what now?

[Escmanaze]

Well I took my 5 year old riding with some older boys today. before long, the 9 year old was riding by himself on a full size machine, and then the 7 year old followed suit. Then my son asked me if he could try. So we tried having him ride the 97 mm600 and the rest of the day he didn't want to ride his mini Z anymore.

I'm sure we'll head out again without the older kids and we'll see if he just wanted to ride the big sled like them or if he really is done with his mini-z, but if he's done, what do I do next? I always thought his next sled would be a fabcraft, but I'm tight on dough right now, so I'm not too excited to pay $6k for a sled and also, I thought that when he graduated from the mini-z he would still be miles away from being able to do anything resembling an adult machine.

It seems like the most popular items are the indy 340, the freestyle, and the ovation. If any of you have any good leads on these around Utah or if you have any other ideas, feel free to let me know.

 

[volcano buster]

I would vote for the 300-340-370 fan cooled sleds. Should hold him for a couple years.

 

[utah340six]

Sled size

I purchased an ovation for my son when he was 7 put a phaser LT track on it. Sled had electric start so starting was not an issue.
After he grew into a phaser let my sisters girl ride it.
Then I got it back for my youngest son.
So 3 kids learned to ride on it and her older twins also rode it. So 5 all together.
Best sled I ever purchased.
Low cost , low maint and got my money Bach when i sold it 6 years later.

 

[couch]

Ovations were bullet prof for the most part ... just need plastic skis and more of a lug ... 121" x 1.25" made a big difference - I don't think that there was room to swing a much deeper lug after that.