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Took the wife out to Lake Murray atv Park in Oklahoma yesterday for her first ride. She has a 2017 Sportsman 570 and I have a 2017 Sportsman 850.

Only rode for a couple hours, put about 8 miles on the bikes. She got stuck 1 time, between a rock and a hard place, three wheeled it in a few places, but all in all she did well for her first ride!

Both bikes performed perfectly with no mechanical issues, leaks, or other problems.

We were the only 2 out there on the trails which was nice for a teaching session. Didn’t have to worry about traffic.

I’d say it was a great first ride together and look forward to many more.

I just installed the quiet cores for dual exhaust on 17'.

Holy crap do these things work amazingly well. I want to say the bike is back to stock decibel level, but still sounds a bit meaner. The sound of the exhaust without the quiet cores began to give me ear fatigue as well as take away from me jamming my music.

Now I have both of the best world's with the badass look/performance of the exhaust and the (near) sound of a stock bike. Def recommend.

Hey Folks, I have a 2016 Polaris Sportsman Touring 570 EPS with 4x4 drivetrain. When I start my rig up and shift into reverse or drive and start to accelerate there is brief pause in engagement of the tranny and it hits quite hard once it engages. Is this normal with the shaft driven atv's? I have a belt drive Trail boss that doesn't do that. I only have 500 miles on it and its done that since day 1.
Any help would be appreciated.

I have a 2018 HD8 Defender and I was wondering if anyone has put the same size wheel and tire on the front to match the rear?

Has anyone found a rear rack extender that will fit the 2010 Polaris Sportsman 500? Looking for just the basic bar type but nothing is advertised that it will fit it. any ideas welcome. Thanks

I've heard allot of 2 stroke guys will remove the head gasket to bump the C/R up.

The shop manual says the Xplorer 300 has a C/R of something like 6.7:1. Why so low?

I've read about squish bands and all but that's sounds like something easily screwed up if your not careful.

Any of you guys ever fooled around with this engine? Shaving the head, squish bands, etc.

I submerged my Polaris Ranger 570 in water on Friday. Got water in the motor but change the oil 3 time to get all the water out. Run fine for about 30 miles. Polaris died on me Sunday morning going in to hunt. Had to be towed back to camp. It made a noise like a chain coming off the sprocket then died. Nothing works on it. No lights, No Start, just makes a clicking noise like the battery is dead but the battery is OK. When I turn on the key the dash lights flicker. And If I try to start it it only make a click noise.

So I sunk my bike.
Followed all the steps to drain the water. Then Changed my motor oil, demand drive and tranny/rear end oil. Put a new spark plug in and coated all connection with Dielectric grease but it still won’t fire up. Tonight I’m going to drain the gas tank and switch out the gas. But I do t think that’s the issue but need to rule that out.
Am I missing something