is a left hand throttle worth it
lefty throttle
- Thread starter Metallic(a)sled
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Depends... if your featherlite like me it comes handy
heck yea it is. i had a 1m making my m series look like crap in sidehilling today. Im getting my lefty asap!!! Reaching over the bars while grabbing ur gas. Why not lean off to the left have the power and get more weight over. Kinda Night and day. ???
last time i went to the mountains it was a 30km trial ride up to the mountain from the trucks so it was nice to switch to the left
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woodies
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should be factory installed with lockout pin
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150 lbs soakin wet - No way I can tug it to left without one
From dead stop - All my buds are 260 -290 - Make it look
sooo easy but it would be like me ridin kitty kat eh..
150 lbs soakin wet - No way I can tug it to left without one
From dead stop - All my buds are 260 -290 - Make it look
sooo easy but it would be like me ridin kitty kat eh..
It's about 3 or so times a year that mine saves my butt.
What ever you climb up, you have to go back down.
When that trip back down is through trees on hardpack that's way off camber to the right, and you have to go left,
it's a real butt/sled saver.
I figure that with the 3 or so times a year that I put my self in those situations,
It's money well spent.
I do use it quite a bit more than that as it is a good tool and makes certain situations easier, just like the mountain bar.
One thing about left side throttles.
They are on the left, just as your brake is.
After you get one, go into a meadow and take the time to learn the darn thing.
Get used to where it is in relation to your brake.
Everybody makes the mistake at least once and hits the wrong lever.
Take the time to do this and to learn it in a safe location.
Once you get used to it being there, you will not like not having one.
It's just like when you were a kid and learned to drive a clutch.
The brake and clutch pedals are right next to each other and at first you hit the wrong one.
Then with practice, this just never happened again.
Hopefully the person teaching you was smart enough to take you to some back road some where to do this safely.
It's the same type of thing really.
What ever you climb up, you have to go back down.
When that trip back down is through trees on hardpack that's way off camber to the right, and you have to go left,
it's a real butt/sled saver.
I figure that with the 3 or so times a year that I put my self in those situations,
It's money well spent.
I do use it quite a bit more than that as it is a good tool and makes certain situations easier, just like the mountain bar.
One thing about left side throttles.
They are on the left, just as your brake is.
After you get one, go into a meadow and take the time to learn the darn thing.
Get used to where it is in relation to your brake.
Everybody makes the mistake at least once and hits the wrong lever.
Take the time to do this and to learn it in a safe location.
Once you get used to it being there, you will not like not having one.
It's just like when you were a kid and learned to drive a clutch.
The brake and clutch pedals are right next to each other and at first you hit the wrong one.
Then with practice, this just never happened again.
Hopefully the person teaching you was smart enough to take you to some back road some where to do this safely.
It's the same type of thing really.
i hear ya... only good time to be fat. lol
lefty hand throttles are for people who cant really ride, like chicks and weak dudes, get in the gym and grow some muscles
I like having a lefty on my sled. Like student driver said, you don't need it often but when you do it's a real life saver. Guys that knock them like Ryanimsohipcarroll are usually guys who care more about what everyone else thinks about how cool they are and have never tried one.
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trinitypowder
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thanks for the input
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woodies
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and the retards chime in
It's about 50/50 for mountain riders who like left side throttles.
It's a valid and useful tool. Some don't like them and that's cool too.
It's a valid and useful tool. Some don't like them and that's cool too.
Darrin is right it is a tool,and he builds the best one in my never humble opinion. It's just too bad some are incapable of using anything more complicated than a hammer
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NITROSKIDUDE
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Depends if you want to die!! I have never needed one, and the sled I bought this year came with one, So one day i was trying to give it a chance, Then i came to a stop, shortly after my buddie in front of me, was stuck in a creekbed, So i got back on my sled to blurp foward, and went for the brake. Now keep in mind my bumper was at about his head hieghth. and it lunged foward, so i grabed a andfull of Brake(throttle), and nailed him in the back, in full force, From a hard pack with 165 ponies, and a 159, I went over the bars dislocating my shoulder, the ski stratled him and bruised both sides of his left leg. My sled stopped on top of his and Not only pushed his sled 6-7 feet forward by his back, But also got him unstick in the proccess.
They're awsome......... Needless to say another buddie ran one into my toolbox, and right out the back wall of my shop.
Another thing, lets get real. How many of you have, or know someone that this has happened too.
We don't know how many people have died from these things, cause they wouldn't be able to tell us exactly what had happened now would they.
Now they do have a pliable purpose, But is it worth the chance????????????
Depends if you want to die!! I have never needed one, and the sled I bought this year came with one, So one day i was trying to give it a chance, Then i came to a stop, shortly after my buddie in front of me, was stuck in a creekbed, So i got back on my sled to blurp foward, and went for the brake. Now keep in mind my bumper was at about his head hieghth. and it lunged foward, so i grabed a andfull of Brake(throttle), and nailed him in the back, in full force, From a hard pack with 165 ponies, and a 159, I went over the bars dislocating my shoulder, the ski stratled him and bruised both sides of his left leg. My sled stopped on top of his and Not only pushed his sled 6-7 feet forward by his back, But also got him unstick in the proccess.
They're awsome......... Needless to say another buddie ran one into my toolbox, and right out the back wall of my shop.
Another thing, lets get real. How many of you have, or know someone that this has happened too.
We don't know how many people have died from these things, cause they wouldn't be able to tell us exactly what had happened now would they.
Now they do have a pliable purpose, But is it worth the chance????????????
love my lefty
these things will get you out of hairy situations easily,i have gravity worx lefty on each of my sleds,wouldn't ride without them now.had safety pin on my girlfriends sled last week,had to grab rt side throttle while carving left.to say the least,it sucked.pulled the pin and used lefty,it's like night and day.i never mistake it for brake,and anyone who does definitely needs more seat time on the sled.leftys don't kill people,people who don't know how to use leftys kill people!'nuff said....
these things will get you out of hairy situations easily,i have gravity worx lefty on each of my sleds,wouldn't ride without them now.had safety pin on my girlfriends sled last week,had to grab rt side throttle while carving left.to say the least,it sucked.pulled the pin and used lefty,it's like night and day.i never mistake it for brake,and anyone who does definitely needs more seat time on the sled.leftys don't kill people,people who don't know how to use leftys kill people!'nuff said....
Exactly!
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Everybody will have there own opinion on any subject. Now my only statement has to do with this in mind. Yes I have a Goldfinger,Yes I have ran into my buddys truck, and yes I still have it on my sled. Now that being said I recommend to my friends to learn to ride, sidehill without them. When they do install one I mount them in position that is vertical, straight down this makes it easy to operate when needed by the forefinger when on the left side and I rotate the brake lever upward Just past the horizontal plane. this helps to avoid this "accidental" usage. Like staded before approx. 50/50 State they would not spend the money again yet they do not remove them either. Just my opinion usefull only when experienced without one!!!!
Everybody will have there own opinion on any subject. Now my only statement has to do with this in mind. Yes I have a Goldfinger,Yes I have ran into my buddys truck, and yes I still have it on my sled. Now that being said I recommend to my friends to learn to ride, sidehill without them. When they do install one I mount them in position that is vertical, straight down this makes it easy to operate when needed by the forefinger when on the left side and I rotate the brake lever upward Just past the horizontal plane. this helps to avoid this "accidental" usage. Like staded before approx. 50/50 State they would not spend the money again yet they do not remove them either. Just my opinion usefull only when experienced without one!!!!
See post #7 in this thread and go back to said meadow.
Do it on a week day when your friends aren't looking if you have to.
Like anything new or different, it takes practice to get it right.
Edit,
BigD is right too. Learn to sidehill with out.
The throttle holds the right side up when sidehilling.
The left side throttles are more for slow controlled stuff.
I like it boondocking in the trees where you have to finess it through things both up and down hill.
Do it on a week day when your friends aren't looking if you have to.
Like anything new or different, it takes practice to get it right.
Edit,
BigD is right too. Learn to sidehill with out.
The throttle holds the right side up when sidehilling.
The left side throttles are more for slow controlled stuff.
I like it boondocking in the trees where you have to finess it through things both up and down hill.
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