Are there any more real world Blast reviews? Ive only seen one thread here in them.
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Are there any more real world Blast reviews? Ive only seen one thread here in them.
We demo-ed one last year. Year before? Whenever they first came out. Yah, year before. We were pretty disappointed. Some of it may have been calibration, it clearly didn't have high elevation clutching. Handled strange, no power, bad suspension. Would have been a great deal for $4000? but not what they actually cost. And will never be a real mountain sled. Better to put the kiddo on a full size at that point, it isn't that much smaller than a full size sled. Tater was 9 I think then, he hopped right off and back onto his M6000, said "Nope."
I would compare it to the old Skidoo Freestyle. If your kid just putts around on the lake and will never have ambitions for more, great sled. My neighbor has a Freestyle, perfect sled for his kid. But that is why the Freestyle never took off. Yes, they are hard to find and valuable now, but for a very small segment of the market. Kudos to Cat for trying to fill the gap, but they missed in my opinion. At least in the mountain segment. Maybe the trail Blasts are a better fit, I could see that. Or for ice fishing rigs.
But we did ride a prepro demo. Maybe they tightened things up a bit. Haven't seen one since.
Hoping someone goes through the headache of clutching the longtracks for elevation. Cause I am not as eager to go through it anymore . Lol.Curious if anyone else has played with the clutching on one of these? We took the stock pucks and drilled out the center hole larger to lighten them up. I can't remember final weight but it was close to the specs of the high elevation kit. It really woke the sled up big time. It went from almost stalling on the hill to going over Afton. I put almost a full day on the blast myself (6ft 200lbs) and while it would not go straight up anything I had a riot picking my way through the trees and messing around picking lines trying to get to the top. I do think if a guy could find a cheap set of take off shocks from an alpha that would really make the sled much better as it would lift it up out of the snow a little bit more and not let it bottom out so easily. Another thing I think would make a huge difference would be to raise the compression, I really don't know if you could start one of these things by pulling the rope, it feels like the recoil is not connected to anything.
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Lightening up the goofy little weights helps a LOT. The thing doesnt have much power at all so it needs to at least pull full RPM. That makes a big difference.Hoping someone goes through the headache of clutching the longtracks for elevation. Cause I am not as eager to go through it anymore . Lol.
Both our Venoms clutching were way off at elevation. Sometimes couldn’t get track to turn in heavy snow when stuck. Been looking for shocks for a while. But I do think they are a great learning sled.
"Plus resale"?I’ve been in the same boat with what to get my 9yr old last year. Bought him a new 600. It was a bit big for him, but he’ll grow into it. Plus, the chassis is way better, plus resale….. well you know where I’m going. Best bang for the buck.
Sorry, just one more thing. "The Chassis is way better".I’ve been in the same boat with what to get my 9yr old last year. Bought him a new 600. It was a bit big for him, but he’ll grow into it. Plus, the chassis is way better, plus resale….. well you know where I’m going. Best bang for the buck.