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Get your wife a snowbike ,she will drive circles around you in the trees in no time:face-icon-small-hap
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175 is the way to go. Not a nickels worth of difference for a gal and doesn't get stuck. Good for your relationship. I'm talking a doo. Not an axys. 110 pound newbie gals don't handle a 154. It will turn sharper and quicker but I only know one gal who hits the meadow and lays it on its side and spins around. Most ride on two skis and if one is off the ground it is the inside ski. You won't hinder her. What hinders woman is stuck all the time which leads to grumpy husbands or boyfriends. Hesitation, lack of throttle, persistence, I can't is my favorite. It is also more about technique than 175 or 110 pounds. Gals have to be more spot on than guys but it is I can not I can't. Most gals I have seem don't have the same passion or competitiveness that guys do. The real desire to get better at it. Just along for the ride.
My wife was always worried what other people thought if she got stuck. It would ruin her fun.i put her on a 174 xm and she hardly ever got stuck. Kept saying how she loved that sled. She never did a reentry so it must have hindered her. Oh wait, she never did that on the 150ish sleds either. Even rode with a gal who usually does better and she was stuck all day on her 154. She was hating life at the end of the day and my wife was all smiles. You are completely off base on this.
Chadly was joking about the turbo but my wife is riding my boosted 850 next year. She loves it.
I think we are talking about different things. If you want your wife to be able to kinda follow and never put the sled on edge, sure a school-bus length sled is going to help her keep from getting stuck and putt putt around the best.
If you want to actually teach your gf/wife to ride, EG: get them to put the sled on edge, learn to sidehill, learn to *really* do the sport, than a longer sled is going to hinder her riding (depending on weight of course). For instance, if the sled goes flat on a sidehill and she needs to get it to roll back into the hill, a 175 3" is going to be a TON more effort to re-initiate the sidehill. A 154 2.5" will be a whole hell of a lot easier. Lighter. Will spin the track easier. Less cumbersome. Remember, with a lighter rider, we are often walking the line of "can't do it". What I mean by that is what might be slightly more fatiguing to you and me is literally the difference between being able to perform a maneuver and not being able to perform that manuever, just based on a few pounds. The line is more defined with a 110 pound rider in the mountains (upside is a 154 2.5" is going to ride like a bat out of hell!)
In my case, the girl is already dragging a shoulder here and there while meadow skipping, but she's an aggressive girl and fitness is her day job. So it makes sense I suppose. YMMV
175 is the way to go. Not a nickels worth of difference for a gal and doesn't get stuck. Good for your relationship. I'm talking a doo. Not an axys. 110 pound newbie gals don't handle a 154. It will turn sharper and quicker but I only know one gal who hits the meadow and lays it on its side and spins around. Most ride on two skis and if one is off the ground it is the inside ski. You won't hinder her. What hinders woman is stuck all the time which leads to grumpy husbands or boyfriends. Hesitation, lack of throttle, persistence, I can't is my favorite. It is also more about technique than 175 or 110 pounds. Gals have to be more spot on than guys but it is I can not I can't. Most gals I have seem don't have the same passion or competitiveness that guys do. The real desire to get better at it. Just along for the ride.
My wife was always worried what other people thought if she got stuck. It would ruin her fun.i put her on a 174 xm and she hardly ever got stuck. Kept saying how she loved that sled. She never did a reentry so it must have hindered her. Oh wait, she never did that on the 150ish sleds either. Even rode with a gal who usually does better and she was stuck all day on her 154. She was hating life at the end of the day and my wife was all smiles. You are completely off base on this.
Chadly was joking about the turbo but my wife is riding my boosted 850 next year. She loves it.
I'm looking to buy my wife a new sled. She doesn't have much experience. She is 5'2 112lb. She is not a very good or aggressive rider. Any recommendations.
Not to be a dick but let me break this down and back up why I said what I said...
110 pound newbie gals don't handle a 154.
- I can post a lot of objective evidence to the contrary. Photos. Video. Whatever. This blanket statement is false.
I only know one gal who hits the meadow and lays it on its side and spins around. She's already doing this.
Most ride on two skis and if one is off the ground it is the inside ski. You won't hinder her. What hinders woman is stuck all the time which leads to grumpy husbands or boyfriends. Hesitation, lack of throttle, persistence, I can't is my favorite.
My point is right here. I *don't* want her riding on two skis unless it is appropriate. I don't want her scared of the throttle. I don't want her scared of getting stuck. I don't want her to always have a crutch that hinders her from really learning how to ride.
Most gals I have seem don't have the same passion or competitiveness that guys do. The real desire to get better at it. Just along for the ride. I coach mountain biking in the summer. While you are right, girls might not have as much ego, they absolutely want to get better, at least the ones who are driving sales in mountain biking, skiing and now - yes - to some extent sledding. These aren't girls who have never been outside. These are athletes who are looking for something new and looking to get better. Not scared to fall down, get cold, get stuck, whatever. Just like men, there are all types of people.
My wife was always worried what other people thought if she got stuck. It would ruin her fun.i put her on a 174 xm and she hardly ever got stuck. We honor the art of getting stuck - Seriously, if getting stuck is some big deal, then we've already lost the point of all this. I get stuck all the time. So does she. That's where half the laughs come from! I don't want her scared of this, I don't want her thinking its embarrassing or bad. Its something to own! Something to be kind of proud of. How else do you get better?
This is why I assumed you were trying to get your wife on something that was just easy to get around, not actually learn the finer points of the sport and get better, which is totally, 100% okay! I just resent the idea that you told me what you wrote is "going over my head"
Happy to post a bunch of photos showing her having a blast on her 154 on the deepest day of the year (I burned 1/2 a tank in 2 hours - she got stuck maybe three times?). Again, pound for pound, her on a 154 actually has MORE float than me on the 165. Yes, I did the math. Roughly 10% more float. (total machine + rider weight / track length)
I'm not saying a 17X isn't a fine tool, I'm just saying its overkill for teaching *if* she is really looking to learn. It is more cumbersome. It has less track spin/speed. It is a bit heavier. Its harder to handle a lot of the time and it takes away a lot of the playfulness that'll encourage a smaller rider to really start to be aggressive!