Well, my daughter’s birthday is coming up early next month. She’ll be five. We hadn’t given much thought about what to get her. We’re sort of procrastinators…. lol. Anyway, my wife was pouring over the FB garage sale sites as usual. She sent me a screen shot of an ad she came across for a used pink ’16 Outlaw 50 and said something about how she wished Sis was ready for a machine. I thought about it and figured now is a good a time as any. My son was a little younger than my daughter when Santa got him his first machine. I messaged the guy back and forth a few times and found out this machine is part of the carnage of a relationship gone bad. He said it was still on the first tank of gas when things went south. He has no kids of his own, so he was motivated to sell and came down from $1,600 to $1,450. I called one of our local Polaris dealers and asked what their leftover 16 Outlaw 50’s are going for. They didn’t have any left but said $1,900 was what they had been going for. So I thought $1,450 was a very fair price (if not low) assuming the machine was what he said it was.
My wife and I had someone watch the kids and went to look at it. It’s like a brand new machine that has been sitting on the showroom floor awhile. Just a little dust on the motor and all the titties are still on the traveled surface area of the tires. This thing had barely been ridden and if he had told me it had never been ridden, I probably would have believed him. We bought it the next day and took it down to my in-laws place where it will stay until her birthday party.
This is gonna be rough on me….. I have to wait a WHOLE MONTH before we can give it to her!!!! I already can’t stand it!!!! Lord, help me………….
I just bought a excellent condition 250x from a buddy of mine for a steal, its ran perfect for two months or so but my bearings in my axle are shitting on me and I’m completely going to re-do the bike anyways.
Its hard for me to find extended +4 axles for my 250x 87′ so is there any other axles, swingarms, a-arms, etc that fit 250x’s.
Got the new defender home last week. Been using it for chores and couple fishing trips. Will be changing a few things to make it better for what I use it for. Half windshield is nice when its warm but other evening coming home from the river the cold air would circulate up to top of roof and hit back window and my neck and shoulders got cold. Need full windshield fall to spring. Fine trail dust on everything in the box behind cab but cab stays dust free. In summer think I will be putting on the back window, wind screen, to let some air through and maybe help with the vortex.
HD8 has plenty of power for me as I’m not in a hurry to get anywhere.
Really like all the inside storage.
Another item I will probably get is the LinQ cargo rack. Thinking it will be better for packing fence posts around rather than having to drop the tail gate.
Back bumper is another item as no protection and might even put some mud flaps on as notice the tires like to fling road rocks.
Very happy with it so far with 46 miles on the clock.
Got the new defender home last week. Been using it for chores and couple fishing trips. Will be changing a few things to make it better for what I use it for. Half windshield is nice when its warm but other evening coming home from the river the cold air would circulate up to top of roof and hit back window and my neck and shoulders got cold. Need full windshield fall to spring. Fine trail dust on everything in the box behind cab but cab stays dust free. In summer think I will be putting on the back window, wind screen, to let some air through and maybe help with the vortex.
HD8 has plenty of power for me as I’m not in a hurry to get anywhere.
Really like all the inside storage.
Another item I will probably get is the LinQ cargo rack. Thinking it will be better for packing fence posts around rather than having to drop the tail gate.
Back bumper is another item as no protection and might even put some mud flaps on as notice the tires like to fling road rocks.
Very happy with it so far with 46 miles on the clock.
I recently purchased my first atv. It’s a 2005 Sportsman 800. I have no idea what made look inside the pod, however when I pulled the plastic I noticed this plug hanging. Any idea what it’s for?
I recently purchased my first atv. It’s a 2005 Sportsman 800. I have no idea what made look inside the pod, however when I pulled the plastic I noticed this plug hanging. Any idea what it’s for?
