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Arctic Cat Catalyst 858
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At least. I paid about that in 2014 for a prolite 900. Polaris 9R is 20k+
I hope to god its not 20k+.
Me too, but after seeing what they’re wanting for their latest edition of the wildcat XX side by side I wouldn’t be surprised.
I'm willing to pay one or two thousand more than the 600
Pretty neat that gauge can be added plug-and-play to this year's Catalyst sleds as an accessory.
SnoWest dropped this talking about the development of the 858. Sounds like it was supposed to be the flagship engine in the Catalyst from the start, but lots of circumstances pushed it back.
SnoWest dropped this talking about the development of the 858. Sounds like it was supposed to be the flagship engine in the Catalyst from the start, but lots of circumstances pushed it back.
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It is a HUGE bummer that this gauge does not communicate with the Polaris 7S or work in Canada. Paying for a gauge that only does the group ride with a hand full of riders, seems like waste! It looks cool though
All 3 Mfgs need to come up with a plan that allows ALL brands to communicate with each other using the group ride feature. Trying to be "exclusive" just doesn't make sense anymore. Hopefully Cat will do some upgrades on this in the future.
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So why didn’t they do a short tunnel and an option for 2 rail?
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It has a short tunnel lol, also cats looking into that option for 2025
Cats had a short tunnel since about 09
In the podcast it looked like Andy was gunna cry when asked about the twin rail in front of his cfo
I hope we can order it without the gauge, it's pretty useless if it doesn't connect to anything other than other cats
I will have the only cat in any group I'm in
I will have the only cat in any group I'm in
Its on purpose. Initially for say Polaris to do it, it gives people another "reason" to buy a certain brand. They are all using legal channels/signals for their transmitting and location sharing, no reason all 3 can't communicate together at this point for safety. I'm sure down the road one of them will and say hey we are good guys in the name of safety we will let anybody connect now!.It is a HUGE bummer that this gauge does not communicate with the Polaris 7S or work in Canada. Paying for a gauge that only does the group ride with a hand full of riders, seems like waste! It looks cool though
All 3 Mfgs need to come up with a plan that allows ALL brands to communicate with each other using the group ride feature. Trying to be "exclusive" just doesn't make sense anymore. Hopefully Cat will do some upgrades on this in the future.
Imagine if all the beacon manufacturers chose different frequencies...
Hahah I Mean your not wrong, they all could of chose to. But being straight up safety it never happened thankfully.Imagine if all the beacon manufacturers chose different frequencies...
Polaris and Cat are using different frequencies already.
That's why these gauges cant communicate with each other.
Totally agree, that for safety reasons, they should all stop this silliness and use the same frequency, at least for the group ride feature!!
That's why these gauges cant communicate with each other.
Totally agree, that for safety reasons, they should all stop this silliness and use the same frequency, at least for the group ride feature!!
Is the new cat gauge a garmin or made by garmin? If so, garmin is very proprietary and likely will not open things up to communicate. Maybe it’ll function with a Rino.
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It would be nice if you were riding with some polari they could put an app on their phone so they could be in your group and you vice versa....
You can do the opposite. If you have friends with the 7s. Download the ride command app. That will track.
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The ride command phone app requires cell service to communicate with the 7S in a group ride situation, so no worky in the mountains, unfortunately
The info i was able to find says the Cat gauge uses MURS (Multi-Use Radio Service) frequencies (151 – 154 MHz spectrum range), so will be weak on range (much like FRS and GMRS channels are), and will not work in Canada for some reason.
The Polaris 7S uses the 2.4 GHz frequencies.
A GHz is a thousand times faster than a MHz, and has greater range.
I am not sure why Cat went with garmin on this, but maybe time will tell . . .?
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