sillypixie's Journal: Picking up my new SLED today...

I'm sooooo excited. It's beeeyooootiful.

And there is gobs of new snow too!

http://www.yamaha-motor.com/sport/products/modelgallery/512/1/0/gallery.aspx

EP - you will be happy to know that this new machine is a 4-stroke, not a 2-stroke! And it weighs less than my current sled...

I'll post pics on monday, assuming I make it back in one piece :)

Way cool

[Iamthefallen]

I haven't kept up to date on snowmobiles since moving to SC, so I see the Phazer has changed a LOT the past few years. Why the Mountain Lite over the "plain" phazer? The longer maverick track?

Re:

[sillypixie]

Yeah, they have totally changed the stance (it's a rider-forward stance that is supposed to better leverage the weight of the rider against the weight of the motor), and the front suspension is exposed as well. The HP isn't huge, but the rep is that what you lose in power you more than make up for in nimbleness.

We'll see....

Nice

[ryanr]

Looks like fun.

Though, I had assumed that SLED was SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop...

4 stroke?

[Engineer-Poet]

<has a stroke> ;-)

Now, if you had bought one that ran on a lithium-ion battery pack, I probably WOULD have had a stroke (because I don't think anybody could have sneaked the announcements past me for so long)!

Nice!

[nacturation]

That looks really bad-ass... I want one! :)