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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
And just like that, it’s a wrap on the 2018 USXC cross-country season! It’s crazy to think how fast this season went. You spend all summer preparing and getting ready and it always seems like it flies right by. This weekend we were in Naytahwaush, Minnesota, for the final round and the track was allRead More
Wow, what a week! We have been on the U.S. border in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, for the 50th annual Soo I500. This was my rookie year at the Soo, and I had the honor of riding with Keith Gainforth from Gainforth Racing. For those of you that aren’t familiar with the Soo I500, itRead More
That’s a wrap on Pine Lake! The USXC Gerald Dyrdahl Memorial Pine Lake 100 is in the books and Mother Nature proved to be one tough competitor. We arrived a couple days before to do some testing and was greeted by sub-zero temperatures. At the time not realizing that would be the warmest temps ofRead More
Good morning Max Sled readers. We are just getting home from spending the last few days on snow in the Wisconsin Northwoods. Unfortunately, this weekend was supposed to be the first round of the USXC series but Mother Nature continues impose her bad sense of humor on the sledder nation. The Gerald Dyrdahl Memorial PineRead More
Is this Yamaha’s replacement for the Apex power cruiser? Yamaha gets it right with the 2018 Sidewinder L-TX DX, a turbocharged cruiser for serious and stealthy riders. With a horsepower rating north of 200 and an elongated 137-inch Ripsaw track to put it to the trail, the DX can flat out motor. That makes itRead 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
