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Badger · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:49 am Post subject:

the apex is not looking so bad check the numbers out.

http://www.maxsled.com/absolutenm/templates/articles_layout.aspx?articleid=940&zoneid=4

shaddow44 · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:46 am Post subject:

I have a huge beef with the weight system...specifically dry weight. From what I understand Yamaha's dry weight is only minus fuel..whereas BRP's has no fluid period..shocks, coolant, oils ( chaincase, injection ) and fuel...I'm not sure about the other 2 manu's..why do they not weigh them trail ready, fully fueled, oil etc..ready to ride.

Swiss Sledder · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:35 am Post subject:

Did you notice the article's date? It was 1 April 2007 so they compared the 2007 models.

KevinS · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:33 am Post subject:

Here is this years.

http://www.maxsled.com/absolutenm/templates/articles_layout.aspx?articleid=1098&zoneid=3

SumpBuster · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:47 am Post subject:

A lot of high zoot cars are heavy and powerful and handle great...BMW's, Aston Martins, Bently...etc etc...it's all how you handle the weight. The mag writers go on and on praising these cars...sure, unnecessary weight placed wrong is bad on anything. But that's what engineers get paid to do. Traction has more to do with acceleration than just the ultimate final weight of the vehicle.

Badger · 1 April 2007

RX-Eskimo · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:18 pm Post subject:

Ha ha ha... if you think they are heavy, try pulling a sledge by yourself... don't care if its heavy, as long as it is the one doing the pulling...LOL.

To me, traction is more important than weight and as other posters stated, all of them are heavy, especially when they sink!

Anyways, who cares what a 98 pound weakling is complaining about? Get those simpering people on the Charles Atlas diet and grow some muscle!!

It is way lighter than the whales and polar bears we catch and plus the weight helps with the pulling of the (Qamutik) sledge when it is fully loaded for camping. If I want a light sled when the ice is thin, then I use my Bravo to hunt until the ice is three inches thick but it is due more to the carbides slicing the thin ice than the weight.