JohnnyG
Member
We're looking at a house in Cimarron, CO. Once it snows, the community closes its roads, so from around November 15 to April 15, you have to use snowmobiles or tracked ATV/UTVs to get from the plowed parking lot to your house.
Wanting to learn more, I visited the Mattracks website. I wasn’t sure if I could install tracks on a Polaris Xpedition with Long Travel suspension, so I submitted a question through their site. A sales rep called the next day. Long story short: the answer was maybe (he’d check with engineering). Then he recommended a $16,000 track system. Seriously?
When I pushed back, he said I might be able to use the $10,000 tracks instead, but said my Xpedition might be on the heavy side for those.
Polaris tracks cost about half as much. So now I'm wondering:
Are all track systems created equal?
And what would I be giving up by choosing the Polaris or other brand's less expensive tracks?
My use case:
I need to travel from the house to the car over snow-covered, groomed roads (think ski-slope grooming). The snow can be deep. We’d also like to explore local trails—mostly gravel and dirt roads, nothing too technical. I'd mostly be following the same routes used by the local snowmobile club to reach the more advanced terrain.
Thanks!
JG
Wanting to learn more, I visited the Mattracks website. I wasn’t sure if I could install tracks on a Polaris Xpedition with Long Travel suspension, so I submitted a question through their site. A sales rep called the next day. Long story short: the answer was maybe (he’d check with engineering). Then he recommended a $16,000 track system. Seriously?
When I pushed back, he said I might be able to use the $10,000 tracks instead, but said my Xpedition might be on the heavy side for those.
Polaris tracks cost about half as much. So now I'm wondering:
Are all track systems created equal?
And what would I be giving up by choosing the Polaris or other brand's less expensive tracks?
My use case:
I need to travel from the house to the car over snow-covered, groomed roads (think ski-slope grooming). The snow can be deep. We’d also like to explore local trails—mostly gravel and dirt roads, nothing too technical. I'd mostly be following the same routes used by the local snowmobile club to reach the more advanced terrain.
Thanks!
JG
