It is time for a shoot out!

[yooper01]

I think it's time for a snowest sponsored shootout.

Use the same bike, same year, with same mods (pegs, t-stats, ext), and slap it onto each of the kits.

Timbersled, Yeti, CMX, Mototrax, Snowtech MX, am I forgetting anyone?

Everyone bring your entry level kit, and your best back country kit, and lets see the results from an independent group.

Oh, and do it before snowcheck is over so we can all buy based on the results

 

[flabbajabba]

i wish this would ever happen

im not holding my breath

 

[smokindave]

I think it's time for a snowest sponsored shootout.



Use the same bike, same year, with same mods (pegs, t-stats, ext), and slap it onto each of the kits.



Timbersled, Yeti, CMX, Mototrax, Snowtech MX, am I forgetting anyone?



Everyone bring your entry level kit, and your best back country kit, and lets see the results from an independent group.



Oh, and do it before snowcheck is over so we can all buy based on the results

I think you may of forgot about the new Arctic Cat snow bike!


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[Bainan]

It would be very hard to do this on a single day or weekend since the kits depend so much on snow conditions. For example, I have a yeti and a timbersled on the same bike and I prefer the yeti about 80% of the time, but there are definitely times when the timbersled is my preference (for example in wet snow or crusty snow). If I went out riding today, I would prefer the timbersled based on the snow we have, but doesn't reflect the riding I do the rest of the year where the yeti is my definite preference.

There are so many variables in snowbiking (temperature, snow pack, time since last snowfall, type of snow, elevation, riding ability) it would take very extensive testing to actually get proper feedback. Unless the tests were done in multiple different riding areas over multiple weeks, I think you would still end up with a biased review. If a magazine ever supported proper testing over multiple weeks, that would be great though.

 

[teal_210]

Would love to see this happen. After having the chance to ride a timbersled, yeti and mototrax all on the same day I can't help but scratch my head reading some of the reviews on this site.

 

[M5-]

I've only ridden the TS and the Yeti. I know what I think about those two kits but everyone is different. If I can't ride a kit as a demo I wont even consider it based on what someone else thinks or says, there are just too many variables and personal preferences. Here in Canada Yeti and TS are all you ever see which is going to make it tough to evaluate the others for us Canucks.

M5

 

[n16ht5]

Make it in BC, Idaho or Washington and I'll be there...

 

[snowhawk jockey]

I hit up Ryan, last fall, about doing a shoot out between the new and old brands of kits. I was working at a dealership at the time and was asked by customers where they could read about how the different designs and models stacked up. No word yet, but there have been a few articles on what he has done with one brand. Maybe next year. I don't know if we, as an industry, pay enough advertising dollars yet, to warrant the investment into a test of the various kits.

 

[yooper01]

It would be very hard to do this on a single day or weekend since the kits depend so much on snow conditions. For example, I have a yeti and a timbersled on the same bike and I prefer the yeti about 80% of the time, but there are definitely times when the timbersled is my preference (for example in wet snow or crusty snow). If I went out riding today, I would prefer the timbersled based on the snow we have, but doesn't reflect the riding I do the rest of the year where the yeti is my definite preference.

There are so many variables in snowbiking (temperature, snow pack, time since last snowfall, type of snow, elevation, riding ability) it would take very extensive testing to actually get proper feedback. Unless the tests were done in multiple different riding areas over multiple weeks, I think you would still end up with a biased review. If a magazine ever supported proper testing over multiple weeks, that would be great though.

No more variables than snowmobiling regarding conditions. Someone did one in 2011 anyhow. Time for an update.

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