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Winter’s snow is here. Inches or feet of the stuff covering everything ends the good times until the spring thaw, right? Well, um no. Not if you have snowbikes and some great terrain to ride them on. And, while many of us have seen them, few of us have ridden them. But if you live in an area where there is abundant snow, after watching this video, you may ask yourself whether they should be in your garage.
Snowbikes shredding
To help you make that decision, KLIM has cut interesting videos of these machines riding through the Utah mountains. Even more interesting is the fact that for three days, KLIM invited some of their top professional hard enduro riders to give the machines a try.
Leading the mountain snowbike ride is KLIM’s Backcountry Team snowbike rider Brock Buttars. Tagging along were KLIM’s hard enduro riders Max Gerston and Paul Bolton. They get thrown into the deep end of the pool to see how their hard enduro skills translate into some serious snowbike riding. And as it turns out, those skills translate pretty well.
There’s lots of footage of the snowbikes being put through their paces in deep Utah powder. But the riders don’t just cruise around, they ride some pretty gnarly stuff. They ride up and down the mountain dodging trees. And they take the time to do a few cliff jumps to see how well the snowbike and dirtbike riders hold up.
As can often happen when skilled riders ride together, a competition breaks out. For this video, the competition turns to hillclimb and it provides some interesting angles to let you see just how steep some of these climbs are. In the end, let’s just say that these guys are skilled.
More video
So if you have ever wondered about snowbikes, or whether your dirt bike riding skills will transfer, these videos could be a worthwhile view. If you want to see more, here are the links for day one and day two.
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