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For a Minnesota “city” flatlander, ending the snow season late in April — April 18th to be exact — by circumnavigating the shoreline of one of the state’s largest lakes is a big adventure. Doing it on a big Polaris 800 Titan Adventure 155 makes it a touch more special. Understand, the Titan is aRead More
The MY19 snow shoot proved to be one of the best since I began attending Snow Shoots in 1990. So doing the math, you note that I’m not a young buck anymore – hit the big 60 last year. Regardless of my age I still enjoy riding sleds that pump up my adrenaline, pinning theRead More
Amid the thousands of variants and options you can pick and choose from in the snowmobile dealerships this spring, I picked these five things that really warrant your serious consideration if you’re in the market for a spring deposit trail sled. True, there aren’t any wholly bad sleds on the market anymore, but there areRead More
My first annual snowmobile test review session came in March 1973 when Invitation to Snowmobiling magazine brought its cast of writers, editors and photographers from 1 Park Avenue Manhattan to Houghton-Hancock, Michigan for a week-long evaluation of the next year’s key models. We weren’t certain we’d get a week as mud kept replacing snow andRead More
So once again I made my trip to Snow Shoot, which is held out in West Yellowstone, Montana. I knew heading there it would be the best year by far— the timing for this trip was perfect: with fresh powder and great snowpack all year. This year the group I was in focused primarily onRead More
Rolling into 2019, Yamaha has made some big philosophical changes to the way it is looking at the snowmobile business. For instance, it significantly leaned out and simplified the lineup from 47 unique model codes in 2018 to just 12 in 2019. That will make your job, and the dealers’ job way easier at orderingRead More
Evolutionary changes and a big power grab highlight Polaris for 2019 For model year 2019, Polaris covers the full range of riders from newbie to aggressive veteran, trail shredder to mountain maverick, with a slate of sleds that shows off Polaris engineering, electronic mastery and marketing savvy. There’s a whole new level of performance asRead More
Textron President Scott Donnelly spoke at the first combined dealer meeting since his company acquired Arctic Cat just over a year ago and laid out the best possible message a consumer could hear. “Our company is all about product,” he said. “New products matter. We’ve been in the vehicle business. Arctic Cat is a greatRead More
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
