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The 200s (SnoScoot and ZR) get a big upgrade for 2019 too! Electric start is standard on the Cat and available on the Yamaha! I am not sure if this is really for the kids, or if the parents are just tired of pulling the rope on yet another sled! The cost of this and all the other upgrades brought the price up $250 over last year to $3999, but that’s still under the $4K mark, where we believe it will still sell well.
Additional upgrades included a new oil dipstick. Formerly you had to angle the entire sled to get a correct read and get all the oil out when changing it. There is also a longer pull cord and back-up recoil starter. A few people pulled a little too hard on the cords last year! Finally there is a new composite carb isolator. This helps in predictable starting when you have been running the machine already and turn it off for a short period, then start it back up again.
What we learned last year is that this lightweight 192cc 4-stroke motor will push the 10x93x1 track just fine and it gets up on top of even the deepest snow. It is belt driven, has a Hayes hydraulic brake (that actually came from their competitive mountain bike side of their brake business) and it actually works… unlike brakes from small cc sleds in the past.
Not much else is new on the SnoScoot and 200, but we want to reiterate that these are truly capable machines with real slide rail, torsion spring rear suspensions and independent double wishbone front suspensions with hydraulic shocks and plenty of suspension travel (4.5 and 8.5 inches).
For the 120cc sleds, they get a new idler wheel design and, of course, BNG!