Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Chee-toe




The Chee-toe is a 1977 Arctic Cat Cheetah snowmobile. It is powered by a 500cc two-stroke parallel twin engine made by Suzuki, also called the "Spirit" engine. The engine makes around 50 horsepower and is very, very strong! Like all snowmobiles, the Chee-toe has an infinitely-variable transmission, also called a Continuously Variable Transmission or CVT. That means instead of having a five-speed transmission, it has a billion-speed transmission. It weighs just under 400 pounds, so it is a rocket. It will go at least 75 mph....

When on security patrol at the airport, the Chee-toe wears the same signs as Captain America. I can't wait to chase some punk-ass kids with this thing....

I got it for FREE. It had not run in over 10 years; I had it running in under two hours. It runs great now and starts in three pulls or less. Bring on the snow!

(the name is simply a play on the real name of Cheetah. To me, it is more fun to tell people I was out riding the Chee-toe than the Chee-tah. If you don't have fun with life, you might as well go jump off a bridge because without fun life totally sucks ass.)

Cheers!

Sam

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