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I am officially retired from snowmobiling as my back is a medical disaster. This really sucks as I have enjoyed this sport and the hardy folks that participate in it. I will always have the memories though. Just some reflections from a snow-geezer over the last many moons..... Production sleds top speeds have not increased that much since 1983. Back then my old Pol 600 triple time bomb would go 106 according to my Dad's old Buick. Nowadays a stock Apex will do about 115 GPS. The new ones get there faster though. We have never had sleds with as much or as sophisticated suspensions as we do now. This is weird because at the same time we have never had smoother trails than we do now. All that suspension would have been handier 40 years ago. I don't know of anybody that seeks out rough trails so they can use all of that wonderful suspension. Everybody wants smooth trails or they scream. Also there are a lot more Tucker Hibbert wannabes than Tucker Hibberts. A very small percentage of current snowmobilers utilize all the suspension feature on their new techno-rockets. Most just gas and go. Snowmobiles still blow up and break just like they always have. Today's snowmobiles are colder to ride than they were 30 years ago. At the same time we have better clothing and gear than we have ever had. The trails are deserted now when the temps get below zero. Sleds are bigger and heavier now than they used to be. In the olden days if you got stuck you could just pick up the rear end and turn it around. Nowadays you need two men and a horse if you get stuck. In the olden days we had actual seats to sit on. Nowadays you get to sit on a football. Nowadays it is fashionable to stand up even when the trails are smooth. People that do this are retards who really should be sterilized. In the old days we got to sit behind a real windshield and not freeze to death. Now in 2014 it is clear that the windshield manufacturers got too greedy so the sled manufacturers just use little tiny pieces of plastic and tell you that is all you need. In the old days we had no organized state to state groomed trail system. We still had fun. Nowadays a person could ride groomed trails all the way from my back door to the Atlantic ocean if you had $2000.00 bucks for all the individual states and provinces trail passes. This is a wonderful thing. People are still very brand loyal. That hasn't changed. Just about everything else has changed though. It is still a fun thing to do even with speed limits and trail passes and $14000 machines that still break down. You guys and gals have it better than it has ever been. So quit whining and go ride !!!!!
