Looking for fellow mountain riders in sask.I leave in saskatoon and try to ride revy ,valemount or mcbride at least once a month. wouldnt mind meeting some peaple from sask who ride in the mountains.

There is a group of us from Moose Jaw, We are heading to duck mountain in January and Revy "as planned so far" later in the year. I will keep in touch as we get closer to the date.

P.s we are flatlanders mostly- xc’s with 1.75’s or 1.5’s and a few RMK’s There are a bunch of other guys who go from here, who have mountain specific sleds.
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It seems like half of Saskatchewan sledders go to BC. It's awesome riding out there for sure. I've only rode at McBride (Bell & Renshaw).

i have a cabin at duck mtn. there can be some great riding out there. we make a few trips to fernie and revy every year, some of the guys are back already but just bought a house so might be a few less trips to bc and a few more to the cabin,
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I've always wanted to go...but still have never made it to the mountains.

You gotta go.......guarantee you won't regret it. The only thing is if you go, you're going to want to keep going all the time.

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HCS Saskatchewan goes to the mountains trip?? :beerchug:

Ryan

Im up for that.We are leaving next thursday for 4 days in mcbride Valemount if anyone wants to go.I was in Revy on the nov 11 weekend and the snow was insane.


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Ohhhhh...i want snow so bad!!!! :fluffy:

I was in Revy for a day 2 seasons ago...it was an absolute blast!!! I want to go again so bad. I might be heading out in February..Do some snowmobiling, backcountry skiing and monoboarding.

I rent though...my sleds not set up for the mountains...and my 4runner only gets 18MPG on the 38's...not quite highway friendly.

But any of you guys ever taking a short track 1.5" sled out there??? how did it do?

I would need to get new jets and a clutch kit correct??? Is it even worth it with the short track...or should i just do the conversion?

If there is ever room on someones trailer for another sled I wouldn't mind coming out with mine. Or even room for a passenger... i would just rent.

A great time to go with a short track is in the spring.You can go anywhere and theres nothing like riding in a T shirt.We rode the second week in may last year and it was 20 c and still tons of snow.

Yeah last year I went with my ZR 600 and it had a 121x1.375 track. It did OK and I was able to have just as much fun as anybody else, but it’s not the sled you want out there if everybody else has longer track and deeper lugs than you. If everybody in your group is riding similar sleds, it doesn’t really matter what you’ve got, because everybody is the same. When I went, I had the only 121 in the group, so I couldn’t go everywhere the other guys could go. When we were playing in the meadows and stuff I could carve around and play just as much, but when it came to climbing I was not even close. Everybody was saying I was doing really well at getting around, but they were probably just saying it to make me feel good. :smilielol: I don’t know, we had lots of laughs about it too and I was having so much fun I didn’t care if I couldn’t climb as high or got stuck more often. I was stuck lots, but so was everyone else too, it was just more digging out for me than the other guys. The snow was so deep with no bottom to it that anything could get stuck in it. Like poorman said.....If you go later in the year the snow is supposedly set up more and it’s easier to get around with the shorter track sleds, but we were there at New Years so I don’t really know.

One thing I figured out right away is you definitely need good grip on your running boards. The first day I couldn’t keep my feet from sliding around so half the time I was totally out of control. :augen41: That made for some good laughs but it was pretty frustrating. That night I got some sheet metal screws with the hex heads from the store and borrowed a cordless drill from the motel and I screwed a bunch of them into my running boards. After that my feet stayed glued to the boards and that made a huge difference in how I could control the sled......I couldn’t believe it, it was like a different sled. Make sure you take care of that problem before you go or you'll be like me and sitting out in the motel parking lot at midnight filling your running boards full of screws. :smilielol:

So yeah a 121 isn’t perfect out there for sure, but I still had an absolute blast and would say you should go with whatever you have. When I came back, it didn’t take me too long to start thinking about getting something different though. Now I have a different sled with a 136 with 2” lugs (and lots of teeth on the running boards :smilielol: ), so if I go again this year I should be set up a little better for it. If I go with the same guys, I’ll still have the shortest track in the group though, so I’ll still be stuck the most and won’t be able to do the same climbs as the bigger sleds. Again I won’t care though, because like I said you have a blast no matter what you’re riding.


Mine’s EFI so no jets to mess with so I don't know how much you'd need to change it, but yeah you'd have to for sure. Definitely clutching changes are necessary too. If you don’t change your clutch, it won’t rev out to full RPM. On my ZR I just went with lighter cam arms, I think only about 3 grams less, and it worked real good. I took a bunch of different cam arms and springs with me in case I needed to mess around with it and fine tune a little, but I was real happy with my first change, so I just stayed with that the whole time. I also geared it a little lower and was glad I did that too.

Oh yeah another thing, raise your handlebars too......as high as you can possibly go. You won't regret that at all because the only time you're sitting on the seat is on the trail ride up in the morning and on the way back down at night.

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i was on a 02 sumit x when i was there...i think 144...and i was stuck all the time...mostly because i parked up hill all the time :frech32: and because i wasnt full throttle all time...i was a little scared for my first time and they didnt get the hac hooked up right and the lines were off so it was only running properly off one carb.

As for cam arms...are they not internal and a pia to change out on the trail.

I already have grips but could use additional and i have a 4-6" riser that came with the sled.

i believe near the end of february sometime that my cousin, i and some other friends may head out to valemount or revelstoke... not sure where.

Ohh, thanks poorman.....throw some pics on to rub my face in it!!! (that was sarcasm). Wow, those pics look good!!! I've only seen the mountains in the summer....they look wayyyy better in the winter. Maybe this is the year I finally get out there??

Just be prepared if you go to catch the mountain Bug. I took 2 buddies from sask with me one had a zr 800 136 and now after riding the mountian owns an 05 900 kingcat 162 so I think he is hooked.LOL. The other had a 700 polaris switchback with a 144 1 1/4 track,since he went he has put on a 2"track pipe attack fuel distribution system and raised his bar 4".Yes I think he is hooked as well.They say crack is one of the most addicting drugs,well whoever said that probably wasnt a mountain sledder!

PS:crack is cheaper :beerchug: