Cat’s sporty new utility sled for those who ride to their fish house — and beyond! With 600cc of displacement spinning a tall lugged 154-inch Cobra track, Arctic Cat’s all-new Norseman 6000 fills the bill for serious outdoorsmen across the snowbelt. The Norseman is as though a group of Cat engineers, many of whom rideRead More
4 Choices: High Performance Flatlander Options
By Jerry Bassett, Sr Executive Editor Choices? You betcha says the Minnesota-based ride review staff. For model year 2018 we’ve pinned down what we’d want for high performance riding for the upcoming snow season. Fancy this, only one of our four choices is what the original equipment manufacturer would call its “trail” option. The restRead More
Thursday's 3: New Gear from Arctic Cat
by: Jerry Bassett, Sr Executive Editor photos: Arctic Cat With the snow season quickly approaching, the sled makers are ramping up new gear options for us. Arctic Cat provides stylish modular one-piece suits as well as warm fleece tops to wear under them. To spice up your sled’s performance, Cat’s race team engineers worked withRead More
MaxSled Riders’ Journal: Mountain
There was a time in the snowmobile world when the mountain segment was a tiny little fringe of the product line. In those days a long track unit stretched all the way out to 136 inches… true story! These days, mountain sleds are the flagship models of product launches, with big R&D efforts delivering technicalRead More
MaxSled Riders’ Journal: Crossover
As consistently rideable snow on the trail becomes less reliable every year, the snowmobile industry has responded by investing more heavily in the crossover and mountain segment than anywhere else. Makes sense from a business standpoint: if the snow is most reliable in elevation, where you can ride a truly great trail system and alsoRead More
MaxSled 2018 Rider’s Journal: Trail
It’s a long-standing MaxSled tradition that our riders pick their personal favorites– and tell you why– after spending time on the new crop of sleds at Snow Shoot. It’s the only time in a year that we can ride and experience factory sleds, set up with the best calibrations that each OEM’s factory engineers canRead More