After a head on with my XP buddy Sparks my XP got $6900 damage and his $2900. I was on mine which exacerbated the impact. Not really hurt too bad...other than having to rent a sled at Cooke City the next week. Insurance covering the wreck.
At Cooke the dealer (Rick at Exxon) only had 154's (mine 163 and all issues resolved included welded shaft). He had not ever gotten a shipment of 377's and had geared down to 19T driver and upped clutch weights. That saved belts but dropped the sled to tractor catagory...60 mph being the top. How sad...bad deal for Doo because so many rent there. Top side was no shaft breaks and some of the rentals had 2500 miles (eight rentals).
Pal rented a 700 Polaris and clipped a rock on right ski which flipped him off the left side and sled bored into deep pow on left side. We dug out the left ski and pulled him out. The left A arm had collapsed! It hit nothing I could see.
The dealer held him to the damage (he did not do it right?). I was stunned as I figured it was weakened by another renter then just pulled out and no one noticed. My XP had a bent A arm so I figured the Pol went out wounded. Turned out my whole bulkhead was torqued so they were just running the sled with a twist. I was glad considering all the rocks I discoverd at Top of the World. Turns out, the mechanic told me, that Doo is expensive to whack. Pol figures a $155 A arm and $80 labor is cheaper. The mech said he has done 80 to 100 in two months he has been there. Wow. So when I asked Rick if Pol A arms made of tinfoil were hurting his rental business he said quite the contrary. It was the $ for Doo wrecks that hurt his biz.
Doo is tougher but when they cab go they go deep.
I also figured out why Doo's don't pull over so easy unless powder is deep. At first I thought it was the long/wide track because we had some 136" with us the were real fun in the shallower powder and the XP not so fun. But it is rider position on the track that causes the sled to want to stay upright. If we could figure out a spring or low pow position with handle bar pull back and maybe dropping the front rails to lift skis more...any other ideas? They are so awesome in the deep and so much fun...until the pow goes away. Maybe Simmons would help too on low pow days.
Doo paid one other their customers a fee for hauling their XP out with a broken driveshaft. Guess a dealer can go to bat.
Cooke is great. Sixteenth year for me. Goose
At Cooke the dealer (Rick at Exxon) only had 154's (mine 163 and all issues resolved included welded shaft). He had not ever gotten a shipment of 377's and had geared down to 19T driver and upped clutch weights. That saved belts but dropped the sled to tractor catagory...60 mph being the top. How sad...bad deal for Doo because so many rent there. Top side was no shaft breaks and some of the rentals had 2500 miles (eight rentals).
Pal rented a 700 Polaris and clipped a rock on right ski which flipped him off the left side and sled bored into deep pow on left side. We dug out the left ski and pulled him out. The left A arm had collapsed! It hit nothing I could see.
The dealer held him to the damage (he did not do it right?). I was stunned as I figured it was weakened by another renter then just pulled out and no one noticed. My XP had a bent A arm so I figured the Pol went out wounded. Turned out my whole bulkhead was torqued so they were just running the sled with a twist. I was glad considering all the rocks I discoverd at Top of the World. Turns out, the mechanic told me, that Doo is expensive to whack. Pol figures a $155 A arm and $80 labor is cheaper. The mech said he has done 80 to 100 in two months he has been there. Wow. So when I asked Rick if Pol A arms made of tinfoil were hurting his rental business he said quite the contrary. It was the $ for Doo wrecks that hurt his biz.
Doo is tougher but when they cab go they go deep.
I also figured out why Doo's don't pull over so easy unless powder is deep. At first I thought it was the long/wide track because we had some 136" with us the were real fun in the shallower powder and the XP not so fun. But it is rider position on the track that causes the sled to want to stay upright. If we could figure out a spring or low pow position with handle bar pull back and maybe dropping the front rails to lift skis more...any other ideas? They are so awesome in the deep and so much fun...until the pow goes away. Maybe Simmons would help too on low pow days.
Doo paid one other their customers a fee for hauling their XP out with a broken driveshaft. Guess a dealer can go to bat.
Cooke is great. Sixteenth year for me. Goose
