Top speed......... curious?

ferniesnow

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Here is the proof.....2014 Summit 800 Etec 163".....200 km ++

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Look at the tack.........who said, there is a rev limiter? That baby was just a humming yesterday!


That is pretty fast for a 163" stock 2014 Summit..............oh, I nearly forgot maybe the baffles burned out of theThing! It does make horsepower!!!!!!
 

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Back read a little and it is there. It is actually drying out by the wood stove and I will see if it will come back to life. I have a feeling it is shot and so does the original Mr.R......

That is what he told me when mine was acting up. Guess what... he was correct. I wasted time trying to dry it out and hoping that was it but it took a new one to make it work.
 

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I remember having my 95 670 up to 100mph but it only had a 1-1/4" track I think. Everything after has been slower due to bigger tracks. They say the big tracks aren't meant to take the forces of a top speed run and can come apart.

Six years ago my buddy, Glen, died making an innocent little drag race across a pristine mountain lake. Play safe.
 

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Several winters ago on a 2010 Skandic 500, down a lease road I got upto 87 m/ph or 132 k/ph. Followed by frost bite.
 

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2001 Polaris 800 RMK 151, 120 MPH ( according to the speedo) down a road... Fence posts were a blur, the windshield caved back and the wind grabbed my helmet and tore my visor off. YES looking back it was very stupid and could have gone horribly bad.
 

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I wonder what the OP (101............. or whatever his handle is) thinks of that for top speed?

I'm equally as indifferent. I was hoping to get a sense of what "normal" might be..... as a performance benchmark basically. In the end there are just too many makes/models/mods/years to draw any conclusions. Mine may, or may not, be operating optimally.
 

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Some dudes on this site talk about track speed.
That is relevant to those dudes that do big climbs on insane chutes or bowls.[
The rest of the dudes hope to not being able to see the speedo because of so much snow pushing over the hood. But that is just me...and a few others.
 
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