SnowJob Twin Tracked Motorcycle Conversion Kit
July 2nd, 2007 by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider"Have any of you ever seen one of these? It’s called SnowJob and was sold by Advanced Recreation Equipment of Mountain View, California in 1973. The conversion is a twin track assembly that your motorcycle bolts into after removing the wheels and it looks like the chain is used to drive the tracks. The motorcycle tilts within the tracks which would give the front ski the ability to carve through the turns. From the coupon in the magazine ad, you fill in the blank and indicate what kind of motorcycle you have, perhaps they would make one to order.
Did these ever make it on the market? Did they ever sell? Have you seen one? The photos in the ad show a Kawasaki bolted into one so at least that one was built. I didn’t find the company with a quick search so it didn’t seem to make it unless it merged or was bought by someone else.
The conversion looks like it might have worked to some degree and the twin tracks would probably keep you upright. So, do any of these still exist?
Here’s the ad:
Related: Ktrak Rear Drive Kit
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July 2nd, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Aw , I want one.
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:24 pm
considering there is a plastics fabricator still at that adress since 1975 maybe you should give them a call. Ask for Larry Stock, he probably worked at A-REC before he bought the company and called it Polymer Plastics Corp.
-todd
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Googling a little further reveals the company was a victim of the oil embargo (at least recreational vehicle sports were). In fact their venture capitalists, Kleiner-Perkins-Caufield & Byers, considered them a loss leader…
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Kleiner-Perkins-Caufield-amp;-Byers-Company-History.html
-todd
July 4th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
A blast from the past. It takes me back to the winter of 73 when my friend was looking for a new bike and one of our friends told us about a 72 Norton Commando that was mounted on one of these kits. Long story short he still owns that bike despite all my attempts to wrest it from his grip.
July 5th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Imagine being sold a snow job from a company named A Wreck. No wonder they were’nt too successful.
-todd
October 29th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Hi, I just stumbled onto your site and wanted to let you know that I own a Snow Job. While I have not mounted a bike on it, I’ve been using the track and bogie wheels for a mini-snocat I built. However I have all the original parts of the Snow Job including the wonderful fiberglass body.
Brad
November 12th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
I rode on one of these in 1972. Our family were friends with Derek Hine, who invented this. We went up to the snow with them that year and he had this on a trailer and we took it out into a snow field. I was only 5 a the time so I dont remember the details of how it rode but we thought it was the greatest thing. The company went under, as you could see, but he went on to success with another company that build robotic arms to handle the manufacture of silicon wafers. He is also an avid pilot, built himself a Lancair. He is also still heavily into motorcycles, owns at least one vincent black shadow.
April 13th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I also own one, I need to restore it but I also have photgraphs of a snowjob with a Kawasaki 350 Triple as the power unit.