Originally posted by: cc1999
Mikey, if the new wolverine is anything like my old Kodiac from which its chassis came from I don't think its going to work out as well as what you have. The Kodiac I had weighed only 36lbs more, as I recall from a few months ago when the new Wolverine was first anounced It looked like my old kodiac with new plastic and smaller tires, so I started digging into the spec's of the old SRA kodiac vs the new Wolverine. It was clear they were the same machine other than the tires and plastic. I also recall the new 450 wolverine has only 420cc compared to the kodiac I had that had 401cc's. I sold that kodiac to a buddy of mine and the Prairie 650 just waxes the poor Kodiac. Its not even in the same ballpark as the Prairie. I myself out way my buddy buy more than 50 pounds and its not even funny how bad the prairie beats the Kodiac. I have a hard time beleaving the new Wolverine version even with the diet and the extra 19cc's is realy going to make much differnce. I know the tires are going to be a little bit better in the weight department but I doubt the old dunlops that are on my old Kodiac weigh more than a pound or so more than the new wolverine tire. The unsprung weight is more important than the sprung weight, but even that small gain is IMO not likely to make up much of the ground needed to run with a P650, or a P700. It I think you would be facing an uphill battle the whole way to getting much in the way of Kawi twin performance out of the Wolverine.