Your comment is infuriating. Every year, every brand, there's this die hard contingent of so-called mountain riders wringing their hands over trail handling. IT'S A MOUNTAIN SLED. Bitching about the lack of trail manners on a mountain sled is like complaining that you can't haul sheets of plywood in the back of your Corvette. Given that the current state of technology renders superior trail performance essentially impossible on a machine PURPOSE BUILT for superior off-trail, deep snow performance, it's an absolutely nonsensical argument.
If you have 15 miles of trail to run on your way the mountains? Put scratchers on and run that trail as fast as you feel you can go. If that amount of fast isn't as fast as you could go on a trail sled, and that's important to you? Then turn your back to the hills, get yourself a sled that corners like a motherf***er, and go bang ditches.
I ride a mountain sled. Because it's a mountain sled it's set up to perform in deep snow. Period. Deep snow handling--that's my priority. Now, with the long track and suspension set up to excel where it was designed to, it's a death trap at high speed in the twisties. Know what I do? I slow down in all but the widest, smoothest turns.
Because it's a mountain sled.
And trail handling isn't even on my list of concerns.
/end rant
