momoney2123
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Problem with this logic is Kia's and Maserati's are not the same price, or even in the same realm. Where as comparable sleds across all 4 manu's are
Which is the #1 owned and ridden sled manufacturer?
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Problem with this logic is Kia's and Maserati's are not the same price, or even in the same realm. Where as comparable sleds across all 4 manu's are
Ah............this stupid thread reminds me of a time drinking beer in a beer garden in Munich, Germany. My buddy was saying that women in German, overall are pretty ugly. I disagreed with him and thought there were plenty of good looking women. With both of use having an engineering background, and think, generally speaking, things are pretty black and white, put together a pretty basic system on rating women. We used a main walk way, and every women that went through there, we would rate on a scale of 1-10. Our 3rd buddy would keep track and after about 50 women or so, we would have an average.
You could do the same snobuilder. For a particular area, and particular time, watch ever sled that goes by, keep track and you would have your number from all the OEM's on the trail. To throw a little fuel on this fire, don't do it early in the morning, because you know it is only old guys that ride early, and they want to reliable sled, so they will be on the yamahas. Don't do it late at night, because those are all the guys on the green sleds racing from bar to bar. Can't do it too close to a boondocking area, otherwise you will miss all the RMK's. Ski doo riders always seem to be lost, but guessing those are mostly rental 600 carbs, so stay away from the rental towns. I would suggest 1 pm, near a bridge, not too close to a big city to have a good mix.
BTW - my buddy won. We averaged 6.3 out of 10. So not too good. And that was with many beers in the system fwiw.
Cheers.
You could do the same snobuilder. For a particular area, and particular time, watch ever sled that goes by, keep track and you would have your number from all the OEM's on the trail. To throw a little fuel on this fire, don't do it early in the morning, because you know it is only old guys that ride early, and they want to reliable sled, so they will be on the yamahas. Don't do it late at night, because those are all the guys on the green sleds racing from bar to bar. Can't do it too close to a boondocking area, otherwise you will miss all the RMK's. Ski doo riders always seem to be lost, but guessing those are mostly rental 600 carbs, so stay away from the rental towns. I would suggest 1 pm, near a bridge, not too close to a big city to have a good mix.
BTW - my buddy won. We averaged 6.3 out of 10. So not too good. And that was with many beers in the system fwiw.
Cheers.
When I was a kid (late 70s-early 80s) I lived on a lake, the snowmobile trail passed right by our house. I made a list of all the snowmobiles that came through. In the early 80s the Polaris Indy was by far the most common sled! I wish I still had that list!!!! Massey, Suzuki, Sno Jet, Scorpion, Rupp, Kawasaki, Sears, Skiroule, Evinrude, Moto-Ski, etc. there must have been 30+ different brands out there!! Amazing that we are down to 4 now.......
sweeperguy
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Pretty much the same as in the auto and motorcycle industry. 100's of brands in the infancy of the manufacturing. Whittled down to just a few, some 70 to 100 years down the line.
(copy and paste from Wikipedia )
There were over 1,800 automobile manufacturers in the United States from 1896 to 1930. Very few survived and only a few were started after that period.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automobile_manufacturers_of_the_United_States
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Snobuilder agree to somewhat disagree with you. i think we ride / reside in the same area (Red Arrow, LMT, 100 Miler?) area and I do see far more Ski Doo's then Yamaha's, though I am surprised at the amount of Yamaha's. And yes, early in the morning you are correct; a lot of the old guys riding their Yamaha's especially during the week. Though in our area a ton of all sleds, by all 4 mnfg.
"top tear"? Must be the one shed by sorry purchasers, unhappy with the sled they bought?
I don't remember who the cat dealer was. Chippewa Motors sold only Yamaha at the time. I bought my first new sled from them, '93 Phazer II. Northstar was the Polaris dealer at the time.
snobuilder
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We ride the same trails and we also run the NST to the UP quite a bit.....6% sales yet ridden way more than that percentage sez a lot to me. Also agree with the comments that the Poo XCs are still ridden and seen everywhere we ride....saw a bunch of SRX and SRVIPERS out there. The new Doos can't touch them on the lakes or twistys.
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Tracker
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LOL.....no....i'll bet I can get you to type something way stupider than that by asking you a question.....LMAO
does the snowmobile drive train ratio change when changing to a larger lugged track....?
good luck....I await your answer....LMAO
journeyman
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Kip doesn't sell Ski Doo but he sells Yam/Cat and Polaris.
momoney2123
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So ya snipped off the trailing square bracket on that formatting tag, eh?
Then the forum's parsing/formatting engine didn't recognize it as the end of the quotation. See what happens?
[SUP][[/SUP][SUP]"You buy 'em books, and buy 'em books, and all they do is eat the covers!"][/SUP]
If it was a properly formatted quote it would look like this:
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POLARISDAN
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it means those that are out by 9 in by 5, on trail..dont think yammis have headlights..hahahahahahaha
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so ur saying ur an old man..brohan?
I'm with you and you're #1 in my book. Yamaha will always be the best in class....no matter what. Ski-Doo will always suck and so will their riders. Just the way it is. Ride till I die and ride early because that's what it's about.