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Thanks Dan! Fixed it. I'm sure there will be a lot going on Gary. I'll try to keep up.

Loaded up this evening for the 2026 Boondock Inn vintage sled event. At first glance, this shot looks almost identical to the one I took last year, but there is one important difference: There’s a different graduating class in the trailer this year. Look for them and the TX at the show on...

I have a couple of challenging vintage riding days coming up later this week. So how do you prepare? Go for a vintage ride. This photo might not seem all that noteworthy but it represents just how far the Hamm’s Kawasaki has come. The sled was a mechanical mess when I got it, one problem after...

This has been so cool. Thanks, David, for making this easier to follow!

Happy Birthday!

Like others have said, forecasts seem to be all over the place now so you just pick the one that you want to see happen. There is no replacement for John's forecasts. For current conditions, I've found this to be the most accurate weather report out there - Scott's video feed :)

Always liked the red version of the sled. One for sale on Marketplace right now. Here’s a Scorpion twist. A Massey Ferguson Cyclone and Storm built by Scorpion under contract with Massey Ferguson. The Storm was basically a Whip and the Cyclone started out life as a Brut, originally built by...

Gary, it's a 76 Scorpion Whip with a 440 Cuyuna motor. Actually pretty fast, with that giant Walbro carb. It's my understanding that the Cuyuna motor company bought JLO and rebranded the engines as Cuyuna. I guess this was a tribute to the Cuyuna iron range, in which the town of Crosby, MN and...

45 degrees be damned, vintage activity continues. Been putting various sleds through their paces to try to figure out which one to take as a trail blaster for the Boondock run. The Kawasaki has always been a favorite but it was far from ready, so I went to work on it this week. This is what I...

Nothing like going big. I'd like to follow that project. I had a few car projects back in the 70's/80's and there were several (finished and unfinished) that I wish I had kept. Every now and then I think about finding somethings to mess with, but then sanity kicks in and I realize that it...

Thanks for posting this, interesting stuff. Definitely a trend in sales that the manufacturers have to be concerned about. As others have said, 96/97 was a killer year for snow. The 90's have been described as the "Second Golden Age of Snowmobiling" and I think the chart supports this claim...

Awesome stuff Gary, and more true than not. I'm pretty familiar with the first three but not very good at the fourth. Very nice! I love restorations of anything motorized.

Sadly no, but as all vintage riders know, you try to be well prepared for emergencies, big and small.

One might think that since this year’s projects are finished, I might have retired to the recliner. Not so. Operable vintage sleds are not common in this area, so when a couple of friends and I hit the trails this week, it was kind of a rare sight. At almost every stop, people came over to...

Happy Birthday Scott!