New ATV
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10/01/23 08:08 PM
10/01/23 08:08 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 6,117 Rock Springs, WI
Zim
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Picked up our new atv the other day. It is a 2024 Honda Rubicon, pretty similar to my old one, just 21 years newer. lol Biggest changes are power steering, independent rear suspension and it is not full time 4 wheel drive. It rides real nice and will be our Sunday go to meetin' outfit, plowing snow, ice fishing and so on. The old one still runs great with 4500 miles on it and will continue to see the the rough stuff, getting firewood, dragging deer out of the brush, trapping, chained up for the winter, etc. Would not want to get a scratch on the new one. Zim
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Re: New ATV
[Re: Zim]
#7962410
10/01/23 08:32 PM
10/01/23 08:32 PM
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Joined: Aug 2023
Posts: 740 Wisconsin
Mediocre Trapper
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Nice Honda’s sure run a long time nice looking unit
Don’t waste the day
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Re: New ATV
[Re: Zim]
#7962413
10/01/23 08:36 PM
10/01/23 08:36 PM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 20,640 MN
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My 4 wheeler was bought on here about 15 years ago from JoshG and has been a GREAT machine. I admit, it has been worked HARD and had a rough life but just keeps going. It is some of the best money I ever spent.
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Re: New ATV
[Re: Zim]
#7962445
10/01/23 09:06 PM
10/01/23 09:06 PM
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Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 47,886 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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Nice Bike Zim. I use two hondas,my old 94 300 4 trax(still use it on the trapline) and my "new" 2006 420 rancher. I use the rancher for trapping and plowing snow at home in winter. Hondas are extremely reliable Bikes.
Last edited by Boco; 10/01/23 09:06 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: New ATV
[Re: Zim]
#7962520
10/02/23 12:22 AM
10/02/23 12:22 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,113 Goldsboro, North Carolina
Paul Dobbins
"Trapperman custodian"
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"Trapperman custodian"
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We had Honda Foreman 300 4 wheelers in Alaska in the late 80s. We used them on bombing range clearances where we'd drag 500 and 750 dud bombs in one location for detonation. They worked flawlessly. One didn't work well after one member tried to cross the Tanana river that was a tad too deep where the crossing was. Worked good once it was overhauled. LOL
John 14:6 Jesus answered, “ I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
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Re: New ATV
[Re: Zim]
#7962574
10/02/23 06:27 AM
10/02/23 06:27 AM
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Shakeyjake
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You won’t be disappointed. But I guarantee you it’ll soon be the work horse…..lol. I don’t know if the finish on new bikes has changed, but I barely drove my 2004 Arctic Cat before I noticed little scuffs everywhere. And the old camo paint on Polaris would turn purple after a couple years. I think those were “indoor use only” hahaha
Wind Blew, crap flew, out came the line crew
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Re: New ATV
[Re: Zim]
#7962581
10/02/23 06:42 AM
10/02/23 06:42 AM
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Posts: 2,962 Idaho
bearcat2
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Nice looking bike. Only 4500 miles in 21 years? Of course it runs well, it took you 20 years to break it in. You're the kind of guy I'd like to buy a couple year old one from, I'll put 4500 on one in a year and a half, I average around 3000 a summer.
Personally I wish you could still get straight axle atvs, sure they rode a little rougher, but they were a LOT less tipsy, and they could haul more weight. Honda is the only ATV to my knowledge to still offer a manual transmission option. Costs a couple hundred more for the foot shift over the electronic buttons on the handlebars, but well worth it for the reliability IMO. And I've been going up something steep so I'm standing up leaning over the handlebars and hit a bump and bumped the shift button with my waist a couple different times. It only takes a time or two of going from crawling up a steep hill to bumping the shift button and having it kick into neutral and be flying down the hill backwards to make you think that is maybe not such a good design. Don't hit the back brakes if you are ever in that predicament, because it will be coming right over on top of you if you do. To be fair, I've done the same thing with another brand and managed to hit the kill switch and bump it off, with pretty much the same results.
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Re: New ATV
[Re: bearcat2]
#7962619
10/02/23 07:40 AM
10/02/23 07:40 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 6,117 Rock Springs, WI
Zim
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Nice looking bike. Only 4500 miles in 21 years? Of course it runs well, it took you 20 years to break it in. You're the kind of guy I'd like to buy a couple year old one from, I'll put 4500 on one in a year and a half, I average around 3000 a summer.
Personally I wish you could still get straight axle atvs, sure they rode a little rougher, but they were a LOT less tipsy, and they could haul more weight. Honda is the only ATV to my knowledge to still offer a manual transmission option. Costs a couple hundred more for the foot shift over the electronic buttons on the handlebars, but well worth it for the reliability IMO. And I've been going up something steep so I'm standing up leaning over the handlebars and hit a bump and bumped the shift button with my waist a couple different times. It only takes a time or two of going from crawling up a steep hill to bumping the shift button and having it kick into neutral and be flying down the hill backwards to make you think that is maybe not such a good design. Don't hit the back brakes if you are ever in that predicament, because it will be coming right over on top of you if you do. To be fair, I've done the same thing with another brand and managed to hit the kill switch and bump it off, with pretty much the same results. Ya, I only put on a couple - three hundred or so miles a year. Most of them are hard miles, in the woods hauling firewood, plowing snow, going to and from deer stands, the gardens, etc. Probably got about as many hours on it as miles as I don't do any trail riding and it gets trailered to most of our trapping spots. It has chains on all 4 most winters. I tend to take good care of my equipment and the old 2003 is in pretty good shape. Hope the new one holds up as well as the old one. Zim
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