I had two Polaris 400L (400cc two stroke liquids) back in '99. Today a freind let me ride his new sportsman 850cc quad. I was nervous after breaking my ribs three times in two years over a two decades ago. As I threw a leg over the seat my ribs were talking oh no not again. Lol but I told myself I'm going to go slow. What a difference in power with the big twin 850. I only used a 1/4 of the throttle in the snow she had awesome bottom end. What a difference in technology. I'm looking at there new muddier 1,000cc quad. You need to realize I been bed ridden with back and knee pain. A quad should start me exercising then the bike should bring me to the next level.
I have a 2015 850 Sportsman Touring. It is an awesome machine. Can plow snow that would have stopped my 500 in it's tracks. I recently pulled a huge log off the trail with it.......and was amazed at how easy it did it. They are mild mannered compared to a dirt bike.....the power steering takes some getting use to. I was use to being able to feel the road/trail up through the handlebars, but that goes away with power steering. Nice way to get out on the trails and start working the upper body, and just get the reaction time tuned up again. There are more ATV trails in Wisconsin, and dirt bikes are not allowed on some of them, for bureaucratic BS reasons I'll never understand, so it's nice to have a choice to ride different locations with either the quad or the bike. It kills me how they refer to quads as "bikes" over on the Polaris forum. Yeah right! More like "tanks" or "Jeeps". I can ooze down the trails and fire lanes on my touring, with the wife in the 2up seat crusin' in comfort.
The Polaris 850cc is a beast, gobs of never ending torque. I hammered it a little got sideways and used the power to straighten it out. The mudder model and the sport model also come in 1,000cc. I think the mudder model is geared for power.
