Ambush

That jeep ad was great!

I have to agree. I had never ridden a sp500 until 2 years ago. Buddy of mine bought one for his 12yr old daughter to ride. I told him it was probably not the best sled to get her, the suspension would be to stiff and the engagement pretty high. He bought it anyway and put a different spring in the primary to lower the engagement. The next time we went for a trail ride, my son’s sled went down so I let him take mine. My buddy offered to let me ride his daughters sp500 as a joke as he hadn’t ridden it yet himself. I’m telling you, that was the most fun I’ve had on a trail ride… Ever. I don’t know what it is about that thing, but everyone wants to ride it now. These are guys that ride 800’s themselves. I’d love to buy one myself, but the whole parts things is a real concern. I haven’t ridden a catalyst yet, but wonder if it wouldn’t be similar.

Douche yes

Big healthcare and pharma will bury this. To them a customer cured is a customer lost.

I have a heavy barreled model 70 that is my favorite rifle for virtually everything. Recoil is light, and I shoot from a bipod. As a result, you don’t have to reacquire your target after you fire. While it is a bit light for deer, I have taken 3 really nice bucks with it. Absolutely devastating on prairie dogs and fox with a vmax bullet.

Northern crankshaft has a complete engine for a 92 prowler special at Haydays. $450 if I remember correctly.

Exhibited by Jared Gottshaulk, Kimball MN

Sorry guys tech isn’t my strong point. its a 1962 preproduction polar manufacturing 450. Supposedly 1 of only 3 built.

4H building. Thought it was interesting.

If I remember correctly, I believe it was just minor porting differences in the cylinders. Those things were really over carbed and didn’t make any power down low. I think my clutch engaged about 5 grand to try to overcome it. You have to remember these were the days before power valves, so they really were chasing top end power. If my memory serves me right, the standard prowler made 62hp. The 91’ special, which supposedly had the same bottom end as the 550, made 68. As far as the rest of the sled, you are correct, they had many, many changes. The ‘91 specials were recall and update queens. The dealers hated those things as so much had to be redone. I remember gussets being put on the lower a-arms and oil pumps being replaced just to name a few. I remember piles of steel plates at my dealer that had to be welded on the skis of most 91 sleds back in the winter of 92. I wish I could remember all of the updates, but that was quite a while ago…🫣

I had a ‘91. Got it as a holdover. Hated that sled, but have a lot of memories. The ‘91 had single ring pistons that wore out quickly. Cat replaced them with twin ringers under warranty. That sled had the unnerving tendency to rotate to either side when airborne. I broke one of those aluminum spindles because of that. The side of the tunnel buckled on me where the spring arm mounting brackets were riveted to the tunnel. Apparently it was a common issue because The ‘92 had bigger brackets. In the off season, my dealer let me go along to pick up some sleds. While there we went through the salvage department and I picked up a headlight assembly from a 92 and put on it. Took the sled to black magic and had them do a port job on it. I won my class in every speed run I entered that second year as a result. No one cared though because that was the year the zr debuted. Interesting enough, I think I still have the original pipe off that thing if anyone needs it. It is different than the ‘92 however. Ah, the days of my youth…

Memes only please

Pinches pennies so hard the dollars fly away.

The new alterra 600 is easy to service? Is that a joke? Just try to put some coolant in the Ltd or the SE. you actually have to unbolt part of the front rack to do it! The oil filter is mounted in such a way that oil runs all down the side of the engine in that cranny between the case and the pan! The belt is right behind your left leg. Let’s be honest here. Who wants to see what happens to your left calf when that belt blows? Is that thin plastic cover going to contain the belt???? Maybe??? When I brought up these issues to one of the sales reps at hay days, the response I got for every one of them was “well how often does that happen?” Pathetic.

Yep, lots of schools have trap teams now. My son was a part of it when he was in high school. Very well organized with about 75 kids participating. But Lord help you if your kid drove to school with a shotgun shell in their car. Even a spent one would get the kid suspended.