SparkyMark

Well... here they are side by side. Had to drive all the way to New Mexico to pick it up (Big thumbs up for R&D Dealership in Raton - no dealership setup charges - no fuss.  I fitted a WARN winch which was pretty simple. So far so good. Bit clunky finding 2nd gear but everything else is fine. As others have said, it's super comfy. Guess I'm not feeling in full control as automatic takes car of the shifting. ESP is fine. My TRX450FM remains the primary work horse right now. Fortunately the Cycle Country snow plow fits both the TRX450 and the TRX520FA6 - with a new baseplate from KFI.

Thanks @RubiDan.

The towing capacity is 1322lbs and the rear carrier has a capacity of 187lbs (same as yours). My 2004 Foreman TRX450 is 850lbs and 133lbs respectively. So I'm not worried about that at all.

Honda may have changed the gear ratio in Rubicons from 2020 onwards.

I'll let you know how I get on - once I take ownership. 60 years old here. Looking forward to more comfort 🙂 

5 hours ago, shadetree said:

i think you are buying a auto paper weight..lol.

LOL.. May be. Time will tell.

It will be the most expensive paper weight I've owned 🙂

It's been a while since I posted - way too long.

Currently enjoying all the work I put into my 2004 TRX450 (Foreman) with manual foot shift. That thing never lets me down and is smooth as butter. Winch and snowplow were very useful this past winter.

I've also been pretty impressed with the reviews of the new Honda Foreman Rubicons. So I put down a deposit on an TRX520FA6.I really didn't want to pay the extra $500 for fancy paint, alloys and color matching springs (FA7) 🙂  Utility - not fashion accessory.

I was fortunate to find a dealer that had one unit being shipped today from Honda. Dealership has no idea when it will arrive - no visibility into the supply chain. It seems they get told by Honda that they have been chosen to receive "an ATV" of a particular spec. No flexibility in specifying what they want.  It all seems pretty random. No other dealership on the eastern slope of Colorado had any Rubicons.

Asked if I wanted to trade in my trusty TRX450 - the answer was ! no!

I let you know what I think of it - once I take delivery (some time in July).

On 6/24/2021 at 5:07 PM, Fishfiles said:

Pics please !!! 

Sorry for the long absence. Major illness in the family. Everything OK now....

Fitted a front skid plate -  which I had been waiting on since early April.  Took less than 10mins to bolt it to the frame. I could have manufactured a nicer, more sturdy one in a week.

Just now, Fishfiles said:

Happy Father's Day to all you'll Mudders !!!  

And the same to you FF ! 🙂 

Got all my chores done earlier in the week (took a week off) and yesterday - boundary surveying some land we acquired. Colorado's searing hot weather finally broke yesterday with a good thunderstorm and some much needed rain.

So today I'm gonna sit back, relax and enjoy the freshly mowed back yard ... from the hot tub... with a drink.... yet to be defined.

CFMoto "seem" to have a lot of gadgets and gimmicks - probably to compensate for a lack of quality and poor reliability. But that's just my opinion having seen them close up. But I've not ridden one.

17 hours ago, Fishfiles said:

Thanks for bringing that to my attention , fixed it ,  should have read  " CAN'T " 

I kind of figured 🙂

On 12/11/2020 at 11:01 AM, _Wilson_™ said:

 

two likes one for each hoof making contact with an urban cowboy, haha! that's one smart horse! 

That gotta hurt..

31 minutes ago, Fishfiles said:

I went to use this Green 96 300 2wd yesterday , to spray roundup , it sat for at least 5 weeks , it did have non ethanal fuel and Sea Foam in the tank , didn't turn the petcock off last time , that was a mistake , it didn't want to start , when I opened the drain screw on the bottom of the carb no fuel came out , after banging on the carb bowl , fuel started coming out , so I figure the float valve was stuck shut , also the choke plunger is still stuck solid ,  got it running and the rear brake foot lever was sticking and the rear brakes were dragging  , had to free that up and after spraying the first 15 gallons of Round Up , I let it sit for a while as I took a break to cool off and when I came back , the carb was over flowing all over the ground , added 1/2 bottle of Sea Foam started it up , ran it hard up and down the street and sprayed another 15 gallons of RoundUp , this time I watched it after turning it off and the carb didn't over flow , turned the petcock off and ran it out of fuel when I parked it  ----    moral is you can let them sit with fuel in the carb , especially when the temps are in the 90s 

You can let them sit or can't let then sit?

On 6/9/2021 at 1:27 PM, LedFTed said:

aint that in Mega bits per second instead of MB's per second. i suppose its good, so far..

Megabits is correct.

Just wait until we are solely reliant on China for silicon semi-conductor manufacturing.  The world is reliant on one company (TSMC) in Taiwan for a certain component. China may attempt to take ownership of TSMC - event Taiwan itself.

I was born and raised and spent most of my life (yeah I know - sounds like the intro from Fresh Prince) in a country where it is very difficult to own a fire arm of any kind - unless a farmer (rodent control) or a member of a sports shooting club - and even then there are very strict rules with regular checks and inspections of how and where the gun(s) and ammunition is stored.

As an American citizen (import from the UK), and a previous board member of our local shooting sports complex here in Colorado, I listened intently to the never ending debate on guns and gun controls. I agree that is the right of Americans to bear arms as described in the second amendment.

I can't tell you why there are so many gun related deaths in our great country - when places like Switzerland has as high gun ownership as the US yet has very low gun related deaths. Some say it's a mental health issue.  I don't believe America is any more mental than any other developed country -  so I have concluded it is cultural.

Nonetheless, here are some interesting statistics - sliced and diced from many perspectives - on gun related deaths in the US.

https://usafacts.org/data/topics/security-safety/crime-and-justice/firearms/firearm-deaths/

I'm a data scientist - so I find data fascinating. I make no judgement.

The second amendment is still needed.

It's 96 deg here on the North Eastern Plains of Colorado. My snowboards are not happy.

And one of the parts I ordered early April has finally been dispatched and is on its way to me.

Family visiting from Florida and Denver.... We're playing hosts. Might play on the "escape vehicle".... I mean ATV.

Still waiting for parts from Honda - back order, back order, back order...

14 hours ago, CamKnouff said:

High $, but remember that is in Canadian dollars.  Yes I have had outages, only a few and not for that long, I think one about 15 minutes and a couple of a few minutes. Not sure why? 

Ahh - that makes sense 🙂

On 5/24/2021 at 8:40 AM, CamKnouff said:

Just switched over to Starlink, I have no cell reception and can not get a land line.  Unlimited data; needed to purchase their dish $800, and $144 a month, a bit of an outlay but much better than previous deal.

 PING ms

32

 DOWNLOAD Mbps

189.51

 UPLOAD Mbps

15.18

 

Previous supplier - went to watch hockey - in 5 minutes of clock time had 3 minutes and 8 seconds of buffing- cancelled and then Starlink became available here; big improvement and now watching and enjoying the play offs.

Wow! Those prices have increased.  But I'm impressed with the download / upload rates.  Do you have any periods of no service? (out of satellite range?)

1 hour ago, retro said:

I tested my speeds this morning and got 64mbps down/45mbps up on speedtest.net from servers in Indianapolis, IN and in St Louis, MO. Pings were a bit high to those two cities at 81ms-84ms though. Those two tests were on 4G only since my secondary 5G signals would not connect this morning. Whenever the 5G secondary signals do connect though, my download speeds increase about 30% while upload speeds remain about the same at around 45mbps. Not bad for $50 a month with no speed limits or data caps out in the boonies, 15 miles from the nearest cell tower! 🙂

That's pretty good for 4G.  In rural Wales, we used to have to get the sheep lined up to receive a good signal 🙂 (US colleagues - think of Wyoming)

12 hours ago, Fishfiles said:

" he used a meter and said the number was 17"

He's probably referring to the ping time. (Response time - from sending to receiving a response) 17 msec is normal.  You can use speediest.net to find out your ping time, download and upload rates. The upload and download rates will usually be much higher if directly connected to the router instead of wifi... but we all use wifi these days.

12 hours ago, Fishfiles said:

 

@SeekanDestroy What is the intended use for bigger / faster ATV? Trail riding, mudding, utilitarian, more thrills / spills? 🙂

11 hours ago, Bighanded said:

funny story..first time we saw the first dozen links flying over..it was a freak out moment. Many folks have done this... is it military? 

That's too funny. 

Not sure how I feel about seeing an entire grid of satellites in the night sky around the globe - although I have heard they can tilt the satellites to avoid glare 🙂