Cost per mile to ride

[catothom]

Dude, why are you shooting your own leg? Snowmobiling IS expensive and we aaaaaaaaaall know it.
When you start flipping numbers, your soon out of the snowmobiling hobby. Still haven`t found a guy that stayed in the hobby after working the numbers for how much each ride cost`s..

Shape it up, suck it up and ride with a HUGE smile, cause in the end, you know it`s worth it!

 

[nuggetau]

Add in:
Opportunity cost of the money you tied up in the trailer and sled, 1 full qt of oil per 10 gals gas, depreciation of the truck driving 200 miles per trip, maintenance of truck, maintenance of sled @$100 per trip, time spent maintaining the sled, cost of helmet, jacket, bib, boots, gloves, backpack, shovel. And for the Pro RMK owners, a tow rope and towbuddie and steel driveshaft = $565. Nobody gets 65 trips in a year unless they live in the mountains. It is closer to 10 to 20 trips per year.

You are looking at closer to $10.00 per mile.

If I ride the usual 4000 miles this winter it will cost me around $11,000. I have to admit that is a ridiculous amount of money for 3.5 months of riding.

Yet there are many who spend much more, they have to travel farther, big expensive trailers, turbo's and BB's that need race gas, etc.

I wouldn't be riding if it were even close to $5 a mile, but I'm sure many are paying close to $10 a mile.

I wouldn't pay .25 cents a mile to trail ride! No offense meant to anyone who enjoys it.