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Episode 36: Mike Kloety / The Carbide Podcast


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2 hours ago, SlugsOnSleds said:

I had a White Knuckle racing exhaust on my 03 RX-1...It was loud enough to wake the dead @ 10,400 rpm

The wkp on my zr900 sounds like stock.  Pretty surprising 

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1 hour ago, mnstang said:

The wkp on my zr900 sounds like stock.  Pretty surprising 

They built 2 versions for the 1 ton...QC-1 was for trail...GP-1 was for lake racers mostly with aftermarket turbos or N2O...

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5 hours ago, mnstang said:

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how ironic it being recently discussed 

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5 hours ago, Premium said:

Just finished it actually. Great episode for Cat fans.

don't ruin it for me, they make a great distraction from the political landmines we're currently wandering through.

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Watched cdsix interview. Prep work to the win the iron dog was putting a spare oil cap in his pocket. And it is pretty much a trail ride majority of the way as it is the only way. Getting the sled to run on 87 was the biggest problem because cat doesn’t care to make one run on it. 

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5 minutes ago, mnstang said:

The Tim Berg episode was ok but things were fairly glossed over.  

how so?  idk a lot about that era of Cat 

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7 hours ago, mnstang said:

The Tim Berg episode was ok but things were fairly glossed over.  

Do you know how old the interviewer is? I had the same feelings but a lot of his questions seemed geared towards the time when Tim was about done the business. I think he might have been too young to experience the hard core zr days and before, so he didnt ask the right questions. I watched the Corey Davis one right after it and the interviewer had a lot better questions and seemed to have a ton more knowledge of the sport post 2000

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7 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

how so?  idk a lot about that era of Cat 

I was hoping they would have got into more of what they did to make themselves better than the competition. How involved was arctic cat engineering and to what capacity. Ect. He did answer those questions but it was very vague and the questions weren't very probing. His answer was like I would walk across the street and they would answer any question I had. And I had them doing side jobs at night grind ports for me. 

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13 hours ago, Not greg b said:

Do you know how old the interviewer is? I had the same feelings but a lot of his questions seemed geared towards the time when Tim was about done the business. I think he might have been too young to experience the hard core zr days and before, so he didnt ask the right questions. I watched the Corey Davis one right after it and the interviewer had a lot better questions and seemed to have a ton more knowledge of the sport post 2000

I think you're probably right about that.

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I agree that I would've liked to have more detail. Some of it may be Spencer's age (the interviewer) but I imagine the people he's interviewing play a big role in determining how much time and info they're willing to give. The Cory Davis episode was over an hour longer than the Tim Berg episode, for example, and a lot of the Davis one was clearly him willing to freely talk at length and detail on his own.

Another aspect may be that the mystique of the brand and its demise wasn't actually all that mysterious? Between only focusing on one brand, the factory producing much better sleds out-of-the-box, complications of making aftermarket parts for EFI (and the EPA pressures), and rapidly changing sled design aspects, the company just wasn't making money anymore. :dunno:

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19 hours ago, Not greg b said:

I was hoping they would have got into more of what they did to make themselves better than the competition. How involved was arctic cat engineering and to what capacity. Ect. He did answer those questions but it was very vague and the questions weren't very probing. His answer was like I would walk across the street and they would answer any question I had. And I had them doing side jobs at night grind ports for me. 

One of the tech's I knew from back in the day, did porting at bm, at nights lol

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On 7/23/2024 at 7:04 AM, Not greg b said:

Watched cdsix interview. Prep work to the win the iron dog was putting a spare oil cap in his pocket. And it is pretty much a trail ride majority of the way as it is the only way. Getting the sled to run on 87 was the biggest problem because cat doesn’t care to make one run on it. 

You’re a total idiot if you think that’s all the prep that is required. 

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Yeah they need all the provisions for running hundreds of miles of Alaska's toughest terrain (hint, it rhymes with MUD)

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6 minutes ago, mnstang said:

Yeah they need all the provisions for running hundreds of miles of Alaska's toughest terrain (hint, it rhymes with MUD)

:yawn:

 

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4 hours ago, AK440 said:

You’re a total idiot if you think that’s all the prep that is required. 

He literally said what he did. Maybe you should call him and tell him he is full shit. He even said the air plane full of parts was useless because of weather. 

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15 minutes ago, Not greg b said:

He literally said what he did. Maybe you should call him and tell him he is full shit. He even said the air plane full of parts was useless because of weather. 

I listened to that same podcast last month. Maybe pull your head out of your ass next time you listen. So tell me Iron Dog expert, why did they have spare parts on a plane if all he needed was a spare oil cap? :news:

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8 hours ago, mnstang said:

Yeah they need all the provisions for running hundreds of miles of Alaska's toughest terrain (hint, it rhymes with MUD)

and MUD spelled backwards is... 

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On 7/25/2024 at 1:55 AM, AK440 said:

I listened to that same podcast last month. Maybe pull your head out of your ass next time you listen. So tell me Iron Dog expert, why did they have spare parts on a plane if all he needed was a spare oil cap? :news:

If you turn your hearing aids on he said because of the weather there you usually can’t get the parts off the air plane in time and they are worthless 

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12 hours ago, Not greg b said:

If you turn your hearing aids on he said because of the weather there you usually can’t get the parts off the air plane in time and they are worthless 

So why does he or the the other teams use airplane support with spare parts if they can’t ever use them? By your logic, all these teams load a plane with parts even though they are useless. :idiot::smack:

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