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Posted by: reconranger
I do stuff like this on my little SRA Rancher 350, and leave the guys in their $50,000 Jeeps sitting there with their mouths dropping: http://jeep.off-road.com/jeep/...eDetail.jsp?id=330535
Sure, I will hang up once in a while, but all I have to do is lift the quad up and reposition it....no big deal. Long travel suspension and IRS look good on paper, but being off camber on a sloppy top heavy monster with mush box suspension is risking your life! The little Rancher with its light weight, low center of gravity, and tight stable suspension is the ticket for me. I ride with guys who have huge big bore IRS machines, and they say that I "make it look easy".....that's because it is on the right machine!
Posted by: DesertViper
Ralph Nader's description of the Corsair would also do a good job of describing Arctic Cat's ACT suspension, ... "unsafe at any speed". Those things were scary, so do a better job with your Eiger than Arctic Cat did with their ATVs.
An ATV still wouldn't work as good at rock crawling as something the size of a Jeep anyway. The wheelbase is too short, so you can't keep the front end down on the vertical stuff.
Posted by: yotatrailrunner
Arctic cat ATVs had a rear 4-link system for a while, I believe it was called ACT suspension. Why would you want to tho? there isnt really any need to do such on a ATV. Now a UTV like a rhino i think would be kewl with a 4-link front and rear with sammy axles under it.
Posted by: BradW
Anyone ever hear of this? Or seen an ATV with a 4-link set up or something similar? Just wondering 'cause after looking at the rear end on my Eiger, it would be simple to 4-link it and add a sway bar with disconnects.
Posted by: dosceola
In my opinion, It's all in the rider. I've got 07 polaris 800 sportsman and she'll climb well past my abilities. I can put 1 wheel on a tree put 4WD on and she'll go right up it. Here in AZ lots of Mountains and I try to get up all of em. I've gone over junk cars and even one good cadillac,It was a bet. Couple times I get high centered on big rocks reverse will spin quad one way and low spins other way till i get bite on something. scares me most times but nimble as heck. just gotta be able to hang on
