Techdenis007

Kill switch? Tether cord ? Sled shuts off after a mishap rather than buggering off down the lake or trail most likely rideable instead of broken... you get up and ride on instead of freezing in the bush because the sled is unrideable. Life saving.

In your case I can see where an unexpected throttle opening could happen, stuff does happen. Someone at some point might have thought to crank the steering both ways and check throttle freeplay and throttle return when pressed, before returning the sled to the owner. (I do this regularly when working on anything that might remotely affect the throttle cable or throttle body). I check the throttle returns properly on my sled on Every ride, EVERY TIME. Stuff happens. Off trail sleds get a lot more snow into the engine bay, which often causes the throttle to stick momentarily. We had one with a 600 Backcountry last year that they rode deep snow all day, parked the sleds, then started it the next day. The BS story was, the girl was sitting on the machine, started the sled, it idled for several seconds, then took off WOT across the lake and stopped at the treeline, bending a couple of A-arms. Total crap, because it can't open by itself, and if it was started with the throttle frozen open, an e-tec will only idle, until the throttle returns to zero then is re-applied. Being that it's a mechanically operated throttle body, and not a Throttle-by-wire, we knew it was total crap. Should have seen the mountains of ice everywhere in that sled, including the airbox .... I took pics to cover our asses if they came at us with a law suit.

This deal with people blaming the muffs or throttle response for accidents is pure crap. If you don't have total control of your machine AT ALL TIMES, then stay home. Tether cords, park brakes and kill switches are there for a reason. USE THEM, your life may depend on them.

You're missing the selfie with the old man sitting outside his cabin....

I guess that puts you guys in Hearst mid-week again this year ?? Someone's gotta fix your trip planning so as you're here on a weekend ....

The piece of metal is simply something rigid to roll the tape onto, so that it stays in a rigid form when you want to unroll a piece .... rather than being all soft and flexible which can be a pain to unroll the tape from...

Only the last fold will be wasted.... unless you are a better man than me...

Message sent....

Neighbors across the street had one... Big John (dad) was the only one able to pull it over. 3 of us kids could just barely pull the rope out ...

I did the Canyon from SRF to the fuel station by the Westway, 33L for the whole thing, 233km. On an MXz 800 E-tec. If the thing actually holds and gets all the fuel, I would have had another 40km in it. I would hope the 600 ACE does way better... the 900 is impressive enough.

That the dive on the 11 in Iroquois Falls? Should be bulldozed... And I didn't peek in to check the girls' ID's last time through.....

For anyone looking at a last chance this weekend, go visit the other Cochrane page that's active ... posted an update on Hearst conditions.

Little update for the Hearst area. It started with freezing rain yesterday, then in the evening it turned to freezing pouring rain with lightning, everything is basically a block of ice outside. It'll probably end up being the worst freezing rain event I've seen yet. Although there don't seem to be any highways closed yet, just wait until the accidents start happening. Basically they were calling for rain and warming to +7 overnight then cooling during the day, but that didn't happen, it just hung around -1 then plunged to -9 before I got up. So now I've got a skating rink instead of a patio. Should have brought the car into the garage last night, it would have been 1 less iceberg in the yard to scrape off ... Might go for a spin tonight and check trail conditions.

Remind me next Tuesday (payday) ...

Wasn't there a tournament last year too on that weekend ? That time of year I guess ....

Trails again were mint today, despite a good bit of traffic. Did the L159 loop and back via the A. 170 km over 2 days on 1 tank of fuel on all 3 sleds. I'm kind of impressed ... This is to be expected everywhere, just wanted to show you what the mild temps will do with little to no frost in the ground ... this was at the highway crossing of the A coming into town..... it was only about 4 degrees at the warmest it got today... still above freezing with a bit of sticky snow.

You know what, my earlier post might have been a bit premature. We just did a little loop around to the Marina (Alexandre's first trail ride as an operator instead of a passenger) and the trails haven't been better this year. They've finally got them set up and hard, they've been groomed recently (yesterday I'd guess), just an awesome ride (a bit slow for my liking, the first ride with the lad ..) We're heading out again tomorrow, will post a conditions report on here, and I'll be sure to sample them mid-week in the warm spell.

I'm not even sure trails will be rideable by then. 4 days of plus temps this week starting tomorrow might open up waterways. Remember we have little or no frost under the snow. We're riding tonight & tomorrow, we'll see how trails look by mid week.