QUESTION ON 04 RX1

[VT.RX1]

Trying to decide between the small wheel kit or the oversized wheels. i would like to get input from those who have used either or both. please include as much related info as possible. thank you in advance.

 

[POWERHAULIC]

I have seen many of the small wheel kits have difficulty keeping rubber on the tires.

I don't use them personally, my slides lived all winter last year.

 

[Traildemon]

Had the small wheel kit on the old SX700. All they seemed to do was move the wear area further back :? and they did freeze up in powder. They did help at the grass drags ! I just popped them on / off depending on conditions. Don't seem needed on the RX-1

 

[Birdman]

One thing I have have learned about Yamaha's is that they seem to wear out sliders faster than the other brands. My 00 SRX wore right down to the rails and started to eat through them at 50 miles, yes it was on the lake with min. snow cover but I was with 2 poo's and 1 cat and they didn't have any issues. After that I started buying 5.35 wheels (six of them) from the local poo dealer , about 120 bucks and gone were my slider problems. In fact I put 4600 miles on my RX-1 last season and had very little wear . It is a good investment seeing how much of a pain in the neck changing sliders are with the new tracks.
Good luck

 

[snowman]

I own a Blue 03' RX-1M and i found that the sliders wore alot the first 0-1000 miles but after that there was little or none at all and I still have them on yet after 5220 miles of wide open riding :evil:

 

[TopGunnSRX]

They wear faster because you are riding faster because its safe at a high speed you know it wont fall apart or atleast thats what i go with on my srx hehehe :lol: there only like 20 bucks i dont think its that big of a deal

 

[snowman]

topgunn;
We all know they are not very costly,it's just that we would rather be out sledding than changing our slides every few hundred miles :roll:

 

[Viper34]

Switching to Camoplast track dramatically improved the hyfax wear on Yamaha's. It was a combination of fewer track clips and less track sign waves.