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With the ice ripper I’m pushing on ice and bare pavement so thinking moving up on carbides just wanted to get wear out of stock carbides first. On trails we were on the front end was predicable no problem with that but I would like to lighten up steering effort which will be easy to do with...

Do you mean change out the springs? Any adjustments? I have ice ripper track and that requires 4 on coupler so I was thinking of going up on the carbides too.

Hard to compete with hand and feet models. Lol

Setting 1 on your GT with 1 rider makes sense just not a whole lot to adjust on the enduro air shock unless I’m missing something. I’m hoping someone here has more experience with air ride than we do.

Last trip I rode mostly between air setting 3-5. I did take 1 morning to try and optimize the air suspension on Grade 3 between Watersmeet and Lando lots of small studders. The suspension was packed with snow and ice so I didn’t see any dials or cams to adjust plus the manual doesn’t show any...

Yes this isn’t rare it’s always been the older guys that have become fatale statistics. We complain about riding style of Ricky Racers but we really don’t know if they are 15 or 65. No way to know with helmets on.

Ya that time bluebird days now will do more damage than cold rain. Filtered sun not too bad but bluebird days you feel like sun bathing the sun is so warm.

I traveled all over WI and UPMI chasing snow. Sometimes distance from home with trailer in tow would limit day trips so rode where the snow had fallen could ride 100 miles or so and trailer home same day. Week long trips are to locations with amenities I require to be comfortable plus hotel with...

Wearing protective vest or not should be listed. Maybe more people would use protective gear if they had a stat like that. Maybe not if doesn’t save lives. Maybe too complicated to make determinations that protective gear might have saved a life. For me I wear vest and FXR floatation gear as well.

I liked your post please repost under new demo ride topic and maybe we can get the discussion back on topic there. Way too much off topic BS here that a demo rider won’t want to wade thru to post. Thanks for you post I appreciate it. Pete

Please keep the responses on topic to ride impressions of the 600 Catalyst. Thanks, Pete

Greg sorry this offended you to be honest I really don’t care that’s not what my intentions were to wander off topic regarding Trackside and OEMs. I wanted to hear about Catalyst demo ride characteristics. With that said I was involved in the Yamaha transition from the viewpoint of another WI...

Agree AC did that a lot to dealers back then easy to say mutual bye bye.

I don’t mess with 2 s since 2006 only 4s. I usually buy low mile used 4s up to about 1,600 miles. Cream pies are out there with folks that just didn’t like 4s went back to 2s and get good buck on used market with their 4s cherries. I don’t look at high milers , shocks probably haven’t been...

At the time neither Yamaha or AC was happy with Trackside. Yamaha no effort made to sell products just didn’t believe in 4s. AC I heard things like poor partners so selling effort probably was minimal on their products too at the time. Definitely was mutual parting of both OEMs.

You wanted to know about OEM choice of venue so I answered that part of your post gave you some history. As I understood there were holes in track ice base so canceled but that was second hand info.

OEMs used to be into the Derby location big time and liked Trackside location for a dealership. Then both Yamaha and AC pulled out their dealerships loaded up units and left. Yamaha was very poorly represented in Eagle River everyone favored Pat’s. AC Idk didn’t follow them much back then. Maybe...

600 is a sewing machine with that choice the 900 for sure!

Thanks I would have brought my sled but not a weekend rider but the demo ride would have been a fun activity. Maybe more OEMs will follow suit?

I’ve had a lot of fun at factory rides in the past and sure would have been at this one if I could. Still waiting for comments on the Catalyst demo.