Hi
New member to this site. Thinking about buying a Rincon and was wondering if anyone has used one for plowing snow? Most of the time it would be on the trails, but I would like to hear if anyone has used one with a plow and how it worked.
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Welcome...I'm sure the Rincon would be a good for plowing snow, I have a plow on my wife's 250 EX, and it does great!

 

Read a post in alt.atv from a guy in N. Wisconsin who reported his worked fine for this. He also had quite a few miles on it already and was bragging it up pretty good. I also know it's not been a banner snow year here in the midwest. So unless he is up near the big lakes, he hasn't pushed THAT much snow with it. As a tech who's worked on a few of them, I can tell you that the Rincon Tran takes a lot of warming up, Even longer than the engine in the wintertime. So I would plan on a 15 minute ride before you begin to plow snow. Also the oil visc is real important in the cold. Run 0w30 definitely in the wintertime (shop manual says it's good to 70F). I can also tell you that I have personally started Rincons in below zero conditions many times, as cold as -20F. They are great cold weather starters but you will have to use the primer on the carb, you know , the one the sales guys always forget to tell you about. Three pumps, full choke and they fire right up. I suspect the Rincon will be fine pushing a little snow around once in awhile, be interesting to have some feedback though.

 

well I sure don't have any snow plowing expirence, but it seems to me that the first gear on the rincon is very high for doing much more than trail riding. I have 3 rincons and two 450 foreman (and a bunch of ranchers) and would say that we use the foreman for just about all utility work.

for over all riding its real tough to go from the rincon to any of our other bikes. just too big of a step back. Perhaps it can make the difference of gearing up with power though. Its way more than the foreman...

 

Agree with you Maui. Right machine for right purpose, and don't think Honda intended the rinnie to be a utility machine. And the 450 makes a darn fine workhorse.

 

Thanks for the info. Is the engine braking as non-existent as all the posts that I am reading?

 

the engine breakings biggest problem would be that the gears are so tall you could use a jake brake on it and not slow it down. You need to realize that to call the rincon a utility bike is a joke. Its a trail bike pure and simple. Most of the time I don't even use the 4x4 unless I'm just trying to be kind to the trails. I would guess that most of the guys just don't have enough time and type to really comment fairly on it. If you're going down hill with some speed and just back off like you would a rancher or foreman, sure there is nothing there. But if you thumb the gas a bit you can lock up the converter going down hill and get some breaking. Still you're going to find that 1st gear is like 3rd on any other bike so you're stuck with that.

of course you could always try using the brakes.....

 

For engine brake helps to have idle speed set correctly 1400rpm plus or minus 100. Also if you tap the brake lever it will downshift itself. Still have found 8mph is about the best you can do for engine breaking on the rincon, while say a rubicon, on the same hill you can crawl down at 1mph.

 

Hi, I am condsidering a Rincon. I will use it for plowing a fair amount of snow. Based on this thread, am I better off with another quad like a grizzly or polaris?

Thanks

 

The Rincon will be fine pushing snow, I plowed last year several times and it works great. The only thing that I might add later is something to beef up the front springs but other than that this machine has no problem pushing the white stuff.

Cheers !