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A week ago the snow really started flyin here in Utah. Before that Salt Lake suffered from a severe high pressure inversion that really stacked up here in the valley. As the inversion shaped up and solidified, all the pacific storms would come in from oregon and washington only to bounce off of us here in utah. A weak storm led the charge and started pushing out the inversion, it didn’t do a very good job and struggled to put snow on the ground…the storm just couldn’t get it cold enough to turn the large amounts of rain into snow. Read More »

Previously known as Project Number 2, my sportbike still isn’t put together. Since the last update, we made some pretty good progress. When we started working on stuff the head still needed prepping. We have basically got that done. There’s a few pics below showing the progress, not great pics though.

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Its not anything late-breaking or earth-shattering, but I put together a history of the sleds I have sported over the years.

Visit the new page and check it out, Aaron’s Sleds.

Looking forward to hearing about and seeing some of the more recent or more vintage sleds from everyone’s sled histories. Post a comment asking a question or show us some of your sled history.

Here’s a taste of mine…

Project number one and number two are progressing…definetly not progressing like they should or as I originally had planned but progressing never-the-less. It’s crazy seeing how fast time goes.
Got the sled all torn apart and got a realy good idea of what she’ll need to be up and running again.
Have been working with Caleb on the R1, got some parts ordered and the reassembly started.

Project number is a little more quirky for me. The quirk lies in having the tools and experience in taking a part a complicated four stroke motor like my street bike’s. I got a 1998 Yamaha YZF R1000. A few goodies have been worked in like a milled head (14:1 compression), Full Akropovic Exhaust, chain/sprocket modifications and a few other high performance goodies. If you can all think back to summer 2006, that is when my dilema or ‘quirk’ began. I had been experiencing abnormal behavior from my motor. Read More »

After riding my sled so much this past year, I really started to notice the wear a couple thousand miles puts on a sled. I bought my sled with about 1100 miles on it back in August 2005. I have ridden it three seasons and put another 1700 miles on it, this season alone put 600 miles on it. Well, the wear and tear I’m talking about is stuff that you just don’t notice until it finally goes. I didn’t notice that both a-arms had started to bow and weaken until I noticed a crease in my left-lower a-arm. Can’t help my riding addiction, so I kept riding it “just one last ride”. That one last ride turned into 5 more rides…the last ride did me in. Read More »

I’m excited! There are quite a few videos on the market this year, it seems that there are only a few videos from returning powerhouses. Other than a few returning powerhouses, there are high amounts of new guys. Remember that this is only my perception, as I browse the internet, follow links and chat with other sledders, there just seems to be a lot of new videos emerging. It is essential that new videos emerge in any market, without competition current videos wouldn’t progress. We all know that the snowmobile industry is a little archaic (that’s what SnoWrap was created for) and needs help in joining the modern age. Read More »

Some important news for the week is concerning one of my activities that help me pass the summer. Unfortunately this activity hasn’t been possible for two summers now because of all the things keeping me too busy.

I will be enjoying the company of Caleb Norviel, an expert motorcycle mechanic, as we work together to clean and lap my motorcycle valves. Depending on how things go, hopefully things will progress quickly and we’ll be inserting the valves into the head, setting the cams, placing the timing chain and hopefully topping it off as we adjust the valves. Read More »

As you can see, I was participating in the “I hate summer” fad that is currently gripping everyone in the wintersports world. I won’t deny any of my claims but I think that the topic has been covered and I will put all my effort towards not participating in it again. Nobody likes a broken record. Read More »

I hate summer. I heard the worst news yesterday. While visiting a Stanley Consultants project office I was talking to one of the new employees. We talked about where he had lived, what he liked and disliked and something came up that surprised me and made me feel some sorrow. Living away from Utah so long, living in Arizona, Nevada and Southern Utah, he is now living in Salt Lake again and he says he MISSES the heat? “Now that I have been in the warm weather so long I would much rather it be warm than cold, I can’t stand the cold” he says…we say farewell to you my friend…you will be missed. Read More »