cehyoopers Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Do some of you get new sleds every year? Those totals are crazy. How many miles do you put on a sled before your done with it? 750 miles for me. Going -2- Parry Sound in the morning. Hope to get a bunch more. That's why I buy 4 strokes. After this weekend I'll have just under 10000 miles on my 2009 4 tec with little troubles other than replacing sliders. My wife has the same sled and will have just over 10000 miles. We plan to keep them for 5 years and at this pace we'll have 30000 miles on them. 10,000 miles with just slides,amazing,I broke an idler yesterday at 3400 miles,,,,and my four-stroke needed a skid frame overhaul at 10,000 miles,,,,cat sleds must be junk,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flash 800 Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 The skid is definately the weak link. It takes so much abuse. I inspect them every monday night and do some tweaks almost every other week. For example the wheel bearings are starting to wear inside the wheel and creating some play which wears my sliders quicker so I've expoxied them in the wheel now to try and get a little more life out of them before replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cehyoopers Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 The skid is definately the weak link. It takes so much abuse. I inspect them every monday night and do some tweaks almost every other week. For example the wheel bearings are starting to wear inside the wheel and creating some play which wears my sliders quicker so I've expoxied them in the wheel now to try and get a little more life out of them before replacement. keep an eye on the reverse gear,,,,rode with a guy a week ago and it was slipping,,,did mine at 7,000 miles,not sure what skidoo uses though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flash 800 Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 already been there, had the update done last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yamaha4ever Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 Just finished a couple days of riding. Total is now 2050 km. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rws Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 KCT, snowcap and I completed a one day 1000 km ride Friday Feb 26 doing 658 miles (1059 km) in 17 hours and 4 minutes. Now have 6034 miles for the season. snowcap & KCT getting ready to leave Falcon Lake at 6:00 am GPS map of route we did...breakdown of miles...342 miles in Manitoba...199 miles in Ontario and 117 miles in Minnesota. Trip Stats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cehyoopers Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 rws you da man,,,, ,that is real world sledding at its best,,,,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddszr600 Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 Got back on thur.s fro the last trip which saw a lot of time sitting on the side of the trail fixing sleds(not mine ) including a broke front shock on a brand new GSX and a old Exciter with snotty carbs, so not as many miles as we hoped. 1220 miles so far. Lots of snow here now, hope to put on some more riding from home next week. Cheers, Todd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formulaz600 Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 my wife and i have gone 2120 km this year so far she drives a 2002 ski-doo legend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoungGun Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 This season I have put 2506 miles on this year putting a total of 7806 on my 2009 Polaris Dragon. I'm down from 5300 miles last year and the year before that was 6050 miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revrnd Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Got back earlier today from our trip. 1296 miles for the week to bump my total up to 2868 miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmied Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Broke the 1000 km mark on Sunday! Bump me up to 1022km. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 I had a few good days of sledding last week. Up to 3594 Km's for the season .... so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marximuus Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Up to 2583km now. Unfortunately the weekend tour ended early when my buddy broke a jack shaft bracket which resulted in jack shaft meets coolant line and secondary clutch meets flywheel. Instead of getting in the other 500k of riding planned ended up pretty much waiting around the camp for a day until someone came to rescue us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CjGaughan Posted March 1, 2010 Author Share Posted March 1, 2010 Update is coming!!! It's been a busy weekend for me between Olympics (YEAH CANADA!!!) and the fact I'm in Ottawa for a few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flash 800 Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Skidoogirl and I just completed the biggest marathon ride of our snowmobiling careers . Left our doorstep in north bay and rode to cochrane friday. Saturday played around the area and rode down to tata chika pika lodge north of gogama. Sunday raced home to watch the last half of the hockey game. And wouldn't you know it, we rode 800 miles in 3 days and got stopped 3 times within 50 miles from our house by cops or wannabees. Sucks being criminals.......anyways awesome trip, total miles for the season is now 3806 miles. PS RWS........all I can say is damn you man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revrnd Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 And wouldn't you know it, we rode 800 miles in 3 days and got stopped 3 times within 50 miles from our house by cops or wannabees. Sucks being criminals Never saw a cop or TP the whole trip last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CjGaughan Posted March 2, 2010 Author Share Posted March 2, 2010 Here it is I didn't get any riding in this week Buddy just got a new sled so hopefully I get a few more in when I head home...fingers crossed. JEALOUS OF RWS!!! hah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bark Biter Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Managed 647 km's this past weekend, needed to make up for not riding the previous week. Not sure how many more will happen now that March is here and the temps are starting to rise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontariof7 Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 3,209kms...looking to squeeze more in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildbill Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 did 190 yesterday bringing my total to about 1050 for pleasure (piles of miles testing but I don't count that ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Quimby Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Sitting at 1250 now. Geez I thought that I had a lot of time off for sledding. There must be a lot of people out of work..or not going to work, or seasonally employed to log some of the mileage I see on here. Well done fellas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giddy UP Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Mileage to date: After our last trip up the Canyon I have managed to put on 3,058 kms this season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cehyoopers Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 did 190 yesterday bringing my total to about 1050 for pleasure (piles of miles testing but I don't count that ) you mean that wasn't a test,,,,,,, , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddszr600 Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 ok just gotr home from likly the last run....... at 1387 miles now. Cheers, Todd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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