How to turn your dirt bike into a Snow Machine - Video

For a lot of fun here is how you can turn your dirt bike into a snow machine. 

Timbersled’s Mountain Horse kits attach onto most dirt bikes and comes completely assembled and able to install, it offers all that you should convert your dirt bike into a snowbike. It truly is much lighter over a traditional snowmobile, making it possible for much greater maneuverability and control. The kit bolts in your bike devoid of modifications, transforming it into your ultimate all terrain machine.

The ST (Short Track) kit is a standard and quite a few popular snow bike conversion kit. It offers a 120” long track that's 12.” wide with 2” tall paddles. This kit offers the best maneuverability and control for mountain riding together with the best power to traction ratio make use of the potency of a scrambler as small at 250cc. However we now have found the 450cc motocross bikes overcome power to weight ratio beyond all dirt motorcycle classes. The kit provides a lot of safe-keeping to the tunnel for gas can and cargo bags to put any needed gear.

The LT (Long Track) kit matches the ST however a longer track. The kit gives a 137” long track which is 12.5” wide with 2” tall paddles. This kit provides 20% more traction in deep snow over the ST kit and definately will offer you a safer feeling on the steep side hill helping you to handle more extreme situations because of added traction and longer foot print. The problem with this to using the longer track is the fact that it's going to reduce the top speed within your bike within the trail by approximately 8 mph. It'll likewise slow up the maneuverability given that it really is longer. The LT kit really shines for x-country riding when mounted to a suitable bike. We recommend that it really is used on a 500cc or larger bike. This kit uses the same length tunnel as the ST kit, so it is usually changed into an ST simply by choosing a shorter track and rails.

The SX (Snow Cross) kit is really a purpose built kit for snow cross racing, hard pack snow and rough terrain riding. The kit utilizes a hard compound 121” long Snow Hawk track that may be 10.5” wide (2” narrower versus ST and LT kits) with 2-1/4” tall paddles in the heart of the track and contoured as a result of 1” within the outer edge paddles (meaning the track is rounded like a tire). This works very well on firmer snow condition for instance trail and track. With the narrower and stiffer track, the sub frame and tunnel is additionally narrower for a more slim fit within the bike (the tunnel on the SX is about a similar width as the bike frame). The drive axle to the SX is 1.5” higher and 1” farther forward within the tunnel than the ST and LT kits.

The SX kit is dual suspended; it includes exactly the same track suspension because ST and LT models along with a different shock inside the Sub Frame/Swing Arm. This adds up to a complete of 20” of rear suspension travel. This is how it truly does work: The secondary suspension pivots from the stock swing arm location. It truly is operated originating from a strut rod that replaces the stock motorcycle shock and attaches to the linkage arm that pivots to activate the shock mounted horizontally to the snow bike sub frame at the 4 to 1 ratio. This linkage suspension is okay tuned to function with the rear skid suspension. More or less everything results in a precision feeling suspension which is very tunable for racing and abusive rough terrain.