I didn't need to ride one to know, just looking at it after having the kmod and other skids I knew the ez was not for me. The surface area the kmod puts down is the biggest you can get out of almost any skid. On boost a coupled skid (a geometrically correct) is huge for backcountry riding. Have you every felt how a stock skid trenches and when it lifts the skis it feels like you are tetering on a single point and the nose of the sled is going where ever it is pointed. I e when you wheelie your out of control. Now with a coupled skid when the skis lift its as if there is something pulling the sled up as if you hooked a strap to the handle bars and lifted, so in effect where the sled is pointed is where your going weather the skis are up or not.
I got it because on mine when I would flip around (down hill u turn) and head up I was out of control and if anything (like a rut or small tree) was in my path it had a huge effect of where I was going to wind up. I was riding with guys running more boost and longer tracks. Once I go the kmod and gained control period they quit following me. It also adds suspension height, which is great if you need more travel but the big kicker to me was if the track is farther down it means the angle of a hill you can sidehill just got steeper. The kmod is what kept my 09 M sidehilling steeper hills than the pro, (if the pro had a kmod it might not)
Now think of that pulling up on the handle bars effect again in a sidehill and when you wash out. On a stocker it will dig and flip over, with a kmod it will lift and you shove/twist the sled and keep going, its stupid what you can get away with.
another one, I hit a road cut the first time and was used to the front launching in the air and if not nearly flipping over I was stuck. Do it with a kmod and somehow without you even doing anything does a up hill u-turn.
Now the way it works is simple but takes some thinking one what really happens. To put it simple, IMO,
If your on boost with a stock skid you go with the sled and where it wants to go and just try and keep it in the right direction, per say.
With the kmod, total control, you own the hill, ruts have no effect, kickers that would normally throw you are of no concern.
You will go from trying to find a line to inventing a line, sometimes even if the sled has to be on its edge or the skis wont fit between the trees.
My experience on boost was just on the conversion, but I could bottom it out or set it to stiff, it was great for the money but then I put the raptors and full kmod on my NA PC. wow, first sled I've jumped full throttle. I never new what suspension meant to backcountry riding until the kmod. I went from trying the crazy stuff you see burandt and rasmussen do and rarely pulling it off, to just doing it and having a hard time finding harder lines.
