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[Mr Harry]

  Have you seen what they are doing with snowmobiles now days?  Wow..Very high jumps and backwards loops.  The machines don't hardly look like snowmobiles.  These guys definantly good athelets.  I still like the old crosscountry races like they had years ago...

[GRIZ]

Was watching the sno cross the other night. The announcer said that the motocross guys that were crossing over in the winter were having a hard time handling the heavier machines. It never dawned on me that some guys who races the dirt bikes were racing sleds too, until the announcer mentioned it.

[Bufflehead]

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"I still like the old crosscountry races like they had years ago... "
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 They still have them

 Infact the grand daddy of the cross country races in the midwest is comming up(postponed).

 "The Red Lake 500"

 www.usccracing.com

[GRIZ]

I thpought the grand daddy was the winnipeg 500? ???

[Mr Harry]

  Yes, the I-500  from Winnepeg to St. Paul was the big race of the year.  It was fun to see the sleds come through our area, some were missing a ski or maybe a hood.  Some would really be banged up from hitting a tree or a chicken house etc!!!  Then the manufacturers would back many drivers to see if their brand would win the race.  I remember when John Deere tried to buy the race.  They would give each driver some amount of money just to enter the race with a John Deere sled.  There were as many Deeres in the race as all the other brands!  Its fun to think back on those times.