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A good deal for spirited trail riding. You can expect to have a serious choice come April as Ski-Doo, which already announced its next generation 600cc E-TEC twin, most likely will offer it as the sidekick to the 850cc powered MXZ models. As a replacement for the current 600 E-TEC, we expect the new oneRead More
When you’re the clear market share leader for years at a time, it can be a tough task to keep it up. Some companies get complacent. Some get nichy. But Ski-Doo seems to have a knack for looking at what it has done to be successful and ask, “what can we do… better?” Our firstRead More
If you missed out on the “Spring Only” MXZ X-RS 850, don’t miss out on the Blizzard 850! Blizzard for 2018 retains its proud heritage in Ski-Doo lineage. It’s the name that replaced T’NT decades ago as the factory’s racing model back when Ski-Doo battled Arctic Cat, Polaris, Yamaha and, yes, Scorpion and Mercury onRead More
Snow has fallen and currently is staying in the upper Midwest and Great Lakes, portending a sure sign of the impending riding season as are announcements of more choices in new-for-2018 riding gear. Ski-Doo is the latest to announce new gear. A harbinger to the Christmas season, perhaps? If you don’t head off to yourRead More
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
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
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
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
