<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: CmartiI just can't imagine no mud. Don't you miss the mess and constant maintenance!</end quote></div>

Keeps life simple, and I don't have to spend a bunch of $$$ building a mud monster!!!

Besides, there is just this "redneck" image I get whenever I think of mudding...and I just can't shake that. Actually, a decade ago around here you were considered a redneck if you even rode a utility...can't seem to shake that either! That's changed, but the Rhino type machines are quickly replacing utilities around here anyway (nice to have a rollcage!)...

 

WELL GUYS THANKS FOR THE INFO. I WAS PLANNING ON GOING FOR THE 450 FOR THE IRS, DIFF LOCK, AUTO, ETC BUT JUST GOT DEAL ON A 500 A-CAT FOR BETTER $. NOW BACK TO WHERE I WAS IN THE BEGINNING. JUST HAVE TO GET OUT AND RIDE EM TO DECIDE. AGAIN THANKS FOR THE INFO.

 

If they keep making these UTVs biger and faster than why not just call them a "Sand Rail"?

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: reconranger

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: FLOYD987OK LET ME ASK YOU THIS. WITH ONLY 6.5 INCHES OF GROUND CLEARANCE (420) COMPARED TO THE 10.5 (450) HOW DO YOU GET THRU THE TRAILS?</end quote></div>



First off, I ride in the southwest and mud is nonexistent here (thank God!)....so I have no experience with that.



Most of the 4X4 type riding I do is tight semi-technical woods trail and rock crawling type stuff. This is big rock crawling country, and nobody seems to think it's a big deal when a solid axle Jeep skids its way over a rock (it's part of the tactics).....so why should it be any different with a quad??? This is the stuff I ride ( http://jeep.off-road.com/jeep/...leDetail.jsp?id=330535 ), and believe me I do way better than those Jeeps ever do! </end quote></div>

Recon, I'd like to ride there sometime. But now take those pictures and add a nice thick layer of mud on those rocks and that's the type of stuff we ride in eastern mountain ranges during the wet seasons. The mud gets so thick on the footpegs and floorboards that shifting can potentially become a problem on ATVs so equipped.