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Probably the best day/conditions of the year today and not once did we compare which brand climbed slightly higher. Pulled the most reliable sled home with the least reliable sled, but that was the end of the day so no biggie.
Pizzing contest aside, the pol has many aspects of the chasis that are ahead of the doo. The use of adhesive, 2 piece bulkhead, belt drive, coil over rear suspension would all be pretty likely to surface in doos next chassis. Concurrently, pol may adapt a teeter totter, flex track, etc. The doo direct injection engine, is a generation ahead of pol...more power and reliability. Just like the pol chassis is ahead of doo...lighter and just as strong.
You have a point. It is all so laughable isnt it? Everyone in this section used at to swear the xp was the best mountain sled out. Then why is it they had to narrow it up more than any other manf. And add t-motion flex track. All of the sudden people from other brands started to take note and some even made the switch. If the xp was so great how come all this was needed. Now add all of this narrowness and dongleness to a pro and the thing is almost a snow bike.I know what your initial thought is. WTF he is in the wrong section... No i am just here to make an observation. Ski doo comes out with T-motion, everyone that doesn't ride a ski doo calls it stupid and unneeded. then a company makes Pro-motion for the Polaris and it is great! S-36 front end is too narrow and it sucks. Now everyone rocks a 36" front end on their Pro. Then to top it all they have to use our oil caps because the Polaris one is not vented and causing low oil usage and blowing up.. I am not brand loyal by any means, I will always ride the chassis I enjoy the most and lasts the longest. EVERY Pro EXCEPT one that we ride with which is 10 now I have towed out of the mountains with either an engine failure or belt drive failure...
Lol. To be real honest, the customer base has a lot to do with Poo's reliability issues. IN GENERAL, Doo guys tend to be a little older, little more methodical in our riding, and spend more money on the sport. (In GENERAL, nobody get panty-wadded.)
Poo guys tend to be 20-somethings, and ride like they just don't care. I saw a rig in the shop yesterday, a 14 Pro, missing about 10 lugs, broken track bars, and he "didn't know how that happened." Same guy had a brake fire, "didn't know how that happened." He also had mismatched a-arms throwing his camber all out of whack, a scratcher torn off, and bent steering post. After the fire, he couldn't figure out why his brakes didn't work. He was perfectly happy running it into the ground. See a lot of Pro owners like that.
Pros are also about $3000 cheaper than Doos right now.
I rode with a guy on a Pro the other day, he was WFO all day long, swamp, hills, feet flying off the back, it didn't matter. I could totally see how he would kill an engine in very few miles.
Buddy here is a 20-something Pro convert to Doo, he likes it, but he has hit two rocks hard in 200 miles, and he rides his Doo like a Pro. I will be curious to see how his holds up.
I am a Doo guy, but the first to admit that performance wise, the Pros are the sleds on top right now. (At least up to a certain, uh, 170-ish track length.)
I'm happy that both BRP and Polaris both build a fricken awesome sled. Both of them can be picked apart with certain issues. We demand high horsepower engines installed in the lightest chassis possible, yet people expect them to last forever and not wrinkle a tunnel or an E or S module when they are treated like a tank.
Please let it snow in the Pacific NW.
I know what your initial thought is. WTF he is in the wrong section... No i am just here to make an observation. Ski doo comes out with T-motion, everyone that doesn't ride a ski doo calls it stupid and unneeded. then a company makes Pro-motion for the Polaris and it is great! S-36 front end is too narrow and it sucks. Now everyone rocks a 36" front end on their Pro. Then to top it all they have to use our oil caps because the Polaris one is not vented and causing low oil usage and blowing up.. I am not brand loyal by any means, I will always ride the chassis I enjoy the most and lasts the longest. EVERY Pro EXCEPT one that we ride with which is 10 now I have towed out of the mountains with either an engine failure or belt drive failure...
it really works..t motion Rear suspension rolls right or left on its pivot point and the track’s outer edges flex up. This keeps more track surface on the snow when initiating sidehill maneuvers.