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Answer me this…
Why did the Ski-Doo Alpine have two tracks and one ski? I mean, was this some guy's idea of a joke?
Why did I take 2 years of high school Spanish and the only thing I can say that sounds remotely Spanish is El Tigre?
Why do I have more fun on a Sno-Scoot than my kids do?
Why does a bacon cheeseburger with onion rings taste so much better in a tiny little lakeside resort with my sled sitting outside?
Why does my helmet breath deflector smell like the laundry bin in a NHL locker room?
Why does the outside of my jacket smell good enough to never wash?
Why does the temperature light come on after the sled overheats and blows up?
Why is it that the tire closest to the wall on my snowmobile trailer always is the one that goes flat when parked in my summer storage unit?
Why do tilt-bed trailers suddenly decide to tilt downward exactly three tenths of a second before your skis cross the threshold of the trailer bed? That trailer would stay tilted for 24 years if there weren't a moving sled within one foot of it. Must be the same reason my ramp falls off the front two tenths of a second before I plan on driving my sled off the trailer?
Why did the speedometer on my 1969 Arctic Cat Panther go up to 100 mph?
Why do OEMs put windshields on sleds that are the same size as the flip shield on a full-face helmet?
Why did my 1994 Yamaha Vmax-4 have a 135-horsepower, counter-balanced, liquid-cooled, inline four-cylinder engine… and a cable brake?
Why did an early '90s Polaris Indy look so damn good with a low, black windshield?
Why Forest Tucker of the TV show, "F-Troop?" Was he the only celebrity crazy enough to ride a Viking snowmobile in the Winnipeg to St. Paul I-500?
Why do I have hair on my back and hardly a hair on my head? Oh, sorry, I forgot we're talking snowmobiles here.
Why does Cat's Tucker Hibbert make it look so easy?
Why did John Deere, Kawasaki, Scorpion and Rupp have to go away?
Why was Chrysler convinced the Sno-Runner was a good idea?
Why didn't my Ski-Doo Elan ever start?
Why didn't my Ski-Doo Elan ever quit?
Why can't I pour oil without a funnel?
Why do people always have to stop on the trail right around the next bend?
Why do people want to own a "ditch banging" sled?
Why did we have to wait until the 1980s for hand warmers?
Why do people continue to use the words "one owner" and "mint" and "never raced" in classified ads?
Why don't I ever read a classified ad that says "four owners" or "rough," or "raced all the time?"
Why do snowmobile companies have to think up an acronym (ACER, PERC, SDI) for everything?
Why do snowmobile magazine columnists have to think up good ideas for stories in the middle of July, when it's 85 degrees out and the kids want to go water skiing?
Editor's note: …Because! That's why!Pink Ribbon Rider's website