Re: buying a new ATV

Posted by Jonfarmer on March 18, 2006 at 18:48:49 from (64.91.160.71):

In Reply to: Re: buying a new ATV posted by Jonfarmer on March 18, 2006 at 18:11:15:

My machine is a 1998 Polaris Xplorer 300 4x4 two stroke with polaris automatic transmission. It has pretty good power for what it is, and enough power to easily do donuts with a 250lb man on it. Of course if you wanted one of these, you'd have to buy used since I know they haven't made them for a few years. I tried out a used Sportsman 500 4 stroke a couple of years ago and it definatly lacked the low end punch the Xplorer 300 has. biggest compaint is the 3 drive chains it has, one up front for the 4wd, one in the center, and one in the rear, and they require oil almost daily to keep them quiet and they all turn all the time even though the 4wd is not engaged. Another complaint is my neighbor has a Honda Big Red 250 3 wheeler that will have my machine for breakfast, I can't even begin to keep up with him, neither on take off or top end and his only uses half the gas my machine does to do it, we'd always go for a ride with full tanks and then when we got back, we'd unscrew the gas caps and compair, my machine always took twice the gas and gave less performance, but his only has 3 wheels (bigger in diameter than mine) and I was pushing around that 4wd front end that wasn't in use. I think my next machine will be a two wheel drive sport machine. I hardly use the 4wd, it's just more mantinance and more fuel consumption. I really like the looks of the Polaris Predator. Don't have plans of trading up any time soon though, and this machine still runs like new and still puts a smile on my face, a beauty of a trail riding machine.

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