lots to the rear and it rides amazing. i do feel the lower seat , and the tendency to slide you forward. i rolled my riser up and set the bars to my like to get it to not hurt my shoulder. riding cramped up. axys i could squeeze the tank with my knees when going fast . can't do that now , but i can tell you this thing handles awesome. standing is great , i've adapted to the riding position and have come to like it. you know that bumped and bermed corner you can just lean way in and throttle through . feel like my weight has more effect on the machine. if i had to pick i would take the matryx. but if i had no sled and an axys was what i ended up with i would not be sad. it's a great chassis

I have heard of this before but now saw it myself. I'm a Polaris guy but i fix a lot of ski doos. This guy had his clutch rollers break . while cranking the belt came off , or came apart . When it did the shock of the hit knocked the tools off the cover and they cycled through the clutches. Amazing , no face damage , couple knicks in the main body . he now carries tools in bag. i was able to clean it all up and get his rollers done . he is ready to rip

hard to get any exciting video in the gray conditions.

also, in case anyone hasn't seen them the deer are still on the hill. it's getting deeper and they are using the trails. had them all over yesterday

We got good and early. Got ahead of the masses. Rode for 76 miles before stopping. Trails weee a little beat up to start but the out of the way stuff was beautiful. Coming back was more rough, especially flat rock road. Holy snocross track I launched a hilltop , landed in a hole and shot off that one big time. Lots of hilltop air time today. I only do those I can see past. Blind hills no go. Most were good today, had one guy up the middle of a blind hills. I was way right so it was fine. We had a blast, snowing most of the time. Sun came out on north rd coming back, finally could see the bumps.

i was hoping for some good shoots tomorrow but it looks like riding in a blizzard again

man that looks like fast conditions

we got washed down , but the snow is about to restart . took the time to do my first service . chaincase pretty clean. chain tension was good . cleaned up chaincase and cover . filled fluid. did track adjustment last week , and i stay up on belt deflection. clean up good , spray the skid with wd40 , and cover it up. filled with fresh 91 non eth , oil topped off. my buddy used to call that being "race ready". he was one of the few people more excited to ride than i am.

awesome shots

forecast was not good locally and at the hill last night/this morning. ice , my least favorite. i'll drive through lots of snow but the shiny shit is a no go. got up 450am , checked roads , all green , no alerts. raining towards the hill. it rained hard almost to barneveld. then light. get to smith rd , holy shit that was slick . kept pace and cleared it no issue. next hill , solid white! we hit the snow line. one other truck besides us. we took off to fresh snow, and lots of branches down. way to many for us to conquer, but we did our best. formed a group to move a good sized tree out of the way. worked north , less snow , more hard. frozen carbide grooves tough to navigate at times. then they switched back to sweet. really unreal conditions for what was forecast. we had lunch at tuggers, only ones there. went back through , conditions minced up a bit made it even nicer. we found north rd from tabolts to mcgoldricks beat up a bit , so we turned around and ran it again. down the railbed , holy shit that was fast. north-south good as i have ever seen it. michigan mills beat up but, we like that so it was a nice rip. got in the woods towards barrows, went through what we made clear in the morning only to find a big tree down. at least it didn't land on anyone. ran rd to highmarket , few sleds there. north rd had some bumps but not like saturday, another nice rip. got back to the truck , 130 miles. well worth driving up in the pouring rain. my sled finally out of break in. running very good. my 7s display lost gps connection after lunch. came back for a bit but now no satellites. antenna attached, updated software even though it had current update, disconnected battery. nothing. still has tug hill map showing , no arrow, no altimeter, clock is wrong. i know i can set it but the gps usually does it.

Beating the odds

i'm hoping for a day of that tomorrow