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I love arguing about this stuff.[8D] I got more reasons to gripe about Polaris this weekend, and I'm bored, so here it goes............

I rode my Honda all week at work with no problems other than breaking my back rack again (the only part that Honda needs to re-engineer). Probably approaching the 1000 mile mark for the year if I haven't already passed it. That means it's gotten over 3000 miles on it in two years. 3000 miles of hard riding- much harder than your average weekend warrior (most riders don't climb hills and plow through the brush with 250 pounds on the back rack 4 days a week). It may look like crap because it has been abused. But it starts up and runs again every day.

After a hard week of work I decided to go camping with some family members. One of them has a 2003 Polaris Sportsman 600 with only 1500 miles on it. About 2 miles away from camp it ran out of gas- woops. Now for the good part. The reserve tank didn't work, so we needed to tow it back to camp. The dang thing was so heavy that getting it turned around on the trail was a pain in the butt. We broke 2 straps trying to get it back. The machine was up and running again once we put a full tank of gas in. Then this morning we fired it up to find that it was idiling way to fast. Had to have been running at at least half throttle unless you choked it to flood it a little bit. All of these problems, and it had just recently been in the shop getting repaired (ended up needing a new spark plug wire- no biggie, but still enough to keep you out of the woods).

Oh ya, and I nearly forgot. Back home, my dad's '96 Polaris Sportsman 400 with only 1000 miles on it won't run for more than about 30 seconds at a time. We're thinking the carburator needs repaired. Our '03 Prairie 650 and '04 Grizzly 660 both run like raped apes.

You all can form your own opinions about Polaris. But based upon my own experiences with them, I'll never own one. The cushy ride is not worth the headache.