Snowmobile HOF Adds Vintage Yamaha 100 Ride

The Snowmobile Hall of Fame in St. Germain, Wis. has announced that the Ride With The Champs, which is part of the day-long event leading to the ceremony for the annual Hall of Fame inductions, is sponsoring a new trail ride called the Vintage Yamaha 100.

This ride is in addition to the Swamp Challenge and Vintage Challenge rides that take place Saturday of the Induction.

“The past several years the Ride With the Champs event has grown and we have had increased participation from the vintage John Deere fans along with a fair amount of Arctic Cats and a few Yamahas here and there each year,” states Jon Bertolino, leader of the Vintage Yamaha 100. “The event has modern and vintage rides but the vintage rides have been growing year over year. With Yamaha having been the number one selling snowmobile brand for all of the 1980’s the Hall of Fame thought that the fans of Yamaha snowmobiles would enjoy participating in a guided ride that challenges the rider to complete 100 miles on their favorite Yamaha that is more 20 years old.”

The sponsored ride takes place on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016. It will be 100 miles and will include gas stops and a chase trailer to help out anybody having mechanical difficulties. The ride is part of the Ride With the Champs event at the Snowmobile Hall of Fame, which means when you register you get breakfast, lunch and dinner in addition to admittance to the evening autograph session and induction ceremony at the White Tail Lodge in St. Germain, Wis.

Interested riders are invited to come on Friday the 12th to “test” and “tune” your sled on a poker run or other local rides that day and a fish fry that night.

The Challenge is to run your vintage Yamaha for 100 miles. The Hall of Fame “Challenges” the Yamaha fan base to aim for a hundred registrants.

Jon Bertolino, author of Yamaha’s 40th Anniversary of the Snowmobile book, will be leading this ride.

Email the Hall of Fame at info@snowmobilehalloffame.com if you have questions.