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Thread: Anyone own/ridden a Snow Bike?
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10-21-2016, 03:55 PM #51Registered User
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He's right, the kits do beat up the 4 strokes, thus why some guys are doing the 300 or bigger 2 smokers. Way cheaper and easier to maintain.
Gears vs CVT is just something for diehard sled guys vs moto guys to cat fight about. Personally don't like CVT myself. Double clutch tranny is the future, but that will be awhile for offroad.
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10-21-2016, 03:57 PM #52Registered User
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10-21-2016, 04:05 PM #53
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10-21-2016, 04:22 PM #54Registered User
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10-22-2016, 02:58 PM #55
Great! Another oil-burning beast to make the backcountry even noisier. I really hate the sound dirtbikes make when people are goosing them (which is nearly 95% of the time), now they"re going to be goosing these two-stroke dirtbikes on skis all over snow country??
Skis and skins are quiet.
Edit: Seems there are always two kinds of people for outdoor pursuits:
Power boaters vs. sailors
Jet-skiers vs kayakers
Ultra-lighters and small plane pilots vs balloonists and hang-gliders
Dirtbikers vs hikers and mountain bikers
Snowmobilers vs snowshoers, x-country skiers, telemarkers, backcountry boarders and AT skiers.
Sure, there is and will be plenty of cross-pursuits by the same people between motorized and non-motorized depending on sport and season, etc. I realize that.
But I think, perhaps, it simply boils down to "oil-burners" who don't give a crap about the noise and disturbance they make vs those more into quiet pursuits using their own strength and that of mother nature...wind, gravity and O2.Last edited by Alaskan Rover; 10-22-2016 at 03:20 PM.
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10-22-2016, 04:34 PM #56
Yeah, always gotta love the sight of beer belly bald head yahoos driving by in a massive pickup truck towing the snowmobile/jet ski/dirt bike/atv twins on the trailer. It's like, my purpose in life is to burn up fossil fuels until the day I die, and pay a ton of interest rates on the loans for it all. And eat a lot, too.
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10-22-2016, 04:56 PM #57Registered User
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10-23-2016, 10:21 AM #58Registered User
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10-23-2016, 11:43 AM #59
Yep. Snowbikes are fun but need torque to be really manuevrable
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09-20-2020, 09:32 PM #60
Have they started making snow specific motors yet?
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09-20-2020, 10:03 PM #61
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09-20-2020, 10:05 PM #62
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09-20-2020, 10:08 PM #63
Hahahahaha! Yes, but I can't hear him.
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