Gnarly and deep is all there is right now. And yes I can keep my bike on the power any time any where that's why I asked the question in the first place.... I can stay in power all the time. Obviously ground speed will go down on a down shift but the power is always there. I don't want to climb chutes so I guess I really don't want 150hp regardless but if there was a perfectly tuned cvt on my 50hp ktm I'll admit it might go a degree steeper up a switch back but still won't go straight up anything..... Not a game changer in performance. I guess it's hard to erase the perception of having 150hp when arguing how a cvt would perform on a lesser powered engine. The only way a cvt will please is with a big power show hawk style application. Fast and wild.
I guess i’m a little lost on your logic here.
Do you think only 50 hp is the magic power limit for snowbikes?
(We got the point that you rev, clutch, shift like an immortal god)
I’ve been riding around 118 hp in a manual transmission setting for almost a year.
I don’t climb chutes with it? (137x12x2.5 doesn’t even come close to that)
It’s at least 3x funner than any 50-60 hp snowbike i’ve ever Ridden.
I’m constantly clutching it to get it back in the best part of the power curve (because anything less than full power is a little disappointing after feeling the fun nature of the motor singing its song)
It would greatly benefit from a cvt.
(And I didn’t say anything about wanting more centrifugal force added)
Just a properly tuned “continuously variable transmission” which by definition reacts in milliseconds to changes in snow load, terrain and throttle input to get maximum trackspeed while keeping the motor in the sweet part of the power curve.