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Is it a good idea to have a tether switch? Would it be good for all types of riding?
snowmobile tether switch
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Excellent idea, and a safe thing to do. Many injuries from sleds rolling over, throttle getting pinned wide open, and then best case scenerio is a blown engine, worst case, a piece of clothing get cought in track and serious injury of death may occur.
One of my biggest pet peeves in all these sled videos, including the likes of Burant, rassumsum, others roll there sled and they are not wearing a tether. sooner or later someone on those films is going to get seriously injured. I am not sure why they don't wear them and push them.
One of my biggest pet peeves in all these sled videos, including the likes of Burant, rassumsum, others roll there sled and they are not wearing a tether. sooner or later someone on those films is going to get seriously injured. I am not sure why they don't wear them and push them.
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Yea that's what I was wondering. I have a new sled and a tether wasn't mentioned. I want to put one on. Does it connect to the kill switch wiring harness?
Get One!!!!!
I agree on all the above comments.
I agree on all the above comments.
i thought brett was using the Teth-air tethers on his skidoo's
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the track on your sled is a human duck plucker, use a tether.
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I've got two Teth Air's for Ski Doo purchased in 2012, never installed, good deal $100 bucks for both. "Sold!"
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I really like the pro armed tether. Super simple design with awesome deploy system.
The teth-air system is neat but is only good for a run away sled. Since it works on a distance disconnect with wireless signal, if you get pinned under the sled like in the video it won't save you
The teth-air system is neat but is only good for a run away sled. Since it works on a distance disconnect with wireless signal, if you get pinned under the sled like in the video it won't save you
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I very rarely use a tether, with that said, I had mine hooked up and was jumping in and out of cornices. I found my tether line wrapped around the brake line.
Saturday I jumped out of the bowl hitting the cornice fast, I went flying,(l love to jump) when I landed I went a little bit forward and hit my handlebar bag which knocked my tether off.
I don't think tethers and jumping mix well.
Saturday I jumped out of the bowl hitting the cornice fast, I went flying,(l love to jump) when I landed I went a little bit forward and hit my handlebar bag which knocked my tether off.
I don't think tethers and jumping mix well.
He is using the Phantom Teth-Air's, not the Cordless Teth-Air's
The Phantom is the latest generation design that requires no transmitter and has a roll-over switch.
All functions have time delays that are user selectable and user selected tachometer arming point.
I would get the Phantom Teth-Air. All the other ones Freeze up and the stock cup ones can be a pain. Are you going to trust your life to something that can Freeze up once in a while. Are you going to wear an airbag that only goes off once in a while. The Phantom Teth-Air has roll over protection. I've even had a skidoo tether that wouldn't pull even when I tried. Weird angle or something. It was stretched to the max and then some. It was the old style, not the new 15 style.
I guess you don't know that Bret Rasmussen runs the Phantom Teth-Air on his fleet?
My bad, nope, but never have seen him mention it in any of his movies.
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Ha and don't forget about the other 99.99% of the time when you get booted off and don't get tangled up in the track. A dead sled rolls a lot slower downhill and stops quicker than one that's running.
I need one on my Sno bike. On them things the track never stops turning when you lay it down. Just wiped out doing donuts in the powder and my leg got slapped by the track turning at idle speed in 2 or 3rd gear layin on its side. Kinda hurt!
And if it drops to the left gotta dig the killswitch out of the snow. To the right and it's not hard to get the throttle stuck open some.
I need one on my Sno bike. On them things the track never stops turning when you lay it down. Just wiped out doing donuts in the powder and my leg got slapped by the track turning at idle speed in 2 or 3rd gear layin on its side. Kinda hurt!
And if it drops to the left gotta dig the killswitch out of the snow. To the right and it's not hard to get the throttle stuck open some.
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Cannot understand how the new sleds are permitted to be sold without one! 1st addition to our new sleds....
