Oldest Rider?

[built4dtuff]

The oldest guys I know that ride are all members of SW. Rock Star, Rubyredvet, WOOF, KEVCO, and Sunridge. They are all over 70(Sunridge is only 68) but they all hold their own pretty good. We usually only ride for a couple hours at a time and take lots of breaks. I hope I can ride like that in 50yrs!! And for the couple of them that are in diapers that doesn't really bother me all that much.

Ruby has to ride an Apex cause the battery actually keeps his heart pumping which is allways a good thing.

 

[Wad]

The oldest guys I know that ride are all members of SW. Rock Star, Rubyredvet, WOOF, KEVCO, and Sunridge. They are all over 70(Sunridge is only 68) but they all hold their own pretty good. We usually only ride for a couple hours at a time and take lots of breaks. I hope I can ride like that in 50yrs!! And for the couple of them that are in diapers that doesn't really bother me all that much.

Ruby has to ride an Apex cause the battery actually keeps his heart pumping which is allways a good thing.

I was just about to type the same post...nothing like riding on the Senior Tour. Man can those guys ride..

 

[snowmobiler]

snowmobiler is just about ancient I think...I mean, I have a hard time keeping up, but I think Christ was an alterboy back when he started riding...

its on!young pup

 

[onlyrotax]

The suit: still have it! It's kinda in tatters anymore, but I wear it for working on sleds or changing oil , hauling fire wood, snow shoveling ,etc. (Winter months of course.)

Helmet: well, still have that around here somewhere. It was a full face helmet with a shield that snapped over the opening. No way to flip it up. Single thickness, and fogged up real bad.
Went to goggles with that helmet, but in those days quality goggles were unheard of. We used some cheapie safety type goggles. Not very effective either.
Don't have time to post photo's right now.

Attached is one photo of my mother's riding gear from that era, on her '72 Rupp. Photo was taken in 2002 when she was 92. She died in '06, age 96.
My dad made it to 88, his last sled was a a '73 Scorpion TK-400. Still have both machines in storage.

That's cool, old school rules !

 

[snoboy3]

only fifty but know someone who is 74 who would be riding if he could. had a polaris
dealership in the late sixties, early seventies.asked his wife just a little while ago why she wouldn't go riding to which she answered 'cause i'm seventy-two!' nuff said

 

[NoSecondChances]

The suit: still have it! It's kinda in tatters anymore, but I wear it for working on sleds or changing oil , hauling fire wood, snow shoveling ,etc. (Winter months of course.)

Helmet: well, still have that around here somewhere. It was a full face helmet with a shield that snapped over the opening. No way to flip it up. Single thickness, and fogged up real bad.
Went to goggles with that helmet, but in those days quality goggles were unheard of. We used some cheapie safety type goggles. Not very effective either.
Don't have time to post photo's right now.

Attached is one photo of my mother's riding gear from that era, on her '72 Rupp. Photo was taken in 2002 when she was 92. She died in '06, age 96.
My dad made it to 88, his last sled was a a '73 Scorpion TK-400. Still have both machines in storage.

That is awesome and equally as impressive. I'm not even 30 yet but hope to be see my dad (who is 58) ride well into his later years. This is what its all about.

 

[fuzz]

I started riding in 1968 on a 1966 SnoSport (Rupp) when I was 34 years old. My second "snowmachine" (Alaska) was a 69 Arctic Cat Panther. Forty years and 12 Cats later, at 74 I'm riding a 2005 M7 and love it. My wife will inherit it next year(she is 62) when I get my new 2009 M8 153. We manage to ride about every week and put on about 1000 miles each year. (believe it or not, some people have to work to keep up with us). Once again, experience and finesse wins out over youth and exuberance...
Snowmobiling is great exercise and enables us to see different sights every time we ride. It is amazing how much the machines have developed over the years. From a 16 hp one lunger in 1968 to liquid cooled 140 hp with 2" paddle tracks in 2005.

 

[Scott]

BWAAAAAHAAAAAAAHAAAAA

I thought I was gonna have to send a helicopter in to find that old man Sunridge when we were up in Fairfield Idaho in March. LMFAO
He took off to find "another way out" and was gone for 3 fricken hours. By the time he got out, we had been to the truck and BACK to the last point of visual contact and BACK to the truck again. LMFAO.

The oldest guys I know that ride are all members of SW. Rock Star, Rubyredvet, WOOF, KEVCO, and Sunridge. They are all over 70(Sunridge is only 68) but they all hold their own pretty good. We usually only ride for a couple hours at a time and take lots of breaks. I hope I can ride like that in 50yrs!! And for the couple of them that are in diapers that doesn't really bother me all that much.

Ruby has to ride an Apex cause the battery actually keeps his heart pumping which is allways a good thing.

 

[greenskeeper]

72 this april, got rid of my A C 900 last year, just to heavy for me, and ended up with an 600 A C,, ride two to three times a week if the weather will warrent it.....dont do bad trails any more but will run cross country and powder all day long..the wife is 66 and is right there with me ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,