Vintage vs modern sled.

[80sting440]

I went out for a good ditch banging run today on my modern sled...wow, it sure is different than my vintage ones!

This is my third run this season with the first two being on my old sleds. I enjoy both types of riding, but I'll tell ya, this tall grasshopper style of suspension, along with all of the modern features, sure make the miles roll by like it's just a stroll through the park! I've learned a lot from riding old machines again. I've removed all gauges so I'm less distracted and more focused on my surroundings (i.e. WATCH OUT FOR DANGER AHEAD!!!)...enjoy the scenery, smell the flowers  and not be focused on total miles ridden or top speeds achieved. Maybe I've finally matured? (maybe!) I went out riding today, and truly enjoyed myself way more than I have in a while and I owe some of that to riding vintage .

How do you guys feel about vintage vs modern?

Rene

    

[1970stingerracer12]

I sat on one of these once and thought I was going to tip over on the hard packed road! Guess I'll have to actually ride one.
Gary

[weverat]

No doubt, with the modern sleds it is painless, and you can enjoy the scenery.

Vintage is another game, you have to be focused, hanging on, and listening to your machine.

We do not have many modern sleds here in S.E. Mn. as we rarely get snow. It is normally mid to late Jan. before we have enough snow to ride on. February is good. We usually can mow lawn by the end of March.

North of the twin cities has a good 4 month season extending to the end of March.

When it starts to snow here, they start plowing 24/7 until all roads are perfectly cleaned up, and salted down. In Rochester they load it all up in trucks and haul it out of town. They even clean the shoulders, and drop that wing half way down the ditch. The locals all have snow blowers, and they polish up everything immediately, it is like they have a weird phobia with snow, oh ya, and then they bitch about it!, and cry about how winter sucks.

I love winter,

[1970stingerracer12]

How can I shrink this photo to see it without sliding the side and bottom bars?

[80sting440]

I had the same issue with your photo of you painting your hood.

I left clicked the photo and it shrunk to normal size...try that.

Rene

[1970stingerracer12]

Thanks. That worked!

[oldscorpman]

i love snowmobiling period. i usually put on around 3500 miles on my modern every winter and about 500 miles on vintage. they are nite and day, my 4 stroke arctic cat i can put 200 miles on in about 8 hours and still walk and not wake up sore and do it again the next day. on vintage after an 80 mile ride i am sore and stiff the next morning but i am smiling and enjoying it the whole time.

rick

[80whip440]

Dec 18, 2017 18:29:51 GMT -5 oldscorpman said:

i love snowmobiling period.. on vintage after an 80 mile ride i am sore and stiff the next morning but i am smiling and enjoying it the whole time.

rick

 That's the reason I ride 'em. Old and weird, I'm all in. Heck, I had a '61 Rambler for a daily driver in the early 90's..........

[1970stingerracer12]

You don't see those old Ramblers on the road anymore! I made one into a dune buggy. It worked fine until I hit a fire hydrant in a snow storm! I guess I like old and weird also.

[80sting440]

I had one of those Ramblers when I was a teen in high school. The bench seat folded back flat and even with the back seat and made a nice bed. I would rent it out to my school mates  for the night and had that car paid off in no time!

Rene 

[1970stingerracer12]

Rene wins the Rambler Rebel contest!!! Here's the one I made into a dune buggy.

[80sting440]

That's one cool buggy!

Rene