The finest wear rods and... we can prove it!

Seeing is Believing!

I used mostly Shaper bars to demonstrate how poorly their "Super wear resistant hardened steel" held up. Note how the wear pattern has turned the front ends of the carbides into battering rams. The lack of wear on the rear 2/3rds of the host bar demonstrates the lack of pressure on the rear 2/3rds. It also explains the heavy wear on the front 1 to 2 inches of the turning carbide.

Carbide wear pattern

AC 560

Used Arctic Cat Shaper bars 560 miles

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Used Arctic Cat Dooly

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Used Arctic Cat shaper bars - 696 miles - ridden 2011 Watersmeet MI

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Used 2007 Arctic Cat Staggared wear bar

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Eversharp Carbide Used on a 1998 Yamaha plastic ski

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Used Steel ski Polaris Easy Steer Bars (lower bar is OEM) other OEM carbide

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Used Woody's Trail Blazer III off of Polaris plastic ski

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Used Polaris Shaper bar

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Used Polaris Duece bar

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Polaris Sidehiller II ski

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Polaris IQ Dual ski runners

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Used Polaris Accu-Trak rod. 2002 Polaris

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Used Polaris Doolys.

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Used Polaris Slim Jim

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Used Saber Carbide from Ski Doo Flex ski
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USI Percision Ski Carbide Bent
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Lost Pad
OEM Pilot Carbides

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Used Shaper Bars on BPR Pilot skis

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Used Slim Jims with only 320 miles. Rider was concerned about smoking his belt when starting from a dead stop. testimonial | Pressure point

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Used 8" Yamaha Cobra Heads. The black lines indicate where the front of the carbide extended.
testimonial

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Used 4" Cobra Head. Used 4" and 8" | testimonial

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Used Snowtrackers. 2800 miles ridden in Canada. 1997 Eversharp. | testimonial

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Used Yamaha Shaper bars riden 800 - 1000 miles.

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Used Yamaha Shaper bar with fewer but unknown miles

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Used Yamaha Duece Bar - 500 miles - ridden in MI

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Used Yamaha Slim Jim 725 miles

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Used C&A-Pro 6" and 8" Shaper bar

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Used C&A Outlaw

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Used Curve Carbides with 1300 miles

The Leading Edge is made from channel iron with sloping cutting carbides on each side. They are significantly higher than the turning carbide so they present a different profile up-front. However, the front 1 1/2" of the turning carbide is still significantly worn.

left ski | right ski

ski wear pattern | Left LE | Right LE | rubber stops

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Used Simmons rods. | My two cents worth | Wear pattern | Reasons Dual | Totallyamaha

1991 - 2006 rods

Obviously the wear pattern has not changed!

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Gen3

Used Simmons Gen3 carbides. 350 miles. Note the heavy wear to the front. ski photo

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Used SLP Carbide | Keel Blade

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Used USI Original Carbide

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Used USI Original Project X ski carbide

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Used Shaper bars on USI Project X Ski

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Used Shaper bars on USI - SPX Ski

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