Summit Freeride- What you pay?

[ram4tow]

I'll chime in here because I'm a sales guy at a dealer and snowchecked one for myself, and I just sold it for full retail, as I did not want to sell it because this sled is made for me(expert level motocross racer who loves to jump and charge stuff) I have been looking for one for another customer and myself and there are none out there available( I can do dealer searches on BOSS web.... good luck finding one and I mean that in the nicest way possible, perhaps you will luck out and somebody will not pick theirs up by the Chrismas and the dealer will sell it and keep some poor guys deposit, as stranger things have happened.

Since I just did a walk through on one all I can say is BAD ASS, and I'm pissed I sold mine as it's gonna cost somebody $ 20 000 to build one out of a regular summit of you'd be better off buying a MXZ -X and putting summit a-arms and a aftmarket skid and tunnel. Retail for one was 16299, the spring check rebate was $ 1000. If you can get a dealer to give you the rebate this late in the season your a very luck man.

After looking at the sled and looking at the parts fishe and manual, it is a MXZ X with skinny a arms and a long tunnel and shares really no parts with a summit. I did not really go out and price aftermaket suspension, but if you were to look at the cost of getting front shocks with a piggyback resivoir, and that have external high speed compression, external low speed compression and external rebound speed adjustment, plus massive shafts, and similar stuff on the rear, it makes the sled a bargian for a rider will the skill and/or balls to use the shocks/beefy chassis to it's fullest( going big and charging lines and trail whoops) If you are the type of rider who others stop and watch ride this sled is for you, if you are not you will be fine with an x....

Lol sorry you lost me at " Im a sales guy at a dealer"

Something about spending +/- 17 grand "taxes in" doesnt make me feel like a "lucky man" lol
If its sold then why does it say you own on on your signature lol sorry i had to..:d

 

[steel town]

Lol sorry you lost me at " Im a sales guy at a dealer"

Something about spending +/- 17 grand "taxes in" doesnt make me feel like a "lucky man" lol
If its sold then why does it say you own on on your signature lol sorry i had to..:d

Opps, I have to change my signature, and if you cant see the benifit of having killer supsension stock on a sled(rather than spending $ 4000 later, well that sled is not for you, if your shocks do not have external adjustability they are nothing to brag about (and spring preload counts for nothing):d

 

[dlg27]

My dealer has a extra freeride right now for 15200 plus tax

 

[Flatlander_01]

i know myself wouldn't spend 17 grand on a sled that dosen't have a positive manifold pressure.

 

[ram4tow]

i know myself wouldn't spend 17 grand on a sled that dosen't have a positive manifold pressure.

Or a Johnson rod.. like come on who does BRP think they are?

 

[OOC ZigZag]

Opps, I have to change my signature, and if you cant see the benifit of having killer supsension stock on a sled(rather than spending $ 4000 later, well that sled is not for you, if your shocks do not have external adjustability they are nothing to brag about (and spring preload counts for nothing):d

IMO not enough bang for the buck. Ski doo's mark up little to much for what you get.:d

 

[steel town]

IMO not enough bang for the buck. Ski doo's mark up little to much for what you get.:d[/QUOTE

I'm not getting into a pissing contest over peoples personal sled preference, come down and check it out for yourself as I have one pdi'd and you can look at it. It is not a sled designed for guys who think out-highmarking your buddies means your the bomb, its made for guys who jump, and drop big stuff.

At the end of the day its consumer choice, you can buy a sled and put a turbo on it and out climb your buddies, if thats what gets you stoked to ride then thats cool, sleddiing is alot of different things to different people.
Me, I dont higmark, I like jumping, dropping cliffs, boondocking. My influence and/or drive to sled comes from racing motocoss for 25 years and riding my snowboard in the snowboard park/backcountry at lake louise and sunshine. Every guy on the hill see's the mountian in a different view, some ride 300 miles a year, some ride 3000 miles a year, some guys pound a sled into rubble, some guys cry if they scratch their sled. It's all good, purchase the sled you like and and ride it like a mad man. At the end of the day did you set a personal best and try new stuff while out riding ? or did you ride like you have sand in your mangina ? The latter does not need a freeride and it would be a waste of $. The guys that other people watch with their jaw on the ground would benifit form haivng the upgrades that the Freeride has, it's more durable and beefy, from the chassis, shocks, skid, handle bars, even the throttle.

 

[Slamnek]

Theres one sitting at Rec Tech in lloydminster. I'm not sure what they want for it but its a wicked looking sled. If i could afford it i would have one.

 

[RMK Junky]

Did a search...$13,349 in the US.


I was bored

 

[zonker892]

Id love a summit freeride, a real badass sled!!!! but 16k for the sled is a total ripoff

 

[teeroy]

I'll chime in here because I'm a sales guy at a dealer and snowchecked one for myself, and I just sold it for full retail, as I did not want to sell it because this sled is made for me(expert level motocross racer who loves to jump and charge stuff) I have been looking for one for another customer and myself and there are none out there available( I can do dealer searches on BOSS web.... good luck finding one and I mean that in the nicest way possible, perhaps you will luck out and somebody will not pick theirs up by the Chrismas and the dealer will sell it and keep some poor guys deposit, as stranger things have happened.

they are out there, dealers snowcheck them under other peoples names to sell them off the floor. they won't be in the BOSS system.

 

[maxwell]

you guys are hilarious.

how are you justifying your statments of its a ripoff?

have you LOOKED at the changes?

yep its an extra 3-4g for the machine but it is a completely different sled.

i wont get into it do some fawkin research.

THAT BEING SAID...i will never have one because i do all those upgrades myself like many of us but if you want a pull and go machine this is it.

and on that note i dont think anyone saying its a ripoff could even ride that sled to its potential let alone an everest so why are you barking at it?

if you cant ride an everest then of course a freeride is going to be a ripoff for you

 

[teeroy]

you guys are hilarious.

how are you justifying your statments of its a ripoff?

have you LOOKED at the changes?

yep its an extra 3-4g for the machine but it is a completely different sled.

i wont get into it do some fawkin research.

THAT BEING SAID...i will never have one because i do all those upgrades myself like many of us but if you want a pull and go machine this is it.

and on that note i dont think anyone saying its a ripoff could even ride that sled to its potential let alone an everest so why are you barking at it?

if you cant ride an everest then of course a freeride is going to be a ripoff for you

rep'd....

 

[synergycycle]

Daaaa "The Ride Says It All"

 

[Summit X]

I'm not getting into a pissing contest over peoples personal sled preference, come down and check it out for yourself as I have one pdi'd and you can look at it. It is not a sled designed for guys who think out-highmarking your buddies means your the bomb, its made for guys who jump, and drop big stuff.

At the end of the day its consumer choice, you can buy a sled and put a turbo on it and out climb your buddies, if thats what gets you stoked to ride then thats cool, sleddiing is alot of different things to different people.
Me, I dont higmark, I like jumping, dropping cliffs, boondocking. My influence or drive to sled comes from racing motocoss for 25 years and riding my snowboard in the snowboard park/backcountry at lake louise and sunshine. Every guy on the hill see's the mountian in a different view, some ride 300 miles a year, some ride 3000miles a year, some guys pound a sled into rubble, some guys cry it they scratch their sled. It's all good, purchase the sled you like and and ride it like a mad man. At the end of the day did you set a personal best and try new stuff while out riding ? or did you ride like you have sand in your mangina ? The latter does not need a freeride and it would be a waste of $, the guys that people watch with their jaw on the ground would benifit form haivng the upgrades that the Freeride has it's it more durable and beefy, frome the chassis, to the shocks, to the skid, to the handle bars, even the throttle.

i'd love to have one, that is the sled for me!!! maybe next year...

 

[OOC ZigZag]

you guys are hilarious.

how are you justifying your statments of its a ripoff?

have you LOOKED at the changes?

yep its an extra 3-4g for the machine but it is a completely different sled.

i wont get into it do some fawkin research.

THAT BEING SAID...i will never have one because i do all those upgrades myself like many of us but if you want a pull and go machine this is it.

and on that note i dont think anyone saying its a ripoff could even ride that sled to its potential let alone an everest so why are you barking at it?

if you cant ride an everest then of course a freeride is going to be a ripoff for you

IMO like I said not enough bang for the buck and I did my homework on them.

 

[ram4tow]

you guys are hilarious.

how are you justifying your statments of its a ripoff?

have you LOOKED at the changes?

yep its an extra 3-4g for the machine but it is a completely different sled.

i wont get into it do some fawkin research.

THAT BEING SAID...i will never have one because i do all those upgrades myself like many of us but if you want a pull and go machine this is it.

and on that note i dont think anyone saying its a ripoff could even ride that sled to its potential let alone an everest so why are you barking at it?

if you cant ride an everest then of course a freeride is going to be a ripoff for you

Easy Maxwell you might make somebody cry!

I agree with the fact that this sled WILL fit the "pull and go " type guys, But for the rest of us that like to pick and choose exactly what parts we want on our sleds, this sled just isnt going to work.

Its nice to see a dealer sales rep chime in and actually have some usefull information.. i see it way to many times in not just sled sales but car and truck sales where the customer knows more about the vehicle then they do.

 

[T-team]

Easy Maxwell you might make somebody cry!

I agree with the fact that this sled WILL fit the "pull and go " type guys, But for the rest of us that like to pick and choose exactly what parts we want on our sleds, this sled just isnt going to work.

Its nice to see a dealer sales rep chime in and actually have some usefull information.. i see it way to many times in not just sled sales but car and truck sales where the customer knows more about the vehicle than than they do.

Whats the point of someone from a dealership chiming in.... Clearly the guys on here saying this sleds a rip off... Already know everything about it....(sarcasm)

 

[steel town]

We just pulled the skid out of a 2011 Freeride here at the shop to put a 2.5 camoplast track on it for the owner, and holly chitt, them rear shocks are BAD ASS.

If all the OEM's start making stuff like this stock, it will be the end of the highend hop up shops. If you dont think it can happen, when is the last time you put different forks/shock and swingarm on your modern motocross bike ? In the 70's and early 80's it was the norm cause the oem's were specking their bikes with cheap stuff(kinda like an everst) with the freeride you get premium shocks stock...

 

[Hicktown]

I've got one I snowchecked for $17,600. If anyone is looking to buy one let me know!