Like it or not, a good swath of the country is about to be locked in a deep freeze until Easter. If you’re a UTV fan, what’ll you choose for fun in the snow?
We’ll tackle the whole snowmobile vs. everything else winter debate at another time. Right now, your author’s not about to relinquish his UTV just yet. Wide stance, abundant power … you know why I’m hanging on even though the forecast calls for a dumping of the white stuff tomorrow.
It’s enough to make a person want to blow their recreation budget on a set of tracks for their UTV. What do you think?
There’s no denying the outright fun of ripping a few winter donuts on a lightly snow covered frozen pond in a powerful UTV like the Polaris RZR. Get all four wheels spinning just right, and the thing will whip around like a child’s spin top toy, virtually staying in place while causing bouts of vertigo in the person riding alongside.
Downsides? It doesn’t take too much effort to stuff one of these things into a snowbank or down past the point of no return in a series of drifts found out on a field. There’s an old saying that the more powerful your machine, the more likely you are to get stuck further from home. There’s more than a kernel of truth in that statement.
So let’s pile on a set of winter tracks, then! Physics agrees with me when I say that distributing the weight of an object makes it less likely for that object to break through a sketchy surface. Tracks do just this for a UTV, even though the whole assemblage will weight something north of a million tons. This will prove problematic if you ever get the thing stuck. If.
Plus, there’s the undeniable cool factor. I defy any gearhead reading this post to look at the photo above and think anything else other than ‘cool’.
Think carefully, then vote below.