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Terrain Course
Once we’d logged the weights, we headed into the mountains to find a course to test the sleds’ handling and climbing abilities.
Our goal was a course with some technical turns so we could test handling characteristics. Early on we had several “stucks” that quickly reminded us how deep the snow was. The top couple inches were wet snow followed by several feet of dry fluff.
Unfortunately on the way to the hill the Cat M 800 exploded a belt and sadly that was the one sled we didn’t have a spare for. So the M 800 had to sit out the rest of the day’s testing.
Once we found our hill, test rider Josh Skinner and our guest tester Jay Mentaberry set up a course. We then set the start and finish points on the AIM SOLO, attached the SOLO to each test machine and sent the riders through the course. The SOLO computed the time between the two points giving us a time that was accurate to .001 of a second.
The RMKs again topped the charts with both riders recording their best times on the RMK Assault and second fastest times on the 800 Pro-RMK. Arctic Cat’s M 1100 Turbo shocked us all by recording a time good for third, followed by the Ski-Doo Freeride and Yamaha Nytro with its accessory turbo.