Amen brother. And tecate4fun, you'd be quite suprised what a Prairie 650-700 can do against anything lesser than a 400EX that isn't heavily modded.

 

Myself, I justified buying my Prairie because it is also my lawn mower (I got a nice belly mower for it) and my snow remover. A sport bike just wouldn't suffice for this.

 

Tecate4fun - All the replys here should give you a good answer.... and the Prairie is really the only bike that fills this bill..... It does it all very well! On my P700, I can 2wd sport with the sport bikes.. and as most have said beat anything but the 400cc and below... and still show a respectible run against the big bore sport bikes.... I can blast through mud, and steep hills, over logs.. and go through areas the sports would NEVER dream of .... I can also plow snow, haul firewood, tow my trailers, drag logs..... etc... My P700 has done everything I have asked it to do.

Why would I want a bike I can't use much, or only for one purpose.... that's why I sold my Hayabusa to get the P700!!!

 

We have our prairies because the suit our riding style. We don't desire to go ripping through the trees. We ride lots of trails that require 4x4 because of steepness, rocks, mud and snow. A great example of how poorly a sport quad would do where we ride is last father’s day we went on a ride and my buddy rented a quad so his dad could go with us. Well not knowing any better he rented a warrior (I think). I eventually let him ride the p360 and I rode it. Well not only did we spend a ton of time pulling it through the snowy areas it was a real pain in the rocks and beat the crap out of me. After about 20 miles of that I said screw him and took the prairie back! Of course on the way out he wrecked it trying to get around some slippery rocks. It was allot of fun in the easy stuff but really sucked otherwise. I'm sure it would have been a blast on the track or more MX oriented areas. Also we had to carry his extra gas, lunch and extra clothing since there was no rack space.

I think the key is we all have the quads that suit where and how we ride.

 

Hunting, rock crawling, mud riding, hauling, pulling, trail riding.

 

Vengence - I have seen two strokes go where utes can't. They are too slow to make it.

 

Like where!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are several Prairie on this board that are scary fast. If your talking about sand hills I have seen a Prairie with Paddle masters climb Choke Cherry no problem so other than something truely out there like water skimming I can't think of any place you could take a two stroke that some of these prairies couldn't go.

 

Oh come on. If I have to go to hell and back, I'm doing it on a Prairie[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

i think he ment into the shop to get worked on

 

If we are talking about hill climbing then you are full of sh@t. The prairie can climb any hill with ease when those 2-strokers just spin all the way up.