I guy I ride with owns a Polaris Dealership in my town. He rides a Raptor.

 

Your neighbor has some major math problems he needs to work on. I KILL 400EXs with my 500.

 

They haven't been able to sell any of those Raptors here. Two of them have been sitting on the floor for 3 weeks. I think it has more to do with the price, though. The bike looks bad to the bone to me.

 

WELL, that tells me you DO NOT RIDE MUCH. We ride with them and EVERYTIME we do at least one fails. Once, while riding at Sharp's Bottom, I pulled a Sportsman around with a snapped rear joint. On the way to the truck with it, another went down with a stuck throttle and I wound up pushing it. Pulling one while pushing another! Now that I think about it, maybe that explains my belt problems on my Prairie. Those Polarises are wearing my Prairie out, alright. I guess I really got sick of them when I had a new, off the floor, Scrambler 400 4x4. It took me for a ride, alright! Everything failed on it. Even the seat!?!?! I chalked that lesson up to this...never buy anything in its first year of production. They've got the bugs out of that machine now.

 

You're absolutely right, man. I was killing those hopped up 350Xs and 400EXs and whatever else. Not to mention some fool on a 400 Sport (never did see him again). I had some kind of stutter in my bike but kept riding and winning. I finally took it and had a leak-down test run on it and discovered it to be at 90% leak-down. In other words, seriously wounded and almost shot but still running away from the others.

 

Most definitely a good way to get hurt, quick. Any of these above mentioned bikes have the ability to reach up and bite you. Any of them.

 

I Am Not Going to Get Either Qaud i was looking in the newsapaper and i seen a '88 Quadzila 500 Extremely Modfied very Fast owner said it would go about 105Mph.

 

A 13 year old on a 105 mph quad. Come on, where are your parents?

 

105...........bull....no way bansheeboy8........man i'm 14 and i go riding all the time with A 400ex, 300ex, mojave, 250x, rancher, suzuki 160,suzuki 300 , warrior and i've rode them all.really like the ex's the best.if i was you i would go for something like the 300ex or mojave.i'm looking to upgrade to a 300ex after my suki.one day we met a polaris 325 caught on fire.burnt a bunch of wires a little plastic.even tho it burnt about 2 wires after we found some more oil for it it fired back up.then back when spring of last year some arctic cats were playing in the mud.a 300 4x4 went through a mudhole about an inch over the handlebars.it died and had to be pulled out.it didn't start for the rest of the day.then a honda 450 foreman came by and went right through it.i'm not saying i don't like any of these companies,in fact i like some models from each atv companies,but some of them do have their reliability problems.

 

If you know a guy who owns a polaris dealership, but rides a Raptor then he obviously doesn't need the dealership to make a living, cause that's just bad for business.