Plastic Suspension Wins Snow Goer Award
August 28, 2008
About 15 years ago, a snowmobiler from Illinois wrote a letter to Snow Goer asking a simple question: Why was everybody on our staff so in love with plastic skis?
Plastic was weak and fragile – it was the material used in cheap toys, not snowmobile skis, the writer said. Plastic skis were destined to break and would destroy the handling of a sled, plus they wouldn’t last a whole season, he insisted. Use plastic skis, he warned, and the next time you have a hard landing your ski might snap right in front of the spindle and spear into the ground. He’d seen it happen, he claimed, and then proudly announced that he was sticking with steel skis forever. [Read more]