Snowmobile Ramp

[nmmiles]

Anybody ever make their own snowmobile ramp? Anybody know a site where you can look at them? Ideas as far as height, angle, lenght, radius? I wonder how hard it would be to get a foam pit in my backyard...?

Nolan

 

[JHG]

The ramp and foam pit aren't that hard. Getting it out of the foam pit without a crane is the hard part.

 

[nmmiles]

Where do you get plans for the ramp? The foam pit will be a sinch, assuming I can find some decently priced foam. This is all just a brainstorm in my head to see how easy/hard it would be to do this. Crane would be something I could work out.

 

[cmantle1]

go off of this

http://www.fmxramps.com/main.html

 

[heinracing]

Where do you get plans for the ramp? The foam pit will be a sinch, assuming I can find some decently priced foam. This is all just a brainstorm in my head to see how easy/hard it would be to do this. Crane would be something I could work out.

if you look at travis p foam pit he said that it's $1 a foam there are 40,000 pieces of foam in the pit

 

[nmmiles]

Yea, I remember watching that. I thought the price was actually around 2.-- a piece. Thats crazy! Alot of old couches!!

 

[zach477]

Build the ramp however you feel, if you d*ck it up who cares....you have a foam pit to land in!!! Hah, na for mine i made it 7 feet wide, 19 feet long and 7.5 feet tall....the lip I eyeballed but I can tell you the first half of the ramp was no taller than 2.5-3 feet. It worked great, my take....if your a good enough rider to hit a ramp, then you should be able to make a ramp and not kill yourself on it. If you cant eyeball a hit and tell if you can hit it or not without wadding up......then you prob shouldnt be hitting kickers. just my $0.02

 

[REV GUY]

Build the ramp however you feel, if you d*ck it up who cares....you have a foam pit to land in!!! Hah, na for mine i made it 7 feet wide, 19 feet long and 7.5 feet tall....the lip I eyeballed but I can tell you the first half of the ramp was no taller than 2.5-3 feet. It worked great, my take....if your a good enough rider to hit a ramp, then you should be able to make a ramp and not kill yourself on it. If you cant eyeball a hit and tell if you can hit it or not without wadding up......then you prob shouldnt be hitting kickers. just my $0.02

I agree with you on this one, I have built 2 of my own ramps and just adjusted and built it as I went. 1 is 7.5 feet tall and the other is 9.5 feet tall. The 9.5 foot tall is like 19 feet long, so I built the bottom frame then the 9.5 tall uprights and hung a string line from top to bottom. Just made my adjustments from there to see what it would look like. They both turned out really well and worked good for the three years we used them. Now there laying in my parents field back in Minnesota with nobody to use them Good luck in building yours, they are fun to build and even funner to use, until you start making ER runs

 

[Blu Du]

them foam pit are about 8 times too small for me and this guy too.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGn82lsvGec

 

[Wheel House Motorsports]

i built a MX ramp a few years back, i will try to hunt down the specs,

its about 16 feet long and the front is 6 inches high, so you gotta do a snow transition. final height was around 8' 6" and ths curve was gentle to start, curved pretty hard in the middle and the last 4 feet were dang near straigh angle. final angle was 38 or 40 I beleive, worked great, just make it wider and hit it on a sled!