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Here are my first ride impressions.
I've done about 85 miles low snow no trails at all just the river and a lilttle ditch banging.
I'll start by saying that I was pleasantly suprised at the power of this engine. It has real good pull revs up quickly and is suprisingly quick. The max speed attained was 94 but that wasn't even letting it really stretch out so there is more there I didn't want to hold it yet
I was suprised it read 94 when I got off.
I can't imagine how fast the Dragon is gonna be that will be one sweet motor. It's been a year since my F7 so it's hard to tell how much faster that was but the IQ 6 didn't feel realy slower (though it must be ?) I am really curious to run it against my wife 05 xc 6 and my buddies 700 fuse.
Suspension and ride is great the front is nice and light and the steering isn't heavy or too light. I was constantly looking for little lips to whellstand off of and the front easily goes up there and comes down nice and soft. I may need to stiffen the back but I have not cranked it down and did bottom it a couple times. It is "Tippy" in comparison to the gen II I rode last season and reminds me of my f7 in that way but it seems much better turner but it just reminds me of the ol Cat after a year on my 99 xc. I love the seating position the transition from sitting to standing is great and being able to get your feet under you or stretch out is nice.
It is a much smoother runner less vibration and rattles etc then my F7 was and seems to be much better put together. My F7 never was great ride on the rivers / real hard pack and had lots of vibration I don't know if it was that 1 3/8 track but I never liked that caracteristic of that sled.
One thing I noticed pronto was the narrow running boards they really should be wider. Of course that's only a couple hours and still in break in. I can't wait for some more snow to get in some real hard trail miles.
But after worring about if I did the right thing going down to 600 and not going up to 800... you bet I did so far I love this sled :div20: Time to put in a couple more hours this weekend even though these little stretches of river riding and short ditch runs is gonna get boring :sleep3: there realy isn't enough snow
I've done about 85 miles low snow no trails at all just the river and a lilttle ditch banging.
I'll start by saying that I was pleasantly suprised at the power of this engine. It has real good pull revs up quickly and is suprisingly quick. The max speed attained was 94 but that wasn't even letting it really stretch out so there is more there I didn't want to hold it yet
I was suprised it read 94 when I got off. I can't imagine how fast the Dragon is gonna be that will be one sweet motor. It's been a year since my F7 so it's hard to tell how much faster that was but the IQ 6 didn't feel realy slower (though it must be ?) I am really curious to run it against my wife 05 xc 6 and my buddies 700 fuse.
Suspension and ride is great the front is nice and light and the steering isn't heavy or too light. I was constantly looking for little lips to whellstand off of and the front easily goes up there and comes down nice and soft. I may need to stiffen the back but I have not cranked it down and did bottom it a couple times. It is "Tippy" in comparison to the gen II I rode last season and reminds me of my f7 in that way but it seems much better turner but it just reminds me of the ol Cat after a year on my 99 xc. I love the seating position the transition from sitting to standing is great and being able to get your feet under you or stretch out is nice.
It is a much smoother runner less vibration and rattles etc then my F7 was and seems to be much better put together. My F7 never was great ride on the rivers / real hard pack and had lots of vibration I don't know if it was that 1 3/8 track but I never liked that caracteristic of that sled.
One thing I noticed pronto was the narrow running boards they really should be wider. Of course that's only a couple hours and still in break in. I can't wait for some more snow to get in some real hard trail miles.
But after worring about if I did the right thing going down to 600 and not going up to 800... you bet I did so far I love this sled :div20: Time to put in a couple more hours this weekend even though these little stretches of river riding and short ditch runs is gonna get boring :sleep3: there realy isn't enough snow
