Comments on: SnowJob Twin Tracked Motorcycle Conversion Kit

By: Rob R

Rob R — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:12:44 +0000

I worked at a motorcycle shop in Ottawa Ont Canada and we sold nortons triumph ducati jawa cz zundapp laverda and kawasaki also dki-doo. we then brought in this wonderful thing called a sno job oh yea Iwas the one to uncrate it and mount a bike to it we had ordered a few hardware mounting kits one for a norton 750 one for kawa 750 H2 and one for a big horn (kawa 350 f9) we were going to mount the kawa 750 h2 but in the manual they said that it was capable of over 100mph I put the 350 f9 on it because when you sit on it you are very high. after everyone had testdriven it we all agreed it worked great in deep snow and you could turn on a dime by leaning over and put the boots to it. wheelies well I guess you cant call them that but you bang out the clutch and you can yank the ski off the snow for quit a ways with the 350 on it wow ! wonder what the 750h2 would do? any way it was great in the bush and on small trails but when you got into top gear across yhe lake it wasent long befor you frozeup no wind block when youare sitting so high
it was fun in simpler times

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:09:08 +0000

Awesome, I stumbled across this looking for info on adding a track to my Yamaha TW200. It looks like I will need to fab my own but if anyone has any tips I would very much appreciate it. Thanks.

PS maybe we can get Mattracks to produce one

By: RICK BRETT

RICK BRETT — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:53:27 +0000

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.

By: philip

philip — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:18:16 +0000

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.

By: brad

brad — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:28:14 +0000

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