Times are tough....

[Tackbtch]

If all you could afford to ride was a late 80s model sled after owning your latest greatest 800 or such , would you keep on riding or just hang it up? For me I am so hooked on riding that my answer is yes. And when I am to old and feeble to pull the rope....E START and when I cant walk anymore...please strap my wheelchair to the pull behind sled and go fast WAY fast please. Just my thought of the day....Dino

 

[cubby]

I'd ride anything

probaly even a 2x6 with a weed wacker motor on it if I had to!!!

 

[adrenaline junkey]

Yup I would spent some time last weekend on a 98 mxz 121 and still had fun Granted that's not a late 80's sled but it wouldn't mater i had fun on the 74 arctic cats we had.

 

[rednecksledder]

We had a 340 indy lite in our group once it was a blast And darn funny to watch people ride it

 

[Beels]

If all you could afford to ride was a late 80s model sled after owning your latest greatest 800 or such , would you keep on riding or just hang it up? For me I am so hooked on riding that my answer is yes.

Sorry, I wouldn't be able to. I'd stay home, eat Cheetos and watch ****.

 

[PowderGirl]

Sorry, I wouldn't be able to. I'd stay home, eat Cheetos and watch ****.

I think that's what all the enviros would love for us to do!

I would have to hang up the sled cause I could NOT go back to that old of iron! Instead, I would resort to my paid for, cheap to fuel and maintain 2 stroke dirt bike.

 

[04modcat]

04modcat

hell ya we broke out the old 85 yamaha 540 this weekend forgot how a short track handled was blast

 

[Trukker]

Oh oh

Sorry, I wouldn't be able to. I'd stay home, eat Cheetos and watch ****.

It'll make you **** orange

 

[Greg B.]

do you ever ride the older sleds aroun?? Its a blast. We usually buy one every year for couple hundred bucks just to beat on. we have more fun riding our beater than we do on our nice sleds.

 

[sdobbs20]

i'd love to have some old beaters just to rip around on. try and make my skillz better haha. neighbors probably wouldn't be too fond of it.

 

[R J]

I'm down to riding one week a year out west and maybe, that is a big maybe this year on one other trip in the midwest.

I put on 60 miles at Christmas and I will ride for 6 days out west in a few weeks. Even with that little mileage or time in the saddle it will still be my most important thing to do. Wouldn't give it up for anything. I have been in the sno-cat grooming more this year then in previous years so that has at least cost me two weekends of riding because I would rather be doing that around the midwest.

I keep a sled for as long as their is snow to ride that is for sure. I wouldn't know winter without it. Some years I will ride more, and others I will ride about what I do this year. Just depends.

 

[Yamadoo04]

Well we didn't go back as far as the 80's but I did have to ride a mtn max and a viper this past weekend because a few our our sleds are in the shop. Still had a great time. I would do what ever it takes to ride.

 

[WileyCoyote]

old sleds

Back east the oldest sled I would ride is about 1993(anything older has no suspension for the trail).But in the Rockies if my 04 king or 07 M-8 is down and I was offered a sled older than 2000, I'd probable just stay home that week-end.

 

[Hardass]

Hey tacky i want to be the one to pull you in the chair way fast HaHaHa

 

[Snowlover]

I would ride. I have fun on my son's 91 Indy. I am way past the got to have the latest greatest, fastest. Just get out and ride or stay on the porch.

 

[wapitihuntin]

Ski Doo Elan

I have a 2001 RMK but i also still ride a 1973 ski doo elan. The funnest thing about the elan is that you can take them into areas you would never take a bigger sled into.

 

[VTMTcowboy]

My "new" sled is a 99 XC 700 144" and my now backup sled is a 90 Indy 500 141". It doesnt matter what you ride or how old it is, snowmobiling is just plain fun. You dont have to have the latest and greatest to be so called cool. Just ride what you got and enjoy it.

 

[S2S_sledder]

Would really like to find an early 80's Yamaha ET 340 with the extended track, or even an old ski-doo tundra! Hard to come by out here though. Working on picking up a nice early 90's phazer for the girlfriend/buddy sled for next winter. Old school sleds are alot of fun.

 

[skibreeze]

Couldn't do it. I spent 4 hours Sat. night tearing my motor down, sanding the piston and jug and then reassembling my motor in the trailer just so I wouldn't have to ride an 01 600 RMK. NFW would I ride an 80's something.

 

[Greg B.]

Couldn't do it. I spent 4 hours Sat. night tearing my motor down, sanding the piston and jug and then reassembling my motor in the trailer just so I wouldn't have to ride an 01 600 RMK. NFW would I ride an 80's something.

You see old sleds are like fat chicks... they are great too ride as long as your buddies don't find out.. But a 500 dollar free air sled is great, you ride them all year long, the dirt dosent bother them. when they break down you can still part them out for 500 bucks and get another one to abuse.. just like a fat girl..