Question to all flatlanders.

[sledneck]

I was actually just trying to determine if all you flatlanders are loaded?

 

[CATillak]

itd like people building fast cars... the speed limits 65 in most places... so what do we do in our free time and spare cash? build 12 sec cars and drive em round when we can legally use a quarter of its power lol

 

[Himark]

I was actually just trying to determine if all you flatlanders are loaded?

Price of corn your going to see some serious mods now

 

[XtDoo]

Its because we want our sleds to have the same power out there as we feel around here.

 

[Burr]

Farming is good now. So we can afford to mod now and try to keep up with you western men.

 

[grizzly7]

It all makes sense now. I mod my sleds to. It is very addicting. I must say you flatlanders have some really sweet looking sleds.

Well thanks for the compliment!! I would probably say that most of us flatlanders also have pimped out rides at home also for riding flat!! LOL

 

[w2bridin]

Sea level at -20* is why we mod. First trip out to the mountains I was hooked but it took me awhile to figure out my sled didnt have bad plugs thats just the way they run at 9000ft. Now if they just made a turbo for the body!

 

[ezra]

Well I am a flatlander from Wisconsin! I have not rode in WI.,for a long time because our family has a cabin in Cooke City Mt. I would not go back to flatlander riding because it is not the challange the mountains have to give.I ride a mod M1000 162 and love it.

guess you don't go ride the dense woods of the Keweenaw ha?

 

[ezra]

I understand this but would you buy a boat if you lived in a desert? J/K

Back to the topic, I totally understand, none of my sleds are stock.

lake Mead ring a bell

 

[Fireman35]

Ya its all about the times you go to the mountains. to ride like you stole it,role it and then come home and fix her back up and add a few new shiney parts to her for next time. Then you have to get your flatlander sled ready to ride so you can wreck that in between trips out west. its a bad circle. sometimes expensive also.

 

[mr.bloomenrader 2 u]

We flatlanders wonder the same thing about you guys when you head out here to the golden plains with your decked out hunting rigs pullin your expensive dog kennels containing your purebred 1000 dollar hunting dogs wearing the entire Cabbellas store and shooting your 2000 Beneli shotguns! I guess its just about finding your passion and exploring it to its fullest.

 

[Himark]

We flatlanders wonder the same thing about you guys when you head out here to the golden plains with your decked out hunting rigs pullin your expensive dog kennels containing your purebred 1000 dollar hunting dogs wearing the entire Cabbellas store and shooting your 2000 Beneli shotguns! I guess its just about finding your passion and exploring it to its fullest.

LOL...well put.

But dont forget we all have to gripe about losing hunting ground because of someone disrespecting owners property or rules, and we HAVE to say its a "out of stater".

 

[yamahaboy701]

Just simple math for me:

Newer mountain sled = $10,000 + mods for mtn riding + mods for trail riding it in the Midwest = $13,000
OR
Newer Trail sled = $10,000 + mods for trail riding = $11,500 + STOCK rental for 2-3 weeks (min $200 per day x 18 days = $3600) = $15,100

Plus I ride more off-trail miles outwest then I do on trails in the Midwest....

 

[roughrider99]

I was a flatlander, got hooked on mountain riding, worked everyday afterschool to pay for sled mods and weekend trips to the rockies, moved west, I have the opportunity to ride everyday, now I make enough money to really start playin with sleds, I'm a mechanic by trade so building for me is just as fun, I'm actually sledless this year so I can build my dream ride, will maybe rent a sled a couple times this year to ride, but my focus and mo.ey will be into building, a big sacrafice to miss a year, but next year is gonna unreal with the new ride.

 

[VTMTcowboy]

My justification is that I am addicted and I am always trying to make my sled better, whether that be performance or looks. When I have the money, my main goal is to make the sled lighter. And overall it is just fun to tinker and find out more and more about how things work. That is one reason why I love this site, because I can pick people's brains that know their machines better than the back of their hand and thus I can learn from there successes or mistakes. That's just my .02.

 

[Jaynelson]

So its funnier when they're stuck on the trail

 

[sled-fiend]

I was a flatlander

Clear out your inbox, I've been trying to msg u. Thx back to topic...

 

[LRD]

I have mine (slightly) modded out so during the winter when we have little to no snow, I can sit on it in the garage and make sounds like... Braaaaaaap Braaaaaap instead of vroom vroom while watching my tool of a neighbor down the street get his “Awesome” 03 Rev w/beaver tail stuck in the 3” on his front yard and then watch is manwife have to come out and help him get it unstuck. Location: 13,440 Rods West of Mpls

This cracks me up, took me back to high school AG class (13,440 Rods) Just a rough guess but some where between St Boni and Lake Lillian and my misspent youth was about 41,600 Rods Straight west of Mpls.

I started modding my sleds for the mtns specifically (already ported them, Boyesson Reeds etc and Aaen Pipes) in 1989 after my 1st trip to west Yellowstone with my 84 Phazer with maybe a 116 track. Got a taste of powder (my bad luck it was sugar) and going along with the hood pointed halfway at the sky and I'm standing up leaning forward over the windshield literally pushing on the hood to try and get the sled to level out when a few seconds after it does it DIVES and just a couple inches of windshield showing. Think to self this could be the most fun I've ever had but DIVING sucks. Get back to West and notice odd looking Exciters with unusual plates bolted to the ends of the skid rails and longer tracks than my little wimpy 116 with little itty bitty pimples for paddles (No such word as paddles then). Next year year my Phazer and wifes both have 121's, year after 136's and then Verlin Simmons invented polyurethane claws and then paddles and then, and then, so far it hasn't stopped.

And don't even get me started on the retarded steel skis freezing to the trail when you stopped in 89. Wimp invented the plastic ski skins by 90 I think or at least we found out about them in 90, no internet.

Were no different than a lot of the mountain guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I'm just finishing up the latest mods on my 08 370 lb TNT with 15 X 141 X 2.25, changed to a Renegade heat exchanger and covered the inside of the tunnel with 10 thou thick UHMW 6" wide tape to stop dragging around 20 lbs or more of snow.

News Years day 4 AM we leave for northern CO!!!!!!!!!!

We have some flalanders that haven't caught the disease, but I'm fairly proud that I have infected some of my buddies not only with the mod disease but the lightweight disease!!!

 

[GoBigParts]

I'm lucky enough to live in a state that gets deep snow in our northern (U.P.) section. We boondock the deep snow as much as possible and take trips out west. So I ride my mountian sled 1500-2000 miles a year. I don't do a lot of engine mods. I do things that add to the ergonomics or user friendlyness. Or there a few mods that just make sense.

 

[joshkoltes]

hmm

I have noticed that most flatlanders that ride mountain sleds don't ride stock sleds but ride totally modded out sleds. I'm just curious what justifies spending that extra money on your sled when you live so far from the mountains?

when a flat lander is used to his stock 150 horse down at sea level it is a real bummer coming up high and looseing 30 percent of it. feels like your 800 is really a 500 cc. mod it out a little to recoupe some lost hps so one can enjoy what the mtn has to offer