Haydays-Alpha 6000?

summ8rmk · Sep 9, 2018

2013, First gen Alpha.

Yaeger34 · Sep 10, 2018

Man the Arctic Cat designers are ridiculous. Ya lets do all purple, baby blue, white spindles, etc etc. Get it together.

boondocker97 · Sep 10, 2018

Yaeger34 said:
Man the Arctic Cat designers are ridiculous. Ya lets do all purple, baby blue, white spindles, etc etc. Get it together.

I like the purple sleds! At least that's a Cat legacy color. This new Alpha must have been a project they put the new guy on that came from Ski-Doo haha. Although I don't think it's bad overall either.

RMK-King · Sep 10, 2018

I like the purple to, I think the 2019s are some of the best looking sleds cat has made in a long time.

fudge313 · Sep 10, 2018

Hmmm..

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Yaeger34 · Sep 10, 2018

From what the people at arctic cat talk about I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this is about equal to the 2 rail 800s due to the extra track speed and weight saving of snow and stuff in skid.

Teth-Air · Sep 11, 2018

I bet there are a bunch of guys who will buy this sled for their wife and swap tracks and suspensions with their own couple year old 800 Cat and tell her the monorail would just be too tippy for her.

Super 8 · Sep 12, 2018

RMK-King said:
I got to check one of these sleds out in person while out riding this spring, but I refrained from posting it on here as I knew they were trying to hide it from the public eye. I talked to one of the Cat engineers that was testing it,he said they had been working on the Alpha skid design for 4+ yrs before they got it right.

You must not have been "wowed" if that is all you wrote?
I'm guessing the 600's are for rentals but the consumers are hungry for more CC's.
 Polaris snowchecked 9800, 2019 sleds, their biggest in 17 years, of which a 90% were 850's
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Teth-Air · Sep 12, 2018

Super 8 said:
You must not have been "wowed" if that is all you wrote?
I'm guessing the 600's are for rentals but the consumers are hungry for more CC's.
 Polaris snowchecked 9800, 2019 sleds, their biggest in 17 years, of which a 90% were 850's

Not sure how credible your numbers are but that would mean there will only be 8820 Polaris 850's on the snow this winter. That is not a whole lot for the entire world. Should make it easy to sell as used next season though if they are as good as expected.

goridedoo · Sep 12, 2018

Teth-Air said:
Not sure how credible your numbers are but that would mean there will only be 8820 Polaris 850's on the snow this winter. That is not a whole lot for the entire world. Should make it easy to sell as used next season though if they are as good as expected.

Only? I feel like that is a CHITLOAD.

goridedoo · Sep 12, 2018

Teth-Air said:
Not sure how credible your numbers are but that would mean there will only be 8820 Polaris 850's on the snow this winter. That is not a whole lot for the entire world. Should make it easy to sell as used next season though if they are as good as expected.

Double post oops

madmax · Sep 12, 2018

Dealer friend was at a manufacturer meeting last week and were told doo has almost 50% of the mountain sled market share last season. I think a lot of Polaris numbers are down over the last couple years as cat has greatly improved and the foo 850 came out. 9800 Polaris 850 sounds like a reasonable number. The Polaris dealer by my house in salt lake only snow checked 2 850’s.

At least it looks like they priced the 6000 alpha well for a 600 vs 800cc sled. The alpha 800 154 on the cat website retails for $14,699 and the alpha 600 at $11,999. That’s a bargain!

Teth-Air · Sep 12, 2018

I'm not saying 8800 sleds is small for an unproven sled (motor), only when you look at how big the North American snow belt is plus Europe and possibly South America and parts of Asia, it won't be like you will see them everywhere. It would be nice to see the disbursement numbers to each country. It's not like we are going to see in-season additions to the number this year.

snowmobiler · Sep 12, 2018

i dont think a 600 with 3 inch paddles in the deep will even move with a fat guy on it.

madmax · Sep 12, 2018

snowmobiler said:
i dont think a 600 with 3 inch paddles in the deep will even move with a fat guy on it.

You’d be surprised how well a 600 proclimb works. I spent a day in deep powder on a 16’ 600 with a 2.6” and it was amazing. I said then, all it needed was a 3” track.
On the cat website it lists the 600 154 and 800 154 both at 446 lbs. considering the 600 comes with electric start, that’s pretty dang good. I haven’t weighed the e-start parts for a while but this is close to what I remember...
Battery 12 lbs
E-start seat +5lbs over std seat
E-start fuel tank + 5lbs over std tank
Battery wiring 1.5lbs
Starter motor with related bolts and brackets 10lbs
That’s 33.5 lbs for the E-start, which puts the sled down to 413ish pounds dry.

Uncle Bob · Sep 12, 2018

madmax said:
You’d be surprised how well a 600 proclimb works. I spent a day in deep powder on a 16’ 600 with a 2.6” and it was amazing. I said then, all it needed was a 3” track.
On the cat website it lists the 600 154 and 800 154 both at 446 lbs. considering the 600 comes with electric start, that’s pretty dang good. I haven’t weighed the e-start parts for a while but this is close to what I remember...
Battery 12 lbs
E-start seat +5lbs over std seat
E-start fuel tank + 5lbs over std tank
Battery wiring 1.5lbs
Starter motor with related bolts and brackets 10lbs
That’s 33.5 lbs for the E-start, which puts the sled down to 413ish pounds dry.

It makes a big differance when you can just hold it to the bars and all your thought and forward thinking goes into riding it as it just keeps chugging along, being on and off a throttle constantly digs holes and steals momentum when not done perfectly

ak · Sep 13, 2018

The new 600r from ski doo is going to make cat and polaris upgrade the 600 powerplants. Should be a fun ride with the alpha.

Super 8 · Sep 13, 2018

Teth-Air said:
Not sure how credible your numbers are but that would mean there will only be 8820 Polaris 850's on the snow this winter. That is not a whole lot for the entire world. Should make it easy to sell as used next season though if they are as good as expected.

Info came from Polaris engineers at Hayday's.
9,800 consumer snowcheck, deposit down.
15,000 more multiple models sleds produced for dealer stock.

89sandman · Sep 13, 2018

Can't get a 800 with estart, 600 comes with it...

jakey-boy · Sep 13, 2018

Super 8 said:
Info came from Polaris engineers at Hayday's.
9,800 consumer snowcheck, deposit down.
15,000 more multiple models sleds produced for dealer stock.

Info from dude in a Cat T-shirt drinking a Pabst at Haydays.
19,600 Alpha spring guarantee orders.
None available for dealer stock. Zero

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