I tried to go riding monday night after we got abought 3" of snow and to say the least it was more work than it was worth. The snow was however extreemly wet and almost slush. I tried to go out again last nite after it cooled off to see if i could ride over top of the frozen snow and it was working for the first 1/4 mile or so. Then out of the blue the right side fell threw and spun me to the right and proceded to high side me. I whent sailing off and the machine did a few flips. I landed on my left elbow and brused it real bad, now it is all swollen and I cant hardly bend it, so I am home from work for a few days. Unforchnetly the machine landed up side down and the back fender was pressed against the muffler and now has a silver dollar sized peice melted out. The handel bars are bent and it took the back tire off of the bead. I am afraid that I may have to park it for the winter. Any how thanks for listening to me ramble.

 

99500srambler........What type of tires are you running in the rear???

 

Sorry to hear you and your machine got hurt! I had big plans to do some major riding with snowmobiles this winter, but that might not happen. I'll still try and hope for the best! Definitely go with 22/23" tires!

 

Yes, the DS is not the best snow machine, unfortunately. But that is somewhat contingent upon your skill what tires you are using. Last winter, all that the kenda's did for me was spin out and dig holes in the snow. If you really keep your weight on the very back of the seat, the DS will do pretty good.

This year I will be switching to 22" Realtors.

I did a search for Best Snow Tires, and the Realtors seem to be the most suggested (installed backwards).

If anyone ever installs SnowTrax, Please let me know and send pics!!

 

sand45, I still have the stock kendas on. I was intending to go with a 22"Realator at some point in time. The snow around here gets real hard packed from wind, almost to the point you could drive a car on it. This was the first snow of the year and it was real wet and soft.

dsonyx, I agree with you on the fact that it has a lot to do with skill and know how. Unfortanatly I was not thinking when I recked. I was riding a road ditch and there was only 2 or 3 inches in the bottome, but the bank going up to the road was abought 1 foot deep. I should have stayed ferther away from the bank. I caught the right side in the deep stuf and over i went. I can tell already though that the ds is not going to handle the snow as well as my old 400ex. The extra width of the ds is going to make it extra hard to control at speed in the snow.

 

ive riden alot of quads in the snow but never my ds ...I cant imagin tring to pull it out of a drift ...my 400ex is bad enuf . I have never seen the snowtrax on a quad in minnesota ...I think it would be fun to try !!!!!! I think the raptor would make a good snowtrax machine be that it has a lot of bottom end power & reverse ..