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If you can't beat it...

...enjoy it. After years of cursing about winter I have decided to do something about it. I can't change the weather, but I can change my attitude about it. This should help. Just today picked it up. 1997 Mach 3 long track 600CC triple. 125  horses. Whee :D
 
I actually got two. The other is an '81 Everest 5500 that I'll be picking up tomorrow. Needless to say I've got a fun weekend ahead of me :D There are three feet of snow on the ground that will have my undivided attention
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1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

Re: If you can't beat it...

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Sweet man, whish i could get my 92 mach 1 back,no place to put it though.

Re: If you can't beat it...

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Dammit I wish I had a skidoo and snow...... actually i'm good :p
Looks nice and Hold on! those fuggers are quick :ies:
1980 birds X 3, 1982 bird, 1984 XR7, 1988 TC

Re: If you can't beat it...

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Excellent choice going with a skidoo machine.  I have a 1992 750 tripple, Let's just say ............. it goes.  (actually your 97 600cc has more power).  And with a long track you would be hardpressed to get that thing stuck. 

Just remember stay off the lakes when the weather changes.  Someone from my town sunk his machine two weeks back.  I cannot blame him though, who would have thought that the ice on lake winnipeg would shift when its -30* outside. 

Here's a helpful tip.  When going out for a day, if it is really cold out, keep your beer (or other drinks) under the hood.  That way they will not freeze in your saddle bags.

Re: If you can't beat it...

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Quote from: merccougar50
Just remember stay off the lakes when the weather changes.  Someone from my town sunk his machine two weeks back.

Here's a helpful tip.  When going out for a day, if it is really cold out, keep your beer (or other drinks) under the hood.  That way they will not freeze in your saddle bags.

On christmas day a couple teens broke through the ice on a sled, they just found them two weeks ago :disappoin I would always head out through the fields and up into the mountains, I just had a 377 safari but it got me in enough trouble!

And if your beer is freezing your not drinkin it fast enough :grinno: lol Gonna have to remember that though.
1980 birds X 3, 1982 bird, 1984 XR7, 1988 TC

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A local guy just killed himself on one of those.  Not lecturing, though, Carmen. You're probably one of the most responsible people on here.  Those things just scare me, that's all.

Re: If you can't beat it...

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I've owned snowmobiles before (at one point in the early 1990's I owned six), so I'm not new to them. I sold off all of them after we had a few snowless seasons, and we continued having snowless seasons for another ten years, right up until the season before last. It seams our weather has gotten back to normal after being spoiled for so long, so I got me some new sleds :D Of course this one is a good deal faster than the old Arctic Cat Cheetah 440 & Pantera 500, Skidoo 399 Olympics, and Ski-Roule machines (one 340, one 440) that I had in the past
 
Lakes? We don't need no stinkin' lakes! My cottage is surrounded by hundreds of miles of logging roads and there are several fields nearby. Riding on a lake would be a useless risk (and impossible because there are no lakes anywhere near the cottage). I used to ride on lakes years ago, though, and I had the arse end of my machine break through once. I was travelling at about 60MPH, and the only thing that saved me was that fact, and the fact that I kept into the throttle. Never rode on a lake since.
 
Mike: I did something similar to that once (jumped across a road), but I didn't go quite as  high and stayed on the sled. I then proceded to do it over and over :D Busted every spring outta the bogey wheel suspension on that ol' 440 Ski-Roule, too. I was only a teenager at the time, though, and a good deal more stupid :hick: :crazy:
 
Now, if you all will excuse me, I'm off to have some fun. On a completely unrelated note, Eric, should something ever happen to me I hereby will my stake in this message board to you :deal:
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

Re: If you can't beat it...

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Well, I'm back with all bones intact, though very sore (moving those things about is hard work). I had an interesting problem, though: the snow was too deep for the snowmobile. That machine would barely move through the 4-foot deep snow, and it got stuck several times. Today was a lot of work for a few hour's snowmobiling, but once the snow starts to pack down (it's been too cold since all of the storms) it should be good.

Another problem reared its ugly head, too. When snowmobiling through four-foot-deep snow and you have to stop to piss, DON'T get off the machine to do it! I sunk up to my chest!

The Everest was a no-go. It used to belong to my aunt, but my uncle had to sell it because she was diagnosed with altzheimer's disease. The machine sat for two years and he offered it to me for next to nothing. Unfortunately that's exactly what it was worth. I could've fixed averything thatw as wrong with it (carb rebuild, new battery, new seat) but the engine turned out to be seized :( Pity, it was a very good working and well taken care of machine until the altzheimer'shiznit. Now I've gotta find another one...
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣
 

I expect to catch flak for this but....

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If the rest of the everest is in decent shape pull off the heads, place a piece of wood on top of each piston and hit with a hammer *cowers in fear* :brick: alternating from side to side, a bit of ATFaround the rings will help too. I have had a few ancient sleds and have done this and it worked fine, sure its not ther best thing, smartest thing, or safest thing but what have you got to loose :dunno:

And when you have to pee in 4' of snow stand on the runners facing backwards. If you try to stand on one side of the smowmobile after a few wobbly pops you'll probabally end up face down in the snow, and with the 'horse outta the barn' so to speak it'll get your attention :p
1980 birds X 3, 1982 bird, 1984 XR7, 1988 TC