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Man I must have been totally blind or had bad tunnel vision when cruising Skidoo's website. Definatley a fan of the A arms vs the pogo sticks! Like I said due to the Park Service's regulations, I'm limited to a 4 stroke, and thinking that there's no replacement for displacement power vs weight wise. They don't list the 1200 on their list, but the one from the website hasn't been updated for winter 18-19 yet. If available that 1200 looks sweet.So I guess I'm asking is the 20" or 24" wide track going to be my cup of tea?Not really too concerned with maneuverability, this is pretty much going to be a dedicated lake sled. I picked up a 850 174 Polaris as a 'fun' sled this year, and quickly remembered I don't remember how, and wasn't that good of a mountain sled rider the first go around 15 years ago, and 90% of the mountain sled's miles have been cruising around on a lake in pursuit of good fishing!
I have. 17 expedition with a 900 ace. Use it in northern Ontario And believe me there was plenty of slush there this year. You will break threw walking before the sled will. Many times park sled where you think there was no slush and got off to drill hole and break threw. Great sled.
Well the new 2020s expeditions are on the website, big changes, no more 1200, 900ace and 900ace turbo, glad I got the 2019 1200, not crazy about a turbo'd utility sled, to many moving parts and it weighs the same as the 1200cc, other thing I am unclear of is it looks like the four strokes have a electronic reverse actuator now, not cool with that either!
I ended up ordering a 2020 Expedition with the new chasis at Snowcheck time this year. I went with the new 600R e-tec, as I liked how the 600 e-tec in my 2015 Expedition has performed, the new R series has 5 more hp. Like you, I am disappointed they have put the electronic reverse in the new series, I have had that on other sleds, but prefer the manual shift. The new machine has not arrived yet, but when it does I will switch the rack system over and put the 2015 machine on market after first snow. It will be interesting to see if the new re-designed sled is really much better, it will be hard to beat the old one.