Which brand will generate the most over dressed parking lot poser?
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Slick
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Neither one of them ?
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qbeam
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Cat wins!
I have proof. Check out the vid.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XqXCDYH_PM&feature=related
I have proof. Check out the vid.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XqXCDYH_PM&feature=related
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skimike
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So the first year I go riding I rented my gear. I was so nervous (& didn't want them thinking I didn't know the first thing about snowmobiling) that I wore what the dude handed me. My snowmobile suit was huge and the crotch hung down to my knees. My boots were 2 sizes too big and had the size written on the toes in big white letters. I kept tripping getting on my sled. I could spin my helmet around on my head and it also had a nice big number written on it. So the next year I come with my AC jacket in NEON orange. I am thinking I look pretty awesome. 
The guy brings out my rental sled (AC M6) and is cat a**ing around on the street. So I get on and figure I would show him what I could do.... so I pinned it. I flipped it and I went flying.
My hubbie was not impressed. I looked over and my brother in law was pissing his pants laughing. I then got up off of the middle of the street and looked back at a nice crowd of onlookers. I won the bonehead award for that trip. The next day the same guy brought out my sled and told me he got a good laugh. He said the year before a guy got on a M8 rental and said "I know how to ride!" He ended up doing the same thing but what made it funnier is across the street was the Emergency Rescue building and the crew was drinking coffee with the big door up. Well after the guy rolled in the middle of the street, they stood up and shut the door!
Let's Ride! KJ,PT
The guy brings out my rental sled (AC M6) and is cat a**ing around on the street. So I get on and figure I would show him what I could do.... so I pinned it. I flipped it and I went flying. My hubbie was not impressed. I looked over and my brother in law was pissing his pants laughing. I then got up off of the middle of the street and looked back at a nice crowd of onlookers. I won the bonehead award for that trip. The next day the same guy brought out my sled and told me he got a good laugh. He said the year before a guy got on a M8 rental and said "I know how to ride!" He ended up doing the same thing but what made it funnier is across the street was the Emergency Rescue building and the crew was drinking coffee with the big door up. Well after the guy rolled in the middle of the street, they stood up and shut the door! Let's Ride! KJ,PT
posers
for those of you who go out and buy a used mod sled, fancy gear, and then tell all your friends that you are the $h!t and then go riding and sit at the bottom of the hill and try to explain why you cant go up that hill because your fancy sled cost too much. then go back to the parking lot and talk about how bad everyone on the mountain is i feel sorry for you. snowmobiling is about going out and enjoying yourself, not about how cool your sled and gear is.
for those of you who go out and buy a used mod sled, fancy gear, and then tell all your friends that you are the $h!t and then go riding and sit at the bottom of the hill and try to explain why you cant go up that hill because your fancy sled cost too much. then go back to the parking lot and talk about how bad everyone on the mountain is i feel sorry for you. snowmobiling is about going out and enjoying yourself, not about how cool your sled and gear is.
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treehunter
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Lol i agree hand me downs rock everyone just have fun
I wear Klim gear because they stand behind there product and it keeps me dry, and I ride a Polaris and a Cat so it works for both.
Well its kinda a fine line between "style" and "poser". Every one wants to look nice and wants to match and be dry and comfortable and lots of the factory gear does that, as well as Scott, Klim ect, ect... I think it is issue of look at me i have the money to have this mod sled and matching trick, but the truth is they are just making up for their lack of riding skills in most cases(90% of the time) and then ofcourse you have those guys that look like posers and ride like Chris Burandt(trust me it was talkin trash on one and then got SMOKED in the hills by him!!!), in the end is more about the person then the sled brand.
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chunkysoup
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Arctic Cat for sure! Ski Doo following closely behind! LOL Good thread!
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mulestar
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Allright, you have inspired me here, and I have a theory on the poser thing.
I know alot of people, alot of people, that have to have the biggest, newest, baddest, everything. They will destroy their credit by making sure they look exactly like the pros in all that they do, be it fishing, hunting, motorcyles, underwater basket weaving, it goes on and on. I think so far all should agree with me, and to each their own, if that is what you do its cool with me, honestly, I dont care.
Here is why snowmobiling is so cruel to these types, you can buy the biggest baddest sled, take it to your shop, put on mod after mod, or pay the shop to install them, spend as much in mods as you do on the sled. Then take themselves to the Klim shop, maybe to the dealer where they bought the sled, to make sure they look good on that maiden voyage to the hill. The thing that needs to be understood is that these people need to do these things, its part of their image, it has to be done.
This is where it is all ends, when they unload that bad boy in the parking lot, rip it around the lot, and onto the trail, and then off trail. How many of you remember your first actual off trail experience? I remember mine, stuck instantly, looked like a putz the entire day, could not understand how the heck anyone could ride in all of that snow.
The problem for the type of people I just described here is that this cannot happen to them, they are not wired to handle looking bad fifty feet off the trail while men, women, children, grandma, and grandpa go past them in their XLT's! They have the newest, baddest sled, all the gear, all those mods! This shouldnt be this way, it wont make sense to them. Most will go home as soon as they get dug out, some will sell their sleds for nothing on the hill, others will drink in the bar to brag about how good themselves and the turbo sled were that day. I think its great, besides who is going to keep the sled/clothing industry alive in snowmobiling? These guys, not me.
That's my thoughts, I think the best riders are the ones who had to ride the crappy lead sleds in the beginning. I feel you are forced to learn this way just to keep up with the rest. At least I hope this is true, I am still pretty much the guy that has to ride that sled, so I expect big things in my future!
-Mulestar
I know alot of people, alot of people, that have to have the biggest, newest, baddest, everything. They will destroy their credit by making sure they look exactly like the pros in all that they do, be it fishing, hunting, motorcyles, underwater basket weaving, it goes on and on. I think so far all should agree with me, and to each their own, if that is what you do its cool with me, honestly, I dont care.
Here is why snowmobiling is so cruel to these types, you can buy the biggest baddest sled, take it to your shop, put on mod after mod, or pay the shop to install them, spend as much in mods as you do on the sled. Then take themselves to the Klim shop, maybe to the dealer where they bought the sled, to make sure they look good on that maiden voyage to the hill. The thing that needs to be understood is that these people need to do these things, its part of their image, it has to be done.
This is where it is all ends, when they unload that bad boy in the parking lot, rip it around the lot, and onto the trail, and then off trail. How many of you remember your first actual off trail experience? I remember mine, stuck instantly, looked like a putz the entire day, could not understand how the heck anyone could ride in all of that snow.
The problem for the type of people I just described here is that this cannot happen to them, they are not wired to handle looking bad fifty feet off the trail while men, women, children, grandma, and grandpa go past them in their XLT's! They have the newest, baddest sled, all the gear, all those mods! This shouldnt be this way, it wont make sense to them. Most will go home as soon as they get dug out, some will sell their sleds for nothing on the hill, others will drink in the bar to brag about how good themselves and the turbo sled were that day. I think its great, besides who is going to keep the sled/clothing industry alive in snowmobiling? These guys, not me.
That's my thoughts, I think the best riders are the ones who had to ride the crappy lead sleds in the beginning. I feel you are forced to learn this way just to keep up with the rest. At least I hope this is true, I am still pretty much the guy that has to ride that sled, so I expect big things in my future!
-Mulestar
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dormanmj
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Even though I ride cat, I have to agree it seems to be real popular with people that couldn't ride a sled to save their life - and I voted as such. With that said I wear all Cat gear for several reasons, it keeps me warm & dry, seems on par with quality of any other available & I can try it on at my dealer before I buy it (sucks to pay shipping 2 ways to return something ordered that doesn't fit). I guess I would rather be a warm & dry "poser" than the wet cold guy in carhartts, sorels & levi's. Has anyone noticed how many kids in grade school wear "FOX" gear? What's that all about?
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