Management Policy for Region 1 Recommended Wilderness Areas

HELP US END U.S.D.A. FOREST SERVICE
DE-FACTO WILDERNESS POLICY IN MONTANA AND BEYOND!

Snowmobile Riders and Winter Sport enthusiasts:

It is unusual that the Snowmobile Alliance of Western States (SAWS) sends out an alert asking our members to mail back a letter, a form letter at that, to oppose any issue. This is one of those rare times. As a SAWS member, you CAN make a difference. It is critical that all pro-motorized access users, including snowmobilers, participate in this process. SAWS, the BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC) and the Treasure State Alliance (TSA) urge you to do your part.

What is at Stake?

25 million acres of public national forest and grasslands (more…)

Alright, Heres a subject that has become more common in the last couple of years. It used to be all anyone talked about was Horse Power of a sled. If you can get a sled that weighs under 500lbs and has 150 hp then its the ultimate sled. That was it. Well, Arctic Cat came out with it and it still wasn’t the ultimate sled. Why? One thing that didn’t get put in that equation was “TORQUE”. To be able to understand torque there needs to be an understand a little about an engine.

We will start with CC. How the CC of an engine is calculate is by taking the bore or diameter of a cylinder and mulitplying that by the stroke or depth of the cylinder from TDC (top dead center) to BDC (bottom dead center) of the piston. That gives you the volume of each cylinder. So on a 2 cylinder you multiply that number by to and you get your CC. Theres more to the equation than just multiplying but for our purposes we will just go that far indepth. As you might have figured out you can play with those numbers a bit and still get the same CC’s. This will come into play later.
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