took my quad up to maine last week and got a LOT of crawling around rocks, stumps and deep deep mud. figured i would give my opinion on what ive found so far. so here it goes
first off i will say 99% of my riding was in low gear hauling logs and lumber through the woods. i went in bud over my floor boards and i totally forgot to put it in 4 wheel drive!!
when i was in the grass and mud. i punched the throttle once…. thats all it took. and the machine stood straight up in the mud! these things bite hard and pull.
i could not tell any difference in the weight at all. but i did notice when i was around 3800 rpm just riding through the woods i thought my tires would be spinning like mad, but they were just crawling through the mud. lots and lots of traction!!
i only put it in high once when i got onto the fire road and it took a little bit.. again im being very very picky. little bit more throttle to get moving. but once i was doing 10mph i could wack the throttle and the machine would rip!
as far as smoothness goes. does not matter the speed at all. it was not rough at all. no handle bar shaking or anything!
overall 100% happy with these and i cant wait to get more high speed miles on them!!!