Mud Boat

A customer brought in his home made mud boat this past week. It has a 340 sled motor powering it. It was a very cool set up. It is all aluminum and was custom built in his garage. He started with no plans and finished with this 16 foot boat.

The motor is all stock and uses both sled clutches. The secondary is having some issues, but it works. He even kept the throttle and handlebar end as the tiller.

The entire boat is coated in LineX. It has the matte finish on the top and the gloss on the bottom. The boat is designed to stay stable when you walk around and it only drafts 1 1/2 inches with 2 people aboard.

All the plasma cuts and welds were done by the owner of this unique vessel.

BK Sponsored Snow X Racer

Jeff Peters, #331, is the newest member of the BK race team. Jeff will be racing the Winter Thunder Challenge, run by Racing Extreme, this season. Last year, Jeff took 3rd in both sport A and B in season points and 2nd in Juniors. He will be racing both classes this season as well. We will keep you posted in his progress.

Thank you to Racing Extreme for the use of the photos. Racing Extreme has Grass Drags and Swap going on this weekend at the Golf Farm in Wauconda, Illinois.

Bk Cruiser Motor Pull

The BK Cruiser was pulled from it's slip at Rustic Harbor earlier this week. The BK Cruiser is a 25 foot 1977 Apollo hard top cruiser made by AMF. It's first stop was the BK shop to get the old mercruiser 305 pulled. It is old and tired and just didn't have the power to push the 'ol girl anymore. It shouldn't have even been running based on the compression on some of the cylinders.


A 350 long block has already been purchased for it so all the dressings will be swapped over to the new block over the winter. Come spring, the Apollo will feel like a new boat!

We had a very small window to work with between the top of the transom and the bottom of the new loft. We had to jack the front of the trailer up about 3 feet to dip the back of the boat about a foot. It JUST made it out.

It was odd to remove a motor and CARE about the electrical and hoses. Usually we hope in there and start cutting away. This time we had to replace bolts and everything.

This is the last time this motor will be that close to this boat. A lot of the components will return, but they will be attached to a whole new animal. With a couple other upgrades, the BK cruiser will be back on the water ready to party next spring. Until then, it will sit all bundled up for the winter.

I Bang Ditches.

We officially have www.iBangDitches.com up and running. It is the venue for you to share your ditch-banging stories. If your story makes it to the blog, you will receive a Bk Ditch Banger packet!

Please visit iBangDitches.com for more info and the email address to send your stories to. And as always, share this info with your friends. The bigger it gets the more fun we all can have!

The Hitler Commercial

As many of you have seen, there is a new BK Boat n Sleds.com commercial out there. This Hitler clip if from the movie Downfall. A few years ago, it was an internet rage to change the subtitles and personalize the video. I was a little behind the times on this one, but it is still just as funny as when this was popular.

How We Did It.

I used a website to pull the stock video off of YouTube. Once I had it on my computer, I uploaded it back up onto our YouTube channel. Then I just used the YouTube annotations to make the subtitles. It isn't a professional job by any means, but it did the job.

Now I we need your help in spreading it. Each time we share a video, it gets a little bigger. This is one of those vids that can go a long way if we let it...lol So share this with your friends and spread the word. You guys are the ones that have gotten us this far, so thank you!

"I Bang Ditches"

It is gonna be cool to be a Ditch Banger this season. Our new Ditch Banger advertising campaign is off to a good start. We have sold about 40 of these shirts so far. We are selling them for $5 a piece through the door at the shop, or $10 shipped to you. Why so cheap? Because we placed an add on your back. Deal?

We are also working on commercial about ditch banging and we have a few other things up our sleaves for the season. We will leak all that soon... on our facebook fan page.

Pec Snow Show

We were out at the Pecatonica Snow Show at the Winnebago Fairgrounds this past weekend. The show supports the Tri-County Trail Alliance. We opted to set up in the Dealer Hall and the turn out was actually pretty good! There was a nice swap section and the grass drags. The dealers were all inside near the food and beer. There were also raffles every couple hours in the dealer hall. All of the raffle prizes were donated by the dealers. We tossed in 4 $50 gift cards and had 3 of them used right there at the show.

Like the Belvidere show, we did not bring product. There is no nice way t display used items....it always looks like crap. We try to keep a clean image and not look like a junk yard at these events. The couch made it out to the show too...that is as "trashy" as we get lol.

We handed out a lot of Koozies and stickers at this event too. A few posters left and a lot of people were ordering the new "I Bang Ditches" t-shirts. Unfortunatly, we sold out and did not have the shirts in time for this show, BUT, people were happy to have us mail them right to thier doorstep.

If you would like to see more behind the scene BK action as it happens check out the webcam, facebook, and twitter to keep you posted 24/7!