A good part of what made those work (and both of my ZR's) good was to get them to squat more the harder you pushed them, they became nearly glued to the trail. At least IME.
Yeah, the good old days of snowmobiling have passed. Now it’s a $18,000 hunk of plastic that doesn’t block the wind. But I do have to say that the suspensions have come a LONG ways since 20 years ago - a 250 miles day is a breeze now.
6” of carbide on the ski’s and 120 studs is what I ran on my 440. I like just a little bit of ski slide in the corners without too much “grab”.
Zrt 600 slightly modded. Yellow lake Wisconsin down the channel. I am not on the sled but I was watching my friends do dumb sh!t this day. I miss the days they would let this happen. Was always a good time watching people skip the channel.
The triples always sounded badass, but I never wanted one due to the weight.
First thing all my friends did when they got sleds was raise the suspension up as high as they could, thinking they would get more travel - not me, I setup my sled for my weight and riding style, and let it set down a bit when I was on it. And they would all get pissed when my little 440 was way ahead of them
That was always fun!
Obviously!
Today’s a good day for you to go buy a new snowmobile. I mean, snowmachine.
We always figured we had to do 400 miles or we weren't riding.
That’s a long day!
I never liked them. I did work at 2 different Polaris dealerships when I was younger that solidified my opinion - recalls were standard procedure and they have main chassis points that are glued with epoxy where they would have been welded - it probably holds up for 75% of the weekend warrior riders, but for anyone that rides aggressively, it’s a disaster waiting to happen. They also had a LOT of trouble with crank bearing failures on multiple engine platforms.
