Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Industry News and Updates

Time is flying by at an incredible rate and it’s time to get cracking on my website design and update the blog. I have changed the layout of the Reflex Snowmobiling website, hope everyone likes the update. I have been adding and changing things as I have gone so bear with me.

There has been a lot going on in the snowmobiling world lately! The USCC has had their opener, XMR, a affiliate of ISOC is in full swing and ISOC has been racing full speed ahead. Tucker Hibbert’s impressive win streak came to an end in Utah when he tipped his sled in a corner ending up finishing in 7th place.

Yamaha has unveiled a new model that incorporates power steering. Yamaha is calling it EPS, electronic power steering. An interesting addition to snowmobiling. I would suspect that other manufacturers will incorporate power steering depending on the weight of their system. I could see a valuable application of power steering on touring models.

E-TEC! It seems that Ski-Doo’s big thing is its E-TEC technology. The word is that BRP is introducing a Rotax E-TEC 800R Motor exceeding the power of the older PowerT.E.K. 800. BRP claims fuel efficiency of 19 mpg which would be outstanding!

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