The best part About the 2023 so far is how great it makes my 2018 seem
2023 cat. Where is it?
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Have to disagree. Doo wasn't 3rd in the rev chassis. I used to even spank m1000. I thought they were a heavy pile. only seen one that i would say ran good. When cat came with m sled they were underpowered but you could do things in the trees the others wouldn't but most people didn't know. They still clung to their mountain bars. It wasn't until 9 to 11 that i thought they had a legitimate sled.
New doo will be awesome. Really hard to beat polaris's offering but that is preference. The new lynx will be the bomb with its suspension and 15 wide track and shallow approach. Not a fan of 16 wide. Alpha track shows there is more to the equation.
I was a skidoo boy till the Mseries came out.
I couldn't keep up with an M7 with my 06 rev. I was jealous what I seen people doing with their little M7s.
Hill climbing, skidoo would win, but backcountry riding wasn't even close. Mseries was king. Rev was great down the trail and straight uphill climbing. Suspension was miles ahead of Cat. But those 2 points were not my concern. Backcountry riding is what I am into.
People will disagree with me on this, but the 09-11 M8 was better than the pro. 2011-2015.
I rode with mostly Pro's and the M8 was better in every aspect except super steep sidehilling. 50° +.
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Wait for?....... The 15th or......sometime in the 22-23 riding season?
I'll disagree again. Had a 09m8 and 11 pro at same time. They would both do the same stuff. It was just easier on the pro. Everyone sees things differently. That is just how i seen them.
Im more with summ8.. I rode an M7 in steep terrain. It was kinda boring in comparison to the others but that was the beauty in hind sight. it ate stuff up, i thought it climbed better than the doo because it stayed flat and kept momentum pushing forward not up. I did not give it a fair shake in modern manuevers because i felt it was still too big like cats always were. I prefered the polaris IQ, even back then. But the M had more potential than i pushed. Revs were a good attempt at changing the game but kinda for newbs who only pointed them straight up for short distances. Took serious talent to sidehill. Theyve gotten so much better id say they are a contender now for sure.
I dont like seeing that much sky blue on a cat, weak move. hope theres more.
I dont like seeing that much sky blue on a cat, weak move. hope theres more.
My 06 rev sidehilled like a dream. Had a mountain addiction rear suspension, cmx belt drive fabcraft tunnel, 163hp kit from slp with nitrous. Completely different than the normal rev. Called it 006. Best sled i ever built. I deserved a good sled after the 05 1000. People didn't realize how bad the doo sidehilled unless you showed them. My all-time favorite was to stop on a steep sidehill and watch them roll or go for a ride down through the trees.
haha! Yeah I'm still on facebook but I like the 100% snowmobile nature of snowest. Where are you based out of? I have relatives in Deer Parki had ya pegged as around 50 years young clarkgood job hangin around old school forum instead of facespce/instagram. Hit me up if your ridin up 903 sometime (central WA)
Not sure how you would know how familiar I am with brands based on my previous post but okay...
I think the newer people to the sport are heavily persuaded by social media and Polaris are the masters at that. To say they dont know chit is incorrect. They may not know their preferences (riding style) till they buy a machine and ride other brands. But I feel you can learn a lot from doing some research.
I said that based on people I talked to on the mountain this year. Buddy of mine has been on Cat his whole life, worked at a Cat dealer for 15 years +. He got tired of new decals every year and ordered a turbo Doo and a Boost to see which one suited him better. He wasent the only person I heard this from this year.
This statement is a personal preference and an individual statement. Not sure where you ride but if I see 40 sleds at the cabin less than 5 are Cat and the rest is split between Poo and Doo. So based on that alone I would say the majority will disagree with you. But were also on the Cat side of these forums [emoji1787]
I have seen a guy change his plugs every morning he rides to keep his 25k boost on the snow. Deal with fuel pump issues, broken primary bolts and he still orders himself a 9R for next year. Polaris riders are sucker's for punishment... I stand behind the statement that Polaris has the best marketing/social media presence by far [emoji1787]
Angry? Not at all just disappointed. Like I said a 3rd manufacturer pushing to be number 1 would be awesome. New decals and colors won't get you there...
Again personal opinion, brand bias and marketing will lead you to this conclusion. I prefer to base my opinion on what I see on the hill and there isnt many Cats on it. Rental shops all rent either Doo or Poo have not come across one that rents Cat.
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Its hard to get over the fact that Cat has had patent submissions for years for a boosted sled with the current chassis yet still are sitting on it. Like what problems are the engineers unable to overcome to get it to market?
US20190107031A1 - Snowmobile having a parallel-path exhaust system for two-stroke engine - Google Patents
A snowmobile includes a frame, at least one ski, handbars operatively coupled to the at least one ski, and an engine assembly comprising an engine and an exhaust manifold. The exhaust manifold includes at least a first inlet, a first outlet, and a second outlet. The first inlet is configured to...
patents.google.com
The "problems" likely consist of getting the necessary budget to do what they want.
They were trying to make a belt drive before 2013 and couldn't get it to last. I assume the bean counters were they primary stopping force to that along with the current turbo.
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Cat is just getting lazy now.. last year they promised bigger and better things. We basically have had a 2019 presented to us in different colors for the last 5 years. They are going to lose their customer base at this rate. Personally I don't think textron even cares..
All the corporate communications say they do care but iam a half empty guy when it comes to the corporate goings on. Timings different but they do have a history of turning snowmobile companies around and into the latest greatest? So maybe they will again? Looks like we'll all have to wait and see. At least we all agree that chevy is the greatest of all time. Lol
Here's something I've seen just recently that I thought was funny...
Here's something I've seen just recently that I thought was funny...
Well crap fail again , ordered another polaris lol, ordering a cat for kid . Better hurry up and make somethig, owned cats from 96 to last winter ....
Still haven't gotten cat I ordered a year ago
Didn't you order a polaris also? Did that come in?
I assume it's a kids sled?
They just finished production on those this week.
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