Well, we don't get it very often here....

[Jeff_Favelle]

Like once every 10 years, but we sure are gettin' it now. Everything closed down. Let the FUN begin. GT Sno Racers are $59 at Canadian Tire!!!


Check out this photo. First pic is no flash and 1/100 shutter speed. 2nd pic is also no flash and every single setting is the EXACT same, but I used 1/15 shutter speed. Imagine trying to figure this out with a film camera? Yikes.

http://members.shaw.ca/gallery2/snow_compare_small.jpg

[ydnic]

hrmm..i need that here

[clint545]

Trade you umbrellas in for toques did ya?:)

[BoidsUnlimited]

GT Sno Racers
What are they?

[Tim_Cranwill]

LOL!!! Suckers! :D

B.U., GT Snow Racers are only the greatest winter recreation tool of ALL time!

[Tim and Julie B]

We got you beat today Jeff. We just got eight inches. That's a lot for this area. If you don't know what a GT snow racer is then you are seriously missing out. Did anyone ever see that old snow boarding vid called 20/20 a guy busts this huge 360 on a GT. They are just no good hills around here.

[Scales Zoo]

Oh no! What are those wussies all gonna do, they don't even have shovels! This is almost as bad as the last global disaster, jeesh, poor guys.

I'd take a picture of this area if I could get out of the house. Forgot to bring the shovel inside yesterday.....

Ryan

[Tim and Julie B]

Yes but you willingly live in Sask. so you knowingly take the winters. :p I am having a blast today it's snowing and warm! Hey if you got snowed in just get your wolley mammoth to dig you out! :D

[Jeff_Favelle]

Ha ha yeah, you CHOOSE to live in Sask. My family is from North Battelford, Sask, and let me tell you, they ALL grumble when they see the snow here. They all moved HERE to get AWAY from it, LOL!! I love it!

Umbrellas for toques indeed! Ha ha!

Crannie, race ya! Loser is a wet-noodle (or a Ryan-lover) LOL!

[BoidKeeper]

Let the heart attacks begin. First snow fall of the year always takes a few Canadians down. You'd think we'd be used to it by now.
Cheers,
Trevor

[Jeff_Favelle]

Let the heart attacks begin. First snow fall of the year always takes a few Canadians down. You'd think we'd be used to it by now.


More like first snowfall of the DECADE. We don't get snow here man. We get like 10 days out of the year that are below freezing.

[Tim_Cranwill]

Yer on, hommie! We just bought my 4 year old boy one last week! :p We got about 4 feet of snow in the last couple <u>days</u>... on top of what we already had. You guys pull the panic alarm after 3 inches. You don't have a chance, mofo! :D

Meet me at garbage hill at 7:00. Look for the guy in the Moosehead toque! :p

[Simon]

LOL!!!
Come over to London and I'll let you see tons of these stuff all over the place~
hahahahaaha

Switch places with you?
hahahaha

Great photo graphing skills man!!

[CHRISANDBOIDS14]

LMAO! Yeah, good luck with the 3" Jeff! Hahaha! In AB, we have had a fairly light season so far! But still, we just got 3" in the past day and a half, and thats average, then you get a little above average, then........you couldnt even handle to look at the pics of it if you guys are afraid of 3"!

GT SNOWRACERS ROCK! WOOT. I have one, since I was a little tyke(like.....6 y/o), and its 8 years old, still great, runs like a charm! Lol.

I'll take any of you on! 5.2ft of air is my record so far! Lol. Ill FLY past you all!

C.

[Shad0w]

bahahhah nice....
We've gotten plenty fo the white stuff here in Toronto over the last few weeks...

Not to mention the freezing rain :)

But yeah... GT SNOW RACERS!!! WHOO HOOO!!! :)

Lets see who's the first jackass to go off a jump and bust his arse.... Ill put money on ME!!! :D

[JonD]

Originally posted by Jeff_Favelle
Like once every 10 years, but we sure are gettin' it now. Everything closed down.
LOL, 3-5 inches and the place shuts down:D. Jeff what do you use to shove that stuff? Garden spade? Rake?;)

[HetForHuman]

Originally posted by JonD
LOL, 3-5 inches and the place shuts down:D. Jeff what do you use to shove that stuff? Garden spade? Rake?;)

All of his spair rubbermaids... :)

[Jeff_Favelle]

LOL, clowns!

I used cookie sheets I'll have you know..........

[Jeff_Favelle]

Meet me at garbage hill at 7:00.

Dude....that could be ANYWHERE in Manitoba or Saskatchewan man!







Heh heh................. ;)

[Lindze]

we may not have that much snow here but we have the frozen stiff stuff!! that makes it good for fast racing :), and crappy snowmobile conditions. :(

[nita]

LOL, SIL is in Nanaimo and is already emailing to complain, she just left here on the 31st and was figuring on being back in nice cozy BC. Guess the joke was on her!

[McCarthy Boas]

Here is a link for the "GT SNOWRACER" Boids Unlimited.
http://www.zollerhardware.com/snowracerssteerablesledswithbrakesand.html

Looks like I will have to get some of these for my kids and me. LOL

Take care
Tom

[JonD]

There is also an adult GT snowracer..:D I've always wanted to take those crappy skis off them and replace em with real downhill skis that are cut short. Then it'd really cook!!!!:D

[Scales Zoo]

Jeff, yes I choo choo choose to live in Saskatchewan, and bless the snow as added insulation to protect from cold, flying hockey pucks and polar bears. I wished I'd have stocked up on Pilsner.

Did someone say snowracers? One time, in highschool, during welding class... I converted the 2 long rear ski tracks from their normal plastic (which bust up when I hit a barbed wire fence - which you Island type people could probably find a picture of on google) to 6'' sheet metal. I also dosed them up with ski wax.

They were so slippery, every time I'd try to use the wheel to turn the thing, the whole sled would turn on the metal tracks, to follow the steering ski, which had more traction, as I found out 1/2 way down the hill heading for an open cactus patch (for those who have not tobboganned in cactus country, the things are hard to pull from the perenium).

And it also weighed 80 lbs, which at the 40 miles an hour I was going, is a very damaging force, as I, and the 3 other boyscouts who were at the bottom of the hill, were soon to find out.

The plan looked good on paper.

Ryan

[Jeff_Favelle]

LOL Ryan!!

Damn, they have GT Snow Racers in the States? Who would have thunk it??

[Minnow]

Be prepared to scrape YOUR car windows:

http://gprime.net/video.php/icescraping

lol
Carol

[CamHanna]

I'll take any of you on! 5.2ft of air is my record so far!
Back in the day we used to have barn-roof drop-off challenges. Big air was a bit of a sport 'round these parts. I could do 12 feet!

[Tim and Julie B]

That vid is hillarious! Ok now a jump is big air and going off of something is called "hucking". Now that we have the lingo right..........round 2. One time I.........:D

I wonder if they make a Gt big enough for me. They have an adult one but it has probably still got a max weight limit that doesn't come close. I would have to get one custom made! Lets phone up Jesse James.

I wish I could have seen a video of Ryan trying to go down that hill.

[BOAS_N_PYTHONS]

JEFF:

Is that snow in BC, wow never seen snow before here in Manitoba, lol.

That looks like 1 of our cooler summers :D

MINNOW:

That vid is so true it was us a few days back in that same snow drift.

Tony

[Derrick]

Jeff you brought it all on yourslef when you said Markt Mark was your favorite actor. You have angered the gods.

On another not the kids just call them GTs. Thats what we called them when I was a kid and thats what they call them now. Grandma's and Grandpa's call them by thier full names. I guess when you only get snow once every 10 years you can't really be in the loop:).

[marisa]

Marky Mark is your favorite actor Jeff? LOL

I must have missed that, or else I would have brought it up myself. Many times. :P :) :D

Marisa

[SnakeyeZ]

HEY now Jeff, that wasnt nice, what you really meant was, that could be anywhere in Tims side of the city :P, Sorry Tim haha.

Originally posted by Jeff_Favelle
Dude....that could be ANYWHERE in Manitoba or Saskatchewan man!







Heh heh................. ;)

[Jeff_Favelle]

Are you saying that Tim lives in a garbage dump Rich? Have you seeeen the SIZE of him? He must be at least 160lbs man! ;)


Marisa, I said Marky Mark rocked, I never said he was my favorite. Just because I think he's a fabulous hunk, that doesn't mean I'm weird.


Does it?

Ha ha!! :)

[daver676]

OMG the GT snowracer. I'd forgotten about those. Definatley the best winter toy of all time. One of the features I liked most is that you can fit one on your back like a backpack and walk back up the hill! :D

[timfriesen32]

3 inches of snow????? We had close to 2 feet last weekend. I shoveled my driveway 6 times in 2 days....lol

I miss those days back on the farm when we'd pull each other around on the GT's in the ditches behind the truck. My brother was nuts, speed freak, we hade him up to 65-70km/h. Those were the days.

Tim

[Jeff_Favelle]

That's crazy Tim! I'm riggin' up a GT to my Dad's truck tomorrow! I hope I don't die. LOL!

[timfriesen32]

He did alright, he's 23 now and showing no ill affects....lol

We had a kid in our town that was crusing down a hill on a GT and ended up getting run over by a car (the bottom of the hill crossed the road). He got dragged for a block, and only ended up with a few scratches and dislocated shoulder. Crazy though.

Stay safe Jeff......bones take 2-3 times longer to heal whe you're old like us. We're not a bunch of flexible kids anymore....at least I'm not. 6'7" = long bones to break in many places.....lol

Tim

[Scales Zoo]

Originally posted by timfriesen32

I miss those days back on the farm when we'd pull each other around on the GT's in the ditches behind the truck.

A trip down memory lane this thread has been for me.

Me and me cousins used to pull each other on Kenoseee lake with ski doos (on the GT-snowracer (unmodified), tire tubes, and skis). We went faster than 70 kms, for sure (no one on skis ever made it that far).

Could really get air from hitting a snow drift. I'd been pulled behind a skidoo since I was 6 (how unsafe is that?) and have hit the back end of a ski doo teeth first when he stopped faster than I could.

When that got boring, I just grabbed the rope and let them pull me using my elbows and knees as mini-skis. The ice fisherman used to cheer when they'd pull me past them at high speeds. Actually, high speeds were easier than low speeds - except for the times when they'd stop.

Ryan

[Jeff_Favelle]

OMG, you are righter than you think Tim. Back in the early teenage days, I could run full speed, bounce off a brick wall, get up, dust myself off, and do it again. Now, after a day of cleaning Rubbermaids, I'm sore all over and I feel like a 90-year old. LOL!

[Jeff_Favelle]

LOL Ryan. Too bad they didn't have digi-camcorders back then. That would have been some serious footage! :)

[Tim_Cranwill]

Originally posted by Jeff_Favelle
Dude....that could be ANYWHERE in Manitoba or Saskatchewan man!


Heh heh................. ;)

LMAO!!! I don't mind scoring an assist on that one! :D I knew it was coming. I just wanted to see how you would word it! LOL ;)

[Jeff_Favelle]

Indeed Crannie. You give yourself too much credit though.


Heh heh......;)

[Ryan23]

Here's what my deck looked like a couple weeks ago 8 hours after it started snowing(The deck was bare before this).

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/5128snowday.jpg

Like I said, that was 2 weeks ago,you can't see the BBQ or the top of the railing anymore.

[Ryan23]

Forgot to mention...........if you look in the background you can see my neighbours garage which had the roof collapse a couple days after the pic was taken.

[marisa]

"Just because I think he's a fabulous hunk, that doesn't mean I'm weird."

LMAO

Marisa

[ChokeOnSmoke]

GTs are the best
Go check out the page spdst.com there is some crazy gting on it if you can find it. Back flips, double tail whips and crazy big air. The guys are from thunder bay, lots of people do it here. We used to go all the time a couple years back. Once my friend cleared 50' on a gt off of a snowboard jump.
Madness

[CHRISANDBOIDS14]

50FT OFF A JUMP ON A GT! HOLY *****!!!! My longest clear was like.......15' or 20'!

Lol, being in a GT being towed? Forget that! I was going 35Km/h on my SHOES behind my dads truck.........IN GRAVEL! Lmao. Then I tried it in snow and it was better but then I fell on my butt and my dad stoped "towing" me.

Ryan......I understand what you mean. My uncle used to tow me around with his skidoo and I was in a tube.......Hit alot of things......hit my head alot! Lol.

C.

[timfriesen32]

Maybe it's all our stupidity as kids on GT's that has caused us to be the way we are.

But it sure was fun bouncing off of walla and trees on GT's and tubes. Those were the days.......or the few I can actually remember.....lol

TIm

[CHRISANDBOIDS14]

Lmao! Im still young enough to remeber them all!(Not that you are all oldies or anything). Lol.

C.

[nita]

I'll take tractor inner tubes over GTs anyday!! LOL, specially tied up to a skidoo! We used to do that out at my cousins and would make ramps by dismantleing hay bales. My uncle was never impressed but it worked great. Fun to do on the lake with motor boats too in the summer of course.

[hhw]

I can't believe how much snow there is here right now! And there's much more to come! This has got to be the most snow in my lifetime; the only thing that ever came this close was '89 when I got to miss a few days of school and try to cross-country ski with my downhill skis around the neighbourhood.

By the way, anyone who leads a group called the funky bunch has got to be the shiznit.

[JAdkins2451]

I cant count how many time I got stitches because of GTS. I once cleared a school portable sort of, broke my arm on the other side. To explain how we built the jump we made boluders from rolling snow ball we packed around 8 of them then used alot of snow to fill it in.And after that a sheet of plywood and about 100 buckets of water. The next days was fun lol.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Ha ha great diagram!!! ;)

[JAdkins2451]

It was hard to explain, I was 13 when I did it and was about 4'5 and a whoping 80 pounds. If I can get a hold of my old friends he had a pic and I see If I can get.

[VI Reptiles]

Jeff, all you got was 3 inches? Wow, We got 2 ft and we had no electricity for 24 hours We had branches and trees falling everywhere. Im thinking about going out today and building a fort. We shoveled the huge driveway and piled the snow to both sides so 1 side is already done. Heh. Im just like an hour drive away from you too...


Thanks

[Jeff_Favelle]

Jeff, all you got was 3 inches?

I never said that. We got more than Vancouver and we got the most of anywhere on the Island.