Are you Over 50 and STILL SHREDDING?

[2Thetopp]

67 years young and just got a new summit g4 154,no mountains here but ride forest roads and creek bottoms. I like to look on google earth and find spots to get to .Lots of people my age have got out of the sport , not me i am it it till the end. Son said to me one time when i was going to act my age ,, Never.

Growing OLD is mandatory, growing UP is optional!

 

[christopher]

70 and just picked up a 18 Mountain Cat 162ES don't plan to quit any time soon.

Outstanding!

 

[christopher]

UH, I don't count last year as I didn't get to ride last year.

You can make up for it this year in Canada!!

 

[Engine Pro 5x]

This young rider was born in 1933. I rode with him for tens of thousands of miles. Sadly we lost him in 2013. Sure do miss the rides with him.

 

[Obiwan900]

I'm 68 now and snowmobiling is my passion. I keep in shape in the summer by ridding my pedal road bike. The older I get the faster I was. I use to enjoy racing young guys and usually beating 90% of them up until I hit 66. Now it seems like my bike isn't as fast as it use to be. That being said, I still ride my 1100 turbo 4 stroke 215 HP cat as good as anybody. I love it when I pull up to a group of guys on 2 strokes looking to go into some bad *** country where I came from and they ask me it the weight of the 4 stroke is a problem. I tell them that I'm 67 and that the weight isn't a problem at all when the ski's are 2 feet in the air she feels really light but you should probably stay with your 2 strokes cause 215 HP is a huge difference when compared to a 800 at 10,000 feet. Going up the mountain is still and hoot and my biggest problem now is going down, also seems like going down is really scary the older I get and I don't jump off snow cornices any more.

 

[Wrenchmaster]

How do you like your 1100? have you had to do many mods to get it dialed, or have you had belt issue's? These sleds interest me, just trying to find out what fixes need to be done. Read good things about the TCL delete. Sorry, not trying to hyjack, you can PM me if you want

 

[trikerider]

Started riding at age 12 and will be 60 in January. Love my Axys 155 which is the shortest track I've had in years. Here's a pic from 1973 and 2017.

 

[Reg2view]

Wouldn't you love to have that GPX, or the F/A, now? Maybe you do...


First ride was '68, 10 years old. Worked at a dealer and raced till 18, all in the glory years of the sled industry, touched just about every model made before 1976. Will be 60 in 18, shooting to ride till at least 70. Still put 2k miles per year on road and mountain bikes, just to keep skills and stay in shape for bow elk and sledding.

 

[LoneViper]

Look at them long tracks from 73, and still fun.

 

[christopher]

Look at them long tracks from 73, and still fun.

Boy that is a term that has CHANGED it's meaning over the decades

 

[frntflp]

52 at the end of the week. Started riding when I was 6 on a Ski Doo Olympic 12/3. On a good day, wide open was 35 mph down hill, down wind and I thought I was gonna' die !

And I wouldn't trade it for the world " !!

 

[Givemeaboost]

I'll be 65 in Dec. and will be still riding my 14 year old turbo rx1. It's seems to be getting heavier every year but it's paid for and does run pretty strong yet.


Ken............

 

[fredw]

Turning 50 in a few months and been riding since the age of 5.. many many wrecks over the years but gotta say now what I am able to ride and climb is the best riding I ever did, love chellanging myself and getting myself to say hell ya when the younger folk can’t get where your at.. love the steep and deep

 

[christopher]

I'll be 65 in Dec. and will be still riding my 14 year old turbo rx1. It's seems to be getting heavier every year but it's paid for and does run pretty strong yet.


Ken............

There is a LOT to be said for being PAID FOR!!!

 

[trikerider]

Wouldn't you love to have that GPX, or the F/A, now? Maybe you do...

I was riding a Silver Bullet, I did have a 340 F/A with Mikuni carbs, on the last ride of a season it started bogging and I traded it in on a 1979 7500 Plus Blizzard. The Blizzard is the sled I wish I still had.

I happened to be at the dealer the day they were trying to figure out the bog on my old F/A, they pulled off the pipe and there was something rattling around in it. It was one of the piston skirts.

 

[Mafesto]

I was riding a Silver Bullet, I did have a 340 F/A with Mikuni carbs, on the last ride of a season it started bogging and I traded it in on a 1979 7500 Plus Blizzard. The Blizzard is the sled I wish I still had.

That Blizzard was the fastest 340 I had ever ridden!

 

[Drlsldr]

50, started out on 66 skidoo alpine! 2 tracks and one ski of pure adrenaline at the time!
Still love the sport, couldn't afford to get back in the game until I was about 35, a lot of fun in the last 15 years though.

 

[Crash1]

never too old

This is for the guys over 50. I an slowing down a little. Been on a Polaris since 93, but I am worried the Axys may be a little aggressive for my deminishing skills. I put a 174 on it and it's a ton better. Thinking about making a change the next time, probably next fall. Still got lots of riding in me. What are you riding and do is it work for you?

66, just got back to sledding after 30 yrs, backcountry only, love it. 2016 800 pro rmk 155, does the job for me.

 

[christopher]

66, just got back to sledding after 30 yrs, backcountry only, love it. 2016 800 pro rmk 155, does the job for me.

Holy Cow.
The difference from your last ride 30 years ago till your first ride now must have been AMAZING!!

 

[Pro-8250]

I'm 68 now and snowmobiling is my passion. I keep in shape in the summer by ridding my pedal road bike. The older I get the faster I was. I use to enjoy racing young guys and usually beating 90% of them up until I hit 66. Now it seems like my bike isn't as fast as it use to be. That being said, I still ride my 1100 turbo 4 stroke 215 HP cat as good as anybody. I love it when I pull up to a group of guys on 2 strokes looking to go into some bad *** country where I came from and they ask me it the weight of the 4 stroke is a problem. I tell them that I'm 67 and that the weight isn't a problem at all when the ski's are 2 feet in the air she feels really light but you should probably stay with your 2 strokes cause 215 HP is a huge difference when compared to a 800 at 10,000 feet. Going up the mountain is still and hoot and my biggest problem now is going down, also seems like going down is really scary the older I get and I don't jump off snow cornices any more.

I am with you on the going down hill thing. Love going up, but once we are there and I am informed the only way back is to go down the same way we came up, my teeth start to chatter and it's white knuckles all the way down. Jumping cornices I leave to the young test dummies. And I HATE open water. Too many scary memories.