maxwell
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hmm i do the exact opposite of what you say and mine tracks are always wrecked, So your math checks out
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hmm i do the exact opposite of what you say and mine tracks are always wrecked, So your math checks out
maxwell
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nailed it, we are riding in more tech terrain with much greater track speeds. The damage happens fast. These machines are a far cry from an old XP chugging along.
end of the day, if you baby the track on the trail and are very careful about things hiding under the snow the track willl last.
But if you ride hard and dont care to stop and smell the roses on the trail and like to wheelie through stump town then your track is good for one season. For hard riders they have pretty much become a wear item like tires. Sucks because they are expensive, but the loss in rotating mass makes them perform incredible. A guy could put a T3 track back on but you would feel the performance loss
Shredder
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Lol......look at my join date. Closing in on 20 years ago now. Getting old and enjoying the hot tubs and beerz more; due to the recovery time from not respecting that age getting longer and longer. I'm well into the Silvertip Sledder territory now.
06 Dragon
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One thing about Matt is he rides both doo and Polaris and now Lynx. He is not afraid to speak of his likes, dislikes, and show the failures. Whereas guys like KC, BT, and other sponsored riders are probably forbidden to speak negatively of the sleds and failures.
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maxwell
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we all know that your lady would be on your expert and you'd be riding the 9r
jcjc1
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get outta here with that nonsense! no room for logic and reason on a powersports forum!I don’t think they are. “Track issues”have shown up in the last 4-5 years. What’s changed? Everyone rides turbos, short tunnels and 3” paddles.
Skidoo since the 3” paddle was stock on summits had started putting it in the manual 2 pages worth of warnings for trail racers that states no prolonged riding over 45mph or tracks will delaminate. 3” lugs heat up on prolonged riding of hard ice pack trails. Never exceed 60mph on 3” paddles etc etc. how many guys forget to put their scratchers down?
Shorter tunnels mean more guys pulling on sides of trail and spinning their tracks for cooling (rocks, trees, branches) Pin and wiggle since the short tunnel makes a quick way of getting unstuck or preventing a stuck terrible snow conditions means rocks, trees ripping the track.
Everyone blames the track when I would say it’s operator fault. But as with everything it’s never the operators faultthe machine failed
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the machine failedjcjc1
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could be wrong and frequently that's the case but i know the G5's use an even thinner aluminum on the tunnel plus BRP was also saying the new track was lighter. this tells me that if they're reducing material on these two parts to lose weight then there's not really any viable solutions to either cheaply and/or effectively shed significant weight in general. point is, is that i think we're stuck with roughly these sled weights for awhile and whatever durability or lack thereof that confers.
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FranktheTank
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That thing will do 140
hbar218
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It’s pretty hard to go off sweet jumps at 1/2 throttle, its a known fact that 96% is he sweet jump speed.
Shredder
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It's crazy the amount of rides that Matt seems to be having sleds broke down, or smashed this year. It must wear on those guys always having to be figuring out how to get sleds back to the trucks at the end of the day. The whole group pushing the limits on running out of fuel thing is something I have never really understood. That's totally in each riders control to change your riding according to how much fuel you have left throughout the day. As well as not having spare belts on every sled and not packing essential tools on every sled. I ride like a damn sissy now and still have two spare belts with me at all times. Kinda some weird stuff I don't understand going on at times this year.
lol. He buys more new sleds than spare belts. I think maybe part of it is that he wants a bit of drama in the day for the YouTube video. Look at what he names all his videos. Must get more views to say out of gas and broken bulkhead than another fun day on boulder mountain.
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Last few bars are the largest part of the fuel tank
sledneck__11
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Flashing fuel light always means a good day anyways always keep a 1 litre bottle of gas in the backpack to start a fire or get me back down never needed it yet
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