sounds like we might get you on a 1 ski afterall....
good think he dont got a snowhawk! all the time and money and retrofitting we have to do to make it work right,he would be really pissed!
how much you want for the kit anyways? seriously
2K + shipping? I don't think I used it 10 times this winter.
I'm definitely willing to entertain offers on the kit. I bought it to be able to ride around the Keweenaw Peninsula but it doesn't perform as I had hoped. Sure, it goes through powder pretty well (I've buried it about every other time I've gone out and it's a PITA to get unstuck), and is fast in tight twisty sections, but I can't power slide around corners at speeds I would like because the track won't stick well enough with out studs and I don't want to put those stupid screw in studs in the track and rip the lugs (off). More than that though is my fuel range. I like to go for 100+ mile rides in a day and with this kit there's enough drag that is sucks a lot of horse power and fuel. With my studded tires I can run about 70-75 mph on a snowmobile trail, but with the kit I can only get up to 60-65. I also had to go to a 13T counter shaft sprocket to even be able to run 5th gear. My summer 15T wouldn't even pull 4th gear, third was as high as I could go. I put on a 14T (14T is stock btw) and that would pull 4th, but it would bog down in 5th so it couldn't really pull that either. I had to run a 13T to be able to get enough torque from my 400 to be able to handle the track kit on the snowmobile trails (it would definatley be better on a 525 or 600/650). The biggest reason I want to ditch the track kit though is the fuel range. I can get 40ish mpg in the summer on the bike, I only get 18 mpg if I only ride the snowmobile trail, and don't run as fast as I can. It's worse as soon as I get in any type of powder. If I rode around locally and didn't go far, it's not a problem, but with a 3.3 gallon total capacity tank (including reserve) that gives me about a 60 mile fuel range. That means I can't skip a gas stop going up the Keweenaw or I'm going to get stranded. Even then if I do any side trailing on the way up to Copper Harbor, I probably won't make it. It's better mileage than most sleds, but a sled has about twice the fuel on it, or more. I know ADB has the stupid gas can rack that attaches to the kit, but if you run any trails that are whooped out at all, you know how bad of an idea it is to add 20lbs of unsprung weight to the kit.
I don't know where you guys came up with the idea of me "jumping" the bike. First off, I've been told by Mike that they want to race these kits in snowcross. That's what I picture as jumping; doubles, tripples etc. In what you guys term as me "jumping" my track never got more than about 4 in. off the ground. It's not like I was skying the bike off 20 ft. jumps.
At this point my complaint is not about the $$. I ate that a long time ago. My complaint in writing this is to expose how untrustworthy I found Mike to be. Same principle with my post about "explorer kit owners beware". I wasn't trying to slam ADB as I was trying to expose a very real deisgn flaw, and i didn't want anyone else to go through the crap I've had to. If I can use my experience to save someone else the trouble, that's what I want to do. It doesn't do anyone any good if I have the whole thing blow up in my face only to sit quiet just to have it happen to someone else. So basically I'm complaining out of principle. It really bothers me when someone stabs me in the back and I feel I have on obligation to do what I can to try and prevent someone else from have the same thing happen to them.
