Snowmobiling blues...

nm9stheham said

For now, I am good with trails too. 65 years old and don't have the strength to repeatedly dig out of deep stuff anymore. And we are just amateurs. I was looking at the photos above of your sleds and spotted the tall spindles in the front suspension. Those must be great over rough stuff. So what would you want different for your wife? Just shorter and easier to maneuver?

I adjusted my front spring perches today....never really looked at them but finally saw that the springs were barely touching the top perches when I was not on the sled. So that was that rattling noise! Holy cow... I have real steering now LOL. Before, it wanted to push out on the corners if I pushed at all; the inner ski must have just been floating with no pressure on it and I was losing half of my side bite. Not sure why it was set up that way....It's like a new sled LOL

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First and foremost my wife's leg is way too fast for her and it's extremely touchy. For me I'm an acceleration junkie and absolutely love it! Initially I didn't want her to have any disadvantage. But actually having such a high powered sled is a disadvantage to her. I'd give her a little bit more of a trail sled and the sense of a little bit wider ski stance and a shorter not so aggressive track. Something that rides like it's on Rails and Corners well. Something I'd check for definitely is your car bites on the bottom of the skis. If they went over too many roads and things like that those blades start to wear and your steering goes quickly. I found this out with an old sled that I had and I mean you could crank the wheel and it would not even try to turn unless you leaned on it. And even then it wasn't great. I bought new carbides blades for the bottoms of the skis and it was the new animal... Something to check and they're not real expensive or hard to change. Width 162 in track with three in paddles it doesn't get stuck too easily, but you just roll it out of the hole and jump back on and go..