Meet Honda Forum Experts

so that's the cool part about it and I want to introduce you guys to the team from the Honda Forum this is I'm Richard I'm founder and owner of the Honda side-by-side Club on Honda side.com so like he is the the main head guy this is his one of his Michael one of his moderators yep and if you guys are in the Honda power sports we've got the number one Forum yep the Honda side 500 700 party 1000 in haunted town 1000. so they made this a much bigger machine but to do that they had to completely redo the framework and we're gonna hear right from the engineer now like beat the redesigned like beat drop strength up tube thickness up and uh and really that's the and actually the uh like really it's just the frame is so long someone was asking me some of the numbers the frame the bending resistance because the frame wants to like dead because it's so long it's three times stiffer than the Pioneer three just because overall we have the mass so long basically you know just moving up now you can imagine the frame like bending like a beam so the roll bar is also so for the extra weight on the vehicle to thickness up and uh and also the cushion we call cushions but the shocks so it's a Honda term but the design with the shocks are retuned uh the stiffer Springs and a damping just for the extra load and we had the we'll talk a little bit more about that too but that's a key point for this I think we might be here look at that Bull Run Ranch taken over by Honda a couple things about the unit we just want to show you now that we've got one out here is how much storage actually there is right you can take these seats off and you can see right underneath this front seat how much actual room is in here so you have these huge pockets of space that you can not only access from taking the top seat off but if you can also access it from right you know through the actual rear seat too so lots extra space you can get another little pocket on that side to put some stuff in so yeah that's really nice out in the wilderness or going hunting fishing room take your stuff in gear with you I don't know the guy that would know that's talking right there like I mentioned last night you've got your paddle shifters here so at any time you want to up or downshift feel free to use those you can just give it a tap it'll shift up to next gear if you just want the RPMs lower you want a little higher just cap the downshift um four-wheel two-wheel drive it'll be a little muddy out there you're…