Im thinking about picking up an Arctic Cat 650 H1. I own a polaris but dont have any experience with and Arctic Cat? Is this a good machine? Do you have any regrets about buying one? Thanks for the help.

 

Oh Yeah forgot to mention that my wife will be driving this machine. How is the handling?

 

I bought a 07 H1 for my wife last month. She is small but she handles it pretty well. It has more power than she will ever use and she likes it okay. I don't care too much for it because it is very noisey and gets terrible gas mileage. It is a good thing it has a large gas tank or we would not be able to get very far from camp. I still carry a tow rope on my Honda just in case though. I bought it because it has an auto transmission and it was cheap.

 

Keep track of that tow rope. Next time you hit some mud or rocky climb that stops your Honda, go around it with the cat and hook up the tow rope.

 

I agree, My 650H1 doesn't get bad gas mileage and i know i've pulled out 20 bikes out of the mud in 3 mo's. I got stuck 1 time and that was before I put the swamp Witch tires on.

 

well we went on about 90 mile trail ride one day and the 650 h1 made it just fine. my 500 2002 was about empty though.(smaller tank though)

 

I have on 07 650 H1 and love it. I need to put some better tires on it, but when i do that, this thing will be unstopable. If your wife is inexperienced you may want to go a bit smaller, but you wont be dissapointed.