The Flatland Tank-Track Snowboard
By Rocky Thompson on February 28th, 2007Throw away your snowboard and season pass. The Scarpar is an all-terrain motorized board slated to come out in 2007 that replaces the need for mountains, people will be flocking to the wide open terrain of North Dakota. The Scarpar is marketed towards snowboarders, skaters, surfers, ATV riders, and snowmobilers—which are all such closely related sports that I don’t see much of a problem.
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What a neat device! What could possibly go wrong?
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