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naktabar72 said:
Are you on drugs?
do you owm one ?
show me registration, because so far your call is pure BS.
btw its not made for passenger.
rear rack capacity is what ? 150 lbs.
if a 300 lbs whale sit on it, it will affect your ride.
if you want a two up, then get one and stop blaming a machine
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Oh nice, now your calling my wife a whale, you're goof

What is wrong with people on the internet
 
Same canoe rake so naktabar72 can't call me a liar again. I expect my quads to be able to work with loads on them. My arctic cat could easily take a large buck on the back with no problems. The new Grizzly, not quite as stable.

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freddyfour said:
Oh nice, now your calling my wife a whale, you're goof

What is wrong with people on the internet
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Rode two up all the time on my Eiger, mounted a nice seat added stirrups.

Seems there is another candidate for the ignore list

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Buy a Honda.

Hondas are the best, highest quality, quietest, lowest maintenance, smoothest, highest reliability, highest resale and no belt drive to deal with.
 
Clay00019 said:
Buy a Honda.

Hondas are the best, highest quality, quietest, lowest maintenance, smoothest, highest reliability, highest resale and no belt drive to deal with.
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While you are correct, they are also over engineered, my friend almost had to drive backwards all the way out of the bush because of a internal switch failure on his Honda, luckily he was very mechanically inclined
 
Clay00019 said:
Buy a Honda.

Hondas are the best, highest quality, quietest, lowest maintenance, smoothest, highest reliability, highest resale and no belt drive to deal with.
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why do people make such a big deal about drive belts??
my 2012 yamaha has it's original belt and has been trouble free in that regard.
I am not kind to my machines either and in 13 years of hunting, ice fishing and yard work my machine has only needed the service bay once and that was for it;s first oil change and valve adjustments. Since then it has not required ANY repairs, none. Can't say the same for my buddies with canams and hondas.
I could afford Honda, yamaha, Canam...... after riding all three , I chose yamaha.
While I'm not knocking Honda....... I wouldn't choose a honda soley because it doesn't have drive belts. Honda is overpriced and over complicated..... nice machines but I chose Yamaha and 11 years later I don't regret it one bit and my machine is still in top condition .
 
yomomma said:
While you are correct, they are also over engineered, my friend almost had to drive backwards all the way out of the bush because of a internal switch failure on his Honda, luckily he was very mechanically inclined
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I had a Honda with the irs and built in GPS and had to walk out of the bush twice. Wasn’t going to wait for strike three…

First time it was an internal contact in the left handlebar switch cluster, no start. The second time was a switch on the side of the engine for shifting. Didn’t even have my dog with me for someone to talk to on the walk home… :mad:

Yamaha ever since and certainly no regrets.
 
MRP said:
Front end light like the Grizzly makes it feel like it’s got power, in the shootout vids it doesn’t. Motor set back and gas tank behind that makes it poorly balanced. I have to hold down the front end of my buddies Yamaha and Kawasaki coming up the steep deactivations. Put some gear on the back and it’s scary to climb the ramp in to the truck. There’s lots of vids of guys loaded everything on the back little to nothing on the front, first mud hole front wheels up rider in the mud.
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I don't agree with this post at all.
Front end on my grizzly 550 doesn;t walk around, the quad has an excellent power to weight ratio, I have zero issues driving up the ramps to my truck bed even though my truck is higher of the ground than most. Pretty much the same height as an F150 with 4" lift.... again, in over a decade of loading and offloading my machine ..... never an issue.
On last weekends ice fishing trip I was pulling several hundred pounds of gear in 2 ice sleds and at the same time I had TWO grown men of 200lbs plus each riding on the rear rack, plus me driving (160lbs) and no weight on the front rack...... zero issues,

In fact I have never gotten a bouncy or light front end so I call bull####e on that one. Perhaps take your machine in and get the shocks adjusted or replaced in the rear.
When I ordered my grizzly back in 2012 I got them to give me as much ride height as possible so this "should" according to the above poster make it less stable, more tip angle on uphills...... but no. I have oversize rims, oversize ITP mud lite II's and longer suspension travel and fully adjustable shocks so I can adjust them to the conditions or load.
I take no special actions to ride my quad uphills at steep inclines other than to just use common sense and adjust my body weight accordingly.
 
Do Honda's still have drum brakes, I hated that about the one we had, drums always needed maintenance as they were full of mud
 
You can adjust the Grizzly from end lurching up by adjusting the pre load in the rear shocks, the downside is you get a stiffer ride
 
45ACPKING said:
I don't agree with this post at all.
Front end on my grizzly 550 doesn;t walk around, the quad has an excellent power to weight ratio, I have zero issues driving up the ramps to my truck bed even though my truck is higher of the ground than most. Pretty much the same height as an F150 with 4" lift.... again, in over a decade of loading and offloading my machine ..... never an issue.
On last weekends ice fishing trip I was pulling several hundred pounds of gear in 2 ice sleds and at the same time I had TWO grown men of 200lbs plus each riding on the rear rack, plus me driving (160lbs) and no weight on the front rack...... zero issues,

In fact I have never gotten a bouncy or light front end so I call bull####e on that one. Perhaps take your machine in and get the shocks adjusted or replaced in the rear.
When I ordered my grizzly back in 2012 I got them to give me as much ride height as possible so this "should" according to the above poster make it less stable, more tip angle on uphills...... but no. I have oversize rims, oversize ITP mud lite II's and longer suspension travel and fully adjustable shocks so I can adjust them to the conditions or load.
I take no special actions to ride my quad uphills at steep inclines other than to just use common sense and adjust my body weight accordingly.
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Mine is a 2020 700 Grizzly, maybe there is a bit of difference between the years and the engine size?

FatCatsDad said:
You can adjust the Grizzly from end lurching up by adjusting the pre load in the rear shocks, the downside is you get a stiffer ride
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I did just that before winter when I had it back home from camp. Not sure if that will help but will see this spring during spring bear season, will be plenty of weight doing out to the baits.
 
45ACPKING said:
why do people make such a big deal about drive belts??
my 2012 yamaha has it's original belt and has been trouble free in that regard.
I am not kind to my machines either and in 13 years of hunting, ice fishing and yard work my machine has only needed the service bay once and that was for it;s first oil change and valve adjustments. Since then it has not required ANY repairs, none. Can't say the same for my buddies with canams and hondas.
I could afford Honda, yamaha, Canam...... after riding all three , I chose yamaha.
While I'm not knocking Honda....... I wouldn't choose a honda soley because it doesn't have drive belts. Honda is overpriced and over complicated..... nice machines but I chose Yamaha and 11 years later I don't regret it one bit and my machine is still in top condition .
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Ive owned Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha.
Ive driven Can-am, Kawasaki, Polaris and Artic Cat

Ive also owned 3 kids China machines

For the right price/condition id own any of the brand names I list above (Honda and Yamaha are my top pics for reliability and Can-am for performance) But if a good deal came along I'd buy any of them.

The Chinese machines are disposable and will bring you nothing but headache. I would never spend more than a few hundred bucks on one.
 
FishHog said:
My 1999 600 grizzly belt is still original, so I'm not sure why people have an issue with them either.
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Mine is original and a 2002.

People have a problem when they flood the casing and don't drain it. Or when they are always ripping the throttle trying to play....

Or when pulling too heavy loads... and coming from a guy who uses his 660 to skid logs, when I say too heavy I mean way too heavy.
 
Honda has too many sensorss and relays and switches that can lead too a long walk home.
They forgot about keeping it simple and went nuts.
 
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