it will do 39mph....Polaris even advertised that fact. It bounces off the rev limiter at 39..Actually had mine hit 40 testing out the higher low gear...My old 800 sounded like it was ready to blow at 20..The xp is revving quit high at 39 in low but it will do it...I feel safe doing up to 30 on a regular basis in low..
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2007 sportsman 800-glacier 2 plow, front and rear bumpers, lock n ride rear cargo box, hand warmers..Trade in for 850 xp eps
2009 850 xp eps-RT25 winch, Hand and thumb warmers, front and rear lock n ride cargo box's-Mine
2009 550 xp- 3500# polaris winch, hand and thumb warmers-Wifes
No sorry...I will check next time out though..It wont be till the weekend though..The 850 and 550 have the same low gear ratio though...But the 850 has a higher high gear..
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2007 sportsman 800-glacier 2 plow, front and rear bumpers, lock n ride rear cargo box, hand warmers..Trade in for 850 xp eps
2009 850 xp eps-RT25 winch, Hand and thumb warmers, front and rear lock n ride cargo box's-Mine
2009 550 xp- 3500# polaris winch, hand and thumb warmers-Wifes
I would be disapointed to. The new (less than 150kms) Can-am 650, can am 800, can am 400, Yamaha 400, Brute Force 650 all went the same places, the same speeds and there was no belt isues with any of them...I was there. Average speed was about 60kms (38mph) on hard beach. Definatly no water involved and definatly no hard riding involved either.
Harves
too many belts blown on a new machines to be driver error....id say factory error... id shove the belt in the dealers ass if they tried to make me pay with a brand new machine...
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2008 Sportsman 500HO EFI Stealth Black
rear cargo box, rear rack extension,rear bumper, front bumper,warn 2500,rear work lights, VIP air windshield,K&N air filter,epi clutch kit, front rack extension,headlight mod,sirius satellite sl2,pioneer deck and 2 pioneer 6in speakers,
I think the whole riding in high gear too slow, will blow belts is a little misleading not explained well enough. As long as one is moving faster than 5-10 mph, all should be fine. Don't use high gear to lug it up ramps the into the back of your truck, go slow up hills in high gear. bump up against a log and keep pushing the throttle until it slips the belt etc etc. So it is more using the right gear in the right situation. but on a new machine sometimes blown belts more raises different questions. Has anyone compared the alignment and center to center distance between two different machines. looking to see if they vary at all.
Has anyone blown more than one belt?
If anyone here is a snowmobiler one might know that polaris had lots of belt trouble on their 900 rmk in 05 and 06. I think they found the motor mounts to be flexing to much. the aftermarket had a field day making things to fix them.
What percentage of 850 have had belt issues? Are we talking like 10%
The only thing I could say about that Is I have seen belts last along time on Yamaha 350 Bruins,Scramblers, Haweyes, and sleds and they have no low range to speak of.
Yep, I'm close to turning over 2600 miles on my Hawk with original belt.
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Get out and enjoy the ride!!
