I'm buying a Polaris Outlaw tomorrow. I want to undertake a 2000km journey across Europe as soon as I learn to properly handle this thing.
Here's the rub, for some reason or another I have virtually zero experience with any form of automobile after getting my driver's license a few years ago.
What should I know?
>>What should I know?
Basically it's not a car and you're gunna need a lot of seat time before taking on a journey if that has any kind of power under it.
polaris is shit
Sounds fun, I'd love to do that, they're not legal here on the road and I haven't found a trail that long yet.
My 87 fourtrax foreman 350. I have an 86 as well, but it needs a jug and piston, it may be ready in time for the summer. I just picked up a 385cca battery for it from one of my jobs (advance auto has used car batteries for 40 and used advance to batteries for 20.) 25hp from 350cc in 1987 ain't to bad, and I may get a high compression piston, port the head, and run a 400ex carb on the 86 fourtrax.
Mileage is pretty good, the 86 used less gas then my friends yamaha 250. Of course the piston came apart because it was running so lean, but good mileage none-the-less. Wish there was a time in the summer when we could ride on the road wherever we wanted, would love to be able to set out for a day trip on the road.
Come onnnnn, show us your quads! What have you done to them? How awesome are they? Any more power then stock? Mud, sand, or dirt? Do you take them in the creek? Bought any new parts? Sport or utility?
>ATV
>long distance travel
ATV is a child's toy for playing around in the back yard. it's not meant to be taken on the roads or for touring.
>2k km journey
>valves need service every 500 km
nice plan doofus
OP here. First impression: the Outlaw rides like, well, an overpowered toy for playing
around in the back yard. Definitely not suitable for long distance travel, indeed. Besides, the seller seemed sketchy. Considering checking out a KVF 750 someone is selling in my area.
rookie mistake... thanks for the heads up asshole
Atleast get an ATV with street tires, stiffer shocks and lower ride height.
Still terrible long-distance vehicles
Here's my '98 Grizzly 600. Hell of a machine. Before it was mine, it was some okie's mud bogger. That clay never comes all the way off. Now I wheel around the woods and hills of southwest Missouri on it. Real useful for pulling shit in tight spaces and rough terrain. Its no skidder, but it does a pretty damn good job of dragging logs through the woods. I've used it to launch and retrieve small boats and jet skis from pond mud banks that I wouldn't have went near with a truck. Mighty pleased with it. Only mods I can see are the ITP wheels, 26x10-12 Pirelli Mudweisers, and modified brush guard from the PO, and my two ammo can face smasher storage systems on the front rack.
This is dumb. Why do you want to go long distance on an atv? Sport or utility flavor, ATVs are not road machines. Get a bike.