I just bought my sp 500 ho and i wont have a chance to see how fast it will go tell the snow melts. I was just curious to hear how fast they will go.

 

Oh yea and i only got 12 miles on it so i cant run full throttle any way.

 

My SP 500 HO (stock-tires) runs about some 90 km/ hour which is something about 56 Mls/ hour. But I am a heavy guy and I have some ad ons. So I guess 56 to 60 Mls/ hour are realistic (on pavement).

Martin

 

ok thanks

 

With my '01 Sportsman HO on a gravel road I can squeeze out 62 MPH. All of the 500's that we have in the group will do about the same MPH. I have not checked it with my GPS yet but the speed seems to be about right.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

well, I am in the Alps in Austria on a high elevation and Fresno is almost sea-level isnt it? What I figured out is that my truck runs faster when I get to the flats in Northern Germany. The air is thinner the higher you are, so it runs better the closer you are to sea - level because air contains more oxigen. With my truck - its almost 7 or 8 Mls/ hour difference from Austria to Northern Germany at sea-level.

 

I cant wait till i can open it up to see what she can do.

 

I got mine on Sept. 11th and was also very curious what it can do. I hope you will not have same trouble than me with turning off the 4WD mode. (Could get the 4WD off) But except that , which means some adjusting work for the dealer, and the right fingertip-feeling for your your HO 500 (you ll get that by time) it can do much more than I expected. Its a true 4X4 and you must go through real deep mud to get stuck. (I got stuck already on my 3 rd day of riding, so I had a good experience to evaluate the maximum what goes.

But i assure you that you will have real fun with it. The only problem i still have is the weight of the SP500. I am used to small dirt bikes and once stuck in mud with the ATV or on a steep hill or so, it is a real big deal to change the direction and U-turn or to get unstuck. At the ATV there is no way to move it just a couple of inches without motor-power. maybe I am still too afraid of flipping when I turn around on hills. But thats the fact that a big 4-wheeler has some weight. i am really thinking of a winch as a security option , once i got stuck again in the bushes and far away of a tractor or help to pull me out.

We got about 10 - 15 inches of snow yesterday. Oh man, it is fun to play in the snow. I would say that 15 inches of powder is the maximum where it goes through without chains, but it is almost as great than riding a snowmobile.

I cant wait until I go for the next ride this afternoon. Yepeeeh!!!


Rgds from Austria!

 

Before you go out and buy or make a set of chains you might want to check the clearance you have between the tire and the struts in the front. Without putting a spacer or something to give you the room that the chains need to clear. Chains on the rear are only good for a 2 wheel drive and do not that much good on a 4 wheel drive machine. You need the PULL of the chains on the front.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

Yes, I agree. i have a 4WD Pickup-truck and i have two sets of chains. Heavy duty ones for the rear and lighter ones for the front. (The heavy ones dont work around curves at the front). When I go uphill, I mount the chains at the front to dig away the pile infront of the tire. i think chains at the front are far more efective than on the rear-wheels.

Just in case the snow gets too deep, I attach the rear chains in the back, and then locking the diff. lockers and its like to have a tank. It takes you almost anywhere through 20 - 25 inches of snow. (light snow - not the wet garbadge)