Too late to change my mind...

[lowrider]

Went to a Honda dealer yesterday and they had NO Honda SXS's. My usual contact there from whom I bought a 1250 Bandit back in the Spring suggested there would be plenty of Pioneers in next February or probably before May. In the mean time, I should test drive a CanAm 1000cc hot rod that is 50" wide and will get thru the USFS gates and it has almost twice as much HP as the 700 Pioneer and the seats are a lot more comfortable. Well, that piqued the interest of the mother of most of my kids and she sat down and immediately fell in love with those seats. OK...I got in too and found them to resemble Mustang GT seats from far back in my motoring past. Salesman handed me a helmet and his helper took the cute little blue SxS outside for a test drive. Following a little warmup and a walkaround in the parking lot I took off in the skinny little CanAm Maverick. Damn, this thing is fast and corners like a Jag X car. The thing is really cool and only $2k more than the Pioneer 700-2. I had a hard time convincing myself I should return to the front door where the salesman was waiting. Handled really well and it was only $2K more that the 700-2...one major thing turned me off...CVT transmission belt whined loudly and it started in a very jerky fashion in HIGH range and was even worse in LOW range...just like the Chinese copies I had ridden. My wife volunteered her opinion which was...I like those seats...but do what you want. So, We went to another Honda dealer who had just gotten a shipment of Pioneer 1000's and a couple 700-2's so I bought the stripped 700 and brought it home this morning....there, I did it. Yes, I'll be a paid member as soon as my bank account recovers from the shock. Happy to join you folks!!

 

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[Russ989]

Went to a Honda dealer yesterday and they had NO Honda SXS's. My usual contact there from whom I bought a 1250 Bandit back in the Spring suggested there would be plenty of Pioneers in next February or probably before May. In the mean time, I should test drive a CanAm 1000cc hot rod that is 50" wide and will get thru the USFS gates and it has almost twice as much HP as the 700 Pioneer and the seats are a lot more comfortable. Well, that piqued the interest of the mother of most of my kids and she sat down and immediately fell in love with those seats. OK...I got in too and found them to resemble Mustang GT seats from far back in my motoring past. Salesman handed me a helmet and his helper took the cute little blue SxS outside for a test drive. Following a little warmup and a walkaround in the parking lot I took off in the skinny little CanAm Maverick. Damn, this thing is fast and corners like a Jag X car. The thing is really cool and only $2k more than the Pioneer 700-2. I had a hard time convincing myself I should return to the front door where the salesman was waiting. Handled really well and it was only $2K more that the 700-2...one major thing turned me off...CVT transmission belt whined loudly and it started in a very jerky fashion in HIGH range and was even worse in LOW range...just like the Chinese copies I had ridden. My wife volunteered her opinion which was...I like those seats...but do what you want. So, We went to another Honda dealer who had just gotten a shipment of Pioneer 1000's and a couple 700-2's so I bought the stripped 700 and brought it home this morning....there, I did it. Yes, I'll be a paid member as soon as my bank account recovers from the shock. Happy to join you folks!!

Welcome to the club, congrats on the new ride.

 

[TxDoc]

Welcome to the reliability dimension.
You meet the nicest people on s Honda.

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[Todd627]

Welcome from The Great Lakes State

Remember...pics or it didn't happen

#NTC

 

[lowrider]

Thanks folks...proud to be here!
Gotta figure out how to post pics but it looks just like the ones on either side but it's GREEN not red. I can reach out to my local offspring who is much more computer oriented than me. My mother made me take typing in high school and all my class mates laughed at me and said I'd make a great store clerk some day...mean, evil people they were.

 

[NTCPrezJB]

Welcome from Canton, OH. Congrats on the new ride.
red is the fastest color color but the green ones go deeper

#NTC

 

[RB3offroad]

Welcome to the club

 

[Mudwing]

Welcome. The 7hundo is a solid machine. 😎
#ntc😉

 

[1border4manu]

Welcome from Central Florida. I had the same type of experience in a RZR, could not take off slow without bucking like a bronco.

 

[BBB]

Welcome from NE IL

 

[Backwoods]

Welcome from west Georgia and your bank account will take years to recover

 

[SILVER_ALERT]

My wife volunteered her opinion which was...I like those seats...but do what you want. So, We went to another Honda dealer who had just gotten a shipment of Pioneer 1000's and a couple 700-2's so I bought the stripped 700 and brought it home this morning....there, I did it.

Howdy from Oklahoma, and welcome. If my wife volunteered her opinion and then told me to do what I wanted, I would probably be out looking for Can Am seats shortly after I brought it home. 🤕

 

[ProudDadOf5]

Welcome to the club from WV!

 

[Smitty335]

Went to a Honda dealer yesterday and they had NO Honda SXS's. My usual contact there from whom I bought a 1250 Bandit back in the Spring suggested there would be plenty of Pioneers in next February or probably before May. In the mean time, I should test drive a CanAm 1000cc hot rod that is 50" wide and will get thru the USFS gates and it has almost twice as much HP as the 700 Pioneer and the seats are a lot more comfortable. Well, that piqued the interest of the mother of most of my kids and she sat down and immediately fell in love with those seats. OK...I got in too and found them to resemble Mustang GT seats from far back in my motoring past. Salesman handed me a helmet and his helper took the cute little blue SxS outside for a test drive. Following a little warmup and a walkaround in the parking lot I took off in the skinny little CanAm Maverick. Damn, this thing is fast and corners like a Jag X car. The thing is really cool and only $2k more than the Pioneer 700-2. I had a hard time convincing myself I should return to the front door where the salesman was waiting. Handled really well and it was only $2K more that the 700-2...one major thing turned me off...CVT transmission belt whined loudly and it started in a very jerky fashion in HIGH range and was even worse in LOW range...just like the Chinese copies I had ridden. My wife volunteered her opinion which was...I like those seats...but do what you want. So, We went to another Honda dealer who had just gotten a shipment of Pioneer 1000's and a couple 700-2's so I bought the stripped 700 and brought it home this morning....there, I did it. Yes, I'll be a paid member as soon as my bank account recovers from the shock. Happy to join you folks!!

WELCOME, Your bank account will never recover.

 

[rickoshea]

Howdy from Oklahoma, and welcome. If my wife volunteered her opinion and then told me to do what I wanted, I would probably be out looking for Can Am seats shortly after I brought it home. 🤕

🤣 my wife said "keep it under the budget" and washed her hands of it.after all the mods,tracks and essentials i just squeaked under it.i'm not telling her about the new tires i'm getting in the spring.

 

[Mudder]

Welcome from Ga. Good story.

 

[lowrider]

Welcome from Central Florida. I had the same type of experience in a RZR, could not take off slow without bucking like a bronco.

I'm from Winter Park but too hot, humid and full of snow birds for now. Used to be a different pre-Disney world when I left in '67...still a nice place to visit and thanks for the welcome!!

 

[DaddyDubbs]

Welcome from Alabama

 

[russknight]

Welcome from the swamps of North Florida.

 

[Mopower58]

Welcome from Mississippi. My stepmother lives in Rigby,Id.