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Hey guys what bbr did with John Deere is no different than the alliance that suzuki kawasaki and a/c. It gives bbr a chance to put out more of there products at established locations with a very established name.

 

I just bought one - a John Deere 650 Trail Buck EX and hopefully I'll take delivery on it tomorrow. I'll let you know what I think. I ordered it with a 60" plow and we've got a blizzard on the way. Guess I'll find out how it all works pretty quick.
I'll be back!
roadie

 

You will find it works well. I have a Moose 60" County plow and it works great.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

I recently took a trip to south eastern washington in the blue moutains. From my travels I noticed something, about the only buisness you see are ag shops feed stores and gas stations. What this alliance does is this, it allows very low populated areas such as agricultural areas to have an atv shop by selling them at an already existing farming equipment store, where a bike shop alone wouldn't do enough buisness alone to stay open. Artic cat also does this overseas with another tractor company but I can't rember which one. I just wish they would make a John Deere version of the ds 650 only thing is what goofy name would they call it.

 

I was surprised the outlander didn't show up in JD green. There are a lot of rummors in reguards to an Outlander 800 EFI V-twin comming in the spring. I grew up running JD tractors on our farm and would love to have a JD ATV just for the navilty of it. But I want it to be somthing I would like to ride. The outlanders trailing are style rear IRS suspension is suposed to be the best IRS design out there. all the JD's seem overly utility oriented, thats even what the JD dealer told me "that you can trail ride them but they were mainly designed for more utility uses". I would have bought one just for the sake of having a JD quad but they were so darn expesive, I liked the 5 speed auto 500 buck xt but it cost about 8 grand for a 500, when I have been buying 700's for just over 6200.00. I would have paid the extra for the JD green if they would give me somthing I realy want.

 

Arctic Cat teamed up with Massey Ferguson I believe.

 

Bingo

 

Hope deferred!

Well delivery was supposed to be today, but alas, the bike never arrived. Too bad - we just got about a foot and a half of snow and that plow would come in VERY handy! It's STILL snowing! AAAghhh!

Like I mentioned, I rode a 650 JD around in the snow, up and down hills - even went up one backwards. I also rode a BF 750 and the Prairie 700 - both amazing bikes. But I like the JD, it lacks the off the line grunt of the other two and the IRS, but the JD climbs like a monkey and feels as solid as a rock. Another selling point is the Rotax engine has hydraulic lifters - no valve adjustments. According to my research on the Bomb site and elsewhere, the Rotax engine (both the 500 and the 650), are supposed to be reliable, low maintence, and get good gas mileage. Since I bought one, guess I'll find out!

The JD is Deere's version of the Bombardier Traxter - same thing, different badging and paint. I like everything about the bike but the ground clearance (7.5" at the trailer hitch), and the fact that it doesn't have the ability to go into 2 wheel drive. Other than that the 650 has a lot of go power, the engine is easy to get to, and the bike rides good.

Like I said in my earlier post - I'll write up a review as soon as I can.

roadie

 

I also have a John Deere 4100 Compact Tractor. I was hoping that the John Deere version of a ATV would have front, mid and rear PTO's. That would open a whole new market for accessories.