Was driving down the street after work yesterday, and I noticed a sled in the back of a pickup at a gas station. I had to do a double take and realized it was a black Catalyst mountain sled with the blue accent! I was across the median and took forever to get up to the light and make a U-turn to stop and see it. I pulled up next to it just as the driver was getting into the truck. Had very plain, commercial-looking Arctic Cat Enterprises stickers on the doors.
I dropped my window and asked if he minded if I took a quick look since I hadn't seen one before. He reluctantly said "sure." He seemed pretty tight lipped, but did say that particular one was a test sled and has over 6000 miles on it! It definitely looked used too. Very little shine on anything, road rashed side panel with a spot where the secondary bolt tried to come through, ripped handlebar grip end, scraped up running board edge, one tweaked a-arm up front...you know, standard used sled issues lol. I wish it would have been on the ground to sit and stand on, but at least I got to see it. I only got to eyeball it for a minute and he said he had to get going.
He did say he was taking it back to Island Park to continue spring testing. As I pulled away I saw another pickup with the same door stickers pulling a 4-place enclosed trailer parked on the cross-street by the hotels there. Hopefully they were all back at the factory getting fitted with the "bigger than 800cc" engine to flog it until the snow melts!
I dropped my window and asked if he minded if I took a quick look since I hadn't seen one before. He reluctantly said "sure." He seemed pretty tight lipped, but did say that particular one was a test sled and has over 6000 miles on it! It definitely looked used too. Very little shine on anything, road rashed side panel with a spot where the secondary bolt tried to come through, ripped handlebar grip end, scraped up running board edge, one tweaked a-arm up front...you know, standard used sled issues lol. I wish it would have been on the ground to sit and stand on, but at least I got to see it. I only got to eyeball it for a minute and he said he had to get going.
He did say he was taking it back to Island Park to continue spring testing. As I pulled away I saw another pickup with the same door stickers pulling a 4-place enclosed trailer parked on the cross-street by the hotels there. Hopefully they were all back at the factory getting fitted with the "bigger than 800cc" engine to flog it until the snow melts!