XC700116 said:

it says it right in the owners manual .

2strokenut said:

yes im sure you ride tonnes in arizona were your very familiar with new snowmobiles , i dont live in the snowmobile capitol of the world or anything . Your also comparing a dirt bike to a sled were you should be comparing it to a street bike .

I ride a little and talk with lots of avid snowmobilers so I will give you what knowledge or advice I have heard, and this is all opinion!

I talked to my Yamaha mechanic and he hates working on the new 4-stroke Yamaha sleds, says they are a PITA do check/adjust the valves. Since I have not done valves I cant say.

I have worked on REV's and XP's and ridden them as well as some Polaris's, and Cat's. I have only ridden 2-stroke sleds and I enjoy them, I have a 440 cat myself and am looking for an M7 or M8, rode my buddies M7 and dang! Want one now!

Personally I would try to find the cleanest lowest mileage sled that fits what you need/want. Really cant go wrong with any of the 4 just figure out the weak points in each and look for those problems when looking at the sleds.

Have fun searching and rip up some snow!

     -mt-

07thommi said:

you basically never have to check or adjust the valves . i was wrong on 60,000 kms its only 40,000 kms for first valve check . i have never seen a sled with that many kilometers .

between 2 and 4 its really preference of what u like if u want low maintenance don't get an old sled go new depending how deep the snow is i would go with an arctic cat m 1000 2 stroke its a mountain sled the 1000cc will be tones of power and with the mountain cat you can get longer tracks and real tall lugs with long track and big lugs u should be able to cross a lake just keep it pined also 4 strokes are heaver so be careful of that
i like 2's so thats what i would go with
1000 cc will get u alot of power and build the engine and u should have all u need
longer track bigger lugs = less chance of getting stuck

brad the best said:

Yeah no snow here in Arizona.  How was your winter up in BC this year?

2strokenut said:

last year was great , its snowing in williams lake right now were i rode several times last year and it snowed yesterday at work in princeton where i will ride this year. there was no snow no snow then all of a sudden up the mountain you hit a whole pile of the stuff . 10 cm on the ski hill in kamloops were i live

brad the best said:

Good to hear.  I lived up in Vancouver this last winter and spent some time up in Whistler.  It was sad.  Guess just a bad year.  The snow was good last winter, one storm up north dumped 90 inches within a few days.  Still waiting on the first snow storm of the year.

brad the best said:

The wife and I skied Sun Peaks...Awesome people, great mountain we will be back.

skisnh said:

just don't piss off ol nancy green shes a bit of a hag ........ unfortunately she owns half the mountain or some crap .

the coast seemed to get terrible snow , its just because we had the Olympics that it didn't snow .

snow was down compared to other years but once you were up in the alpine it didn't matter much , we just noticed you could go inside cabins instead of tunnel down to them .

brad the best said:

And now her hubby is the mayor of sunpeaks as well.
They became a town with a mayor and council recently, and i think they are already going downhill. ( bad pun i know)
From what i hear its a power struggle, and lots of fighting, and they now want to ban all rentals, which so many tourists loved staying at. Since nancy greene and hubby own so many hotels and stuff up there, i am amazed they allowed him to be mayor. They plan to boost their own hotel business, at the expense of others, by stopping people from having any rentals in homes as has been traditionally done there.
Its sad to see it going is way.

As for the question posed by the OP, i would go with a 2 stroke, many advantages IMHO as a sledder. I have onwed both, and ride with others on both 2t and 4t and general consensus is that they favour the 2t.