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muddyYT125
11-15-2014, 06:47 PM
I live in orchard park NY which is by Buffalo so we get plenty of snow. I'm wondering how 3 wheelers are in the snow? What kind of studs or screws have ppl used? The tires on my yt125 are like 22x11.

hostilerob
11-15-2014, 07:13 PM
Trikes are a blast in snow. They do fine on hard pack and can handle powder if its not too deep. Studs are for ice. Once you hit dirt with them, they dull quickly. All you need are aggressive knobbies. They do better than 2wd quads.

muddyYT125
11-15-2014, 07:45 PM
OK cool. I have an extra set of rims/tires with decent tread so I was gonna get studs for them but I will save the money for something else. Thanks guys

Samjp22
11-15-2014, 07:49 PM
im gonna try running my paddles this winter lol, they're no good for anything else up here and if i ever make it to the dunes a new set will be purchased.

Hasteranger
11-15-2014, 07:58 PM
I feel like it's gonna be awesome in snow. I can't wait till this winter. Makes sliding easier and the front end is lighter than a quad.

muddyYT125
11-15-2014, 08:18 PM
I want to make a ski for the front. My friend has a welder and I was thinking two snowmobile skis side by side might work. I would make a bracket to attach the skis to the forks. But it might turn like trailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro so the only way to find out is to build it and try it. I have yt175 forks on my yt125.

Samjp22
11-15-2014, 10:12 PM
Scootertrash has a ski on the front of his, i think i remember reading a thread about it. ill try finding it later unless someone else does

Hasteranger
11-16-2014, 11:23 AM
In my head, a ski would not work without some sort of fin or rudder on the bottom. Snow skis works by carving on their edges, so a flat ski just skids.

Ghostv2
11-16-2014, 12:15 PM
Winter is one of my favorite times to ride. I take one of my utility trikes and they have never let me down. This last winter it plowed through over 1ft of snow, negative temperatures, I even took it camping and woke up to an additional 6" of snow at 4am and it got me out of some sticky situations where my buddies SUV got stuck. I love taking it slow, enjoying the view and looking for animal tracks and planning my future hunts.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/coloredname1/E7C25115-6EE6-435C-929B-1F94B86ED258_zpsscpq6mvs.jpg (http://s281.photobucket.com/user/coloredname1/media/E7C25115-6EE6-435C-929B-1F94B86ED258_zpsscpq6mvs.jpg.html)


Or buy a yeti kit!
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/coloredname1/84C90818-CB04-475F-8EC1-E292D569BA36_zpswbbtwgkz.jpg (http://s281.photobucket.com/user/coloredname1/media/84C90818-CB04-475F-8EC1-E292D569BA36_zpswbbtwgkz.jpg.html)

muthey
11-16-2014, 06:56 PM
I do recommend richening up your fuel air mix as trikes run leaner in the winter, because the frozen air causes hotter combustion.

muddyYT125
11-16-2014, 08:20 PM
I'm trying to post a pic I stole from Google..

Codymans
11-16-2014, 09:11 PM
That yeti kit is pretty slick

Pickup_man
11-17-2014, 01:34 PM
Riding in the snow is a blast, I need new tires on mine, but even with 18" square knobs it handled the recent South Dakota snow just fine. It's not gonna be as good as a 4WD 4 wheeler, but they'll get through a lot.

dmfaulks85
11-19-2014, 12:28 PM
Buy some maxxis 4 snows, unbelievable grip in the snow!

just ben
11-19-2014, 01:46 PM
I think O.P might have a little too much snow right now for that YT.

NeverLift
11-19-2014, 02:38 PM
I do recommend richening up your fuel air mix as trikes run leaner in the winter, because the frozen air causes hotter combustion.

Cold air is more dense therefor more oxygen thus needing more fuel.

muddyYT125
11-19-2014, 04:18 PM
I think O.P might have a little too much snow right now for that YT.
Lol wayyy too much snow. We just got hit with about 3-4ft in 2 days. The plows havnt come down my street yet. I tried to upload a pic that my sister took earlier. There is a car under that pile of snow.

just ben
11-20-2014, 07:52 AM
somehow round one of the storm missed me by a mile or two but were getting hammered with round 2

muddyYT125
11-21-2014, 02:02 AM
I just shoveled my dads roof. His front porch roof collapsed and he was worried about the main roof so I got all the snow off. Nothing like shoveling at midnight.

just ben
11-21-2014, 08:20 AM
he wasn't worried about it earlier? LOL. I shoveled mine off yesterday also.

muddyYT125
11-21-2014, 12:42 PM
he wasn't worried about it earlier? LOL. I shoveled mine off yesterday also.

Thats what I told him when he called me and said me it caved in. Its his gf house though and it was a metal roof that they just put on last year. I had to walk through snow that was as high as the mailboxes. I even seen a few snowmobiles stuck. I was gonna buy a snowmobile about 6 weeks ago but I was worried we wouldn't get enough snow.

Pendl303
11-21-2014, 06:39 PM
I got 2 ft. In Fredonia, but I just traveled up to buffalo and it's wild

fordnut79@hotma
11-21-2014, 10:24 PM
quite capable I think (not mine)
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