Anyone care to stop by my house and take me for a ride. hahahaha I’m 3 houses down from a trail with no damn sled. Definitely dont have the money to get one either since I do to many damn things.
Leaving for byrcliff shortly
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Heading out now, leaving on the sled around 6 to head to colden lakes
Did a loop from Pendleton out to Indian Falls through the swamps and back around through Clarence. Not a bad ride for local trails.
Rode from Strykersville to Colden Lakes last night. C4 trail from Kwik Fill on 78 to Holland was damn near perfect going over. C4 from 16 up to the powerlines was really rough. Lots of Moguls in the woods. Coming back through Holland, we caught a fresh groomer trail from the bottom of the Power Lines all the way to the cornfields up by Hunter’s Creek. Best trails I have ridden on in a few years! If we keep getting small dustings and they keep grooming, these trails should be quite nice.
Went from Clarence @ the farmers market to Colden Lakes. On the way home we were planning to go up through Bennington and Darien Lake but started having electrical issues with my sled. She’d cut in and out then suddenly died completely. Thought it was the main bus relay (since those go sometimes on skidoos) and after swapping them the sled was running fine. That only lasted about 10 miles and she died again. Swapping relays did nothing and putting in my spare didn’t fix it either. Started checking wires and when I moved the main power lead by the battery the sled lit back up. So I’m like “great, it’s just a bad wire, probably be able to nurse it home”. So I’d ride 10 miles or so, it would die, wiggle that wire, ride another 5 miles. About the 3rd time it wouldn’t fire up at all. Looking closer I found it was one of the smaller fused wires not the main power harness. Messed with it some and isolated it to a blade fuse holder. I was about to cut the fuse holder out and just tie the wires when I decided to take a REALLY close look at the fuse (we had checked it multiple times and it definitely wasn’t blown). As I’m rubbing it between my fingers to clean the inspection window I noticed once of the fuse blades was loose. The fuse itself had a short. Dropped a spare fuse in and the sled ran perfect the rest of the way home.
I’ve been chasing this electrical gremlin for 2 years (though it never acted up as bad as last night). I’m starting wonder if it’s the reason the previous owner sold it. So happy to finally track it down and even more happy it was <$1 fix.
Plan is to leave from Clarence again Sunday and ride all the way down and through Letchworth. Gotta fix this on my buddies sled first though:
Lost a bogey wheel somewhere on our ride last night. Since I was leading most of the night we have no idea where it came off. Didn’t realize it until we were loading the trailer.
Ripped off just over 125 miles last night, trails were okay heading leaving Alden with moguls here and there. Once we got down to Byrnclif grooming and powder started and it was soooo nice. From Byrnclif rode through Hidden Animal Adventure toward Warsaw and perfect trails throughout. Next took the long route over to Attica through some crazy backcountry riding. Once we got to Darien Lake State Park there was over a foot of unridden powder just floated through the turns. Finished up by passing through Bennington and then crossed back over Broadway back home.
Best riding of the season so far, got back home ~1am.
Any issues with ice? Planning on taking the g/f out to dinner tonight. I don’t have picks and last thing I want is for her to get hurt sliding down a hill or not being able to stop. Its different if its just me ill just hang on and shit my pants.
There were definitely some icy spots last night. A lot of the corners were blown out by the throttle junkies. Lots of groomers were out last night though and with this wind some snow should be filling in nicely. Nothing that can’t be handled just taking it a little easy.
Take it from me, go easy on the icy trails. I have a track that is probably in it’s last year with no picks and I had no issues on the hills.
Rode to meet up with a buddy and realize some place a skag went Mia. Snow was shooting up like a jetski. Wtf all I can think is someone stole one at a stop last ride. No way it came out
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Yes some ice spots here and there in the corners but nothing horrible, you usually see them shining from a distance. Like said above just take it easier but with the fresh snow last night and groomers out trails should be mint. Enjoy the riding while it’s here!
The ice got me last night. Damage to myself was worse than the sled, but I learned my lesson and got extremely lucky at the same time.
^ What happened?
Also I cannot wait to ride this weekend. Thinking about going from Henrietta to Letchworth tomorrow and then doing this ride on Sunday, route in black is 140 miles down and back.
Long story short: I was going too fast on ice, couldn’t see through the powder dust cloud to see that my buddies had stopped. Jammed the brakes, sled went sideways, carbides caught and flipped me onto the ice on my back and I slid at a high rate of speed into the back of my buddy. I was doing about 40 when this happened and I had no idea that it was sheer ice under the powder. It was a low area that the water pooled up in from the rain last week and then froze immediately. Needless to say, it could have been a lot worse and I walked away with a lot of bruising and a broken tail light.
Anyone heading down to Salamanca tomorrow for the Snocross races? I’ll be there around 4 to catch the finals.
Glad it wasn’t worse. Riding super close to the people in front of you sucks, can’t see bumps or oncoming sleds or the scenery (during the day) for that matter.
I was super far behind them, but came up quick and couldn’t stop. I actually made it a point to back off because I couldn’t see, but it was right before they stopped.
Yeah that sucks. Protective vest advocate here, I always ride with a Tekvest.
Now that I think of it, I have one in my garage that I haven’t used…
Bobby where do you hop on the trail? I leave my brothers place right at sanders/hunters creek.