A buddy of mine has a 02' Foreman that has 4000 miles on it. Already had the motor rebuilt, but it's been through hell.


There is also a gas well checker up here that has a 2000 model Foreman or Rancher and it has something like 18-19K on it. Nothing major done to it just basic maintence.

 

Hi i just made the account and the most i have seen is over 5500+mi on my friends 2014 honda forman

 

Apparently nobody cared about this topic for over 12 years until now. I have seen quads with 20,000 miles on them. But as one of the posts from back in 2004 said, the person with 50,000 miles must have rode the thing all day every day. I looked at a used Polaris Sportsman 800 recently at my local dealer until I saw it had over 8000 miles on it. I quickly passed on it and ended up buying the Brute Force that was 5 years older but had almost 7000 less miles on it, 1335 in fact when I bought it 2 months ago. It will take me several years to get my Brute to that mileage, maybe close to 10 if I keep it that long.

 

Most I've seen was on the Honda Rubicon, Specta had up until a couple years ago. He had over 16,000 miles on it. Finally broke down when we were riding with him out on the Paiute Trails in 2013. Even then it was only a tie rod end. Trails are a lot less abusive there than in New England. I would love to have one of each brand and live where he lives right on the trail. It's not hard at all to put 100 plus miles on out there. Here it's a 10 hour ride to get up there.

 

I have 7,000+ miles on my 01 AC 500 and 4,000 miles on my 2002 AC 400. I think the reason those model AC's are so durable, they hold almost 4qts of oil! I'll bet the Suzukis that use the same motors are equally as tough. I suspect the AC's with the bigger motors, like the 1000 cc models are not as tough.

 

Those engines weren't tuned to try to make max hp like some of the newer engines too. The 5 speed semi-auto transmission like in yours and the semi-auto Vinson models probably helped reliability as well. I doubt we'll see any 1000cc engines with 20,000 miles on them unless they have been rebuilt multiple times. Especially these new turbo 1000cc hp kings. I'll bet 5000 miles and those engines are finished. When you have that much power, its tempting not to be hard on the throttle all the time. Its fun to do but hard on the engine. Even in my Brute, I find myself opening it up a bit when I get an open spot. I try not to stay hard on the throttle for more than a few seconds at a time though but its fun to let it stretch its legs every once in a while. A few seconds is all I usually can manage anyway before I have to slow down or hit a rough spot and be thrown over the bars anyway. Still punching it from 15 to 40 mph in about 3 seconds is quite a rush.

 

Greg, I was somewhat surprised when I put my 500 on a Mustang dyno. We dynoed in 4 th gear and it turned 8,500 and was still pulling. Dyno operator said flywheel hp was just under 40, but torque was 50 ft/lbs, max hp was at 6,500-7,000 rpms. They are not as quick as a CanAm or Polaris 570, but with 30 Mudzillas , a Web Racing cam and a 5 degree advance timing key it will hit 60 mph. My AC 400 will hit 57 mph with 25" tires, mostly stock.

 

Obviously you've done some mods to your 500 but that's still pretty impressive numbers. That's close to what the Cat 650 H1 engine makes. The Grizzly 660 I had before would top out at 62 mph and that was with stock tires. So your 500 would have probably kept up with it with stock tires on it. Not bad at all. Would probably not be too far behind my Brute Force if you put some stock tires on it. Here's a chart showing some hp ratings, granted its 4 years old so only the AC 1000 is on there as it was the only 1000cc quad at the time. My Brute Force has a little less than what I thought, only slightly more than the Grizzly 660. Still 41.4 hp stock is more than sufficient for me. The irs models got 5 more hp though, seems odd to me. http://www.arcticchat.com/forum/gene...p-ratings.html

 

i have a 2005 Honda rubicon 500 and it has 7589 miles on it the motor and carburetor and motor have never had an issue the only thing I have done is front end stuff cv joints wheel bearings exc.. very happy with my honda I've had it sense new

 

I have some friends that live up in Michigan way out in the boonies, 5 miles from the main road where there mailbox is located. Back in 1989 the father bought a Yamaha 4 wheeler to ride to the mailbox to pick up the mail and newspaper everyday. Now they don't deliver mail on sundays or holidays and it is a 10 mile round trip to the maibox and back home so do the math..
That come to 3000 miles per year, x 27 years just going to the mailbox and back not counting other errands the machine was used for. The machine is still in use today, the top end has been redone a couple times and many bearings and steering arms have been replaced. There is no odometer on the machine, they didn't put them on back then. The fellow that owns it says he figures there is about 80,000 or more miles on it. They have newer machines that they ride but the old Yammy still makes its daily trek to the mailbox everyday!