Snowmobile Tech

[jwcfbd]

Well, this winter is great for snow mobiles...

I saw a neighbor go by on his fully restored '72 Ski Doo Elan......just like the one I had as a kid.......boy is that thing ever tiny........it looked big when I had one....

Many of my neighbors have snowmobiles.....one of their wives rode a 4 hr round trip ride with her father...it was the first such ride she dd this season and was surprised at how hard on fuel her 600 Ski Doo Grand Touring was compared to his 900....I explained to her that they are basically the same machine only her 600 is working a lot harder than his 900......they are both 4 strokes.

All these snowmobiles around here make me miss having one but I know as surely as God made little green apples, we won't get any decent snow next year......and snowmobiles will sit like they did last year.

That's what happened to me. I bought a new sled in 2016 and it never snowed that year. Living in southern Maine at the time I parked it with .1 mile on it that year. I finally sold it and just used my club's sleds to groom the trails. Now that I live in TX they are finally getting some good snow again.

 

[TallTom]

I try and stay away from anyplace cold enough for them. But for a time I was exposed to them when I lived up north. In fact the story I shared about a rental car that froze up, they came out on a snow mobile to assist.

Other than that, my house which was in Maine was on a private road. Which means we had to plow it ourselves. My neighbor's had snowmobiles. Man they would haul butt. Like 70 mph haul butt. And they would go faster. Just not with me on them. It's cold enough NOT in them. It's ridiculously cold on one. I never got a big desire to get into them. I volunteered to plow the road out to the main road. That suited my neighbors.

New Englanders are sort of hard to crack from a friendly perspective. They don't care for outsiders. Particularly ones that arrive from California with 2 sports cars. But once you crack them, they are some the best neighbors and friends to have. But I still didn't want to hang out on snowmobiles.