New sleds for sale

[journeyman]

true yoopers don't ride yamis

That's because you are always a tow rope away from home. We terrorist out of state riders want to get our money's worth of riding when we get there. We don't want to have it taken into the dealer to have new pistons put in and sit at the cabin or motel.

My Attak has 15,000 miles on it and runs like a champ. Do I have to do other maintenance like shocks and hyfax? Of course, so does everyone else. I come up to ride the trails. Talking with most the locals it seems more of them are into boondocking off trail stuff so apples to oranges again.

Btw, my heavy 4s doesn't wear me out and we ride HARD..... Just ask Kip. I put on 760 miles last week in the Yoop, 53 years old and I am not sore. Believe me we are not holding up traffic, usually passing traffic when feasible. Been there and done it with the 2 strokes. At my age I am sick of tearing them down. I love the turn key start, no 2 stroke smoke , expensive oil to buy and paying less at the pump because of the lower 87 octane prices. To each their own but I have no interest in another 2s sled for myself always worrying about fuel or if it's gonna blow up. So I guess we all have our personal priorities of what we want in a machine.

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I.E. Nick Keller 100k miles in four years. What does he ride?

Just saw him last week. 500 miles in a day he was doing!!

 

[yamadooed]

On the way to Copper yesterday passed by plenty of those lightweight 2 smokers with my tank. I'm not sure if most are too scared to squeeze the flipper on the grade for fear of letting the magic smoke genie out or too much snowdust in their helmet while standing up...

Not sure what price point everyones looking for in a entry level sled but it seems most manus are selling a sled at around $7000 with es and reverse...cept yammie

 

[SledTL]

Look at the Doo 600 carb or the Poo Indy 600. Both can be bought at $6K-$7K. The Cat 600's and the Vipers as leftovers this past year (and maybe now) were under $8K. Any of those sleds will do anything you need it to do for and aren't $10K. You could trail ride anything of them for 5 years and still get decent money out of them after that. Just because the high end sleds are ridiculous doesn't mean there aren't other options.

I've noticed that those two are pretty reasonably priced sleds, but it almost seems like they were an after thought to the lineup. Motorcycles have the 125/250 bridge and those sell like mad. Maybe just too small of a market to care?

 

[slimcake]

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Just saw him last week. 500 miles in a day he was doing!![/QUOTE]

Ya the VDay 500. I did that last year with him. 17 hours on a sled is a bit much.... Good cause though. Glad to say I was part of it. On my 2S Polaris AXYS.....

 

[Hoosier]

I've noticed that those two are pretty reasonably priced sleds, but it almost seems like they were an after thought to the lineup. Motorcycles have the 125/250 bridge and those sell like mad. Maybe just too small of a market to care?

They aren't afterthoughts - they just don't have the latest and greatest tech on them. They probably don't have the margins in them so they aren't highlighted that much. Each is in a chassis or suspension that once was the top of line but isn't the newest anymore and neither have top of the line engines or shocks. You mentioned the Ski Doo spark - I think these are better examples since they still have a modern chassis. Either is better than just about anything you could get 10 years ago at any price. I know anything about motorcycles so I'm missing that comparison.

Everyone (not saying you) likes to complain all the sleds are $15K and you need a $40K truck to pull them and a $10K trailer. I don't think any of that is true. You can get a great sled still at a decent price. You just won't be the coolest guy at the bar. And as long as you don't need to buy Dec 1 and sell Apr 1, and don't need to upgrade every year, it won't kill you to buy and hold onto it to get a value out of it. If the snow sucks one winter, you can put the miles on it next one.

 

[lak7]

You just won't be the coolest guy at the bar.

I'd just be happy being at the Bar!

 

[snobuilder]

I always take a quick look around and see I am the coolest guy inda bar.

 

[bonnevier]

I always take a quick look around and see I am the coolest guy inda bar.

I guess we don't hang in the same bars

 

[SledTL]

They aren't afterthoughts - they just don't have the latest and greatest tech on them. They probably don't have the margins in them so they aren't highlighted that much. Each is in a chassis or suspension that once was the top of line but isn't the newest anymore and neither have top of the line engines or shocks. You mentioned the Ski Doo spark - I think these are better examples since they still have a modern chassis. Either is better than just about anything you could get 10 years ago at any price. I know anything about motorcycles so I'm missing that comparison.

Everyone (not saying you) likes to complain all the sleds are $15K and you need a $40K truck to pull them and a $10K trailer. I don't think any of that is true. You can get a great sled still at a decent price. You just won't be the coolest guy at the bar. And as long as you don't need to buy Dec 1 and sell Apr 1, and don't need to upgrade every year, it won't kill you to buy and hold onto it to get a value out of it. If the snow sucks one winter, you can put the miles on it next one.

No, I understand. Its the nature of bringing the conversation up. We have 3 sleds ranging from 98-06, so I by no means am the flashiest one at the bar (triple SRX might be the loudest though). Personally don't see the issue in buying used gear these days. Sleds don't just fall apart, so long as you treat your stuff nice and do maintenance, don't know why it wouldn't last. CL has plenty of nice used sleds and someone else took the initial hit. I just want to have snow, ride and spend time with my friends and family.