Would You Rent Out Your Snowmobile?
November 4, 2011
Would you rent your sled to a complete stranger if it would help cover some of the costs of owning a snowmobile? I asked myself this question after I received an e-mail today from a company that enables owners to rent their powersports vehicles to “qualified, insured parties.” [Read more] Read More →
Forgetting About Snowmobiles (for a little while, anyway)
September 13, 2011
After cranking away on Snow Goer since June, doing some super-tuning on one of my John Deere Trailfires over the course of this summer, hanging out at a vintage grass drag race a few Friday nights ago and getting dusted at Haydays this past weekend, I’m going to take a brief retreat from all things snowmobiles and head to Wyoming for some off-road riding. I took a snowmobile trip to the Big Horn... [Read more]
2012 Yamaha RS Vector: Hoping One Will Be In The Snow Goer Fleet
August 17, 2011
So far in this multi-part series about the 2012 Snow Goer demo sleds, I’ve written about about the Polaris 600 Switchback Adventure, Arctic Cat ProCross F 800 Sno Pro and Ski-Doo Renegade E-TEC 800R Backcountry X, so naturally you’d think I’m going to write about our 2012 Yamaha demo sled here. Big Blue does things differently, though, so we don’t know which machine we’ll... [Read more]
2012 Ski-Doo Renegade E-TEC 800R Backcountry X: First Impressions Are Great
August 11, 2011
Welcome to my third installment about the 2012 sleds that Snow Goer will ride this winter. So far I’ve rapped about the Polaris 600 Switchback Adventure and Arctic Cat ProCross F 800 Sno Pro. Now it’s Ski-Doo’s turn. [Read more] Read More →
2012 Polaris 600 Switchback Adventure: I’m Ready For Another Adventure
July 29, 2011
Last week I wrote about why I’m excited to ride our 2012 Arctic Cat ProCross F 800 Sno Pro demo sled. In the article, I talked about the machine’s new lightweight chassis, how the engine felt livelier and that I’m looking forward to experiencing how final calibrations and setup will affect the sled’s performance. This week I’ll give some love to Polaris and the company’s... [Read more]
2012 Arctic Cat F 800 Sno Pro: Why I’m Excited To Ride It Again
July 21, 2011
Every year, the manufacturers give Snow Goer a fleet of brand new demo snowmobiles to ride all season long. And I’ll come right out and admit that, yes, it is one helluva sweet deal that three of the manufacturers sets us up with two sleds of our choosing, Yamaha loans us one, and its people determine the model. We use the sleds for [Read more] Read More →
What’s Going On?
July 8, 2011
I’m not going to talk here about social issues like Marvin Gaye did in his song “What’s Going On,” instead, here’s an update on the happenings at Snow Goer. While it’s the off-season for most snowmobilers, the Snow Goer staff has the lever pressed to the handlebar putting together our Season Premier issue of the 2011-12 season. We’re really excited about this... [Read more]
Does This Orange Helmet Make My Head Look Big?
June 24, 2011
Only you can prevent forest fires, and wearing an orange helmet while snowmobiling might save your hide. I wear a blaze orange helmet — and a Tekvest chest protector — to be safe, and fact is that most other people who work in the snowmobile industry do, too. There’s a reason that snowmobile racers are required to have 144 square inches of international orange on their helmets; it’s so they... [Read more]
Toy Snowmobiles Spur Ideas
June 22, 2011
Cheap, dirty, made in China, but oh-so-inspirational! It’s funny how a handful of toy snowmobiles ease the daily grind of creating Snow Goer magazine. While most adults would just stash these cheap, plastic toys on a shelf and forget about them, we look to them as a source of inspiration. [Read more] Read More →
How I Started Snowmobiling
June 19, 2011
Most often when a person takes up a hobby, it’s because a friend or family member introduced it to him or her. Traditionally, boys and girls take up baseball or hockey, soccer or whatever because their parents played the games as kids. Hunting and fishing are pastimes steeped in tradition, and those traditions are almost always passed on from one generation to another. Snowmobiling is a tradition... [Read more]