Jordan's Snow Bike study

[CATSLEDMAN1]

My young friend Jordan Emmert of Hamilton Mt stopped by last fall kicking around the idea of building a snow bike for his Senior project at Butte Tech where he will receive degrees in Structural Engineering and Welding Technology this spring.

Two other students were involved in the design stage, but 340 mile round trip weekends Jordan knocked out a steel frame model that his brother has been riding and just completed this aluminum frame model with about 20 minutes of test time so far.

 

[PineConePhilosopher]

Cool, I like to see the home-built stuff. Rear end looks kinda familiar...

 

[gunnin88]

yeah I got the plans from that Swedish guy. I may knock out a home grown one this summer. Prices are outrageous when you consider what little goes into them. As more people realize how big this sport is going to be the prices will be driven down I bet in 1/2 to be honest.

 

[swedenturbo]

Nice build!
Lot of holes for skid mounts. Looks like you're testing out different suspension settings. That's interesting. Keep us posted!

 

[tomk]

yeah I got the plans from that Swedish guy. I may knock out a home grown one this summer. Prices are outrageous when you consider what little goes into them. As more people realize how big this sport is going to be the prices will be driven down I bet in 1/2 to be honest.

I thought that at first too, I have built 5 kits now and my last kit has about $1000 into it in parts not including the track, some of the tubing, sprockets, and drivers or cnc plasma time for the side plates. so add that in and that puts the cost easy up to 2000, plus countless hours of work, easy 100-200hrs so if we do the math, start with $2000 plus 150 hrs of work @ $20hr=3000 looks like we are in the ball park of the mh and my kits dont even have shocks!

the kit looks awesome and really long! I bet it rips, hopefully the AL design works, I tried it and made a pretzel out of my subframe, but I have seen it done since then! love seeing the sport get pushed to the next level!

 

[powdermuncher]

Someone go build a (at least 4") lower set up please ---- we need them for Kids and Girlfriends that is the best way to grow the sport -- get kids and Ladys involved.

Hope Allen is listening in

 

[tomk]

Someone go build a (at least 4") lower set up please ---- we need them for Kids and Girlfriends that is the best way to grow the sport -- get kids and Ladys involved.

Hope Allen is listening in

working on it