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Over the next few years, he continued to race and build very high-end KTM race bikes, as well as a few Boondocker turbo-equipped mountain sleds.
The first Timbersled he rode was a 2015 LT 137 on a KTM 500exc. After just an hour on the bike, Buttars had taken it places where his turbo snowmobile would have been stymied.
After the excitement of the first few rides wore off, the reality of the many issues of taking a dirt bike into waist-deep powder began to surface.
This is when companies like Fastway, Seat Concepts, and Raze Motorsports started to build snow bike specific products.
Year by year, the popularity of the Timbersled has continued to penetrate the snowmobile market.
When he takes experienced snowmobilers out on snow bikes and has them follow his lines through the trees, their minds are blown. Their local riding area of 20 years has doubled in accessible terrain. Jumping back on a snowmobile feels like riding a four-wheeler on a single-track trail after being on a dirt bike, he says.
The race is on within the industry to come up with engine and performance enhancements. Big-bore kits, aftermarket ECUs and RAZE electronically controlled nitrous oxide kits have become key pieces to the puzzle for a snow bike that will pull up and out of those deep bowls at 10,000 feet.