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Jul 18, 2008 | 09:43 AM
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Where is Walker Valley?
The one huge drawback I see to the Rincon is that it has no engine braking below 8 mph. This means that on a nasty technical descent, the rider has to be manipulating the brakes, rather than just puting it in a low gear and crawling down the hill on engine compression.
It is true, Honda markets the Rincon as an "SUV", and not a pure "utility" quad (or even a sport ute for that matter). The machine does get widely reviewed as having an excellent ride...some say the best there is! I see this machine as a comfy cruiser aimed at the aging baby boomer market, and not at those who plan to do highly technical riding. (How many of you want to go rock crawling in your SUV's???).
After you have ridden it a while, please give us your oppinion on how these feature work out for you personally.
The one huge drawback I see to the Rincon is that it has no engine braking below 8 mph. This means that on a nasty technical descent, the rider has to be manipulating the brakes, rather than just puting it in a low gear and crawling down the hill on engine compression.
It is true, Honda markets the Rincon as an "SUV", and not a pure "utility" quad (or even a sport ute for that matter). The machine does get widely reviewed as having an excellent ride...some say the best there is! I see this machine as a comfy cruiser aimed at the aging baby boomer market, and not at those who plan to do highly technical riding. (How many of you want to go rock crawling in your SUV's???).
After you have ridden it a while, please give us your oppinion on how these feature work out for you personally.
Jul 18, 2008 | 12:50 PM
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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: reconranger
Where is Walker Valley?
The one huge drawback I see to the Rincon is that it has no engine braking below 8 mph. This means that on a nasty technical descent, the rider has to be manipulating the brakes, rather than just puting it in a low gear and crawling down the hill on engine compression.
It is true, Honda markets the Rincon as an "SUV", and not a pure "utility" quad (or even a sport ute for that matter). The machine does get widely reviewed as having an excellent ride...some say the best there is! I see this machine as a comfy cruiser aimed at the aging baby boomer market, and not at those who plan to do highly technical riding. (How many of you want to go rock crawling in your SUV's???).
After you have ridden it a while, please give us your oppinion on how these feature work out for you personally.</end quote></div>
Walker Valley is an ORV Park in North West Washington, as for braking I can tell you it's not my Rancher but the engine did hold 6 MPH on a 20% grade, anything more then that and I was lightly using the back brake. The clearance of the Rincon and IRS allowed me to use the trails my Rancher never went on.
I will post more detail once I have some good seat time
Where is Walker Valley?
The one huge drawback I see to the Rincon is that it has no engine braking below 8 mph. This means that on a nasty technical descent, the rider has to be manipulating the brakes, rather than just puting it in a low gear and crawling down the hill on engine compression.
It is true, Honda markets the Rincon as an "SUV", and not a pure "utility" quad (or even a sport ute for that matter). The machine does get widely reviewed as having an excellent ride...some say the best there is! I see this machine as a comfy cruiser aimed at the aging baby boomer market, and not at those who plan to do highly technical riding. (How many of you want to go rock crawling in your SUV's???).
After you have ridden it a while, please give us your oppinion on how these feature work out for you personally.</end quote></div>
Walker Valley is an ORV Park in North West Washington, as for braking I can tell you it's not my Rancher but the engine did hold 6 MPH on a 20% grade, anything more then that and I was lightly using the back brake. The clearance of the Rincon and IRS allowed me to use the trails my Rancher never went on.
I will post more detail once I have some good seat time
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Jul 19, 2008 | 08:41 AM
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The 680 seems to be programmed to shift down sooner (at higher RPM) when you back off the throttle, and shifts firmer than the 650. At throttle fully closed, it seems to go to 1st with torque converter locked pretty quickly in auto mode, which is what it would do if you stuck it in 1st.
Reconranger, if you ever get up in northern Oregon let me know. I suspect if you got some good seat time on a 680 you would still feel it could use more low speed engine braking (as I feel) but that it isn't as bad as you have been lead to believe.
Though it might not be the right machine for you, it does have it's strong points.
Reconranger, if you ever get up in northern Oregon let me know. I suspect if you got some good seat time on a 680 you would still feel it could use more low speed engine braking (as I feel) but that it isn't as bad as you have been lead to believe.
Though it might not be the right machine for you, it does have it's strong points.
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