Crnr2Crnr Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 (edited) no one really cares about this race anyway... Edited February 12 by Crnr2Crnr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommcat Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 they just give the win to rick now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry 976 Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 2 hours ago, Tommcat said: they just give the win to rick now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not greg b Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 There won’t be an iron dog. Polaris engineers ran over all the dogs and they weren’t made of iron. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommcat Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 3 hours ago, Not greg b said: There won’t be an iron dog. Polaris engineers ran over all the dogs and they weren’t made of iron. Paper mache dog? Jk, i would happily run over a person before i came anywhere near a dog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortune46x Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 7 hours ago, Tommcat said: Paper mache dog? Jk, i would happily run over a person before i came anywhere near a dog can I make a few suggestions on who to start with lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crnr2Crnr Posted February 6 Author Share Posted February 6 29 minutes ago, fortune46x said: can I make a few suggestions on who to start with lol yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member EvilBird Posted February 6 Gold Member Share Posted February 6 @AK440 must be too busy prepping the Nytro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deephaven Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 He sold it. Couldn't afford to keep it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crnr2Crnr Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 (edited) https://www.irondog.org/ Racers from New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nevada, Utah, Minnesota, AND Riders from riders from all over the state of Alaska. race starts Saturday the 17th hopefully the local resident expert, #1 superfan and climatologist @AK440 will keep us filled in with daily updates and behind the scenes information. idk much about picking dog teams but since one of them used to race Cat's I'll just root for team #10 and cross my fingers for team #22 Edited February 12 by Crnr2Crnr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X2700 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Rooting for the local dohrn boys! also team 6 with mike morgan.Had a nice chat with him in bunkes trailer friday night at haydays. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK440 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 The lower 48 teams will get their asses handed to them as per the usual. Pretty hard to practice for a snowmobile race when you have NO SNOW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 10 minutes ago, AK440 said: The lower 48 teams will get their asses handed to them as per the usual. Pretty hard to practice for a snowmobile race when you have NO SNOW. Don't most of them travel up there to practice and run over dog teams? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member 800renegaderider Posted February 12 Gold Member Share Posted February 12 (edited) 8 minutes ago, HSR said: Don't most of them travel up there to practice and run over dog teams? Team 15 the nh guys last time I talked to him couple weeks ago he was heading back to Alaska but said they been prepping sleds and training since early November no dog running though that I heard of lol Edited February 12 by 800renegaderider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonlafon1 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 12 minutes ago, HSR said: Don't most of them travel up there to practice and run over dog teams? JUST team Polaris actually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crnr2Crnr Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 1 hour ago, AK440 said: The lower 48 teams will get their asses handed to them as per the usual. Pretty hard to practice for a snowmobile race when you have NO SNOW. who's your team? would think you'd have a lot to say about the race being neck deep in snow and clearly the local forum expert and all... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnstang Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 3 hours ago, AK440 said: The lower 48 teams will get their asses handed to them as per the usual. Pretty hard to practice for a snowmobile race when you have NO SNOW. What about Hawaii? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK440 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 4 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said: who's your team? would think you'd have a lot to say about the race being neck deep in snow and clearly the local forum expert and all... It’ll be same old same old. There are only 5-6 teams that are ever truly in contention of winning. Unless one of them crashes, breaks or catches on fire then and only then will the race get interesting with uncertainty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deephaven Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 What a great race. Only 5-6 teams compete. Best event ever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnstang Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 On 2/23/2023 at 6:25 PM, AK440 said: Nail biting suspense! The entire race is sitting in the shithole village of Galena. Why? Because the checkpoint doesn’t have enough gas. Sounds like someone stole some fuel drums so…. waiting for more gas to be hauled in from a different stink hole village. Bang up operation! On 2/25/2023 at 10:37 AM, AK440 said: The finish is today. I’m sure it’ll be the same exact lineup it has been since the start. Ski-doo will be first followed by the same two Polaris teams. It’s been boring as fuck. On 2/18/2023 at 4:18 PM, AK440 said: Huh? The site you linked to is good, nice job. It doesn’t change the fact that fewer and fewer people give a shit about the Iron Dog or snowmobile racing in general. Did you watch the race start on YouTube? They had high school kids filming it. They used to have the biggest local news station televise it on NBC. If you looked in the background the crowd wasn’t very big. This race almost closed down for good 2-3 years ago. It’s currently on life support and I don’t see it being around much longer. Why would anyone want to sponsor an expensive to put on race way the fuck up in the middle of nowhere? It’s biggest fans are people like Frankie F7 who live in destitute, shit hole villages where no one has flush toilet, much less any money. The racers end up, sleeping on school room floors as the school building is often the only one that has running water. Hotels and lodges don’t exist along much of the route. The race doesn’t provide lodging, it’s up to the racers to arrange for their own. The whole concept of the race is fucked. If you don’t have connections with local residents along the route who will feed you and provide a warm place to sleep in their own homes, you are at a huge disadvantage. Then add in the need for a goddamn airplane to fly you in parts that you don’t already have staged along route, and you lose the race because you didn’t have the money and connections for parts. The race has very little to do with skill or speed, it has everything to do with money, connections and who has more of both. On 2/18/2023 at 4:56 PM, AK440 said: Notice how Channel 2 news, the NBC station did that video? Now they have fucking high school kids filming and posting to YouTube. The Iron Dog should have never gotten away from its initial concept. In the early years you had to carry all your parts with you. You had to repair your sled without outside help. That meant you had to ride the sled in such a manner so as not to break it. Just like how most every single snowmobile owner treats their own machine. Now the race is just a series of short sprints from one check point to the next. Break a part, have it flown in to the next check point and repair your sled there. What, can’t afford to have it flown in? Oh well, looks like you’re fucked. Race over and the $10’s of thousands of dollars you already spent, now pissed away. Maybe you can find Toutuk the native to sell you a part off their sled assuming they even have anything that modern. The race has gotten super boring. It’s won by the same 3-4 teams year after year who have the best support, best connections and best funding. Only a dipshit or some wealthy person looking for an adventure would enter the race to compete. At least with COR, local guys can enter to try it out without spending a fortune. The Iron Dog is never going to grow and will continue to fade away into obscurity as long as inflation and the economy stay the way they are. Scott Davis is a general contractor who owns a big concrete business. The winning riders in the Iron Dog are the ones who are already quite wealthy. It’s not a race for the average guy. On 2/18/2023 at 5:10 PM, AK440 said: Yes, yes, my tomfuckery wasn’t getting people stirred up the way I wanted. I don’t actually give two shits about the Iron Dog. Looks like I’ll need to switch to making fun of dipshits posting selfies of themselves with their mountain sleds on Instagram. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crnr2Crnr Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 6 hours ago, AK440 said: It’ll be same old same old. There are only 5-6 teams that are ever truly in contention of winning. Unless one of them crashes, breaks or catches on fire then and only then will the race get interesting with uncertainty. pick a horse... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK440 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 10 hours ago, mnstang said: On 2/23/2023 at 6:25 PM, AK440 said: Nail biting suspense! The entire race is sitting in the shithole village of Galena. Why? Because the checkpoint doesn’t have enough gas. Sounds like someone stole some fuel drums so…. waiting for more gas to be hauled in from a different stink hole village. Bang up operation! On 2/25/2023 at 10:37 AM, AK440 said: The finish is today. I’m sure it’ll be the same exact lineup it has been since the start. Ski-doo will be first followed by the same two Polaris teams. It’s been boring as fuck. On 2/18/2023 at 4:18 PM, AK440 said: Huh? The site you linked to is good, nice job. It doesn’t change the fact that fewer and fewer people give a shit about the Iron Dog or snowmobile racing in general. Did you watch the race start on YouTube? They had high school kids filming it. They used to have the biggest local news station televise it on NBC. If you looked in the background the crowd wasn’t very big. This race almost closed down for good 2-3 years ago. It’s currently on life support and I don’t see it being around much longer. Why would anyone want to sponsor an expensive to put on race way the fuck up in the middle of nowhere? It’s biggest fans are people like Frankie F7 who live in destitute, shit hole villages where no one has flush toilet, much less any money. The racers end up, sleeping on school room floors as the school building is often the only one that has running water. Hotels and lodges don’t exist along much of the route. The race doesn’t provide lodging, it’s up to the racers to arrange for their own. The whole concept of the race is fucked. If you don’t have connections with local residents along the route who will feed you and provide a warm place to sleep in their own homes, you are at a huge disadvantage. Then add in the need for a goddamn airplane to fly you in parts that you don’t already have staged along route, and you lose the race because you didn’t have the money and connections for parts. The race has very little to do with skill or speed, it has everything to do with money, connections and who has more of both. On 2/18/2023 at 4:56 PM, AK440 said: Notice how Channel 2 news, the NBC station did that video? Now they have fucking high school kids filming and posting to YouTube. The Iron Dog should have never gotten away from its initial concept. In the early years you had to carry all your parts with you. You had to repair your sled without outside help. That meant you had to ride the sled in such a manner so as not to break it. Just like how most every single snowmobile owner treats their own machine. Now the race is just a series of short sprints from one check point to the next. Break a part, have it flown in to the next check point and repair your sled there. What, can’t afford to have it flown in? Oh well, looks like you’re fucked. Race over and the $10’s of thousands of dollars you already spent, now pissed away. Maybe you can find Toutuk the native to sell you a part off their sled assuming they even have anything that modern. The race has gotten super boring. It’s won by the same 3-4 teams year after year who have the best support, best connections and best funding. Only a dipshit or some wealthy person looking for an adventure would enter the race to compete. At least with COR, local guys can enter to try it out without spending a fortune. The Iron Dog is never going to grow and will continue to fade away into obscurity as long as inflation and the economy stay the way they are. Scott Davis is a general contractor who owns a big concrete business. The winning riders in the Iron Dog are the ones who are already quite wealthy. It’s not a race for the average guy. On 2/18/2023 at 5:10 PM, AK440 said: Yes, yes, my tomfuckery wasn’t getting people stirred up the way I wanted. I don’t actually give two shits about the Iron Dog. Looks like I’ll need to switch to making fun of dipshits posting selfies of themselves with their mountain sleds on Instagram. 5 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said: pick a horse... The race is between teams 6, 7, 9, 10, 14 and 39. The rest are just wasting their time and money. Unless one of the 6 teams above crashes, breaks, catches on fire, hits a barrel at the end of an airstrip, falls through the ice on the ocean or gets DQ’d for cheating, the other guys don’t have a chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MnDean Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 So this race is nothing more than Agressive trail riding, kind of like a saddle bag trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crnr2Crnr Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 29 minutes ago, AK440 said: The race is between teams 6, 7, 9, 10, 14 and 39. The rest are just wasting their time and money. Pick one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrinkly balls Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 What are the snirt condition's for this race? Is there any snow at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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