But it turns like a jet ski with more of a leaning carve than a handlebar turn. A snowmobile is a like a car and a snow bike is like, well, a motorcycle. The snow bike experience is much different from snowmobiling.
“And what we heard from consumers who were buying them, it was very easy to ride.” “What Timbersled was doing was really unique,” Wolf said. In April 2015, Polaris bought Timbersled in an undisclosed deal, elevating the growing yet niche sport as a viable rival to snowmobiling.
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People have been trying to make a snow bike for decades but Timbersled “was the first to really figure out how to make it work,” said Chris Wolf, the head of snowmobiles at Polaris, the motorsports conglomerate that last year posted $4.7 billion in sales. Seven of the top 10 finishers were riding the systems. Thirteen of the 16 snow bikecross athletes competing Friday in the first X Games race were riding Timbersled conversion bikes, racing the snowmobile snowcross course. And now … I haven’t been on a snowmobile since 2011.” “I used to not sleep at night thinking about going sledding the next day,” Sieg said. He now throttles his Timbersled off cliffs and into the deepest backcountry snow he can find. “It’s kind of mind-blowing where you can go,” said Reagan Sieg, a snow bike pioneer who first straddled the bike in 2011. With a snowmobile-like track replacing the rear wheel, a massive rear suspension system that delivers 20-inches of play and a ski in place of the front wheel, the snow bikes can traverse steep slopes, plow deep snow and weave through tight trees. Those bikes debuted this weekend in the X Games, a big-stage showcase for a snow machine that promises to revolutionize motorized snow play.
“You get cramps in your cheeks from smiling so much.” When you jump out there in that powder, all your cares and worries just go away,” said Brett Blaser, a Timbersled enthusiast. “Once you ride them, you tell all your friends. In 2009, the company created a kit that converted any off-road motorcycle into a versatile, easy-to-ride snow bike. Timbersled was a growing mom-and-pop snowmobile company in the early 2000s, making after-market suspension systems in Idaho. ASPEN - Those snow bike guys, they’re an evangelical lot.