07 Rev setup help needed

[dragon12]

I am looking for some advice on how to make this machine easier to ride. My wife is fighting this machine right now and I would like to make it easier for her to ride so she doesn't get discouraged. She is working on carving but she has to put both feet on one side and use the mountain strap to make it carve. When counter steering, the sled feels like it wants to fight the counter steer and force the skis straight. If you muscle it, you can make it counter steer. If you counter steer a little the sled will carve. If you counter steer a lot, the sled will lay over. There seems to be a dead spot in the middle. The other day we were trying some different shock settings and made it softer and that seemed to help some. Is this how the revs feel? Do you have to throw them around to make them handle? I ride a dragon and it is a completely different ride.

The sled is a 800R with 151 track. Swaybar removed, otherwise stock. Thanks in advance.

 

[summitsrule]

I have a similar sled, only a 144". Been riding for many years. First Rev for me. I hated it for exactly what you are describing, everyone told me it takes a few rides to get used to the rev chassis. If there was lots of snow, easy. If there was average snow or less it was very hard to get to carve and lean without being pinned, and even then it fought you back to keep it flat and straight.

Then I bougth SLP Powder Pro's. What a different sled. I can carve with no snow, everything about them was beter then stock except one thing.

It is actually a very dangerous negative affect but stock skis do it too, just not as much. When there is a crust on the top of the snow, when trying cross a meadow or anything straight, speed average, not really fast or really slow, skiis keep grabbing and try to make it dart. It is quite noticeable but if you know its there, you just keep her a bit slower and your fine.

I recommend try beter skii's. I like PP's but some like others too. My 2 cents. Good luck!

 

[ReTodd]

If she doesn't mind tippy trail manners....lose the sway bar, narrow your ski stance, and switch your right ski with your left ski. Also, a bar riser will give her more leverage to pull it over with. Good luck.


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[dooadew]

id say put the sway bar back on, all the sleds before the rev we took them off but i like the handling of the rev WITH the swaybar, it seems to side hill better for me. just my thoughts,