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I had my new 2021 850 Turbo Expert 165 out for the first ride of the season. We were in McBride November 28. Weather was bluebird, around -6 We got up to the cabin, the sled ran flawless on the trail and accelerated great. Lots of snap, clean crisp power. I got to the cabin and put the suspension on long just for fun factor. Went up over the top of small bell mountain to the meadows, the new snow was approximately 4' deep on a good base. The sled ran fairly well most of the time. When under more load found that there some bog issue and backfiring, thought this was due to heavy snow covering the vents. The majority of my day the sled ran flawless. I was already getting down on fuel so I dumped my fuel in, and thought lets try adjusting the clickers on the primary. So put those to 3, it ran like total crap then, The rev limiter was constantly being hit. So put it back to one. Where the tip of my wrench broke off, with only hand pressure, those are total junk. Buy the tool kit if you can find one, well worth the money, nice kit, high quality. This may have answered a bunch of my questions as I was over revving then letting off and bang, backfire. So I rode rest of the day hitting my throttle by constantly tapping it without a heavy hit, and it appeared to be good. I'm thinking that the clutch weights are a bit light and the motor is hitting rev limiter quite easily. Something probably very easy to fix. This sled was even more nimble than my previous G4 165, even easier to shoot around with the defiantly noticeable extra power at your thumb. It was quite surprising as i started to do a hard carve and just tapped the gas and the sled responded very fast. You will have a smile all day on these machines. Do have the large fuel caddy as they go through fuel, I rode the entire day 77.5 km, used my full fuel tank and 3/4 of the large fuel caddy. Not fun to get the spare belt into the holder. Found the tool kit at a smaller dealer north of Edmonton. I fueled up with 91 at Shell in Spruce Grove, on Century road, will try Petro Canada for next tank.
64% break in left
64% break in left
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