Well, I got my first ride in!!

 

I put on a few miles going through the fields and ditches close to home. 

 

My suspension is fantastic, thank you very much @AKIQPilot!!!!!!

 

Sled is handling sharp.

 

 

 

But I am still limited to 67mph (verified by my phone's GPS). It is tearing me up. I don't know what else to do with it. It fucking sucks. If I didn't like the sled as a whole so much I would let my other half ride it and I would take her crossfire 600. It at least does 90mph. I am fucking choked.

Edited November 20, 20205 yr by Tomas.

1 hour ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Yeah they sure command a premium price. 😜

https://patsmotorsports.com/Showroom/New-In-Stock-Inventory/New/Snowmobiles

Pat's is having a demo ride on the 12th. We were going to go up there but the weather does not look promising...

Vince, dan and I went to one there years ago and it was the weirdest thing. Typically they make you fill out a waiver and provide ID and shit. Nope not here. Hey you wanna ride this? Here you go! LOL. 

Drug the Trailcat out of the corner and promptly started to snap shit off as I worked on cleaning the carb and changed fuel line.  Parts store trip is in order for tomorrow.  

3 hours ago, Anler said:

Pat's is having a demo ride on the 12th. We were going to go up there but the weather does not look promising...

Vince, dan and I went to one there years ago and it was the weirdest thing. Typically they make you fill out a waiver and provide ID and shit. Nope not here. Hey you wanna ride this? Here you go! LOL. 

They’re pretty laid back up there. Whole different world compared to chitown.

6 hours ago, Edmo said:

They’re pretty laid back up there. Whole different world compared to chitown.

Yep

Sucks having a new Polaris/SkiDoo/Canam dealer that just opened up right down the road and on the way to work every day.  Just walking around that place and I can't help but pick up some Linq or Klim swag   

On 11/28/2020 at 11:46 AM, DriftBusta said:

Sucks having a new Polaris/SkiDoo/Canam dealer that just opened up right down the road and on the way to work every day.  Just walking around that place and I can't help but pick up some Linq or Klim swag   

Take a different route lol

Digging through some old photos and found some pics of ye ole Trailcat!  Cleats with no real traction, you can drive it slideways around corners quite well.  

2 hours ago, racinfarmer said:

Digging through some old photos and found some pics of ye ole Trailcat!  Cleats with no real traction, you can drive it slideways around corners quite well.  

Until the cleats catch on something and yard sale your ass. Lol

I rolled the shit out of a 76 Panthers on a bend in the rum river. Fucking cleats!

Those Cat ads were awesome when they came out, and they still are.

8 minutes ago, 1995xcr600 said:

Those Cat ads were awesome when they came out, and they still are.

 

51 minutes ago, FrankieJames7 said:

 

What you running this winter frankie?

 

4 minutes ago, awful knawful said:

What you running this winter frankie?

 

Nothing really saving up to buy a house i can go back home and ride my dads sleds if I want to ride.

Just now, FrankieJames7 said:

Nothing really saving up to buy a house i can go back home and ride my dads sleds if I want to ride.

Good move. I didn’t get my first sled until I was 30. But I was on my third or fourth house by then.

House = good investment.

Snowmobile not so much.

 

35 minutes ago, FrankieJames7 said:

Nothing really saving up to buy a house i can go back home and ride my dads sleds if I want to ride.

Smart.

After I got married and bought a house it took me over 15 years to get a new sled.

I so wanted one, but I had to man up and change priorities.

We're in a good spot now.

Good luck. Keep your head down.

 

2 minutes ago, awful knawful said:

Smart.

After I got married and bought a house it took me over 15 years to get a new sled.

I so wanted one, but I had to man up and change priorities.

We're in a good spot now.

Good luck. Keep your head down.

 

i spent my 20's saving money not having fun.  Bought my first place while in college and TBH looking back I should have spent a bit more on toys/fun then.   by the time i loosened the pocketbook i had kids which limited that some.  

1 minute ago, Angry ginger said:

i spent my 20's saving money not having fun.  Bought my first place while in college and TBH looking back I should have spent a bit more on toys/fun then.   by the time i loosened the pocketbook i had kids which limited that some.  

I had a new atv first. Had a very old sled, a 92.  I was having fun but I was doing what needed to be done first.

House paid in 10 years. Toys are bought with cash here.

34 minutes ago, awful knawful said:

I had a new atv first. Had a very old sled, a 92.  I was having fun but I was doing what needed to be done first.

House paid in 10 years. Toys are bought with cash here.

i think i would be physically ill financing toys but I am not built to be in debt even when it makes some sense.  

2 hours ago, Edmo said:

Good move. I didn’t get my first sled until I was 30. But I was on my third or fourth house by then.

House = good investment.

Snowmobile not so much.

 

 

1 hour ago, Angry ginger said:

i spent my 20's saving money not having fun.  Bought my first place while in college and TBH looking back I should have spent a bit more on toys/fun then.   by the time i loosened the pocketbook i had kids which limited that some.  

I bought my first new sled outright in November after starting work that May at 22 fresh out of college living in a kind of crappy apartment and driving a $2500 jeep grand cherokee.

Now I have a nice house with land, over 6 figures in the 401k, and feeling really good about my place in life. I would be further ahead financially than I am now if I didn't snowmobile, but I had a blast and made awesome memories in my 20s with my old man and friends riding all over Quebec and Maine that I wouldn't replace for anything. Ill be ready for a little slowdown in the next couple of years having kids and trying to save for a camp up north, but for now I'm still going to be buying a new sled on a 3 year cycle like an idiot.

Balance.  No regrets here.  I spent my 20s-early 30s building businesses, starting a family and buying my first house.  Got to be about 30 started buying sleds and motorcycles, living life and saving money.  

6 hours ago, Edmo said:

Good move. I didn’t get my first sled until I was 30. But I was on my third or fourth house by then.

House = good investment.

Snowmobile not so much.

 

I bought 2 shitty snowmobiles when I was 18 for $500. Rode em a couple times that winter around the neighborhood (we didnt have a trailer or anything back then). In the spring neither one of those dogs would start so we ditched em somewhere LOL.

 

At age 18 I bought a 2 -1/2 story 4 bedroom Lake home in 1966 after marrying my High School Sweetheart, first sled was a used Johnson Ski Horse then in 1973 I bought a new SkiDoo F/A, sold that in 1978 when I began buying new Kawaski's each year thru 1982.

21 hours ago, Big Crappie said:

Until the cleats catch on something and yard sale your ass. Lol

I rolled the shit out of a 76 Panthers on a bend in the rum river. Fucking cleats!

I waited for it every time I did that that day.