Sand Slinger 29x14x14 paddles on M23 Battle wheels on all four corners. I weighed the stock front tires/wheels at 38.7 and the Sand Slinger fronts/M23 at 37.6 lbs. The stock rear/wheel was 44.9 lbs and the Sand Slinger/M23 rear was 46.8 lbs. Pretty darn close to stock.
The Sand Slingers are just a tad taller..which should be a good thing to avoid the belly slapping and the extra float.
Sand Slinger 29x14x14 M23 and stock
Tested them at Glamis. The 29" EFX SandSlingers worked out excellent on my stock 2015 XP1000. Ran on 2WD for 98% of the time, and only used 4WD when I had a full sized passenger and a long steep climb, getting out from digging in some soft sand, and once while figuring my way out of some tight and short steep virgin soft sand dunes. Otherwise, 2WD it was!
Ended up with 6 lbs in the rear and 10 lbs in the front. Spinning the rear with this set-up took some effort and a lot of throttle. While messing around camp, I increased the fronts to 15 lbs and it did seem to help the steering. Will experiment with more rear pressure to find a balance between traction, spin-ability, and slide-ability.
My first attempt at Olds with a 220 LBS passenger ended up with my belt blowing up around 2/3 of the way up. Did not expect this one bit as I had kept my eye on the belt temp gauge and it never went over 210 degrees and averaged about 175 on all the rides before. The properly broken in belt did have two long non-stop hard runs before it blew up. Ended up riding with the belt cover off for the last two days. Huge difference in belt temperatures, never went above 150 degrees with the cover off and averaged around 135 degrees. Will be adding a boat bilge blower to the ducting of the belt cover as I am a bit worried that that sand may cause some damage to the clutch mechanism.
I had zero issues keeping up with all the fast group quad riders and the buggies, in fact, rode mostly just behind the leading quads and dirt-bikes. The paddles made a huge difference when compared to the air downed stock knobbies…no comparison. Way more traction and control with the paddles. No issues spinning the motor over 8K RPM with 6 lbs in the rear.
With a running start I made it up China Wall in 2WD and even caught some air off the top. I was riding solo. I ended up going up twice with a running start, did not do a standing start climb.
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For the $1050 to my doorstep and mounted on new sweet set of wheels…I am 100% satisfied with the performance of my 29" M23 SandSlinger paddle set.
