But the money came with conditions that included stopping manufacture of all current products. In September 1970, Roll-O-Flex received a funding grant from the provincial government to set up facilities to produce its own sleds. ROF General Manager Larry Fay had Boa-Ski build a private-brand sled called the Wild One which became the first Roll-O-Flex snowmobile for model year 1969. Saskatchewan-based Roll-O-Flex (ROF) was a deep-tillage farm machinery manufacturer that got into the snowmobile business in the 1960s as a distributor for Sno Jet and Boa-Ski. This one is from the March 2015 issue.) Betting The Company On Sleds (EDITOR’S NOTE: Each regular issue of Snow Goer features a Timeline/Flashback article about a classic or vintage snowmobile, written by International Snowmobile Hall of Fame journalist David Wells. But overtaken by adverse circumstances, it was just too late arriving in the marketplace. One of the most sophisticated sleds of its day, it had tremendous potential as a stock or modified racer as well as a high-performance trail sled that could have easily adapted to cover other market segments. Sadly, the 1974 Wild One didn’t get much of a chance to succeed.
First shown with a free air engine, the company intended to replace all existing Roll-O-Flex models with this new state-of-the-art product, so it was also to be built with fan-cooled power.
We spotted this 1974 Roll-O-Flex Wild One snowmobile in the “survivor” class at the 2018 Midwest Ride In event in Waconia, Minnesota.ĭuring the summer of 1973, the Roll-O-Flex snowmobile brand announced that it would produce a new and advanced high-performance model called the Roll-O-Flex Wild One.
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