snowmobiles..yeah yeah not vmx but eh..

[Doc]

they look like a lot of fun and far removed from the sleds of old..vintage I guess..
one for daddy sledneck
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ii4UykhoA&feature=related
one for little johnny sledneck
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BJsoRAPbltU&feature=related

if you think snowmobiles are heavy overweight do a little search..some are running 8's on bitumen 

[Lozza]

I put a link on the old forum to these babies, 120hp/130kgs off the shop floor .Sled nutters tell me going off trail in the waist deep powder is the go.Looks part bike and part jet ski skills needed to tame the beast.Best part is all the snow keeps wowsers indoors in front of the fire patting the labrador.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DrHf4XZBRyc&feature=related

There are a few conversions now like a 13B chook cooker with a hairdryer (rotary with turbo) or turbo on the 2T triple 350hp easy as mainly for snow and summer time grass drags
Nice find Doc

[Doc]

yeh Loz..there is some ultra trick stuff out there, 2T and 4T..here's just one more link..more action and it makes the first link look quite tame in comparison.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cbn1oqSigbM&feature=related

[worms]

had a visit to japan early december, sking holiday which included a whole day on snowmobiles, they were brand new yamaha two strokes and did about 80 k/hr. we hit this potato farm with about 1 metre of powder snow covering it and tore the place to bits, rolled one a coulple times and even did a few jumps, not allowed of course but with my poor japenese we just keep going, even had my wife doing donuts and the like. best fun ever.

Cheers Trev

[firko]

Back in the 70's my then wife and I went skiing in the High Sierras in California every opportunity we could. We stayed with relatives of hers in Bishop, California not too far from Mammouth Mountain. Anyway they were a Ski Doo sponsored racing family with a bunch of highly modified SkiDoos. Chuck the then California Champion Pro used to take me on these great rides to the powder snow up high in the mountains. It took me a few trips to get used to riding them fast, especially in the soft powder but once I got rid of my dirt bike habits and started to drive them sort of like you do a quad I got pretty good to the point that I went in a race at a big meeting at Mammouth Mountain. I cam second last in the half hour race but had a ball. It all came to an end for me when we seperated but my ex now lives up there and has her own Bombardier go fast snowmobile and still goes riding with the same folks. I agree with Worms, it's brilliant fun.