After High School I bought my first "New" sled.. 1978 Ski-Doo Blizzard 6500
Plus. Anyone ever owned one of these?
Years later I had 3 Kawasaki's. 340 Invader, 440 Invader and the mighty 550
Interceptor.
-----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =-----
http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World!
-----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =-----
X6667
*sigh*
Bud
BRC Member
2003 RX-1 "USS Tuna"
4stroke AC couch
"Evel" <Ev...@racer.com> wrote in message
news:3c971...@corp.newsgroups.com...
<snip>
Cool thread. My first rides (with old man) were '68 Olympic one-lung, '67
Snocruiser 207 and eventually a '73 Olympic 399. My Dad taught me the
controls and I "drove" at age three. By age six I was riding the 399 by
myself. Over the years, there were several other "beasts" that appeared - a
SnoPrince that would belch gas and flames out the carb (right at your nuts)
and a BoaSki that never steered (that sucker was nothing BUT push).
Motoskis and more Skidoo models.
After that, it was a long time that I was working in Toronto and Montreal
and didn't buy *my* first sled until Fall of 1998. So I bought two! 1999
Mach 1 700 and a 1999 Formula Z 500 for Renee. Since then, traded the Mach
1 after two years for a 2000 Special Edition MXZ 600 and built it up to 'X'
standards, traded the Formula Z for Renee's Legend GS 600 and bought my MXZX
800 in the fall just past. Next year, I will be buying a REV 800 SDI if
available and trading in one of the MXZ's.
While I always had sleds to ride, never owed one until recently.
--
~Andy
'01 Kawasaki KX250 / '01 Honda CR125 / '02 Kawasaki KLX300
'02 Skidoo MXZX800 / '00 Skidoo MXZX600
MAZ
REM7600
- '69 Ski-Doo Olympic
- '67 Massey-Furgeson Ski Whiz w/ 370 JLO Single.
- '68 Polaris Mustang, my first twin, had 20 inch cleated track, electric
start.
(four years pass while at college)(btw, I bought a Hodaka 125 dirt bike in
school and rebuilt it in my dorm room).
- '75 Snow Jet 340, I stuffed in a 440 fan.
- '80 Kawasaki Invader 440 Liquid, my first liquid, MAN was this thing FAST.
Also first sled to trailer.
- '85 Arctic Cat 'El Tigre 5000, First sled to make it onto the Tug Hill
around 1990.
- '87 Arctic Cat 'El Tigre 6000, my first sled with Independant Front
Suspension. None of my freinds could keep up now, I could fly on the bumps.
- '91 Polaris Indy 340. Small engine but light weight, put Fox shocks in, I
could pound all day in the bumps.
(several years off while the kids grow up)
- '95 Polaris Indy 500, Put in Boivin Expert rear skid and wide front end
kit.
- '02 Polaris 600 Classic, 600 VES, electric start, reverse, M-10. My first
new sled, cool. Reverse, will never own a sled without one. 600 VES, highest
HP sled to date for me, I love it. M-10, very plush ride.
I also owned many dirt bikes, ATV's, cars, trucks, vans and street bikes. I
like anything with an engine.
"Evel" <Ev...@racer.com> wrote in message
news:3c971...@corp.newsgroups.com...
--
Best regards,
Jeffrey Howe
President
TrakControl Dynamics
Performance Suspension Services
www.trakcontrol.com
"Sparks" <m...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:g7Hl8.145742$V15.24...@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com...
Dan
--
FE410 Merc
Thundersnake#16
69 Mach 1 clone, Merc scoop, Merc steering wheel, Merc 351 W
78 f-250 XLT supercab 4x4, 400 C6.
http://www.geocities.com/fordguru69/Mach1Muscle.html
Remove mach1 spam block to reply.
"Gordy" <gordy...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:u9eha81...@corp.supernews.com...
ZRjoe
"Evel" <Ev...@racer.com> wrote in message
news:3c971...@corp.newsgroups.com...
1979 Ski Doo Blizzard 5500 My first new sled
1983 Blizzard 9700
1987 Formula Plus
1989 Mach 1
1992 Mach 1 after adding long track with plastic paddles it was my first
sled to the top of Mount Baker.
1994 Mach Z
1996 Summit 670
1997 Summit 670
1998 Summit X
2001 Hymark X 800
2002 Hymark X 800
To be continued..........
Ron
Arlington, Washington
>Subject: Re: What was your first snowmobile?
"Evel" <Ev...@racer.com> wrote in message
news:3c971...@corp.newsgroups.com...
That thing was a blast until the ski spindle broke off and the only neighbor
with a welder wouldn't help us fix it.because he thought it was a death trap.
The motor later went on a go-kart and it would smoke the big riding mower tires
we had on it.
Damn fast for a 340, too! I was pissed when my '93 Safari L was way
slower!
-Rob
"Evel" <Ev...@racer.com> wrote in message news:<3c971...@corp.newsgroups.com>...
71 TNT340
72 Elan250s
72 Nordic399
74 Elan250t
76 Olympic440
80 Enticer250
81 SRV
84 SS25
87 Exciter
91 ExciterII
93 ExciterIIsx
96 V-Max600
97 700sx
2003 RX1!!
I hope I didnt forget any!!
Dave RX1
Karl in Spokane
--
Because of the increased "trash mail" (spam) the reply-to address
has some (obvious) added text to stop this. Please relpy to
the appropriate person, below. If you do not reply in this matter
your relpy will get bounced back to you.
Thanks for your understanding in this matter.
For reply to Joan: mailto: pris...@yahoo.com
For reply to Karl: mailto: wa7...@yahoo.com
home page: http://www.dalek.org/kshoe
Next sled I rode was a 15 hp Polaris Colt I think 1965 vintage. Best sled a
kid could have!
Next was a 69 Rustler 19 hp. It was the first sled to become mine.
In order after that.
74 Moto Ski Futura 440 Nicest riding handling sled of its time to bad it got
stuck in a foot of snow. Rubberized cleated track absolutely useless.
78 Moto Ski Futura 400 Which when the motor went after 1700 miles I replaced
it with a 669 out of a double track Ski-Doo. Wasn't very fast after that,
but it would pull a sleigh with two people in it while riding double up hill
at 50 mph. Want to talk about torque?
77 Ski-Doo 440 TNT FA Ate more pistons than I care to remember! Fast for its
time quite powerful. Just to damn temperamental! Put a 440 FC out of a
Olympic in it for running on trails. set it up on a motor mount with carb
attached and just swapped motors back and forth would take less than a hour
to swap engines. FA for racin FC for riding.
77 Ski-Doo 440 TNT FC Loved this sled. Bought it to have a second sled for
the wife and I.
98 800 Pantera Raised a Family so sleds went on the back burner for a while.
All I can say is WOW have sleds changed!
2000 1000 Pantera Same sled more WOW!
2000 600 ZL Wife's sled but she can't keep me off it. I have to say I really
like this sled.
Tekguy
Evel wrote:
>
> What was the first sled you could call your own??
The first one??? 72 Ski-doo Olympique 399, ran like a top but everything
else fell apart. Still was great fun to be out on something. Sold it to
buy a dirt bike. Later scored a 72 Boa-ski 440...fast and uncontrollable
when it ran right, otherwise would shoot flames out of the carb and set
your coat on fire. Then the 1980's came and it stopped snowing...sold it
to buy a dirt bike.
Years later I bought a Cat...no more selling to buy dirt bikes...;)
TIGER~
--
Matt Jensen in snow-free Wisconsin
E-mail: "m<insert my last name here>@obvion.com"
--
Change "at" to @ and "dot" to . to reply.
Damned Spam!
Bobby
Evel <Ev...@racer.com> wrote in message
news:3c971...@corp.newsgroups.com...
> What was the first sled you could call your own??
the only ones with sliders back then
were crazy cat people, cat sure was
ahead of its time
the first sled I actually purchased was
an 82 Kawasaki Invader, it had sliders
and it was a liquid cooled 440, it was
fast and had a radiator under the hood!
--
-----------------------------------------------------
Click here for Free Video!!
http://www.gohip.com/free_video/
<sled...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3c980a44....@news-server.twcny.rr.com...
--
Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG
What a great sled - it was a lot of fun. Looked like crap but ran
great - it did about 68 miles/hour down the road. The track was held
together by the cleats and peices of seat belt.
I bought it from and older friend but I never actually registered it
in my name (only had it for 1.5 years). It turned out the 440 had been
stolen about 10 years before and never recovered. Boy, was the guy who
bought it from me pissed off - I won't do that again. Of course my
friend played dumb and didn't know how it could have been stolen.
Funny, he was the one who did the engine swap.
Replaced it with an '86 Indy 400 (bore out to 440). It took me into a
fence post that was bent over and survived better (belly pan bent in a
bit, cab cracked/scratched, still sitting upright running) than I did
(busted knee (ow!) on the other side of the fence).
Grant
'95 Polaris Indy XLT SKS
'93 Polaris Indy Trail Deluxe
'01 Polaris Sportsman 400
"MICHAEL O'HARA" <moh...@kingcon.com> wrote in message news:<E981846E683C771D.C92ABD41...@lp.airnews.net>...
"Evel" <Ev...@racer.com> wrote in message
news:3c971...@corp.newsgroups.com...
"Mike" <roos...@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:OCem8.180181$uv5.15...@bin6.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com...
-Then a 1980 Yamaha Enticer 250
-followed by a 1991 Indy Lite 340,
-another Indy Lite 340 in '94,
-then an Indy 500 in 1998,
-followed by a 2002 Polaris Edge X 600 (sonic blue), which was totaled
this winter when some creep piled into me, and now....
-a 2002 Edge X 700 (sonic blue).