Saint Germain Update Thread

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Well I just returned home from the rwtc weekend. We put over 200 miles on between Friday and Saturday. I rode the sportfire Friday, and the liquifire Saturday. The only trouble with the sporty, was a bent ski spring.the snow pile I hit at wide open, and launched four feet in the air, was hard on equiptment. But other got a laugh out of the sight! The liquifire ran great on the vintage challenge, except for a pesky bushing in the secondary helix. It would pop out, and not let the secondary back shift. We fixed it with a hammer and a screwdriver, and returned back at the end of the day. My only complaint was the that my 350$. Liquifire made the trip, but the brand new New Breed Snowmobile Parts key chain sadly failed to complete the run. I wonders hat kind of warranty those have. I'll have to ask Matt. I'll post pics later. It was great to meet so many good people, and was fun to ride. Bee there next year for sure. Thanks to the Bennets, the Linders, and Rainvile for letting us tag along.
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Congradulations Brian on your continuing string of succesful finishes.
If there is an IronMan Award I vote for you!

Looking forward to your entertaining recap.
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There is always a person or two I want to meet up there that I miss out on. I'll get you another keychain :)
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I still say "brian" means "sits on big stones" in indian or some other language , man the guy takes a wicked beating and tosses the big x8 up into some big ole slides and turns that that makes me giggle in my helmet.

way to go Brian, you definitely earn the spirit of the vintage challenge award every year in my book wade
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By the time we got to Sayner Saturday evening, I was pretty sure I had beat them off, and they had rolled out my pant legs! :boohoo:

Later that night, I had the wife run a full system diagnostic to confirm that everything still functioned. :beers;

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:roll:
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400brian wrote:By the time we got to Sayner Saturday evening, I was pretty sure I had beat them off, and they had rolled out my pant legs! :boohoo:

Later that night, I had the wife run a full system diagnostic to confirm that everything still functioned. :beers;

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Lucky devil most guys have to perform a self diagnostic test
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mn.deereguy wrote:Lucky devil most guys have to perform a self diagnostic test
Sorry Bob, I think Andy just topped Brian.

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:thinksnow:
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Wow! Doug was all over the place with that camera.
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