X games and Yamaha

[gytr done]

What a disappointment, and the big kicker is it was televised for the whole world to see. Ouch. Not what you want to see on a world stage.

 

[Tyloooor]

what happened?

 

[biffdotorg]

what happened?

X2, I had heard 3rd place in Hillcross and a win in Adapted.

 

[cacsrx1]

Looked like a mechanical failure on Gavins sled...........

 

[shagman]

A silver and a bronze out of 3 sled I thought was a good showing. Also Gavin was in second when something broke.

 

[gytr done]

A 3rd place in the final of hillcross beat out by a Suzuki 800 2s engine that has been in use for how long by Arctic cat, is not a good showing in my books, congrats go out to all competitors in adaptive sno x.

 

[Tyloooor]

that 800 Suzuki engine is pretty good.....I personally think it's the best all around 2 stroke out....reliable (well more than the other two), good on fuel and oil and fast.....I'm really considering buying a "lite" 2 stoke again.....and I would lean toward a cat xf8000 (no electric start) ...That's hard for me to say, cause I've only owned yamaha's ( I think my dad might disown me), but right now Yamaha doesn't offer anything I'm interested in....

 

[DoktorC]

A 3rd place in the final of hillcross beat out by a Suzuki 800 2s engine that has been in use for how long by Arctic cat, is not a good showing in my books, congrats go out to all competitors in adaptive sno x.

So...you're saying you're disappointed because yamaha got beat by a sled that's lighter and more powerful?? Imagine that...next you're going to tell me they (arctic cat) have a larger race department and are more focused on racing...

Ya podium finishes on the world stage suck ...

How long has the viper/Nytro/vector 3cyl been around???

 

[cacsrx1]

So...you're saying you're disappointed because yamaha got beat by a sled that's lighter and more powerful?? Imagine that...next you're going to tell me they (arctic cat) have a larger race department and are more focused on racing...

Ya podium finishes on the world stage suck ...

How long has the viper/Nytro/vector 3cyl been around???

Or ...you could look at it this way ....... Yamaha touts their reliability and only 50% made it up the hill without a mechanical failure.

 

[DoktorC]

Or ...you could look at it this way ....... Yamaha touts their reliability and only 50% made it up the hill without a mechanical failure.

Half cat

 

[fxnytrortxkid]

Sadly they had an electrical issue if I recall. The electronics are cat, Yamaha had 0 failures lol but 2 sleds out of 24 and the slowest of the 2 finished third and the faster one had an issue while leading. And Doug Henry was all over leader trying to get the gold in adaptive. Yes I would love to see them in snox as that's a large viable market again, but idk if we will see that

 

[cacsrx1]

Sadly they had an electrical issue if I recall. The electronics are cat, Yamaha had 0 failures lol but 2 sleds out of 24 and the slowest of the 2 finished third and the faster one had an issue while leading. And Doug Henry was all over leader trying to get the gold in adaptive. Yes I would love to see them in snox as that's a large viable market again, but idk if we will see that

The electronics must have started the sled on fire then because there was a fair amount of smoke........

 

[fxnytrortxkid]

http://youtu.be/nInkz9dSrbc Says sensor broke.

 

[OVR4D]

I didn't watch much of the hillcross races, but I do remember seeing 2 different Yamaha riders get the holeshot in their heat races. Even the color commentators acknowledged that the Yamaha sleds were outrunning the competition off the line. I'm no expert, but from my perspective most of the mechanical failures I saw were a direct result of all the bar banging going on. No sled or rider can take being T-boned by another sled for too long without having problems. IMO, the format (running 6 riders wide at the start) created a less than exciting race and caused a lot of the failures because most of the field ended up crashing into one another. The winners were the ones lucky enough to avoid heavy traffic and escape the carnage, and so won by default. A 2-sled race, or even a single sled timed event would have shown what a Yamaha is truly capable of and IMO would have been more exciting to watch.

 

[cacsrx1]

I forgot how hard the supercharged cat pulled everybody off the line....