Exactly it don't seem right. This was a 03 600 Sportsman. And from this one quad I have learn alot about breakage. Yes it was used in the mud, but no more than any of the other quads in our group. It was literally falling apart. He hit a stick in front of me one day and just about took off the front fender. It must have hit just right. The stick was small. This is my sole experience with a Polaris. So you should be able to understand my distaste.

 

I have more miles on the Hondas than we had on the Sportsman. It was only ridden about 14 times. Usually for the weekend. Most of the time it sat at home in the garage. We finally sold it for $1800 and are happy that it is gone. It was not abused. It was ridden just like the others, in the same places, same trails. My son bought it based on a friend's Sportsman 500. It ruined a few trips to Windrock and Broad River ATV park. It required work every time. On one trip we worked on it on Saturday for one problem and Sunday for another. I told him it was not coming on another trip and we sold it.

 

When I was looking last year, I spoke to a big dealership here in Toronto, and he said EVERY Polaris he has ever sold came back with problems.

Also, I have a 1990 Big Boss 250 4 X 6, and had a lot of problems (brakes, voltage regulator, shocks, reverse limiter, and now the front light.)

If you check the other forums, it seems to be fairly common knowledge that Polaris has reliability problems.

 

Auto clutches are great for trails. A manual clutch can get to be a PITA when you have to go over lots of logs and muddy logs and up and down and round and round gnarly rocks and stumps.

But a manual clutch is fine on normal trails , and you can still pop over logs and rocks just fine .but there are some times you realy have to work the clutch in slow nasty F-ed up situations.

I only use the clutch to start going and stoping most of the time. the rest of the time you just let of the gas a little and shift.
I like all types realy . but if i could only have one bike it would be my manual clutch 2 stroke 3 wheeler.shifting and horse power is fun.

When tooling around partying on a utillity bike I would rather not have to do anything but hit the gas and drink beer.I leave my rancher 400AT in auto most of the time. I drive most of the time with my right hand on the bars working the gas and my left holding a drink,so the buttons are a pain to have to push.