Riding areas near St. Louis, MO? I have been to St. Joe State Park numerous times and I am looking for something different. I have looked on a website called riderplanet.com and found a few places, but many of them listed on the site were closed. Just wondering if anyone knows of something good.

I have two problems and hoping someone on here can help.

1) Utility box will not dump like it should. It use to work when I would pull up on Release Strap. Now it doesn’t. The back seat is up (for one person use). I pull the Release Strap and nothing. I have to take the main seat off, manually pull out the big black plastic piece at an angle, and finally pull strap to have the two black plastic J hooks come off the frame (sorry don’t know official part names). In other words when I pull the strap it releases the J hooks but not the main black plastic piece that the strap travels through. This is very frustrating as I can no longer use the box as a dump box.

2) Rear passenger seat no longer converts to a one seater. It did up till a couple weeks ago. I have the backrest up and it is locked cause it doesn’t want to fold back down. It doesn’t matter what position it is in (I believe there are three). Then there is the bottom position which technically isn’t a position as it isn’t suppose to lock so the seat can be folded down. This is extremely frustrating as I cant fully use the utility box when having one person on the quad.

Any thoughts / suggestions?

Just joined the group after buying my first ever ATV. Been riding dirt and street bikes for over 30 years and even though I still ride a Yamaha Super Tenere, and a KTM 300XC, I bought a 2 up 2016 Can Am Outlander 650 Max XT so that my wife could go along. She doesn’t like the motorcycles, but she really enjoys the Outlander.
Looking forward to reading the posts and picking up any info I can.
Enjoy your ride.

Joe

first, I’m sorry if this has been posted before. I have an outlander 1000xt thar I use almost exclusively for hunting. Our lease is unfortunately in a spillway so I need snorkels for summer time maintenance and such. does anyone know if the ‘snorkel my atv’ snorkels will work with the factory can-am front basket? I need a basket up front. please let me know if anyone has a solution for this.

Hey guys, I’m new to the forums but have been reading for years. Last week I traded my 2 Hondas, which is all I’ve ridden/known my entire life, for an 05 Sportsman 800. I fixed some issues with bearings and bushings which were bad but the clutch has me puzzled. I shredded a belt at low speed and when I replaced with an EPI severe duty, it now creeps much worse than it did and is impossible to put in gear while running. If I hold the break to stop creeping it squeals the belt. I found my belt is riding on the outside of the primary so I pulled the secondary to remove a shim. However there are no shims to remove. So through the forum I’ve narrowed it down to I have to move the motor. My question is: if I move the motor is it as simple as remove the bolts from all the motor mounts and moving it over until the belt can be aligned? And would it be possible/easier to have the secondary machined down some so it sits closer to the motor and where I can adjust with shims from there? I’ve already checked my idle rpm, front motor mount, cleaned up the primary, and double checked that my belt is correct. Any help would be appreciated as I’m getting pretty frustrated here. I’ve been deep inside my Hondas before so I’m fairly mechanically competent, but I’m flying by the seat of my pants with a CVT, so excuse my ignorance here. Thanks in advance

I bought a 2014 Grizzly 550 with one of these mid frame skids on it, and I noticed the inside lower fender skirt doesn’t attach to the plate. Anyone have a solution for this, I don’t like the skirt flapping around without being attached. Does the Ricochet fame skid attach to the inside fender?

I had to share this ,, its a great description of THE MIGHTY CAN AM

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I just couldn’t force myself and take uncledaddies advice and get some 10 buck used tires down at Joe’s tire palace.
Feast your eyes on these babies.
I also posted a picture of the front and rear wheel sizes.
You can clearly see the difference in the width.

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Post up some photos.

I read more than I post but read somewhere one of you guys broke the hitch off the rear of the ATV.
Had no idea it would work was getting ready to head to the boat landing about a mile from the house, someone mentioned just unload it with the ATV tried it, it worked. Spun a little pulling out but not much.

Just wondering what you guys have pulled with your ATVs.

Some ES issues that were traced to the gear position switch with the help of some nice folks on this site. My question for those familiar with the 02 Recon version, is it possible to remove the rear crankcase to access the GPS without removing the swingarm? Looks pretty tight in there.