ive looked at a few gizz 660 and they all seam very tope heavy. are they bad on side hils? the new kodiak 450 irs it feals tipy to is it tipy on hils to?

 

If you are too tight to buy a set of aftermarket wheels, like ITP C-Series wheels, then you may feel the need to complain. Wheels for ATVs are pretty cheap though, and for $275 you can completely fix any tippyness symptoms. We use our ATVs in the mountains all the time, and spend a lot of time on sidehills, and they handle GREAT with the extra 4" of track width that the aftermarket wheels provide.

 

r u impresed with the grizz does it handle good

 

I am very comfortable with the handling on my Grizzly. And in certain circumstances I can run away from my son on his YFZ. I am talking about very very rough and very rocky trails that are not so tight that I have to back off on the throttle. The fully independent suspension combined with big soft 27" Super Swamper Vampire tires just seems to eat rocks like they aren't even there. You can nail a 1 foot diameter rock at wide open throttle and not have it deflect the ATV at all, and not even have it be felt too badly. It is pretty amazing some of the very rough terrain you can just fly across on a Grizzly.

Other trail conditions, such as sand whoops, tight turns, and any place that favors a high power to weight ratio will see the YFZ eat the Grizzly for lunch though [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

The Griz handles great, you just have to realize that IRS is different than a solid axle and get used to it. As I have said many times, I power slide my Griz all the time and have yet to get the inside wheels off the ground. I also think that with the proper body english, you can actually be quicker in the turns than a solid axle quad. I don't have aftermarket wheeles, yet, but I'm sure it will be even more awsome with the wider stance. I was planning on racing the Griz in MX just to prove it can keep up with the sport quads on everything but the jumps and big woops, but it will have to wait til next year.
Don't mistake the sway of IRS with tippyness, besides, the ride of an IRS quad compared to a solid axle quad is like the differance between a 1975 Jeep and a 2004 1/2 ton pick-up. I'll take the smooth ride any day.

 

thaks for the info i was lokking into the grizz 660 or the kodiak 450 but then i seen a grizz 600 for sale mint condition so i went whith that but the grizz 660 still impressis me ive bean toled the 660 get to hot evan whith the new colling kit is this true

 

No it's not.

 

wat kind of tire u run on it

 

I'm still running the stock tires and wheeles. They suck but I'm going to wait til I get back from the desert to change them. I have some dirt roads around my place with 90 degree off-camber turns and cand do about 45 mph side ways with no fear of tipping over. You just have to stay on the gas and keep your weight to the inside just like any other bike. I just wish it could jump a little better. It bottoms hard on anything that isn't perfectly smooth. I know it wasn't made to jump, but I still wish it could.

 

Starky is right about the handling characteristics of an IRS equipped ATV. They have what I call "power on" handling, meaning that if you want to rail a turn, or powerslide, be sure to do it with the gas on. This should be a no brainer, but a lot of first time IRS riders don't seem to get it, and will try to brake through a turn, or coast through a turn, and then they get spooked because they think the IRS suspended ATV is going to lean right over on its side. That shows inexperience, because all they need to do in that situation is nail the throttle, which squats the rear end, lifts the front end, and makes the ATV snap right around the turn with the back end drifting out in a perfect powerslide. IRS suspended ATVs are more sensitive to throttle application in turns than a solid rear axle ATV. A solid rear axle ATV corners better with the throttle on, but an IRS suspended ATV corners a whole lot better with the throttle on. With IRS you want to get into the habit of braking before the turn, and not in the turn.