[DMP08]

I was on MSN.ca and clicked on the "This day in history" and some neat things came up. See if you can see a problem with this at all.

Quote:

1906: "S-O-S" is adopted as the international distress signal.
Learn more about international morse code.

1927: Carl Eliason of Wisconsin patents the snowmobile.
Learn more about the snowmobile.

1935: The first transpacific air-mail flight leaves San Francisco.
Learn more about the U.S. Postal Service.

1963: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Learn more about John F. Kennedy.

Ummmm, I found one.
1927: Carl Eliason of Wisconsin patents the snowmobile.
Learn more about the snowmobile.

I always thought the snowmobile was a Canadian invention???

[Rev_Blair]

I know Bombardier was making their big machines back when Henry Ford's Model T motor was state of the art because they used that motor. Patents are another matter though...the old Bombadiers aren't exactly a snowmobile and the old ones used a fan instead of a driven track.

[DMP08]

Ya I guess you could make a cool idea, but if you don't bother to patent it, someone else can take it.

[ofaolain]

I beliieve it wa Bombardiar. If i'm wrong please let me know.....

[blubs]

I just googled snowmobiles . I guess you could take your pick between Eliason and Bombardiier . In 1922 Bombardiier took a moter out of a ford model t and put it on the frame of a four passenger sled . He got his first patent in 1937 .
However Eliason had built one in 1924 and recieved a patent in ,I think they said 1927 .
BUt they do call Bombardier the father of the snowmobile .

[DMP08]

Maybe Eliason patented it but then did nothing with it. Possibly Bombardier researched things like better steering, faster and stuff like that.

[Robair]

Joseph Armand Bombardier built the first of what we now call the snowmobile... track in the back and steerable ski(s) up front. The Wisconsin guy had the first patent for a machine built to travel on top of snow. It looked more like a motorized tobogan and the patent did not cover Josephs design. They really are two VERY different machines built for the same purpose.

Bombardier still builds the best sleds in my opinion. I've ridden Polaris, Arctic Cat and even a Yamaha (those are the worst) but those Rotax engines in the Bombardier chassis are the only way to go.

[figfarmer]

That was in the sixties though. It was jointed in the middle and only the driver sat on the front part, but you could put a half dozen people on the back, or a few logs.

[Robair]

My first sled was a 1980 John Deere Liquifire 440, looked a lot like this one.



Check this site out: www.vsa.com the gallery has over one hundred pages of vintage sleds. There's some real goofy looking machines in there!

Like this 1963 Arctic Cat for example!

[blubs]

Bombardier still builds the best sleds in my opinion. I've ridden Polaris, Arctic Cat and even a Yamaha (those are the worst) but those Rotax engines in the Bombardier chassis are the only way to go.[/quote] smile when you say Yamaha's are the worst Robair . Just kidding I agree with you about the Bombardier sled tho damn fine machine . However having said that I have a 1972 Yamaha 396 with a 18inch track no sliders only bogies and that thing still goes like a damn .

[Robair]

Yea, they don't build them like that anymore!

I was refering to new sleds, Blubs. Didn't mean to offend. Everybody is big into sledding back home... I think Dads oldest sled (he's got three) is a 2000.

But I grew up riding a 197? Massey, a 1977 Polaris, and my 1980 John Deere. The new sleds swallow the bumps so well, that a couple years ago my brother and I dragged out the old Massey to get it going. My brother took if for the first ride and 40 feet out of the shop it bucked him off!! You actually have to be able to ride to keep those old machines bottom side down! They don't have quite the suspension of the new ones.

I miss that stuff (not much snowmobiling in Kentucky).

[blubs]

OH hell robair you didn't offend me . I remember those Massey sleds you had to be hulk hogan to run em . If I remember right they were red with white Massey lettering on the cowl .
As for no snow I live an hour north of edmonton we are still golfing . How bad is that . I moved back to AB . for the snow and skidoing fat lotta good it did me may as well go back to BC and get wet .

[Prairieboy]

We had an old Artic Cat Trailcat I believe, and the throttle stuck on it. So when I was out on the field once I hit a bump and was thrown off, but the sled kept going, so I had to run after it for a bit until the throttle slowly let go. We also used to have one of those half-sleds (can't remember the name). They aren't the little ones for kids, well, they used to be, but they got banned by the government I guess. They were the same size as a regular sled, but half the length but still went just about as fast. Those things rocked.

[Robair]

Prairieboy wrote:

We also used to have one of those half-sleds (can't remember the name). They aren't the little ones for kids, well, they used to be, but they got banned by the government I guess. They were the same size as a regular sled, but half the length but still went just about as fast. Those things rocked.

Huh. Never heard of 'em. Half the length of track you mean?? Sounds just a littel unstable!!

[ziggy]

Robair wrote:

Prairieboy wrote:

We also used to have one of those half-sleds (can't remember the name). They aren't the little ones for kids, well, they used to be, but they got banned by the government I guess. They were the same size as a regular sled, but half the length but still went just about as fast. Those things rocked.

Huh. Never heard of 'em. Half the length of track you mean?? Sounds just a littel unstable!!

I think they were called a snoscoot,yamaha did make them and they looked like a honda 70 with a track. They were good for the kids but not good in the powder.


snoscoot Best sled I ever had was a phazer with a 140 inch track,chain case dropped and rolled so the 2 inch paddles would clear the tunnel.the engine was piped,ported and polished.The sled was under 400 lbs and pushing around 90 horse.
She was built for hillclimbing and breaking trail in deep powder.
Now the manufacturers do all these mods at the factory.

Anyone remember the Rupp 340 nitro? That sled was years ahead of anything else.