The new axys pro is flat out awesome. The fit and finish is awesome. The panels and hood are extremely easy to take off. After the side panels are open there are two fasteners to loosen and the hood comes right off. Those are the same fasteners used on the pro hood. The main side panel fasteners are extremely nice compared to the OLD pro. Even little things like the angled pull start handle. Seems more natural to me. The new air intake vents should be awesome with them mounted straight up and down.
The tunnel on the pro is about an inch shorter, height wise, by the front mounting location. If the sag is taken out of the suspension the boards are the same height off the ground as my airloc running boards that are up 2 inches over stock on my 13 pro. The running boards must be a little shorter because they bolt about 12 inches back from the seat base on the pro. The axys is 10 inches back. For reasons I don't know, the axys is 2 inches longer than the pro for the same track length. They also added new bracing in the front and rear of tunnel. I had one buddy crinkle his tunnel in front of the front mounting location. This should alleviate this problem. They also pulled the side of the foot stirrup in about 2 inches and sucked the plastic into it. The foot wells are vented at the top and closed off at the bottom so no need to buy new footwell vent covers to keep snow out.
Handlebar height
They had a couple with tall and a couple with low. No sleds had the mid bar height I was told. The tall bars are the same as every year pro that has been out. The mid are 1 inch shorter and the low are 2 inches shorter. These are the two heights they previously had for snow checks I believe. The hand gaurds bolt to the cross brace instead of the bars. The dealer told me they previously bolted to the bars. The new lower mountain bar is awesome. No more getting hit in the chest and it might be a little easier to see the guage while sitting down.
Now for the part that amazed me. Way less effort to tip it over on the concrete floor. That isn't the part that amazed me. What amazed me was that I could tip it up and have it at full on countersteer and while holding it with one hand, I could let it go halfway back to the floor and keep holding it. I know you don't ride them on concrete, well maybe this year we did some, but that tells me it has a huge sweet spot compared to the pro. The pro is harder to tip off of concrete and when you go past the breaking point it just flops back down. You won't do what I did with a pro.
Accessories
They had both size tunnel bags there and they both looked awesome. Just a matter of how much stuff you want to take. They are both low profile. The bigger one is probably a hair taller but mainly just a length difference. They were extremely easy to take off and on with the 4 lock and ride levers. The handlebar bag also looked really nice and wasn't floppy. It mounts really secure and looks to retain it's shape. They all had the fancy guage on them but I was not able to tell anything on them because all of the ecu's were out and they are not allowed to run. I was hoping they had one hooked to a battery. There were no sleds there with electric start. I was hoping to see where the battery placement was. It seems to me that there isn't enough room by the belt drive unless they downsize the battery.
Colors
All of the colors looked really good. The only color that wasn't there was white. The one that really surprised me was how good the blue looked. Both the black and the silver or gray had the same raspy matte black finish, on the hood, that most of the pros have came with over the years. I wish they would have been painted because my wrapped hood on my pro sheds snow quicker than my buddies with that same finish.
They had a couple with 3 inch tracks and chain case but I never opened the hoods on them. The 3 inch looks Identical to the 2.6 so if the 2.6 works as good as they claim the 3 inch should work that much better in deep snow.
To sum it all up, I don't think they left any stone unturned. It looks to be an amazing sled. Hopefully the motor is everything everybody is saying. If it proves to be reliable all the others are going to be left in the dust. The funniest thing about the whole show was that the Yamaha booth was right next to the polaris booth. It was completely packed at the polaris booth, some at the ski doo booth, a bunch at the cat booth in the other room and not one person at the yamaha booth. I am not trashing on Yamaha. I will guarantee they are probably 10 times the sled compared to my old t-nytro but I thought the Idea is to build what people want and not what they think people should want.
The tunnel on the pro is about an inch shorter, height wise, by the front mounting location. If the sag is taken out of the suspension the boards are the same height off the ground as my airloc running boards that are up 2 inches over stock on my 13 pro. The running boards must be a little shorter because they bolt about 12 inches back from the seat base on the pro. The axys is 10 inches back. For reasons I don't know, the axys is 2 inches longer than the pro for the same track length. They also added new bracing in the front and rear of tunnel. I had one buddy crinkle his tunnel in front of the front mounting location. This should alleviate this problem. They also pulled the side of the foot stirrup in about 2 inches and sucked the plastic into it. The foot wells are vented at the top and closed off at the bottom so no need to buy new footwell vent covers to keep snow out.
Handlebar height
They had a couple with tall and a couple with low. No sleds had the mid bar height I was told. The tall bars are the same as every year pro that has been out. The mid are 1 inch shorter and the low are 2 inches shorter. These are the two heights they previously had for snow checks I believe. The hand gaurds bolt to the cross brace instead of the bars. The dealer told me they previously bolted to the bars. The new lower mountain bar is awesome. No more getting hit in the chest and it might be a little easier to see the guage while sitting down.
Now for the part that amazed me. Way less effort to tip it over on the concrete floor. That isn't the part that amazed me. What amazed me was that I could tip it up and have it at full on countersteer and while holding it with one hand, I could let it go halfway back to the floor and keep holding it. I know you don't ride them on concrete, well maybe this year we did some, but that tells me it has a huge sweet spot compared to the pro. The pro is harder to tip off of concrete and when you go past the breaking point it just flops back down. You won't do what I did with a pro.
Accessories
They had both size tunnel bags there and they both looked awesome. Just a matter of how much stuff you want to take. They are both low profile. The bigger one is probably a hair taller but mainly just a length difference. They were extremely easy to take off and on with the 4 lock and ride levers. The handlebar bag also looked really nice and wasn't floppy. It mounts really secure and looks to retain it's shape. They all had the fancy guage on them but I was not able to tell anything on them because all of the ecu's were out and they are not allowed to run. I was hoping they had one hooked to a battery. There were no sleds there with electric start. I was hoping to see where the battery placement was. It seems to me that there isn't enough room by the belt drive unless they downsize the battery.
Colors
All of the colors looked really good. The only color that wasn't there was white. The one that really surprised me was how good the blue looked. Both the black and the silver or gray had the same raspy matte black finish, on the hood, that most of the pros have came with over the years. I wish they would have been painted because my wrapped hood on my pro sheds snow quicker than my buddies with that same finish.
They had a couple with 3 inch tracks and chain case but I never opened the hoods on them. The 3 inch looks Identical to the 2.6 so if the 2.6 works as good as they claim the 3 inch should work that much better in deep snow.
To sum it all up, I don't think they left any stone unturned. It looks to be an amazing sled. Hopefully the motor is everything everybody is saying. If it proves to be reliable all the others are going to be left in the dust. The funniest thing about the whole show was that the Yamaha booth was right next to the polaris booth. It was completely packed at the polaris booth, some at the ski doo booth, a bunch at the cat booth in the other room and not one person at the yamaha booth. I am not trashing on Yamaha. I will guarantee they are probably 10 times the sled compared to my old t-nytro but I thought the Idea is to build what people want and not what they think people should want.
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), but one of the guys there told me, with the tall bars, that the distance from the footwell to the bars is the same, and the distance from the seat to the bars is also the same. And you definitely notice the 1"narrower hand position
