Is the Polaris 120 Indy snowmobile for youth?
The 120 INDY snowmobile is the perfect first sled for youth riders. The 120 INDY snowmobile is the perfect first sled for youth riders. The safety tether ensures the engine stops if the rider becomes separated from the sled. Additionally, a unique shouldered design also kills the engine if the hood is opened.
What makes an Indy snowmobile a snowmobile?
The 120 INDY snowmobile is the perfect first sled for youth riders. The safety tether ensures the engine stops if the rider becomes separated from the sled. Additionally, a unique shouldered design also kills the engine if the hood is opened. Designed to promote safe riding for youth riders.
What kind of fuel system does Polaris snowmobile use?
Although electronic fuel injection had begun to show up as an aftermarket add-on for snowmobiles, Polaris became the first snowmobile manufacturer to produce an actual production sled with EFI technology. Fitted to the top of the line Indy 650 performance triple, the fuel system quickly appeared on the popular Indy 500 twin.
What was the name of the 1991 Polaris snowmobile?
That statement from a Polaris brochure introducing the Minnesota company’s 1991 snowmobiles would probably apply still to the Polaris of 2008. But 17 years ago the statement applied to Polaris snowmobiles and, more specifically, to the innovative 1991 Polaris Indy 650 RXL EFI (electronic fuel injection).
When did Polaris stop making the Indy trail SKS?
In 1988 Polaris offered an Indy Trail SKS model that featured the fan-cooled Fuji-built 488cc two-stroke twin. By the start of the next century, the 488cc Indy Trail SKS would be replaced by a 544cc two-stroke twin and RMK designation. Model year 2003 saw a virtual phasing out of the SKS in favor of the RMK nomenclature. Why not?
Where does the Polaris SKS snowmobile perform best?
Another similarity between the old and new should be in where the SKS sells best. By the early 2000s, Polaris acknowldeged that the SKS was not a mountain sled and that it was best suited for Midwestern and Eastern riders where it performed well in “lake effect” snow areas like Michigan and Ontario. The same can be said for the born-again 2016 SKS.
What’s the difference between an Indy 800 and a Polaris SKS?
As with the 2003 Indy 800 SKS, the current version sports a newer chassis and top of the line shock package. Where the 2003 SKS offered an adjustable 41-inch to 42.5-inch ski stance, the 2016 SKS offers three adjustments from 39 to 40 to 41 inches. Another similarity between the old and new should be in where the SKS sells best.
When did the Polaris Indy sled come out?
The snowbelt is littered with thousands of used Indys priced from $200 to ones in primo shape. Since 1976, the year the RXL was introduced to the track, Polaris people have lusted after that hallmark sled for its design and performance.