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We have a 24 and two 25 versions along with a couple of Procross trail sleds that I rode last season. The Catalyst sleds all have similar mileage around 3,700-4k. The 24 seat seemed stiff until getting some miles. The 25 seats felt good until getting some miles and then it started to feel too...

My own bucket list changed over the years. Often items I checked one off, made room for another. For example, I wanted to see the country. That morphed into why not try to see every state. I ended up doing OTR during summers my last couple years of school. It wasn't a fancy goal, but I hit...

I think it's great to start young. A lot of the things that end up on bucket lists are harder to do when the body gets a little tired.

I sure hope you are wrong about having three pilot lights working and one that is not. That most likely means that one pilot is leaking raw gas. There is an incredible difference between the terms pilot and burner. Pilot flames are small standing flames that should burn at all times. Burner...

Some of these questions give me a smile. It's a nice break from melting snow. @jjj70095 , What model is the oven? Does the cooktop even use a pilot light? It helps to know if it has spark igniters or hot surface? It is likely a spark igniter, I would assume the tech tried cleaning with a...

@indy_500 , It's interesting hearing your exact scenario. We had two newer riders in our group and rode Lake of the Clouds route on the second day. One of them ran into the back of his dad's sled coming out of the whoop section right at the ski road. The kid mentioned that he wasn't looking...

Crud. These things are supposed to break on the last trip so you get all summer to fix them. The sled stuff is all fixable. I'm more concerned about the little man getting back into the groove. One of our group's regulars never really got back into riding after a tree clanger incident...

There used to be tractors that came with crab steering. I'm not aware that it is an option anymore.

We rode trail 1 last week. It's open but southern section was plowed for logging trucks. That might be part of the confusion since that section is not groomed. We did not ride 100 but did see sleds coming out of the intersection. I have no idea if they just turned around or came from the...

That is pretty normal. The short section of 2 that is done by Gogebic doesn't see as much grooming. Those bumps get pretty deep and hard before they get cut down again. The Thunder riders do a bang up job so the transition is more dramatic.

Sugar snow. We've been riding the western end every other week. Start early in the day if you want to put on miles. Traffic is heavy enough to tear down the groom pretty quickly. Trails that do not get groomed on a regular basis won't quite make a volkswagen disappear, but it's close. If you...

On newer Cat sleds the odometer is in the gauge. I offset the NS1 miles each time I transfer to a new machine. One of my NS1 gauges is offset by 28,000 miles. I reuse the gauge and clear the data logs each time I transfer to a new machine When putting the original gauge back, the miles will...

I've been running the NS1 for about seven years. It is the real deal. It is nice because of the ability to customize five screens you can simply scroll through. It also has a data logging feature that allows you to look back at a long list of items put out by the ECU. It is a long list...

That section of trail 1 got beat up pretty bad during the rain and melting. Someone drove back and forth with a vehicle while it was slop. They created track wide ruts that wandered all over the trail. Deep ruts too. I'm surprised the vehicle made it through some of the stuff. The road up...

We just came back from the western end. Sure couldn't beat the traffic volume. Saw two sleds in 100 mile ride on Saturday. Riding in the rain was interesting. It took some time to dry out the bags and gear. Conditions overall were better than expected. The rain did hammer the low cover...