Hi guys as usually its me just a voice over and you are watching review machines!
The winter season is in the full swing and its high time to see some newest pieces of
winter transportation!
Its motorleds or motordogs – simple and affordable machines.
By the way today we’ll review the first in the world motordog with an injection engine!
Its an experimental engine Loncin, that the factory gave us to test it on these machines.
And today we are going to put these vehicles into the toughest tests, including a crash
test!
But we’ll see it later and now it is high time to begin, lets go!
Well we have here three different vehicles.
First of all we’ll review the long version, its called Tofalar 500.
The main feature of this version – is the long frame and the track to move in the deepest
snow.
There is handle at the front end – to tow the machine from snow if it gets stuck there.
The width of the track is 500 mm with spring suspension.
The engine is 460 cc 20 hp carburetor.
Under the hood there is a CVT – a standard transmission for such machines.
And lets find out what new features we can meet in this construction.
Firstly it comes complete with a sled and mounted seat on it.
The front part of the seat is attached to the frame of the vehicle.
It is made to provide better weight distribution on the track.
Besides we see here special footsteps, and they are not only for comfort but they let
a driver maneuver the vehicle with his legs!
I see this solution for the first time in such machines and it makes the handling significantly
easier.
Then we see that the chain reducer is covered with metal protection with greasing filling,
to provide longer product life.
Most interesting the engine can be quickly detached it takes just few minutes.
It is an useful option cause it is much easer to transport the machine with detached engine.
Then it is much simpler to repair and maintain the engine.
And finally it is a snap to change a cvt belt – and that is a key feature for any motorsled.
And this is a motorsled with an experimental injection engine.
It looks almost the same but there is a high pressure fuel pump and no any choke handles.
Well I am so curious to see how it works, lets try it!
We don’t need to adjust a choke when start the engine and the injection engine starts
easily in any weather.
Besides it has less vibrations, the rotation limit is higher, fuel consumption is less,
well we’ll see it later how it performs in practice.
And the third machine for today.
And it is interesting that it has a versatile attachment that can be used both as a sled
and as a front attachment.
Moreover it takes just few minutes to transform the vehicle from one mode into another.
In this way we can choose the proper mode according to the outside conditions like depth
of the snow.
Well we covered all main details of the construction of these machines and now lets see them in
practice!
First of all lets make a test of its towing ability.
We’ll try to tow a 4x4 car with a motordog.
To measure the towing force we add a special gauge.
Firstly we try a long motorsled.
As we can see it can tow the car.
Now we try a motodog with an injection engine.
To our surprise it tows the car so rapidly that we even didn’t notice the gauge result.
And now lets have a ride in the open area to see how they perform on a flat ground.
It is so fun to ride this machines on snow guys!
No wonder why many people throughout the world love this things.
They are cheap and simple, no need a driver licence, very compact and effective – that
are the main advantages of this kind of transport.
But what about these very vehicles?
I should mention several moments.
Firstly the seat does a loot of good, it is much easier to handle the machine and there
is more space in the sled.
And footsteps also is an useful feature, it provides more comfort for a driver and he
is able even to do such things.
And few words more about the injection engine.
It seems that it works smooth, but it is interesting what about the maximum speed.
Firstly lets check the maximum speed of the standard carburetor version.
Its hard to see something, so I make a screenshot where we can see that the maximum speed is
39 kmh.
Now lets check the injection model.
And this time the result is clear, its maximum speed is 46 kmh.
Now we are moving to cross country to test these machine in tough conditions.
And while we are watching them getting over different obstacles, I would like to speak
about the legislation.
The matter is in our country in Russia we don’t need to register these vehicles and
don’t need to have a driver licence to use them.
Besides they are allowed to move on ice as opposed to snowmobiles or cars.
But on the other hand it is forbidden to move on them on public roads, cause these machines
are not considered as transport vehicles.
And it is interesting what about legislation in your country?
But lets get back to our machines.
As we can see all of them work well including an injection model.
But frankly speaking I doubt if it is a good idea to use injection here.
On one hand they work smooth, and the fuel consumption is less.
But he flip side the injection engine is much more difficult and it is impossible to start
them manually in case if the battery is dead.
And it is getting dark very swiftly, but we have one more test.
And it is a crash test!
We’ll check the general durability of the frame.
We found this cliff in order to do that.
And I think you can guess what we are going to do, can’t you?
It was an epic flight.
But what about the vehicle?
Surprisingly we can’t see any damages, so lets try to get back to the base.
And it is absolutely not a problem it goes as if it was a new car.
So lets try it again!
But it is almost dark outside!
Well it seems we should add more light!
And again no any damages, just few scratches.
It is able to proceed moving without any difficulties.
The only breakage its our sticker.
What a nice steaker!
It seems it defended the vehicle from getting any damages.
There is nothing more to say but about the prices.
The standard version costs 1400 dollars.
The long version costs 1600.
Lets call it a day guys!
Please post your comments what you think of these machines.
Thanks for having a ride with us.
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