VeloRUSH VeloPOINT Motorsports Magazine Fall 2013 | Page 50

In 2012, after six years of market research, prototype creating and testing, Snolo Sleds have released their first high performance alpine sled, the Stealth-X. Unlike many of it’s contemporaries, the carbon fibre flag ship model can be used on both hard compact snow and soft powdered snow, and is a far cry from the wooden sleds of old that were designed to run down a gentle slope laden with small children. This sled is certainly no small childs’ toy. It’s built for serious adult fun. In designing this sled Snolo has taken the
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old fashioned factor away from a child’s play thing, and made sledding into a serious adult past time that wants to rub along side our traditional sports of skiing and snowboarding. The Stealth-X has a seating position that makes you feel like you are sitting in a race car, it has steering ability, and it has speed. Early test runs on an average gradient slope showed it was capable of in excess of 65 km/hr (approximately 40 miles an hour), but