DriftBusta Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 29 minutes ago, Pete said: I remember them well. Midwest folks Paul Aris. Skidoocraze. I use to talk with Barb daily. Such a nice lady. Your name was SRX700FREAK or close to that., lol. That was me 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 3 minutes ago, DriftBusta said: That was me Always enjoyed your posts as I do today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 26 minutes ago, toslow said: I had an srx 700 triple triple They were sumthin. I got to ride one. The smoothness of the triple power was fantastic. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toslow Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 1 minute ago, Pete said: They were sumthin. I got to ride one. The smoothness of the triple power was fantastic. Suspension was terrible at the end of the day 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 5 minutes ago, toslow said: Suspension was terrible at the end of the day Understood. But first thing out in the morning during the week brings some smoooooth riding . Nothing like going 110 down the railbed at 9 am to go pick up the trail system lol. Coming back was different story. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DriftBusta Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 4 minutes ago, toslow said: Suspension was terrible at the end of the day I had a 98 with the Ohlins package and never could get it to ride good. 2 years later I bought an 00 with the improved motor, lights, handwarmers etc., with the stock suspension and I actually liked that better. But nothing like a modern sled. They look so low to the ground in comparison. A buddy of mine who used to ride bought and SXr and just let it sit for 10 years in his shed. Finally he asked me if I just wanted it for free. I had to go through it, replace reeds, intake boots etc., but got it running mint again. Still with no electric start or reverse, I got spoiled, and ended up selling it. It was a great sled for knocking around the farm fields at home, while my main sled stayed north. Had one of these 80 gold tunnels too back in the day (not mine in the pic), but just like that. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DriftBusta Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Pete said: Understood. But first thing out in the morning during the week brings some smoooooth riding . Nothing like going 110 down the railbed at 9 am to go pick up the trail system lol. Coming back was different story. Found this pic of a trip to Tug Hill back in 01 or 02. A couple characters from Trail Conditions, Witchwey in the dark Carhart overalls, Catatonic in the middle blue jacket looking behind him, and myself in the blue Reima jacket. Forget some of the other guys handles from back then. Thinksnow came out from Chicago to ride with us. Witchwey woke me up 4 in the morning to go grooming "wake and bake freaky!" Edited September 24, 2023 by DriftBusta 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold War Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 16 minutes ago, DriftBusta said: I had a 98 with the Ohlins package and never could get it to ride good. 2 years later I bought an 00 with the improved motor, lights, handwarmers etc., with the stock suspension and I actually liked that better. But nothing like a modern sled. They look so low to the ground in comparison. A buddy of mine who used to ride bought and SXr and just let it sit for 10 years in his shed. Finally he asked me if I just wanted it for free. I had to go through it, replace reeds, intake boots etc., but got it running mint again. Still with no electric start or reverse, I got spoiled, and ended up selling it. It was a great sled for knocking around the farm fields at home, while my main sled stayed north. Had one of these 80 gold tunnels too back in the day (not mine in the pic), but just like that. I had one too! Loved that sled. Bent it half out on the ice. Hit a ice swell at full out. My buddy still talks about it. you must of been 20 feet in the air!!! Screwed myself up good. Still feeling the effects of that crash. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted September 24, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 24, 2023 Those triples were horrible on anything but smooth groomed trails. Took a three day saddle bag trip on one that started out in Wawa and went north. One of the most memorable trips for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crnr2Crnr Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 (edited) used to be ya don't discuss religion or politics... replace COVID with religion and here we are with this mb since around the timeframe the awful HCS folks migrated over. imo, the big political division as someone else mentioned started around the Iraq war, got worse after Obama was elected along with phones, social media and message boards. I can assure you any mb that has an ot forum as such is very similar. Edit... the division has gotten far worse during Trump and Biden, along with the stolen election horse shit allow me to ask this... if this site didn't have the Current Events (aka Bitching and Complaining) Forum... how many of you would still come here? what I see as interesting is that the HCS GDF here is very similar to the way it was on HCS as none of the topics you'd see here ever appear there. I also see HCS'ers posting on all the other sub forums but rarely if ever do you see snowmobile related content from the CE clowns outside of here. so, if @ckf closed up the CE how many of you would stay for snowmobile discussion and utilize the rest of the site? Edited September 24, 2023 by Crnr2Crnr 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member poopooforme Posted September 24, 2023 Gold Member Share Posted September 24, 2023 What I see putting all bs aside and just talking snowmobiles is it like cars. You can't mod the new shit like you could the old shit. You can't hardly even work on this new shit let alone try to tune it. What is there to talk about ? So that leaves the bs. I just wish (like my tv thread) assholes wouldn't bring politics into everything. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted September 24, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 24, 2023 1 minute ago, poopooforme said: What I see putting all bs aside and just talking snowmobiles is it like cars. You can't mod the new shit like you could the old shit. You can't hardly even work on this new shit let alone try to tune it. What is there to talk about ? So that leaves the bs. I just wish (like my tv thread) assholes wouldn't bring politics into everything. Politics gets into everything now-a-days. See it all over social media. “Don’t be a Democrat” blah blah. Just this morning I noticed that line was used for trail maintenance. A lot of these people can’t talk without throwing that in somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted September 24, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 24, 2023 11 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said: used to be ya don't discuss religion or politics... replace COVID with religion and here we are with this mb since around the timeframe the awful HCS folks migrated over. imo, the big political division as someone else mentioned started around the Iraq war, got worse after Obama was elected along with phones, social media and message boards. I can assure you any mb that has an ot forum as such is very similar. allow me to ask this... if this site didn't have the Current Events (aka Bitching and Complaining) Forum... how many of you would still come here? what I see as interesting is that the HCS GDF here is very similar to the way it was on HCS as none of the topics you'd see here ever appear there. I also see HCS'ers posting on all the other sub forums but rarely if ever do you see snowmobile related content from the CE clowns outside of here. so, if @ckf closed up the CE how many of you would stay for snowmobile discussion and utilize the rest of the site? Well this isn’t HCS but CE got shut down there only to be opened back up. Nobody wanted to babysit it for those breaking the rules. Here we don’t have those rules and self govern….sort of. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 18 minutes ago, Skidooski said: Those triples were horrible on anything but smooth groomed trails. Took a three day saddle bag trip on one that started out in Wawa and went north. One of the most memorable trips for me. I had a 96 Vmax XT 600 with the Proaction suspension. That thing would leave everything in the dust on less than stellar trails. Lotsa smoke breaks by myself with that sled. Had a 600 SX with the Ohlins package the next year. Basically one was a weekday sled and one was a weekend sled. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 Nice pity party. Winners don't start threads like this, just losers. We should vote but the election would be rigged It's 2020 all over again !!!!! Great thread OP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DriftBusta Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 33 minutes ago, Cold War said: I had one too! Loved that sled. Bent it half out on the ice. Hit a ice swell at full out. My buddy still talks about it. you must of been 20 feet in the air!!! Screwed myself up good. Still feeling the effects of that crash. 26 minutes ago, Skidooski said: Those triples were horrible on anything but smooth groomed trails. Took a three day saddle bag trip on one that started out in Wawa and went north. One of the most memorable trips for me. Absolutely. When we first started doing multi day saddlebag rides it was on those SRXs. Up in Canada just holding it clamped for what seemed like miles. There were times when I actually didn't think it was fast enough and was thinking about a Thundercat. Riding for miles at 110 mph and its not fast enough lol. 25 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said: used to be ya don't discuss religion or politics... replace COVID with religion and here we are with this mb since around the timeframe the awful HCS folks migrated over. imo, the big political division as someone else mentioned started around the Iraq war, got worse after Obama was elected along with phones, social media and message boards. I can assure you any mb that has an ot forum as such is very similar. Edit... the division has gotten far worse during Trump and Biden, along with the stolen election horse shit allow me to ask this... if this site didn't have the Current Events (aka Bitching and Complaining) Forum... how many of you would still come here? what I see as interesting is that the HCS GDF here is very similar to the way it was on HCS as none of the topics you'd see here ever appear there. I also see HCS'ers posting on all the other sub forums but rarely if ever do you see snowmobile related content from the CE clowns outside of here. so, if @ckf closed up the CE how many of you would stay for snowmobile discussion and utilize the rest of the site? At the end of the day, I'm still a hardcore snowmobile enthusiast, and enjoy the sled talk. But politics has been very divisive and getting worse. I have complete disgust for Washington, the media and elitists in general. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 Please put all sled talk in the GSF as per the request by the OP. Don't you guys listen? Things were so much friendlier on FS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Shifty Posted September 24, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 24, 2023 2 hours ago, steve from amherst said: We are not a democracy, we are a constitutional republic. Eh, not so much. We are all just kids playing in CKFs yard. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DriftBusta Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 9 minutes ago, HSR said: Nice pity party. Winners don't start threads like this, just losers. We should vote but the election would be rigged It's 2020 all over again !!!!! Great thread OP 1 minute ago, HSR said: Please put all sled talk in the GSF as per the request by the OP. Don't you guys listen? Things were so much friendlier on FS 1 Whoosh! "Its my forum now!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 2 minutes ago, Shifty said: Eh, not so much. We are all just kids playing in CKFs yard. Perhaps he needs to clean up all the dog shit everyone keeps stepping in.. Multiple dogs make a mess quick 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 19 minutes ago, Shifty said: Eh, not so much. We are all just kids playing in CKFs yard. Would you mind cutting the grass the next time you come by 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted September 24, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 24, 2023 31 minutes ago, DriftBusta said: Absolutely. When we first started doing multi day saddlebag rides it was on those SRXs. Up in Canada just holding it clamped for what seemed like miles. There were times when I actually didn't think it was fast enough and was thinking about a Thundercat. Riding for miles at 110 mph and its not fast enough lol. At the end of the day, I'm still a hardcore snowmobile enthusiast, and enjoy the sled talk. But politics has been very divisive and getting worse. I have complete disgust for Washington, the media and elitists in general. Same here! Cruising at 90 one handed just watching the pristine scenery fly by. Every once in a while pinch it up a few MPH. Cresting a small hill and going weightless for what seemed like a couple seconds. Only thing I worried about was tagging a moose or something but I guess at those speeds it wouldn’t matter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 Hey Op since your a FS history buff. What current active member was,,, waist deep in the implosion of FS1 argued with the former owner with zero respect Involved in the Great Fat Dave war chased Jimmy around 2 sites for 10 years bragged about running Jimmy from TBP is the current rule breaking leader has been given 2 recent vacations for not following guidelines or listening to warnings from the site owner. Now don't worry if you don't know the answer. The member is all these cases will be here to tell us why he was correct in all instances and was in FACT the victim every time. And in 3,2,1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted September 24, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 24, 2023 36 minutes ago, HSR said: Nice pity party. Winners don't start threads like this, just losers. We should vote but the election would be rigged It's 2020 all over again !!!!! Great thread OP Your first post in this thread and you came in like a cunt and kept the throttle buried. 2 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 1 hour ago, Skidooski said: Your first post in this thread and you came in like a cunt and kept the throttle buried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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