Are you posting this for sympathy or do you just like to be abused and made fun of by others? Why don't you travel and go to clinic at Kesterke's or Burandt's so they can teach you how to ride a snowmobile properly?I still use a Lefty. Go ahead, give me all kinds of ****. It just shows your ignorance. Some of us need them. Is it a crutch? Absolutely. It's the difference between riding and not riding. In California where I ride, we have Sierra Cement more than 90% of the time. You can count on one hand the number of powder days you'll get (and that's really more like one or two). The rest of the time is on very packed snow, where it's very hard to get a sled up on one ski.
I'm not a big guy.. 5'8, 175 lbs, 55 years old, and I have shorter-than-average arms. So when I need to sidehill to the left, I HAVE to have a Lefty. Without one, I will get yanked over the top of the sled and both of us will roll down the hill. With the Lefty and the mountain bar, it works very well. And I have NEVER grabbed the Lefty accidentally. And this new-age style of doing the opposite-foot-forward stuff looks like it's great in powder, but again, it's not gonna work real well when riding on the super-set snow.
Now.. finger throttle... I just ordered one last night. My wrists are also in bad shape and my right wrist was sore by the end of the day. But also, it seems to me the finger throttle will make it easier to sidehill/carve to the right and allow for better overall grip on the right handlebar. BUT.. .since I use a Lefty, I'm going to have to build an adapter to still use my Lefty. That'll be interesting.
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