Tethered brake safety idea

[Scott]

Do you remember when your red Edge got looted at the grass drags?

HAHAHAHA

 

[2Thetopp]

Made my day Scott, that's some funny chit, great pictures I'm still laughin'.

 

[simnil]

Can you lease those tunnel monkeys per season or do you have to buy them and keep them fed and happy all summer? Bananas aren't getting cheaper.......

And another question, are the Tunnel Monkeys only compatible with sleds w electronic reverse or could they be retrofitted to older sleds without reverse or sleds with mechanical reverse. Monkeys for sleds without reverse are cheaper I hope.....

 

[4Z]

Scott, I thought you were talking about a different trunk and monkey all together. Thanks for clearing that up with the pics.....

 

[joshkoltes]

got one!

 

[Scott]

NMF-Tunnel Monkey.

 

[CoyoteGirl]

Do you remember when your red Edge got looted at the grass drags?

HAHAHAHA

Yes, yes I do....

 

[Scott]

Total thread hijack.

 

[CoyoteGirl]

Damn I use to be HOT!

Total thread hijack.

 

[Scott]

Is that where the Dirty Girls thing got started?

 

[turbolover]

NMF-Tunnel Monkey.

BBWWWAAAAHHHHHAAAAHHHHHAAAAAHHHHAAAAAA

That is awesome. I really do need one of those. I got high sided and drug down the hill becasue I didn't want to let go chase my sled down the hill. He could have just kicked reverse and stopped it for me.

BTW 0:30 or not you still have way too much time on your hands! or should I say Monkeys on your tunnel?

 

[Tree Boss]

I had tears in my eyes laughing so hard, my little 2 yr old boy was in the computer room and was laughing with me cause I was laughing so hard!!!!

I needed a tunnel monkey last year up Tony's Grove

 

[goridedoo]

Bump

 

[goridedoo]

Pack Pooch? Not sure what his job is but he's there


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[Teth-Air]

We looked into the auto-brake idea in conjunction with our Phantom Teth-Air system. It does not work well for mountain riding was the outcome.

2 problems.

1. to work properly, an anti-lock system would be needed as locking of the track can be worse than free wheeling.

2. To have anti-lock the system would be heavy and require a battery. Not good for mountain riding.

 

[Scott]

HAHAHA. My 9 month old blue healer pup would be a GREAT pack pooch.

Pack Pooch? Not sure what his job is but he's there


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[89sandman]

I would love to have a brake that locked when the tether is pulled. I've seen WAY more sleds center punch trees while ghost riding by far than the couple that would be rolled if the brake was locked. I don't want no stinkin' filthy ape anywhere near my sled

 

[flatspeed]

What about a tether system that kicked the steering over to full lock, which would then dump the sled on its side instead?

I can see the lawsuits already...

 

[plumnuts]

E brake

MANY years ago E-brake was one of our sponsors and I think at one point ink a deal with RMSHA that racers could get them free or at reduced cost.

They worked well (see explanation below), were easy to install and activated the snowmobile's brake system (the device replaced the OEM brake handle with one that had a spring in it, retained by a pin... you had a tether to you from the pin... remove the pin the brake was activated).

The challenges we found was you had two tethers to deal with but the E-brake tether ONLY worked if you went off toward the back of the sled and the sled continued forward... go off over the handle bars or at a sharp lateral angle and the pin would not pull and you remained tethered to a now rolling snowmobile... we used it at a couple of races but I got hung up with it at the White Pass hill climb and that night took them off the sleds...

 

[dragonflats]

Would the tunnel monkey void the tunnel warranty for too much weight[emoji79] and Scott I would also like to know if any monkeys were harmed[emoji33]

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