Polaris scrambler 500 Freedom 4x4.

Where I ride, in an attempt to slow everyone down, they have what can only be described as "inverted whoops"... Anyway, I hit one pretty hard and it popped into neutral... Normal?

 

welcome to the site. look at the linkage to make sure its not all loose to make sureit was all the way in gear. i have actually hit the shifter with my leg before when i hit a bad bump.

 

Ah... Thank you so much... I didn't even realize that was possible. That may very well be what happened. I have noticed that having floorboards has certainly made my footing position very lazy

 

When I had Polaris machines I bumped my knee into the shift a couple of times.

 

I had a Scrambler 500 before. While I never had that problem, it didn't seem like it took that much to get it out of gear. You may have hit the shifter and not even noticed it. There's really nothing to keep you from it. It should have been designed so you can't possibly do it, like basically every other manufacturer did. It just sticks out there with nothing around it. At least on the newer Scrambler 850 and 1000 models, you don't get the crappy shifter.

 

Shift the lever to neutral position.Lever should be center of the shifting slot. If it's too far forward in the slot,just loosen the linkage nuts and adjust until it's centered then tighten the lock nuts.Not being fully engaged can cause one to slip out of gear also when you hit a jump.

 

Awesome insight... Thank you