I'm curious what kind of mileage we can expect from these machines.
I never put more than a thousand or so on ATVs in the time I had them, but then I kept swapping machines trying to find 'the right one'.
I have 2800 on the RZR, and for a while when I was trying to sell it people were saying "that's a lot of miles" which I thought was kinda bullshit.
The RZR did need a complete set of bushings, wheel bearings, tie rod ends, and ball joints at 2600, but with that done it felt like new again.
1980s era street motorcycles were good for about 50,000 miles before they started wearing out and coming apart, but some of that was due to age - 20 years will do terrible things to rubber and plastic.
Off road use is a lot harder on the machines.
So what can we hope to get out of these machines, I wonder.
Will we ever push the cost down to $1/mile, since we will continue to put money into them for replacement parts and maintenance costs, not to mention gas?
Maybe it's best not to think about these things and focus instead on the recreational therapy we're getting out of them.