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Team Thunderstruck combines high horsepower sleds, majestic mountain chutes, fearless riders and the remarkable cinematography of Jim Phelan to once again raise the bar for the snowmobile movie-making industry. Thunderstruck 7 features Brad Story on his amazing 2007 Arctic Cat 1200 turbo, which he built. Brad flies—not rides—that turboed Cat up the most insane chutes ever caught on camera. Slow is definitely not in this man’s vocabulary. Then there is Randy Swenson. Wow, what a skilled rider. In the words of Cam Hicks’ on-film interview, “ I’m telling you, Randy Swenson this year, if he keeps going on like this, eventually he’ll just start climbing straight up the rock. It’s absolutely ridiculous.” Randy is definitely one of the most skilled riders to be caught on film, and he has very good chance of being crowned Sledder of the Year for 08-09. He climbs, carves, and isn’t afraid of getting a little air. One of Randy’s best was watching him throttle up a chute that the Thunderstruck riders call, “The Super Chute.” To give you a little taste of what this chute is like, it is 3220 feet to the top with a 2468 vertical rise, and it is only 7 feet wide near the top. The climb took 1 minute and 14 seconds on Randy’s Apex Turbo, and the cameras let you see the ascent from every angle. Using a GPS attached to the rider, Phelan added the stats on each of the big climbs in Thunderstruck 7, which was a really nice feature and irrefutably confirms that the Thunderstruck riders are the chute-climbing kings. There is not trick photography here.
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November 04, 2008 | Views 263
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