Originally posted by: brpbear
Polaris's are death traps going down hill I should know I owned four of them. They would not be so dangerous if they had a split braking.

Originally posted by: TLC
So is it the bike fault or yours? I guess the hills in Northern Ontario Canada must just be so easy I never notice this death trap thing going down them.


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Even going down hills on a KX 250 motocross with only "ONE" rear wheel engine braking seemed like no big deal.

Originally posted by: 800TwinEFI
I haven't really found the whole death trap thing either. I'm kinda curious though brpbear, if you felt it was a deathrap, then why did you buy that brand four times? Yeah...I know. Because it was the fastest thing at the time. I remember from a prior similar thread. However, if it was truly a deathtrap, you wouldn't have done it.

You also had them break down constantly, but you still bought all four. Also because they were the fastest out there.

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To each their own. I live in the west and ride in the moutains. And I'm actually getting ready to purcahse another popo. Maybe. Haven't decided for sure. It will be either another popo or a kingquad. I was going to do the girzz until I heard about the boiling gas and the cold start problems.

Originally posted by: CaptainQuint
I ride a Polaris every day and I find the AWD system ok but annoying. I can feel the slip as it engages. It is really noticeable as I am picking my way though slippery woods trails and logs and situations like that. It doesn't necessarily cause a performance problem but I do find it annoying. After living with it for a while I think I prefer a standard locking front differential. I definitely prefer a standard system for descending hills. I really don't like the 2 wheel engine braking. The people I've talked to aren't thrilled with the new 4 wheel system on the high end Sportsmans either. I haven't rode the new active decent control models enough to really give it a work out on steep trails but all I can say so far is that it is better than it was. The old models were downright frightening to ride on steep hills.

As far as the Can-Am visco-lok as much as Can-Am would like to tout it as the end all - it isn't. The more I rode it the more I realized it. It works ok but having to constantly spin the front wheels to lock the front differential makes for a problematic ride. It has its good points. It is an excellent mode for a lot of riding situations. However, there are far too many situations like slow speed trail riding through the woods where you are crossing logs or you are negotiating very rough terrain you simply can't be winding up the front differential over and over to lock the front differential. It can be downright dangerous sometimes. Can-Am desperately needs to have an over ride switch to allow the rider to manually lock the front differential. Other than that the Can-Am is a truly outstanding machine. The front differential cripples it. For my purposes anyway.

Originally posted by: brpbear
Sounds to me like you need to come out west where their are some real hills. On a real hill the only safe way to come down is to hold the brake and give them gas at the same time how safe is that.I did not mined that when they had some performance but when the Vee twins started going by who wants to ride something that's unsafe.

Originally posted by: brpbear
I have a 06 outty with 5200miles that I'm real happy with.If you have a 06 Polaris that has less miles and you want to trade it. You answered the reliability question your self.