Want the truth! You can't handle the truth! It's just bad a-s. It says, I'm a cooler and better rider than you. Don't like it, go ride somewhere else. One less person at v.p. would be awesome!
Riddle me this
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On again off again as much as I need to and wherever I need to. Watch your egt's in a specific throttle position and you will see them climb, burp the throttle and they will come down. As mentioned above, its about preservation of a mod machine. I do it because my engine needs it to be done...simple as that.
I do it because I like to hear the braaaaaap and the pooooossshhhh of the Blow off 
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kingofthemountain
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Honestly it just makes me grin and hurry to get my gear on and get riding when people braap around the parking lot like that. Who cares why they are doing it, Im just glad people are out and enjoying the sport. Whatever floats your boat, just dont shoot a rooster tail at my truck. Ive got much bigger problems than being annoyed by inconsistent throttle position.
*still waiting for those smarter people to chime in*
I'm here! But I got nothing.
How about this...most sleds the oil pump is tied into the throttle. So I do it to make sure the oil pump is working!
What I love most about VP is that I can be the last person in the parking lot and the first person to break trail. Everyone is worried about their enclosed trailer stereo or blurping through the parking area. We get three miles away and we have powder over the hood. I normally avoid VP after Christmas and before May but this year it has been dumping up there. Great tree runs and some awesome technical terrain if you know where to go (no, it's not found at Shrine Bowl).
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Vailguy
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Why I won't be visiting Vailpass for another 3 years... Bending two brand new AI A arms, helping to rescue some half blind and deaf 60 year old man from spending the night in 3' feet of fresh in the backcountry. Outfitted only in his softshell and ski helmet he got separated from his douche bag son on 95 Vmax with 1" lugs that hasn't been registered in the last 10 years. The photo op with the Vail search and rescue team was nice, but not worth the $400 in damage to my sled.
WHAT?!?!?!?
LIES!
all things rad are found at Shrine!
har. No kidding.....we find untracked goodness in REALLY unlikely places there.
The parking lot shenanigans (and not even talking about the burpers) make me want to go elsewhere, but there's low hanging fruit there, every. single. time.
well... now that I KNOW... oh I most definitely will next time I see you guys!!!
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I've got a can on my XM now, I'll be looking for you guys...
oh that's just SUPER!!
har. Can't wait.
Ti can? curious about those.....
So how come nobody rides the highway median up there? Looks like it would be an epic run up from Copper to the top of the pass. Looks like a quick cut under the overpass and you would be back in the regualr riding area...
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Drewd
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Cuz the dbags in lesburus and SUVs who think 4x4 drive gives them license to speed and to tailgate often end up inadvertently off roading.
Saw impressive low altitude SUV aerobatic display earlier this month just east of vp..perfectly executed off road dismount, nailed the landing upside down in the median. Darwin alive and well
Saw impressive low altitude SUV aerobatic display earlier this month just east of vp..perfectly executed off road dismount, nailed the landing upside down in the median. Darwin alive and well
Some years someone builds a nice little booter up on the bank that one can use to display their sledneck skills to the unwashed masses as they unload and get dressed. I love VP
Yes, very familiar with the parking lot Rockstar exhibit that is vailpass, and that is why I have only been there once in the last 3 years. As far as the bikes go... Don't know, my KTM is a 450
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Yeah, that ONLY happens at Vail Pass.
I ride VP all the time, use to live in Red Cliff. Still one of the best places to ride for being so easy to get to. Majority of the time I am riding, we don't ever see anyone else other than the main road (Shrine Pass) and the parking lot. Every snowmobile parking lot I've ever been in, is filled with tool bags. If I wasn't in this sport I'd hate everyone in it as well, based off of my parking lot observations.
My 2 cents, there is a direct corilation between throttle blipers and these same guys are on here wondering why they keep chucking belts every 50 miles. i have been sledding for 35 years and have never bliped and have never burned down a motor, and always get k's of miles on my belts. I also thought that oil was regulated buy throttle position, more throttle more oil, less throttle less oil...
Some years someone builds a nice little booter up on the bank that one can use to display their sledneck skills to the unwashed masses as they unload and get dressed. I love VP
I bet THAT guy was blipping the throttle....
I'm going to pop a wheelie in the parking lot next I'm at VP respect my authority!
It has nothing to do with oil... it has to do with A/F mix. If you've been sledding for 35 years & have never varied your throttle position, you've never ridden any seriously modded motors. Nothing wrong with that, but varying throttle isn't an option on a sled that needs it. Most people I know run EGT's, and we know where our sleds are getting hot, it's not something that we do to just decrease throttle cable longevity. And yeah... there is a correlation between blippers & belt life, belts don't last as long with more power, so the correlation, though not at all for the reason you think... is likely there.
^^^^what he said.
Stock sleds shouldn't need it, but even some stockers are factory tuned pretty hot. My old M7 just had pipes and a fuel box, but that turned that sled into a whole different cat. Great top end power, but the midrange was no longer usable. Off trail that was no problem, but on the trail, where your midrange is most used, the EGT's would skyrocket to over 1350 and keep climbing. Had to vary throttle position every 6 seconds or burndown. What a pain in the butt that was, but what a hoot to ride and I put up with it for years. Now I have a pretty well tuned turbo M 8 and it doesn't need any brapping to manage EGT, but it's still fun to do it some. Just part of the riding style too. But yeah, I doubt that very many of the stock sleds need much brapping. Glad it doesn't bother me
Stock sleds shouldn't need it, but even some stockers are factory tuned pretty hot. My old M7 just had pipes and a fuel box, but that turned that sled into a whole different cat. Great top end power, but the midrange was no longer usable. Off trail that was no problem, but on the trail, where your midrange is most used, the EGT's would skyrocket to over 1350 and keep climbing. Had to vary throttle position every 6 seconds or burndown. What a pain in the butt that was, but what a hoot to ride and I put up with it for years. Now I have a pretty well tuned turbo M 8 and it doesn't need any brapping to manage EGT, but it's still fun to do it some. Just part of the riding style too. But yeah, I doubt that very many of the stock sleds need much brapping. Glad it doesn't bother me
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Doctor D
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We used to rip the hell out that area between the hwy until the fs ticketed us at like 275 a pop.
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