Ok ,
There seems to be a real forcus on the "need for speed" here in the Personal owners SnowCat section.
Rumors ,from a "very unreliable source", even claims that "speed" or the "lack of it" , actually caused the Kristi SnowCat Company to go under because it could not acheive a top speed of 20 MPH . I think it was more than that .
I personally have never seen a snowcat of any brand doing 20 miles a hour . Seems like that might be a tad dangerous ,to me .
How many of you actually travel at this speed ? Is it only on snowcovered roads ,where you know the conditions, that you drive this fast. Is it across unexplored Areas ???
I am a "pokey" type of guy . Thats one reason I went with a snowcat instead of a snow mobile . I also like comfort and a snowcat has more creature features than being exposed to the weather and freezing my tail off in a snow mobile . I am way to old to freeze my tail off. Nor do I want to look like the "Pillsbury Dough Boy" because I have so many layers of clothes on . I am already fat enough .
And the cost is another issue . Snow mobiles can reach $10,000 or $12,000 bucks and seat two .Some decent Snowcats are reachable at that price . I would rather drive a cat and have 3 or 4 friends along to enjoy the day . But that is another subject for another thread.
I am not sure I will ever do 20 mph across snow . Do You ???
There seems to be a real forcus on the "need for speed" here in the Personal owners SnowCat section.
Rumors ,from a "very unreliable source", even claims that "speed" or the "lack of it" , actually caused the Kristi SnowCat Company to go under because it could not acheive a top speed of 20 MPH . I think it was more than that .
I personally have never seen a snowcat of any brand doing 20 miles a hour . Seems like that might be a tad dangerous ,to me .
How many of you actually travel at this speed ? Is it only on snowcovered roads ,where you know the conditions, that you drive this fast. Is it across unexplored Areas ???
I am a "pokey" type of guy . Thats one reason I went with a snowcat instead of a snow mobile . I also like comfort and a snowcat has more creature features than being exposed to the weather and freezing my tail off in a snow mobile . I am way to old to freeze my tail off. Nor do I want to look like the "Pillsbury Dough Boy" because I have so many layers of clothes on . I am already fat enough .
And the cost is another issue . Snow mobiles can reach $10,000 or $12,000 bucks and seat two .Some decent Snowcats are reachable at that price . I would rather drive a cat and have 3 or 4 friends along to enjoy the day . But that is another subject for another thread.
I am not sure I will ever do 20 mph across snow . Do You ???