ryan_p17
Extreme
Went out for my first real ride with this machine and I love it. Requires a little more rider input that most sleds I've ridden, but responds well to body movement. Went out with 2 2008 Dragon 800s with clutch, pipes, PC5 - one a 1.75 x 121 and one 1.5x136 both say around 156HP and a fully SLP'd RMK assault with 1.375x144 cobra track with 167HP. Lined up against all of them and got pulled for about 150 feet by a couple sled lengths then caught them and beat them in top end by almost 200 feet by end of lake. Switched sleds and the 2 stroke doesn't feel nearly as peppy compared to the 4 stroke. Those guys were not impressed and were reasoning with eachother on why they got pulled by a stock, heavy 4 stroke. I will never go back to 2 stroke again.
xt_gt
TY 4 Stroke Junkie
congrats to another happy yami owner.
Zrxpilot
Pro
Nice 
I had my first bit of shop time with it today taking the skid out of it to have the shocks revalved. Seems theres more to Yamaha than just some pretty plastic. Nice to see someone was smart enough to put a nut on the end of the bolts that hold the front of the skid in place and locked-to-axle bushings in the back that allows you something to clamp to while taking the other side bolt out. Been awhile since I havent needed an impact to take a rear skid out. Like ever.
Shocks were a piece of cake to get out too. All of them. It seems they had ease of maintaince a priority when they designed the suspension. All you need is 2 wrenches, 2 sockets and couple extensions.
Not looking foward to doing anything under the hood tho.
I had my first bit of shop time with it today taking the skid out of it to have the shocks revalved. Seems theres more to Yamaha than just some pretty plastic. Nice to see someone was smart enough to put a nut on the end of the bolts that hold the front of the skid in place and locked-to-axle bushings in the back that allows you something to clamp to while taking the other side bolt out. Been awhile since I havent needed an impact to take a rear skid out. Like ever.
Shocks were a piece of cake to get out too. All of them. It seems they had ease of maintaince a priority when they designed the suspension. All you need is 2 wrenches, 2 sockets and couple extensions.
Not looking foward to doing anything under the hood tho.
ryan_p17
Extreme
Ya I'm going to get my shocks revalved over the summer. I'm a bigger guy and am experiencing some bottoming over really big whoops. I'm going to look for a place that can add high and low speed compression to the rear skid shocks. Not sure if its possible. Only complaint I have so far is the Dzeus pin retainer plate/washer.
Nine2Nine
Expert
Shock Tec not too far from you..
ryan_p17
Extreme
Yea I have heard many good things about shock tech. Will be checking them out for sure.
Dont wait as most will turn around the revalve/bigboy spring in a couple of days. You will not have to hold back and enjoy riding much more....
