i really like the AC and Suz 500s BUT the single lever brakes on the AC concern me when a hillclimb goes bad aand you hit the brakes dosent the ac wana come over on you ?
thats the only thing i dont like

 

No the single leaver brakes work just fine on hill climbing. I thought I was going to flip one day climbing over a little tree on a hill. The front end came up on my AC but when I let it roll back a few inches and hit the brakes they held just fine. It didn't try to flip over on me either. The brakes hold good on steep hill too. I was testing them one day on a hill that is fairly steep. At the steepest part I locked the brakes and no sliding occured. The front didn't try to come up either. The only way the front would've came up is if I had of leaned way back on the bike. I find the brakes to be pretty reliable on hills.

 

Don't be so quick to knock the single lever brakes until you have ridden on them. I have never found them to be a problem when hillclimbing at all. I thought they might be from what I had heard in the forums, but it seems like hogwash now. If you ever stop on a steep hill, the parking brake WILL hold. I have never ridden anything that will hold position on a steep hill, and I assume Polaris bikes will do just as good with their linked brakes. Downhilling is just as good. The linked discs will let you decide the pace that you want to take, and will hold you without sliding very good.

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Andy Bassham *(1999 Arctic Cat 500 4x4, 1989 Honda 300)*

 

I was going down a VERY steep ditch today. This ditch is so steep that the owner of the land who crosses it, very ofter, has flipped his 99 Kodiak a few times going up and down it. It is almost vertical. You have to hit it with speed to go up it, or you will flip.

I have been threw this ditch when it was dry, and today it was wet, very wet. It had about a foot of water at the bottom today, so I didn't even try to climb it.

So if a I didn't flip with my single lever brakes, yet the quad withe the seperate brakes did which is better? I think it's the rider.

 

I'm not sure that i'm right(correct me if I`m wrong)but when you are in 4WD, having two lever is like having only one since the 4 wheels are locked together ?

 

For any thing but a Polaris, you are right. If a Polaris 4x4 had seperate levers it would not lock up the front wheels it the back brakes locked up, like a honda 4x4 for example, even if the swich was engaged.

 

yes A_TEAM you are correct but with my kodiak it has a 2wd 4wd button next to the throttle so if i cant make it up a hill i can just hit the button switch to 2wd (takes about a second) and hit the front brake no worries about flipping backwards just a semi-controled reverse descent for going down hill it dosent really matter it probubly wouldent happen on a quad anyways but my 3wheeler came over on me a fiew times and it still sits in the back of my mind of course there is not much weight on the front of a 3 wheeler