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Hi all,
So basically in Maine the new definition for atv means that there can be no new registrations new machines over 65 inches or 2000lbs.
There is a club area called moose alley riders which looks big enough to be worth traveling to for me.
There are various areas on the maps I find online which have broken areas where a trail meets a public road. The trail resumes like a quarter mile down the road on the other side. One would think you could go down the road a minute and get back on the trail. I spoke with a couple guys that said this was accurate and there were signs saying not to go down the road and they had to turn around and backtrack for hours to get back to camp.
There was also a gate at the end of abridge made up of boulders. The bridges were wide enough for their machines but the gate at the other end required them to back up and almost fall off into a river.
The moose club site says max width is 60 inches. My pioneer 1000 is wider than 60 inches. So the club has restricted riding to smaller than the states max width on trails yet we still need a stare registration to ride on? It seems like they will lose a lot of tourism to the area.
A friend of mine has a 900s with fenders and he said he barely fit through the gates. I asked if the machine barely fit at 60 or if the fenders hit and the machine had plenty of clearance. Got different mixed answers and the guy changes his story all the time because he forgets a lot.
Has anyone here personally been riding there recently? I heard from the guys that encounteredthe bridge that Southern Maine riding is dead and not worth going south of the golden road.
If the machines fit comfortably on the trails and boulders can be moved wider then this is really to stop large hp machines from destroying the trails. A 64 inch machine can have the same hp as a 60 inch. The width and weight is not much different. What destroys the trails is people driving like animals and that could be exasperated by having a 170hp rzr. HP restrictions would make so much more sense. Unless the trails are all narrow single track atv trails which they are not.
Is it even worth going or am I going to periodically hit gates that are not on a map and have to turn around? Clearly there are some of these. I find it hard to believe that people with 64 inch machines are avoiding this whole area but maybe so. Any input is appreciated.
So basically in Maine the new definition for atv means that there can be no new registrations new machines over 65 inches or 2000lbs.
There is a club area called moose alley riders which looks big enough to be worth traveling to for me.
There are various areas on the maps I find online which have broken areas where a trail meets a public road. The trail resumes like a quarter mile down the road on the other side. One would think you could go down the road a minute and get back on the trail. I spoke with a couple guys that said this was accurate and there were signs saying not to go down the road and they had to turn around and backtrack for hours to get back to camp.
There was also a gate at the end of abridge made up of boulders. The bridges were wide enough for their machines but the gate at the other end required them to back up and almost fall off into a river.
The moose club site says max width is 60 inches. My pioneer 1000 is wider than 60 inches. So the club has restricted riding to smaller than the states max width on trails yet we still need a stare registration to ride on? It seems like they will lose a lot of tourism to the area.
A friend of mine has a 900s with fenders and he said he barely fit through the gates. I asked if the machine barely fit at 60 or if the fenders hit and the machine had plenty of clearance. Got different mixed answers and the guy changes his story all the time because he forgets a lot.
Has anyone here personally been riding there recently? I heard from the guys that encounteredthe bridge that Southern Maine riding is dead and not worth going south of the golden road.
If the machines fit comfortably on the trails and boulders can be moved wider then this is really to stop large hp machines from destroying the trails. A 64 inch machine can have the same hp as a 60 inch. The width and weight is not much different. What destroys the trails is people driving like animals and that could be exasperated by having a 170hp rzr. HP restrictions would make so much more sense. Unless the trails are all narrow single track atv trails which they are not.
Is it even worth going or am I going to periodically hit gates that are not on a map and have to turn around? Clearly there are some of these. I find it hard to believe that people with 64 inch machines are avoiding this whole area but maybe so. Any input is appreciated.
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