Polaris Sportsman

[CharlieKtractor]

have a 07 500 polaris ho atv and a 12 570 polaris rzr---both fine machines--no problems

 

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My son and I did another ride. 100 miles to a camp where you can get gas and food, then 100 miles back. It was all higher speed riding on logging roads.

Each way I had to stop and put a gallon of gas in my 500. He didn't add any gas to the 570 and it was still showing two bars on the fuel gauge when we got to the lodge.

 

[ovrszd]

My son and I did another ride. 100 miles to a camp where you can get gas and food, then 100 miles back. It was all higher speed riding on logging roads.

Each way I had to stop and put a gallon of gas in my 500. He didn't add any gas to the 570 and it was still showing two bars on the fuel gauge when we got to the lodge.

Wow!!!! I'm speechless. 200 miles on unimproved roads in a day?? That's awesome!!! And the 570 did it without adding gas??? That's very awesome!!!!

 

[rustyshakelford]

Wow!!!! I'm speechless. 200 miles on unimproved roads in a day?? That's awesome!!! And the 570 did it without adding gas??? That's very awesome!!!!

I think he’s saying he got gas when they stopped at the 100mile point. On the way there he added one gallon and on the way home he had to add some too

Brett

 

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Yes, had to fill both up for return. But the fuel injected 570 would make it one way with gas to spare. My carb'd 500 needed a one gallon top up.

I'll post pics and details of the ride shortly.

 

[timswi]

I will say that my 570 Sportsman is very easy on gas. My daughter and I only do like 30 miles a weekend or so in the mountains during the summer and it barely uses anything. Pretty happy with that.

 

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Here's a couple pics from the ride. You leave from Searchmont Ontario, north of Sault Ste. Marie at Whitman Dam road. Then we rode up to a place called Halfway Haven. That leg is 100 miles. From Halfway Haven it is again just over 100 miles to get to Wawa, Ontario or 110 kilometres to Chapleau according to this sign at the junction close to the lodge.
The lodge is owned by an American gentleman now. He treated us very well. He keeps fuel and food there. It is open to atv's, snowmobiles and fishermen.

It took us about 4 hours each way, but we were going at a pretty fast pace, but made a few stops. The roads are good enough I think it would be a good ride in a jeep also. Only a few spots with bad water filled sinkholes, but there is ways around them.

 

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And I'm lucky enough to live on Lake Superior. So my normal rides are around home. Within 40 miles you can see all kinds of overlooks, mountains, lakes, rivers, and abandoned mines.

 

[ovrszd]

Thanks for the pics!!! That looks like great Jeeping terrain!! To average 25mph the trails are much better than our normal Rocky Mountain trips. We barely average 10mph there.

 

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Thanks ovrszd. They are logging roads, but aren't being used right now so they haven't been graded in a while. It's pretty wide open but was rough. We had a hard time keeping up to the 800 and 900 Razor's.
It's a good ride for anyone that comes up to this area. The owner of the lodge said he will even let you use a boat and show you where to fish for free if you spend a night or two.

The pics from around my house involve more single track trails. I'm to that point in life I prefer those slower, shorter rides with scenery, LOL. A lifetime of trucking and racing dirt bikes up until 2003 have me pretty beat up. I'm starting to feel it daily, LOL.