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On 1/25/2024 at 4:30 PM, krom said:

talk about a coat hanger abortion...

Yeah, no way would I have that bulletin done on my sled.  That can't help with airflow and cooling of the clutches.  Mo heat, mo problems.

On 1/16/2024 at 4:31 PM, Crnr2Crnr said:

I get that, and agree.  There was that one incident after the finish line that was sketchy as fuck where coms would have made sense but that was more on the kid who got bucked off than those almost landing on him. 

There was a pile up right there in the Sport final too, I believe on Saturday night.

Also, we need to boot the pro am 30+, snobikes, 200, and 120 champ classes from the night show until room is made for the sport final.  Run the sport final as the first race on a fresh track then touch up the track during pro rider introductions.

6 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

so far so good today.... I guess our bitching and complaining helped. 

 

Don't jinx us!

Trump, Desantis, Vivek, all of them are fine.  My vote is for Trump.

But Haley, no way.  What did Vivek call her, Dickey Cheney is heels?  That pretty much sums it up.

2 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

@fortune46x... really?

 

Yup, stream is already fucked.  Maybe we will get lucky and someone will do a Facebook Live stream.

On 1/11/2024 at 7:24 AM, fortune46x said:

My understanding was they are going to make snow up to friday morning and build the track - they have 9 guns running. Kevin (formerly the groomer operator and snow maker for All finish) is the one responsible for snow making this year and is running one of the groomers. Great guy!

Sounds like the track is in good hands.  I think they were in the process of firing up all the snow guns Wednesday night when I was leaving.  There was equipment running and no snow guns but by the time I got on the freeway the snow guns were running.

Snowmobile Racing Network posted this photo this morning.

Pictures from tonight.  A few rigs in the parking lot already and some smaller rigs pulling in too. 

It was tough to see how much snow they had piled towards the start line end.  The snow guns were on again tonight.

6 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Does it have wifi, cause that's important.

All these smart appliances are a HUGE security vulnerability.  How often do you think manufacturers are going to roll out a security patch for a decades old refrigerator?  No way would I connect that to my network.

$14k for a refrigerator is ridiculous.  $14k for a snowmobile is a good start.

57 minutes ago, Not greg b said:

Alex came up and we finished the testing 2 weeks ago. It turned out better than expected. Here is the 5th gen prototype. The finished product is amazing but I can’t share those pictures yet. 

Think that infringes on Doos pyramidal chassis patents.  Get back to the drawing board.

Softening global demand.  Agreed eventually takes over with the Saudis and they reduce prices since they don't want to lose market share.

5 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

it's odd how the vast majority of Republicans I interact with outside of this far right looney echo chamber prefer her... or any other Republican running over Trump.  but my friends and family aren't fucking imbeciles.  

You need to keep better company.  I don't know of anyone voting for Haley.  If she were the candidate, I'm not sure I could vote for her.

On 1/5/2024 at 1:59 PM, Fireball 440 said:

The annual organizing of the toolbox.  I added 2 sets of deep well sockets, a brake tool, 3/8 torque wrench, and a needle nose vice grip this year.

Have enough 4" 3/8 extensions?

Finally put a tool box together for my garage last year.  Tired of hauling stuff back and forth to my shop.

Just picked up the Wera stubby and long screwdrivers and Craftsman Overdrive wrenches.  The Craftsmen overdrive is similar to the Mac RBRT wrenches that are about $400 on the tool truck.  These were $75 and I had a $20 off coupon.

Sockets are all DeWalt.  Paid like $150 for a set of 6 point sockets.

Had this Craftsman box since college!

It's way too early to make any predictions but there is at least activity on the long range models for a storm Jan 9-10.  Should be cold enough to be all snow anyways.

The inch or so we had on the ground here all melted today.

43 minutes ago, Mag6240 said:

SLP’s?  Yeah those tips don’t last, and don’t do a very good job at kicking up snow.  0-2 with myself and a buddy who tried them.  Only tried them when we couldn’t find the Dura-Flex (or knock offs) for a while.

Keep in mind, most of us don't plan on dragging scratchers 6,000 miles a year either.

On 12/28/2023 at 3:29 PM, fortune46x said:

I haven't talked to carl this week , its on my list of to-do's

 

Snow guns are on at Canterbury tonight!  Looks like plenty of cold weather in the forecast too.

1 hour ago, Deephaven said:

Must suck to have such great snow and have to fix that to ride

I'd quit snowmobiling if that's the sled I had to ride.

1 hour ago, Bontz said:

Nobody is trying to tear you down.  You're being made fun of because you're a dumbass.  Nothing more, nothing less.

I put that idiot on ignore a few days ago.  Always telling people how wrong they are and he rides a Barney.

@fortune46x what's the report on Canterbury snow making?  Haven't drove by there in about a week.  Looks like they may be able to start making snow at night this week.  I'll be going by on New Years Eve so maybe stop and snap some pictures to post.

45 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

 

check out Zach's BAW...

 

Someone should tell him his BAW doesn't look cool.

https://www.supertraxmag.com/features/should-a-single-handle-better-than-a-triple/

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In recent in-garage bench discussions here someone came up with this brainism: Do single-cylinder sleds have a better chance of being good handlers than triples – or even twins, for that matter?

You’re guessing it has something to do with weight, right? Wrong. Although a single will inevitably be a bit lighter than a twin or triple – especially over the skis where it counts, history has proven that weight isn’t the key to good handling.

There’s actually a whole mess of sleds that have been quite light that weren’t necessary very precise in the steering department.

Okay, handling is much more complicated than just the size or configuration of the snowmobile’s engine. We get that.

However, given you have two sleds with the same chassis and suspension, and one is a triple and the other is a single, other than weight, why are we thinking the single would turn better?

Here’s where we get a bit weird. Incidentally, weirdness theories account for much more in snowmobiling than you’d expect. We could go into several paragraphs on this.

Our theory has much to do with what is referred to as the Gyroscopic Effect.

The Gyroscopic Effect (GE) is a genuine proven theory in physics and is defined as: “The ability of a rotating body to maintain the steady direction of its axis of rotation”.

Think of a kid’s top rotating on the dining room floor. When it’s spinning, it stands up vertically along its axis or the vertical centerline of the top. It continues this way as long as it’s rotating and then it falls over. However, as long as it’s rotating it resists moving off its axis.

The GE principle is also directly related to mass. The bigger the rotating object, the more it resists moving off its axis. Another factor is the speed or RPM the gyroscope is rotating.

This is where our theory gains some credibility. If you have an SRX with its big 4-stroke triple rotating at 8000 RPM, the Gyroscopic Effect will prove it takes quite a bit of force to move it off its axis – or turn the snowmobile. There are not only three pistons spinning the long crankshaft but there is a cam and valve gear rotating here, too.

Likewise, a Venom, equipped with a 400cc 2-stroke single (no cam, no valve gear) will require less effort or force to do the same thing at the same RPM. Thus, better handling.

We first observed this effect almost 20 years ago when Yamaha started to get serious about snocross racing. At the time, their racing 2-stroke triples accelerated super-fast but they just wouldn’t handle as well as the twins everyone else was using.

Was it the GE or was it just chassis inferiority? Yamaha took a lot of heat for that back then – and maybe it wasn’t all that justified.

Even today, snocrossers remove suspension wheels in their race sleds’ skidframes for the same reason and it’s been proven that 2-stroke freestyle motocross bikes perform big-air maneuvers better than 450cc 4-strokes because of the GE of a heavier 4-stroke.

Back in 1997, a Polaris engineer told us the transition from big triples like the Storm into the XC-Series twins showed a “crazy improvement” in handling because of the Gyroscopic Effect.

There’s another big factor here, too. Any sled’s rotating track and drive axle represents another version of the gyroscopic effect. Although the track spins slower than the engine’s crankshaft, it’s still a lot of mass rotating across the axis of the sled, thus more resistance to turning.

Carrying this thinking forward, you could surmise the new Venom or its Cat counterpart, the BLAST, with a 14-inch-wide, lightweight 121-inch track and a single cylinder engine, should handle better than most sleds out there. Hmm.

You be the judge.

 

On 12/25/2023 at 12:48 PM, poopooforme said:

Limit strap break? 

That's what it looked like to me seeing the front arm drop so fast.  Unless the front arm actually broke.

4 minutes ago, EvilBird said:

Ya as much as they tried the past decade or more to make Buick seem hip to younger buyers I dont think it is working. 

Still say Pontiac should of been kept instead screw China lol . 

Pontiac would have been a good brand for EVs.  Buick is really redundant with Cadillac anyways.