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The Association of Wisconsin Snowmobile Clubs will host the International Snowmobile Congress in Green Bay, Wis. from June 5-8. Snowmobilers from the US, Canada, Sweden and Russia will be in attendance. The ISC will be held at the Radisson Hotel...

Nitro Circus founder, Travis Pastrana will bring Nitro Circus Live, a action sports spectacle to the U.S. and Canada for the first time in January 2014. Nitro Circus Live showcases over 40 action sports athletes performing daring and often record-breaking...

The Project S.O.S crew attempted to set a new Guinness World Record for distance traveled by a snowmobile on water on on May 20 at TJ’s Harbor Restaurant in Oshkosh, WI on Lake Winnebago. The team was challenged by 15-20 mph winds and 2-3-foot...

The TODAY show will discuss West Yellowstone and Yellowstone National Park on Tuesday, May 21. The segment will include a discussion with American Council of Snowmobile Association's Bill Howell.

The American Council of Snowmobile Associations held their annual DC Fly-In recently. The event brings together the volunteer state snowmobile leadership from across the country. This year representatives from 16 states were in attendance. ACSA, the Midwest...

Wyoming snowmobilers are lobbying state legislators to increase the cost of permits $10 for private riders and $30 for commercial outfits. The fees would likely raise $400,000 a year to help pay for the state to maintain Wyoming's 2,000 miles of snowmobile...

Tread Lightly has partnered with the Boy Scouts of America in the Scouts' Outdoor Ethics Program, according to Tread Lightly's Trails Spring Issue. Tread Lightly is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to protecting the great outdoors for...

Minneapolis, Minn. - Arctic Cat reported a 15% sales increase on sales of $671.6 million for the year, driven by strong snowmobile, ATV, and side-by-side sales. Snowmobile sales for the fiscal year, which ended March 31, 2013, increased 5% to $263...

Nelsons Speed Shop, in Greenville, Mich., hosted a grand reopening on May 11 after last June's fire destroyed the store, according to Fox17 Online . The dealership sells all four manufacturers snowmobiles, motorcycles, side by sides, jet skis and...

Ski-Doo has released a preview of the 2014 Ski-Doo MXZ x 600 RS race snowmobile specifications. The Valcourt Race Shop team will finalize this summer the snowmobile configurations in preparation for the coming season. Then all specs will be released this...

We just got back from Minneapolis and a trip behind the uber-high-security scene at 3M with the guys at Klim. We all know that 3M makes Post-It notes, Scotch tape, and tons of other useful stuff, but did you also know they use nanotechnology to build...

In our January Racing issue this last season we had a short article on the Briggs and Stratton 206 crate engine. To refresh your memories, this awesome little powerplant is leveling the field in youth racing. The Briggs motor drops right into a 120 youth...

Pink Ribbon Riders held seven events on the tour and over 675 people participated this year. The tours started in January at the 7th Annual Minnesota Snow Run then onto N.D., Mich. and half way thru the tour it went east to the 9th Annual New York Snow...

Yamaha's Racing Show heads to Sandpoint, Idaho for the last race of the RMSHA season, Schweitzer Sledfest. The recap features Cable Willford, Nathan Titus and Chad Jorgenson. Catch all the action here.

Royal Purple partnered with Mike Schultz as the official motor oil and lubrication partner the for inventor and championship racer. As the official lubrication partner, Royal Purple will provide support to Schultz by furnishing its advanced lines of synthetic...

East Coast Snocross Pro Champion Corin Todd and ISOC Sport Champion Zak Mason have joined the Pro Lite Superteam, according to a press release from Leighton Motorsports. Twenty year-old Todd of Malone, New York won the 2013 ECS championship riding a Polaris...

Minneapolis, Minn . - In contrast to last year's unseasonably warm spring this year's snowy spring has created a boom for Polaris' snowmobile sales. Polaris has reported a 217% increase in first quarter sled sales compared to the prior year...

Ski-Doo's parent company, BRP, has filed for preliminary public offering in each of the provinces and territories of Canada. The offering is being made through a syndicate of underwriters led by BMO Capital Markets, RBC Capital Markets, UBS Securities...

NHRA has partnered wtih Carlisle Transportation Products in sponsorship of the Pro Stock Snowmobile series in 2013. This "heads-up" quarter mile drag racing Pro-Stock Snowmobile Series is sanctioned within NHRA Division 1 and has the NHRA designation...

Pleasant Prairie, WI— Aboard his Nytro MTX, Yamaha Snowmobile Racing’s Chad Jorgensen powered to a third-place podium finish in the Pro 600 Modified class at the fifth round of the 2013 RMSHA hillclimb series at Beaver Mountain in Garden City...

At this year's High Lifter Mud Nationals, Polaris donated a RZR XP 900 to raffle in memory of Caleb Moore. The unit was dressed with donations from other companies including High Lifter wheels and tires, Pro Armor doors, a Kicker audio system and...

Polaris acquired A.M. Holding S.A.S., which operates under the name Aixam Mega S.A.S., a which manufactures and sells enclosed on-road quadricycles and light duty commercial vehicles in Europe. Aixam Mega S.A.S. was a privately owned company based in...

Thunder Mountain Lodge in Cedaredge, Colo. was destroyed during an overnight fire on Tuesday, according to KKCO 11 News. Senior Editor Mark Boncher reported in the November 2012 issue on a trip he took the previous March to this lodge. Delta Fire...

Twenty-something Detroit, Mich. residents are on a mission to bring ESPN's Summer X Games to their hometown, according to Autoweek. Kevin Krease, 27, and Garret Koehler, 26, have worked the last several months to submit for Detroit's bid, and...

Federal Judge Ronald Bush in Boise, Idaho has sided with backcountry skiers over snowmobilers in a ruling that the US Forest Service broke the law with its' Travel Management Rule, according to the AP. The Idaho-based Winter Wildlands Alliance argued...