quebecmoutainrider
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pro116 said:
Right on....all my friends are getting the RMK ..its the best mountain..we have seen lots of problems with all the sleds..but the best service has come from Polaris...Articat has no parts..and have seen 1 blow up at 300ks and 2 others eletrci and 1 reverse...out of 6 sleds..RMK 2 have had electric..mine and a friends..both for the TPS..and one picup coil for mine...out of 8 RMKs..and the skidoo...lol.....we dont ride them..1 Smmit burnning tons of oil..and yes we checked the pump..who knows..imagine a BRP burning lots of oil..lol..and rode with a few others that seemed to burn more oil than BRP says..
I think there is a bigger market for offtrail and ditch bangers..thats why Polaris is making the mountains and crossover their specailty..Yes there are alot of trail riders..but thats a 4-stroke thing that BRP and expecialy yammaha have already won..
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Got a friend at work that has a brand new 2012 RMK 800. He went out west and loves the thing. I have heard the RMK's are still the ticket out there. He said the thing wants to float to the top and he really had no issues with getting stuck. The little he did he said it's pretty light and easy to get unstuck. He mentioned his friends with M8's and Summits had more issues with shoveling out. The guy with the RMK was a novice out there too.
My neighbor had a Nytro MTX with a Push Turbo and went out west this year. He's over 300lbs and stronger than an ox too. He loved the power but said it wants to go straight and was not easy to flick around like all the M8's and RMK's he rode with. He ended up selling it when he came home for another Polaris. I think Yamaha has a ways to go to shore up their mountain sled segment.
Personally I really like the Attak/Apex Ltx version sleds for the trails in the UP but if I was doing off trail I'd look into something else.
My neighbor had a Nytro MTX with a Push Turbo and went out west this year. He's over 300lbs and stronger than an ox too. He loved the power but said it wants to go straight and was not easy to flick around like all the M8's and RMK's he rode with. He ended up selling it when he came home for another Polaris. I think Yamaha has a ways to go to shore up their mountain sled segment.
Personally I really like the Attak/Apex Ltx version sleds for the trails in the UP but if I was doing off trail I'd look into something else.
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Yamaha is a trail sled manufacturer and is damn good at it. mountains.......not so much, got a long ways to go there.journeyman said:
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yep, if Yamaha could cram a 150hp engine into the Phazer chassis and somehow add NO weight they would have a respectable mountain sled. I just can't see how the Phazer is SO easy and fun to carve with but Nytro MTX, not really weighing TOO much more, is 3X harder to carve with. turbo Nytro = great highmarker , Turbo Phazer = best boondocking, playing in the trees sled ever.
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yep, if Yamaha could cram a 150hp engine into the Phazer chassis and somehow add NO weight they would have a respectable mountain sled. I just can't see how the Phazer is SO easy and fun to carve with but Nytro MTX, not really weighing TOO much more, is 3X harder to carve with. turbo Nytro = great highmarker , Turbo Phazer = best boondocking, playing in the trees sled ever.[/quote]
That's what I have heard alot of people say but the Yamaha dealer we deal with in the UP (and they are like #3 or #4 in the nation for Yamaha sled sales) claims the Phazer chassis really is not much lighter than the Nytro chassis. That's not saying the chassis isn't better in the deep snow though. One of my guys in our ride group mentioned last month to them about wishing the Phazer came in a long track with a turbo on it for this segment and that's when he told us this. He claims he has had both chassis down to the bare bones and that's how he knows. Just repeating what I was informed.
yep, if Yamaha could cram a 150hp engine into the Phazer chassis and somehow add NO weight they would have a respectable mountain sled. I just can't see how the Phazer is SO easy and fun to carve with but Nytro MTX, not really weighing TOO much more, is 3X harder to carve with. turbo Nytro = great highmarker , Turbo Phazer = best boondocking, playing in the trees sled ever.[/quote]
That's what I have heard alot of people say but the Yamaha dealer we deal with in the UP (and they are like #3 or #4 in the nation for Yamaha sled sales) claims the Phazer chassis really is not much lighter than the Nytro chassis. That's not saying the chassis isn't better in the deep snow though. One of my guys in our ride group mentioned last month to them about wishing the Phazer came in a long track with a turbo on it for this segment and that's when he told us this. He claims he has had both chassis down to the bare bones and that's how he knows. Just repeating what I was informed.
