Author Topic: 500 suzuki vinson 4x4 (Read 1549 times)

dbuz · « **on:** May 16, 2003, 03:23:57 AM »

last friday i bought a 500 suzuki vinson 4x4 with a manual trans. it is a pretty awsome machine.

markc · « **Reply #1 on:** May 16, 2003, 03:56:15 AM »

sounds great. I looked them over recently at a dealership, but have never been able to saddle one up. So how does it ride? Are you gonna use it for general all around riding, work or hunting? Adding any accessories? Details, gotta have details?

markc

dbuz · « **Reply #2 on:** May 17, 2003, 02:13:17 AM »

hunting and play. i'm going to get a moose bumper for the front and thats aabout it for now. i'll find out things i need as i go i'm sure.it has been a very fun to ride. we got flash floods here yesterday and i'm fixing to load it to go to a friend of mine's hunting club. he has a vinson and has 589 mt 25" tires on his and he has broken 2 cv joints in the past month. he has to ride today without 4wd.

264 WIN MAG · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2003, 01:21:15 AM »

If you can break the CV joints just by adding 25" Titans I would say that bike is not that great!!!! I have a Honda 300 and a 660 grizz that I run 28" tires on both and run in the mud a great deal for fun and have never had problems with the CV's. I don't think the Suzuki even offers the fully locked front end does it?

I looked at them for a short while but then decided for just a little bit more I could get the 660 which I think is a tougher machine.

markc · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2003, 03:04:39 AM »

to agree that the Griz 660 is a tough machine. I have been able to put in some hard riding, hill climbing, mudding on one belonging to a family member and I gotta say that it appears to be unstoppable. He has 25" 589's on his and they work great in the mud for sure.
markc

264 WIN MAG · « **Reply #5 on:** October 07, 2003, 06:18:01 AM »

Now do like me and put the 28" outlaws (inflated to 31") on that grizz and tell me what it will go through..........

markc · « **Reply #6 on:** October 07, 2003, 11:17:00 AM »

I haven't found anything around here the 25" 589's can't go through if a person knows how to ride.
markc

264 WIN MAG · « **Reply #7 on:** October 07, 2003, 11:27:35 AM »

Then you haven't found the right hole :-D cuz I know how to ride an atv better than alot of people I have rode with and I get stuck all the time with 28" laws on mine. :eek:

Old Syko · « **Reply #8 on:** October 07, 2003, 03:45:08 PM »

Mark, bring that grizz up here and we'll get 25 or 30 guys together and go across the road to the swamp. Got just the hole for ya.

264, you need to come along too. We can take turns pulling each other out.

We park the buggy on top of the hill with plenty of winch cable.

264 WIN MAG · « **Reply #9 on:** October 08, 2003, 02:36:22 AM »

If you like swamp riding......... :grin:

Have you ever been to the Marengo swamp ride? They have it only one weekend a year at Marengo swamp here in Louisiana. It's pretty cool cuz it's the home of the infamous "suicide hole" (most famous mud hole in the south).

I have a couple holes I dug out on our hunting property just for playing in and one of them I think I over did a little bit. The shallow side of the hole most atvs won't make it but about 2ft. into because you instantly stick down up the the racks in mud. The deep side is a little harder but you go over the handlebars in water and if you don't have a snorkel you are dead meat. I have made it across the shallow side like one time before without having to winch out, but when it gets real bad the furthest I have made it was 5ft.

markc · « **Reply #10 on:** October 08, 2003, 03:01:56 AM »

the bronlaw would let me borrow his Griz, especially if he knew where I was taking it.

If the water gets that deep, I take a boat.

What I need as much as a mud buggy atv is one that can climb steep rocky trails. One that can pretty much do it all, ya know.
markc

Old Syko · « **Reply #11 on:** October 08, 2003, 04:42:11 AM »

Last time I was in Louisiana I set up a big machine at the big paper mill in Bogalusa.(sp) One of the guys in the plant took me out for a little fishing in the swamps not far from there. Had a homebuilt swamp buggy that was a real kick in the pants. Great place to offroad as long as you know what you're doing and don't get too stupid otherwise you could end up a permanent fixture in the muck. Great time.

Mark, spent the afternoon Sunday with the crew running the Ohio river bottoms. As far as variety we had mud holes you couldn't get through, rock hills that caused 2 guys to endo going down hill, and a hard pan flat made of some kind of muck that was so solid you didn't leave tracks when you rode across but was so slick 2 of the boys tried to walk across and ended up on their butts. Laughed harder than I have for some time. Great place for spinning like a top. Spent a good amount of time there.

264 WIN MAG · « **Reply #12 on:** October 08, 2003, 09:41:35 AM »

We used to ride in this place called Bogue Creek out in Mississippi and it was loads of fun. Whitest sand you ever saw, some mud, deep holes, and to keep it interresting the current of the creek changed it every day so it was always like riding in a new place. One of our favorite things to do out there was go to this waterfall that came over a limestone flat. The limestone was very, very slick but extremely hard. It was a blast to get out there and cut doughnuts on that slick rock but every once in a while you would find a little channel that was cut out and it would turn the bike over....ouch!!!!

I remember one time we were out there and someone tried to drive off the waterfall and got high centered and we had to push them off. Me, like an idiot, was not wearing shoes and while the tires were spinning full speed my foot slipped and ran up under.......few broken toes and nothing more.

markc · « **Reply #13 on:** October 09, 2003, 03:13:32 AM »

I wish you guys had some pic's to post of these mud holes and stuff. Sounds like a blast! Thats one drawback to the mule. It does mud ok, but not water and then agian the ground clearance isn't very good.
markc

264 WIN MAG · « **Reply #14 on:** October 09, 2003, 03:30:02 AM »

Actually I do have pics of some of our ride and stuff and I tried to post them but it would not work.........I had made a movie a while back with my 300 riding in some really deep ruts and some pretty deep mud (only about 2" of tires sticking out of the mud) and then crossing a pond on our property and driving up over a beaver hut on the other side.

The only problem is that my buddy made the video on his camcorder and he has not given me a copy of it yet........he is suppose to be transfering it to a file sometime where I can put it on the computer but I don't know when that will be. Hopefully soon I will have a video with the grizz doing some crazy stuff as well.

A freind of mine that has a mule takes it riding where we ride at all the time. Granted he can't beat my grizz or the 300 in the mud and deep, deep water he still does pretty good. The thing that is bad about the mule is that they are not very waterproof or at least his wasn't. When he first got that thing we tried bringing it down to Bogue Creek and ride and everytime we got in the water it would start slipping and wouldn't go anywhere (most kawasaki's I have seen have this problem stock). After being very disappointed and wanting to get rid of it I decided we should make it our little project and we lifted it, put 27" tires on it, snorkeled and siliconed everything. Needless to say he is not disappointed with the machine now and that thing is awesome for creek and lake bottom riding cuz it's like riding in a car and being able to carry 4 ice chests.