The website for the snowmobileexpo.com, has removed Polaris offering demo rides. I don't know that I can snow check one with out more feedback than 10 guys riding them in marginal snow. Sad, but I might go with a skidoo t3, $800 less from my dealer and in a package that has been tried and liked by many. Come on POLARIS, give us demo rides!!!!
I would have liked to demo but do to the crappy snow it is what it is. I am still getting one but if I could have demoed I might have bought my wife one. She will stay on her t3 174 and we will have a golden ticket for the 17 if they are as cool as I think they are going to be. As far as the t3, it sounds like you haven't rode one of those and are taking somebody elses word for them. I assure you they are awesome. Don't know about the 154 or whether it is a trencher or not but irregardless the t3 is way better than the regular xm. You would be taking a chance on the new pro but it is lighter and has more power and a bigger track and it is narrower with less drag. Those four things are huge. I have air loc running boards and I know that is going to make a big difference. That is only half the puzzle with the 16. The whole chassis is raised up. This will make a huge difference. Guys are saying that it doesn't need a 36 inch kit which tells me they are way easier. I don't know if you have rode a pro with a 36 kit. As far as the 3 inch, they change the handling on a pro a little bit but it isn't something you can't deal with. They are a little harder to get on edge and take a little playfulness out but after I sold it the kid put a 36 kit on it and it was really fun. I guess what I am saying is I bet a 3 inch axys will handle better than a 2.4 pro. Burandt said they get out of the snow quicker than anything else he has ever rode and keith curtis told a guy my dealer knows that the difference between the pro and axys is like the difference between the dragon and the pro. I know haters will say they are sponsered but I have talked to burandt before about the pro other brands and he will say what he likes and dislikes. He knows what he is talking about and what works. He is not going to sit there and trash polaris, being sponsored, but he is not going to sit there and just lie either. His rep is on the line too. I believe they will glamourize things a little more than they are. I also called phatty, who has also rode it, and he told me it is the bomb. The only bad thing he had to say about it was the shocks. I have his old sled so I know there isn't a factory sled out there that is going to make him happy as far as the shocks go. If you like the pro I bet you will love the axys and if you liked the xm you will love the t3. Either way you will have a fun season. It is just about two different directions to get there.
