What kind of terrain do you ride? How do you rate your breaking on downhilling? Do you recommend EBS or not?

 

The way we ride around here we climb some big ol hills every day, and from what I have heard is that the EBS causes your *** end to sling around if your coming down a hill.Like if you were to just mash in the rear brakes coming down the hill.I personaly like to use my back brakes and my front at the same time coming down a hill so I can keep my 4-wheeler straight....

 

From an eariler post:
I have a Sportsman 500 with EBS and a Scrambler 500 without. The EBS is nice and makes for a real nice ride most of the time. On most outings the brakes are rarely used. But, if you decend steep snow or mud covered hills, the EBS equiped machines are trickier to control. On many occasions, I've decended down steep snow cover hills, the back end is trying to brake and will "skid" because gravity overcomes traction. The same will occur in mud. Its not uncontrolable, but on a very steep incline, sometimes the rear will slide left or right and give an uncomfortable feeling. Its like stomping on the rear brakes while going down a hill. The only way to prevent this on these ocassions is to "goose" the throttle which depending on conditions, may be a problem. I would still recommend it, but until familar, be careful. You can't just freewheel down steep hills like a non-EBS machine.
Its no different than going decending with a automatic shifter type machine in a lower gear.
Now, if someone could come up with an electronic selectable (on-off) EBS that would be really useful.

 

I like the EBS,but it does get the
*** in light going down steep hills
like everyone talks about.But it does
save wear and tear on your breaks. I think so.
00 Sportsman 500

 

i heard this somewhere,, but i dont know if its true,,, if you have your sp in 4wd then do all four wheels use the engine braking when the back wheels start to slip,,,, it seems like it works cause when i plow my driveway(its a steep hill) i notice the back end locking up when i slow down,, but when its in 4wd i dont notice this... i really dont know........

 

if you do not use low range going down hill there is very little hold back. also you can put the trans in neutral and just use the brakes. i have EBS and a different size master cly which allows me better braking than stock. with the different master cly i can lock up the brakes with just 2 fingers.

 

It's all true. It does happen, but I still would rather have the EBS than to not have it.

The "trick" for 4 wheel holdback while going down steep hills really does work. But you really need to be very careful while using it. If one of your front wheels get hung up on something, you will have a problem.

Dave

 

Considering I've spent $500 if retro fitting my own with stainless braided line's, dual master cylinders, levers, and everything I'd say they are top notch!