First Ride on the SnoWest 2014 Project Turbo Mountainhorse & some "Eye Candy"
This past weekend myself and 3 of my riding buddies had our first opportunity to take out the SnoWest 2014 project Snowbike for a day of riding in Island Park Idaho.
To say that I was "Deeply Impressed" is a gross understatement!. Its not very often that an entirely new segment to a very well developed sport opens up. And while there have been several past attempts to bring a "Snowbike" of one configuration or another to the marketplace, I rather strongly suspect that Timbersled has at long last nailed it with their "Mountainhorse" conversion kit.!
Given that the snow conditions were below average at best, we nevertheless had an absolute BLAST riding this bike over a wide range of terrain for 6 hours and 3 tanks of fuel.
If there was one thing that really stood out to me it was the absolutely EFFORTLESS ability to sidehill the Mountainhorse imparts to it's rider. Considering how amazingly surefooted this stead was, they could rename it the MountainGOAT because it would go anywhere we pointed it without any hesitation at all.
I can only imagine what it must be like to ride in fresh deep powder with snow billowing over the front fender!
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For those of you who already know all this and more, here is some eye candy from the "Timbersled Pine Creek Ride" shot by Ryan Harris of SnoWest last week showing off the SnoWest Project Snowbike!
This past weekend myself and 3 of my riding buddies had our first opportunity to take out the SnoWest 2014 project Snowbike for a day of riding in Island Park Idaho.
To say that I was "Deeply Impressed" is a gross understatement!. Its not very often that an entirely new segment to a very well developed sport opens up. And while there have been several past attempts to bring a "Snowbike" of one configuration or another to the marketplace, I rather strongly suspect that Timbersled has at long last nailed it with their "Mountainhorse" conversion kit.!
Given that the snow conditions were below average at best, we nevertheless had an absolute BLAST riding this bike over a wide range of terrain for 6 hours and 3 tanks of fuel.
If there was one thing that really stood out to me it was the absolutely EFFORTLESS ability to sidehill the Mountainhorse imparts to it's rider. Considering how amazingly surefooted this stead was, they could rename it the MountainGOAT because it would go anywhere we pointed it without any hesitation at all.
I can only imagine what it must be like to ride in fresh deep powder with snow billowing over the front fender!
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For those of you who already know all this and more, here is some eye candy from the "Timbersled Pine Creek Ride" shot by Ryan Harris of SnoWest last week showing off the SnoWest Project Snowbike!
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