Hello, been lurking here quite a while, figured it was time to join. I want to thank everyone for the immense help they've been, with all the quality answers to questions others have had before me.
My wife and I are from Quartzsite, AZ, although we're somewhat recent transplants from Minnesota. Too dang cold up there. We love all the trail riding down here, and the fact that these machines can be fully street legal. It's a 2024 P700 that we bought new in June. In the about 10 months that we've had it, we've put a little over 1,600 miles on it. Wife and I both grew up on Honda wheelers and fell in love with them. Although hers had 4 wheels and mine 3. Things take a licking and just keep going.
Few mods of necessity:
-Windshield and roof
-Light bar (stock headlights fine for the street, terrible for the trail)
-Whip lights (when in Rome...)
-27" Tusk Terrabites (9" wide in the front, 11" in the rear) Wore the tread nearly completely off the original tires (didn't seem to last as long as I would have liked)
-Rear dust partition
-And a few other small things like a turn signal kit, and few things to keep us from being stranded on the trail
Things I plan to do to it:
-Switching to Rotella T6 at the next oil change. Run that in my truck already, so less different oil bottles on the shelf, and saving money over the Honda oil, especially being the oil changes come up quick. (before I made the decision I looked up oil threads on here, and was reading for what felt like days, dang that's a debate)
-Fox shocks, but they aren't giving those things away.... Our only real gripe with the machine is that after a day on the trails, I'm just beat. Would have loved a Talon, but was out of our budget. We'll save up a little for that for our next machine though. Read quite a bit on here about using Commander shocks, but they just seem to be hard to find and expensive, and when I do see a set, they're off of a 6,000+ mile machine.
-Heat shield for under the seat. A little brutal with the heat pouring up when it's 120+ degrees out.
-Maybe some take out seats from a Can Am or Razor (I'm not 100% on that one though, seems like a lot of monkeying around)
Look forward to being a part of the forums!
My wife and I are from Quartzsite, AZ, although we're somewhat recent transplants from Minnesota. Too dang cold up there. We love all the trail riding down here, and the fact that these machines can be fully street legal. It's a 2024 P700 that we bought new in June. In the about 10 months that we've had it, we've put a little over 1,600 miles on it. Wife and I both grew up on Honda wheelers and fell in love with them. Although hers had 4 wheels and mine 3. Things take a licking and just keep going.
Few mods of necessity:
-Windshield and roof
-Light bar (stock headlights fine for the street, terrible for the trail)
-Whip lights (when in Rome...)
-27" Tusk Terrabites (9" wide in the front, 11" in the rear) Wore the tread nearly completely off the original tires (didn't seem to last as long as I would have liked)
-Rear dust partition
-And a few other small things like a turn signal kit, and few things to keep us from being stranded on the trail
Things I plan to do to it:
-Switching to Rotella T6 at the next oil change. Run that in my truck already, so less different oil bottles on the shelf, and saving money over the Honda oil, especially being the oil changes come up quick. (before I made the decision I looked up oil threads on here, and was reading for what felt like days, dang that's a debate)
-Fox shocks, but they aren't giving those things away.... Our only real gripe with the machine is that after a day on the trails, I'm just beat. Would have loved a Talon, but was out of our budget. We'll save up a little for that for our next machine though. Read quite a bit on here about using Commander shocks, but they just seem to be hard to find and expensive, and when I do see a set, they're off of a 6,000+ mile machine.
-Heat shield for under the seat. A little brutal with the heat pouring up when it's 120+ degrees out.
-Maybe some take out seats from a Can Am or Razor (I'm not 100% on that one though, seems like a lot of monkeying around)
Look forward to being a part of the forums!
