When I am riding on our trails or in the fields, I am going a lot slower, like 10-15mph, or even less. Most other times I am cruising around 15-20mph as it feels more "sane". The only time I open it up is when traveling down the paved public road in a hurry. My RTV-X1120D tops out around 27 or 28 mph. I figured I could always put the K-Connect snowblower on it if need be, but now I'm thinking I may not need that, given the Kubota's greater ability to push snow way off the road. I actually sold my Gator and bought a John Deere tractor with a snowblower last year to get around that problem, but that was a huge mistake - it would blow snow maybe 15 feet at best. I live in a heavy lake-effect snow region (200" last winter, 265" a few years ago) and the problem I always ran into with my Gator was "where are you going to put all that snow?" When it piled up 4 feet high along my 1000' long private road, the typical freeze/thaw cycles would turn that into immovable walls of ice - and then you were really in trouble for the rest of the winter. It has much more power than the Gator, and I can push snow way off the road, in places I'd never dreamed of reaching with the Gator, but it's definitely oriented much more toward work than play. I'll definitely putt-putt around my land with it, but I sure wouldn't describe it as "lively". ![]() Maybe it'll be faster when spring comes and I can remove that extra weight. Of course, I do have another 350 pounds of snow plow up front plus another 200 pounds of bagged sand in the bed, so that probably has an effect. The 1100C supposedly will go 25, but the highest number I've seen on my speedometer is 19. Even though the 620i had a top speed of 30, it'd go 30 - and get there pretty quickly. What the 1100C isn't, though, is peppy or fast. The ride is actually much smoother over bumps than what I was used to in my old Gator. It would be able to manage, no doubt - there's plenty of ground clearance and suspension travel. ![]() I love my new 1100C, but I honestly don't know how much fun it would be on the trails.
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