Whatever they do, I hope the next chassis is as light as the '08 XP.....429lbs for a 154.
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Whatever they do, I hope the next chassis is as light as the '08 XP.....429lbs for a 154.
Whatever they do, I hope the next chassis is as light as the '08 XP.....429lbs for a 154.
what do you ride right now?
Whatever they do, I hope the next chassis is as light as the '08 XP.....429lbs for a 154.
The only real fact is that it will be released I. 2016 at this time! Just wondering what the sled right now is not doing for you? Innovation comes in waves not timelines, look at dirt bikes, a 2015 Honda is miles different over a 2014 but they look exactly the same, the better sleds get the smaller the changes but those smaller changes make huge differences. And u currently have several options with turbos, big bores, belt drives, and the possibility to shave a lot of weight. 90% don't need or want it and the other 10% are not willing to pay for it. So how will that work? Go back and ride a 2004,2008 or 2012 and tell me that we are not living in the most spoiled times. Great products and endless possibility,the crazy thing is it has created more complainers, not happier people, I just can't understand that, I am out most days and I just can't shake the smile off my face!
doo is arrogant they think there the bomb cause they sold lots of xm's and they don't think they need to do anything else look how lazy they have been! the etech is selling the sleds not the sled. xm is fine for older guys that wanna tour around and have good reliability. start jumping it and there goes your reliability tmotion brackets rip apart tunnel mounts crack and break. e an s mods fold and the new fancy t3 spindles too. Doo can't add anymore gimmicks the t motion was to get the 16" track to feel like a 15" the 35"-37" stance was to make up for the extremely low centre of gravity and its overly planted feel. the t3 finally raised the centre of gravity so maybe there starting to see the xp dna sucks its a stretched trail sled. doo took some weight out of the front of the sled making it even weaker, what they should have done was take the weight out of the back of the sled. that way there less weight behind the front end and it will suffer less damage on an impact foo did this backwards and thats also why they have such and extreme ridder forward position in an attempt to make the chassi handle ok the skid is a boat anchor and its weak the rails bend the tmotion rips off. if you want to jump it get ready to spend 3k on suspension and spare rails. all the loyal doo guys that bleed yellow are like " its fine its not broken don't fix it" sorry but for 15k i don't want fine i want amazing. doo better hope polaris hasn't figured out how to build an engine yet because if they have they are going to dominate all over again. too be honest id buy the new cat before a new doo. the cat is heavy but its also tough and reliable not just heavy reliable and weak. wake up doo or your gonna get owned.
lets do a quick comparison for a typical impact on an average hit comparing the doo to the poo
lets say boondocking at 15 mph you hit at a tree with your ski and for easy math will use weights of 460 lbs for the doo and 410 lbs for the poo and will assume at this point they have same fuel of say 40 lbs convert lbs to kg as all formulas are in kg's
500lbs = 227kg
450lbs = 205kg
15mph = 6.7 m/s
kinetic energy = 1/2 (mass kg) x(velocity m/s squared)
227 x (6.7x6.7)/.5 = 5095 joules
205 x (6.7x6.7)/.5 = 4601 joules
difference of 494 joules
the doo carries nearly 11% more kinetic energy into an impact than the poo meaning that the doo needs to be 12.3 % stronger in order to fair the same impact as the poo.