2- Versatility
Sure, when snow blankets the snowbelt, you can head south to a sunnier clime and ride your ATV or side-by-side. With a track system, though, you can stay closer to home and play in the snow. A track system gives you another option to enjoy your vehicle. Of course, track systems are versatile enough they can run on pavement, rocks, sand, swampy conditions and just about any other surface you can dream of riding on.
Of course, in certain conditions you’re not going to carry the speed you could with a wheeled-vehicle so if you are concerned about speed you might not be looking at a track system the right way. A track system, several versions of what are offered by Mattracks, allows the vehicle to go places you might not be able to because of deep snow or sand or swampy conditions.
And if you are going to ride mountain trails or in the desert, you can swap out the track system back to your wheels. Mattracks claims that change is “as simple as changing a tire.” To install a track system, you remove the tires and bolt the rubber tracks in place. When you’re ready to switch back to tires, simply reverse the process.
Really? That’s it? No changes to the gearing or anything else on your ATV or side-by-side? Mattracks officials said, “Mattracks is as easy on a vehicle as regular tires. With the track system design, there is a natural gear reduction that provides an increase in pulling force where the rubber meets the road as compared to tires. Because of this, a Mattracks-equipped vehicle can make greater use of the engine torque at low speeds. The vehicle also retains lock-to-lock steering, which provides the same turning radius as tires and allows one to use full power to move around obstacles.”
When we first got to the deeper snow, the vehicle was a little harder to steer than we anticipated but then we weren’t sure what to expect because we hadn’t experienced anything like that before. So the more we drove, the easier it became. And the snow was actually deep ish so that probably had a little something to do with it. We also noticed the more speed we carried, the easier it was to turn.
Mattracks offers a steering assist package that provides easy, one-handed steering, even while the vehicle is not moving.
It was great fun to traipse through the snow on the Mattracks track system. We are eager to try the track system in different conditions so we can experience first hand the versatility offered by the systems.
