Lets see your Mountain Sled..

mtndreamer said:
Well here is the story on this seat. I have seen several guys try this and have never liked everything about them. I ride in the mountains off trail and technical so i wanted sometning to set me up and still be short enough to go back and forth, side to side. I thought about it a long time and I ordered the seat, it is of a 2003 yz 250, and I was holding it where I wanted it and grabbed a set of my old viper handlebars and turned them upside down, then took a set of bmx bars on the front and turned them upside down as well, then I took some 4130 chromoly tubing(I was assuming that both handlebars were made from this also) and welded everything together. The seat frame is 3/4" by 3/4" steel tube and was the same size as the dirtbike frame the seat came from.The front of the seat frame pivots on 2 hiem joints from the front radius rods of a yamaha and the back rides on a shock from a mountain bike. The shock is pretty stiff i think it is like 700lbs compression on it? But it works good for big bumps and such. It weighs 6 pounds. I wouldn't go on a long trail ride with it but it works great for ditch bangin and mountain riding when being aggresive is key. I probably have $50 in the seat and a lot of headscratching. Thanks for the interest. Glad to help!
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Looks BAD @ss !!! Very nice fabrication job. Ya must have access to a machine shop/tubing bender ?
 
A couple of bucks said:
Looks BAD @ss !!! Very nice fabrication job. Ya must have access to a machine shop/tubing bender ?
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It gets a lot of looks! When you are all geared up in sled clothes and sitting on it you can't really tell what your sitting on so I think a lot of people just scratch their head when I ride by. It is a conversation piece.
 
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Here are a couple in different dress
 

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ok ive been seeing all these diff skids and it making me want one. what are you guys getting them from and what does it take to mount them?
 
dukie169 said:
ok ive been seeing all these diff skids and it making me want one. what are you guys getting them from and what does it take to mount them?
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There are a lot of options and several threads about this. You have to ask yourself a couple of questions to find out what would suit you the best. Budget is the first question. What are you trying to get out of your sled and what do you want it to do would be the second one. There are pros and cons to any skid swap.
 
ditch banging for the most part. its a 136 so i dont plan on climbing to high. i have a zr440 skid with fox shocks laying out back, could this work?
 
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