Patent ID: 8398094

Claim:
A method for conveying a skibob and rider on a moving benchrest of a chairlift up a ski slope, the ski slope having a bottom with loading platform and a top with offloading platform, which comprises, a) providing a skibob to a rider, said skibob having a frame with anterior aspect for attaching a front ski and posterior aspect for attaching a rear ski; a seat member mounted on said posterior aspect of said frame, the seat member having a seat for seating a rider and an undersurface with benchrest receiving space for supportedly resting on the benchrest, and further wherein said seat member is configured with a first position pivotedly elevated in relation to said rear ski, a second position pivotedly lowered in relation to said rear ski, and at least one spring means operatively linking the seat member to the rear ski through the frame so as to springedly store energy when pivoted from said first position to said second position and to springedly release energy when pivoted from said second position to said first position; b) riding on the moving benchrest while seated on said seat; and, c) assistedly dismounting from the benchrest while remaining astride the skibob by springedly storing energy when said seat is pivoted from said first position to said second position by an upthrust of said rear ski in contact with the ascending foreslope of the offloading platform of the chairlift and translating the stored energy into forward momentum of the skibob as said seat member slides forward off said benchrest at the top of the offloading platform.