Anyone remember these badboys- way oldschool

[av8er]

I remember cussing the heck out of these old bolt on paddles.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SKIDOO-POLA...TIC-/151482896482?hash=item2345159062&vxp=mtr

 

[wrtmani]

I saw those on there yesterday. I remember seeing an RXL Polaris with those installed on it at the Polaris shop in Bozeman when I was in high school. They look as goofy now as they did then!

 

[mike_s]

Dad has some good stories about those, one that sticks in my mind: when he was racing the RMSHA circuit early on in its life, the circuit took them to a "hillclimb" back east. Was more like a dragrace up a slight incline. He and a bunch of racing buddies rolled into this place with their machines, unloaded for the test and tune day and the locals couldnt believe what they were seeing! LOL! Almost couldnt get and tuning done for the hoards of people around their sleds drooling. "where do you get a track that long!?" LOL! "how do you keep the front end down with those things bolted to the track!?". And the best comment that stuck with him was from one of the local competitors: "awe, crap. We're all gonna lose." hahaha!

Even better, he can tell you about the days they used aluminum angle for paddles...we still have a bunch of both in a box in the back of the old shop.

 

[skidoorulz]

Had them on my 85 MX. "longtrack". Was a 128 inch track

 

[89sandman]

had some on our kids old 89 jag. threw chunks of snow, about as much fun to ride behind as a attack 20

 

[Blu Du]

I remember the first time I went to west Yellowstone back in 92(I live in mn) I was 16 and I remember riding the park and some guy had 92 EXT special wit bolt on paddles and straight pipes. wow that was a tricked out sled back in the day

 

[av8er]

my 87 phazer

had the simmons bolt on paddles, and an Aaen pipe whoohoo. back then u just floored it , and hang on tight. kind of like mounting your wife from behind, and then whispering in her ear that is how you and your girlfriend do it, and trying to hang on for 8 sec. HA HA!!!

 

[Scott]

My buddy made some of those paddles...must have been out of the same stuff that Simmons makes their skis from...but it was more rigid.

They hummed like a really pizzed-off hummingbird.

 

[801]

I still have an ole 73 panther with the rivit on steel channel iron for cleats, had it since it was new just over 600 miles on it now

 

[Vern]

Way back when I was a wee lad, I remember seeing my dad and his buddies out layin in the snow, with the azz end of his sled hanging from a tree, in the dark swapping out the broken ones just to go riding the next morning. We used to have some floating around but over the years they've ninja vanished.

 

[freeflorider]

Memory's....I used to love the hard chunks of snow you could blast your buddy with when you passed him on the trail, you'd looked like a jet boat until one comes loose and rips your cooler out. We had um in Pink , purple, black and blue all the colors of a rainbow.

 

[sillyrabbit0420]

I still have an ole 73 panther with the rivit on steel channel iron for cleats, had it since it was new just over 600 miles on it now

Hell yeah, man!!! Those were AMAZING!
I remember coming around a cove on a lake on my '77 Panther 5000, and the wind had blown the snow down to bare ice. I hit that bare ice wide open (at night) and just started doing completely out of control hauling a$$ donuts at 50 mph. LMAO!!! It was great. The track was 17" wide, but I don't remember what the ski stance was. Not very wide. I don't know how I didn't roll the sled.

My brother was behind me on his '78 Panther. He said he saw spinning white/red/white/red headlight/taillight. We had a great time on those sleds. They were tanks. They wouldn't quit. We had nearly 8,000 miles on them before we upgraded to '94 Cougars.

 

[T-Bone]

My dad blew out his first knee thanks to those back in the day. Centurion chassis with 656 starting line triple and a 141" full of those 2" paddles. Hardpack spring day, he grabbed a handful of throttle on a small hill and the whole thing went over backwards lol. I can still remember the sound those things made going up the hill on a full mod.


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[smwizzz]

Yep!!!

Ha ha, great stories!!! I remember the old steel channels and the old plastic paddles. The biggest problem with both were on the trail slowing down, especially on a tight switch back and they would slide sideways. The paddles weren't always much fun coming back down either!!!

 

[gonehuntnpowder]

Had a set on a 91 wildcat I bought from Bret Rasmussen. Had one of his hand built aluminum bulkheads. The way it was setup it was 75 lbs lighter than stock. The old Freddie Kruger engine was hard on clutches, but it was a fun, dominating sled in its day.

 

[m8magicandmystery]

sure were dangerous on an icy side hill

 

[snownman]

Teflon angle...

We used to make our own out of 1 1/2 X 1 1/2 and 2 X 2" teflon angle. They worked great in the hills But, NOT on a hard packed road. After spinning out on my old Centurion and snapping off all three plugs after flipping it over, I learned to slow down on the hard pack. LOL the old days...

 

[tar]

Oh ya, I remember those. I ordered some back in the early 90 but they were delivered to the neighbors by mistake and there yellow lab thought they made good chew toys and ate half the paddles.
HAHAHA
I still have a set of titanium 2" X 3" claws, nasty little things.

Tar