Polaris-Acquires-Timbersled
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this industry is about to grow a LOT faster!
Interesting. Wonder if we are on the verge of seeing Polaris release it's own "Snowbike" of which the bike and the snow part of the setup would both be manufactured by Polaris.
Timbersled will operate as a stand-alone entity... much in the same way as Klim has since Polaris aquired them some time ago.
NO... You should not have waited... the 2016 is stellar... and nothing new will be released by Polaris this year as a "stand alone"
Life is good!!
Congrats to Allen and crew at Timbersled!!
NO... You should not have waited... the 2016 is stellar... and nothing new will be released by Polaris this year as a "stand alone"
Life is good!!
Congrats to Allen and crew at Timbersled!!
The snowbikes will remain as TIMBERSLED...and be their own distinct brand...
NOT "Polaris/Timbersled" nor "Polaris snowbikes"
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NOT "Polaris/Timbersled" nor "Polaris snowbikes"
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For the now. I bet we see a "Polaris Snowbike" within the next 5-10 years though.
"VICTORY" snowbike! LOL
i doubt its that far out.
Polaris is flat crushing the sled world as far as technology goes in the chassis dept. well, the next step is going 1 ski. so why bother to learn the ways and develop it on your own when you could just buy them? Make some money off it and learn how to build your own stand alone setup along the way.
Im sure we'll see soon enough
Either way, congrats are due to TS, getting to the point to be bought out by Polaris is pretty impressive business feat.
could be.
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i doubt its that far out.
Polaris is flat crushing the sled world as far as technology goes in the chassis dept. well, the next step is going 1 ski. so why bother to learn the ways and develop it on your own when you could just buy them? Make some money off it and learn how to build your own stand alone setup along the way.
Im sure we'll see soon enough
Either way, congrats are due to TS, getting to the point to be bought out by Polaris is pretty impressive business feat.
I think (hope) that one of the changes that will be made in a Polaris "snow bike" is power. I ride a CRF450R all summer long and where it has great power on the dirt, I don't think 56 ponies would fair near as well in the deep stuff. Until they find a way to pack the twice or three times that into a snowbike, I'll stick to two skis. If they did though, and I'm sure eventually they will, boy look out!!
im an avid biker and sledder at this point but if you could get a snowbike to the 100 hp range with say a nice v-twin motor. I would give my sled away. Having seen what a 300# turbo snowbike can climb, its the best of everything, you just need a package originally designed for snow, not a turbo'd 450 with a track slapped to it. thats not the long term solution.
LETS JUST HOPE THAT THEY STILL HAVE AN IN WITH KTM. THE OLD 525 OUTLAW CAME WITH A KTM MOTOR...
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Cpt.Ron
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Intetersting news
Very interesting. This should be good for the growth of snow-bikes.
Congrats to Allan and his team.
Moving forward quickly....
BTW...Snow check is still on so anyone in our area that may be interested in snow checking a unit can call me at the shop for details and to get your 2016 unit reserved.
Cheers.
Very interesting. This should be good for the growth of snow-bikes.
Congrats to Allan and his team.
Moving forward quickly....
BTW...Snow check is still on so anyone in our area that may be interested in snow checking a unit can call me at the shop for details and to get your 2016 unit reserved.
Cheers.
Congrats to Allen and the entire timbersled team! Great accomplishment to be enough of a leader in a fledgling industry to get the attention of a big Corp. And good on polaris for regognizing and wanting to be part of snowbiking.
It will be very interesting to see if and how this helps drive forward the snowbike industry. Exciting times...but then we've been saying that for years so maybe us snowbikers are just an excitable and happy bunch in general doing what we do. Ha.
It will be very interesting to see if and how this helps drive forward the snowbike industry. Exciting times...but then we've been saying that for years so maybe us snowbikers are just an excitable and happy bunch in general doing what we do. Ha.
I would count on a significant improvement in power choices if a standalone was to be successful. 500cc two stroke? I just don't know if multiple cylinders would keep the machine narrow enough to be bike like.
I just hope others are considering getting into the game.
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portgrinder
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very nice too see. certainly good for the sport.
one thing that Polaris will likely need to deal with is emmisions. with the 'pin on' kit like it is now, you can take a closed course race bike with no emmisions regs and make it into a sled. Polaris wont be able to do that.
noise emmisions is next.
they would be lucky to build something out of the box that was as good, until they sort some of that out, unless they have a way around it. which i'm sure is being worked on.
then you have the cvt issue. they are pretty wide eh? hmm that might be tough to make work. A twin would be tough due to width, unless its a V-twin. So basically a current ATV engine. think about how far your feet are apart on one of those.... and they dont make very much power either.
so then a fella says Forget that lets make a sweet 2 stroke motor and just hang a tranny off the back and shift the thing like a dirtbike. oops now you can't make it peaky any more. a 400rpm tq spread isnt going to work. you gotta spread the tq out over 1500rpm or so, so when you shift gears it doesn't fall on its face. down come the exhaust ports, way less peaky of a pipe. so now an 800 twin makes 120 horse, not 150 like a sled.
these next few years will be interesting.
one thing that Polaris will likely need to deal with is emmisions. with the 'pin on' kit like it is now, you can take a closed course race bike with no emmisions regs and make it into a sled. Polaris wont be able to do that.
noise emmisions is next.
they would be lucky to build something out of the box that was as good, until they sort some of that out, unless they have a way around it. which i'm sure is being worked on.
then you have the cvt issue. they are pretty wide eh? hmm that might be tough to make work. A twin would be tough due to width, unless its a V-twin. So basically a current ATV engine. think about how far your feet are apart on one of those.... and they dont make very much power either.
so then a fella says Forget that lets make a sweet 2 stroke motor and just hang a tranny off the back and shift the thing like a dirtbike. oops now you can't make it peaky any more. a 400rpm tq spread isnt going to work. you gotta spread the tq out over 1500rpm or so, so when you shift gears it doesn't fall on its face. down come the exhaust ports, way less peaky of a pipe. so now an 800 twin makes 120 horse, not 150 like a sled.
these next few years will be interesting.
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