I personally had about 6 rides on it. The sled had 1400 miles on the BB though?? I think that's what Kelsey said. I bought their personal build since I HAD to have a sled a week after my turbo blew up and I had to know everything was right with it (and I knew they were done riding for the season with the low snow down there).
I bought the sled, had it delivered via a buddy and was back on the snow with I think only one weekend of down time, pretty impressive. I'd had a HORRIBLE season on my turbo so hadn't gotten to ride or get any footage for 509 Films so I pretty much threw my plastics and graphics on this sled, got one weekend in on her and was off the film!!
The first weekend I had her it was a CRAZY hot spring day the air was SUPER heavy and the snow as super wet and heavy. I was running stock clutching since that was what came on the sled and I wasn't impressed with how that worked with the sled. I DEF think there is some power to be realized by getting good secondary load on that motor... We rode some of the nastiest trees around since it was a stubborn buddy of ours on a cat and a BUNCH of Pros (he wanted to prove he M1000 was flickable too! hehehehe). I could tell right off the bat the sled was running rich (which we thought it might since Kelsey is at a higher elevation than I am but..... well.... I'm not gonna lie, I was lazy and I was skert!
I came off of an entire season FAWKING with a tune and ended up blowing it up. the last thing I wanted to do on this sled was tune it OR blow it up! I figured rich was good and it was out running the other Pros so I was happy!!!
That being said, yeah, I knew I was leaving power on the table... I had a mad dash of 3 weekends of riding one a filming weekend where I put the 858 up a little chute. I didn't have the time to fine tune the kit or to address some of the stock issues (clutching) with the sled... but like I said, it was STILL out running the stock Pros had decent bottom end (I know that can be cleaned up with tune and clutching) and pulling for days power on top end (which I know can be cleaned up with clutching and made to last longer for some of the longer chutes).
I'm not going to lie to you and go on and on about how amazing it was cause, well, I KNEW I was leaving performance on the table and I'm not the kind of person to be satisfied until I get that performance out of her. BUT she ran SOOOOO solidly and smoothly (even with the rich tune) and she ran MUCH stronger than a stocker, both on bottom and top!
I'm pretty much 99% tree rider myself. I do chutes in the spring just for the film industry. I bought a turbo just for that, realized that wasn't me and am back to my happy place, the big bore. I had a big bore doo before this and LOVED IT for tree riding and the occasional small chute. This sled is the same and will be even better once I clean it up!!! I really can't say enough good things about big bores in general and I've been working with Kelsey's stuff ever since one of my buddies said to give RKTek a try. I've never had a complaint or an issue and the power always reminds me why I love big bores -killer for tree riding and for daily kicking arse kinda riding!!