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Old Mar 7, 2005 | 01:57 PM
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Just my 2 cents...After all my research the pink spring seemed to be a good investment but to be quite honest I am extremely disappointed.

I have 26" mudlights on my P700. With my stock spring my top end was 57mph. With the pink spring it does pull a little harder through the mid range but my top speed is only 43 mph (My 250 bayou will do 43...) I will admit it wheelies much better but thats the only advantage I see with this spring. There seem to be those who love the pink spring as for me I pullin it out.
 
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Old Mar 7, 2005 | 05:55 PM
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Hey you should be going alot faster than 57mph anyway.Something besides the spring is holding you back. I have a p700 and my top speed is 67mph. Something else is not right. I also weigh 310 so unless you weigh 500 you have serious problems.
 
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Old Mar 7, 2005 | 07:09 PM
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Most people I know running the pink spring are using them on the Vforce. Most prairies run red,blue,orange/blue, plain white, and the 700 stocker. If you dont have many other mods like a CDI 57 sounds about right with those 26in mudlites (they will read low on the speedo anyway). A little faster with stockers.
 
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Old Mar 7, 2005 | 07:16 PM
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Thanks for the input...

With the stock tires i have reached 64mph on a flat straight road. I don't know many P700s tha can do much better (I have heard it may be due to the altitude) With the 26" mudlites
I'm lucky it to hit 60on a slight decline.
 
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Old Mar 7, 2005 | 09:37 PM
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revilo,
I live in UT as well, and 64 mph from a stock Prairie 700 is totally normal at this altitude. So 57 mph would be reasonable for a stock Prairie with 26" tires. With an aftermarket exhaust and airbox snorkel you can get back up to 64 mph with 26" tires, at least I did with 26" Holeshot ATRs when my Prairie 700 was still a 700.

I agree with you that the pink spring sucks though, but only because it doesn't do enough to improve performance because it is too wimpy of a spring. But I don't think the pink spring would drop your top speed from 57 to 43 mph, because it should only drop top speed by 2 to 3 mph at the most. You may want to look into other potential problems, such as jetting, air filter, CDI, etc. Good luck.

TG8
 
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Old Mar 7, 2005 | 10:29 PM
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TG800...where in Utah?

I'm going to go through it tomorrow and see if I can figure out what's going on. I am headed to San Raphel this weekend with a bunch of yamahas, polaris's and artic cats and I don't want to be lagging behind
 
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