Too much contradiction here
I guess you guys missed the point, the reason I even posted on this one.
First of all Rules did take a direct shot at the CB guys. 2000 posted their aluminum arms and he came up with the blanket statement "aluminum folds like butter" go back and read it.
Then he makes the statement to 2000, " you must be smokin some good $hit, and he is a punkass kid". Therefore, he has met with 2000, and Rules is a "respected guru/member" and makes posts like that? At least Junior was smart enough say agree that aluminum can be treated to the same strength as CM. Which also, disagrees with Rules statement.
Then Rules goes on to tell me about MY aluminum trailing arms? Why don't I provide a set for him to test/abuse? I don't make/sell trailing arms. He also states he knows me/who I am and I've never been in the mountians! Huh, I guess this picture in my office of my sled at 11,000 ft. must be a fake. The fact is he obviously doesn't know me and again is making non-fact based statements.
The FACT that one or a few guys out of the millions of snowmobilers can damage every trailing arm he puts on his sled through known abuse means what? Very little.
Then we had someone make a statement about doing a durability test in a press. Well when someone collects all the aftermarket arms and wants to do that test that would be great info to have.
As far as the bolt thing goes, again, people ran off on the wrong tangent. Do I know that you can drill a hole in a bolt and weaken it? Yes. Do I know that it would change the point at which the snowmobile structure fails? Of course. Would I put it in print so anyone one could read it and or attempt to do it? Not a chance in hell.
The FACT is that unknowing people read this web page as a source of information. When you put things like that in writing someone unknowing may do it, or do it wrong, think about it.
The FACT is, that aluminum trailing arms of MANY manufacturers will hold up fine in 99.9999999% of snowmobiling applications and have for years. Whether or not any of them will stand up to you cheating death while jumping off a cliff or whatever is a NON ISSUE.
The ISSUE is, if in fact Rules is the stand-up guy/Guru, he shouldn't be taking public shots (which he did) at another member and making statements to the affect he's smoking $hit, or is a punkass. So at that point there IS a public apology necessary. If there are issues with 2000 posting in the wrong areas thats something that needs to be taken up with Mr. Sled privately.
In closing, if you don't know me personally, don't take a shot at me. My accomplishments with Yamaha products over the years are well noted in the Yamaha community, not necessarily on this web page, and I don't need to explain myself.
