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7 month Update... I've been cutting trails through my woods over the last month or so. The trails are kind of rough and tight, go up and down hills and through mud and swamps, ravines etc. I have to say that my 2021 Axis 500 is really fun to ride. It just jeep crawls over and through everything in 4wd low though I can use it in 2 wd high is more fun to just crawl through everything. Up to riding on my own trails its been on some fairly wide state trails, two tracks and dirt roads. It's pretty fun riding on tight rough and steep trails. I am impressed how well it does. Also been using it to haul stuff around the property like building supplies for my deer blinds, seed, fertilizer for my food plots. Not to mention hauling the deer back to the cabin. .It's a work horse.

I looked at it and drove it. Ran well. It;s only a couple months old. Owner said it was a dealer demo who gave him a great price. He bought it but really wanted a 4 person machine instead. At least that's his story. My brother bought a used Axis 500 (Hisun from Lowes) last year. It was a 2021 with 400 miles on it. It has worked well for him. He drives it a lot and never had a problem. Sometimes you get lucky.

Apparently, these are Hisun or at least they use Hisun engines. I can't find much info on them online yet. Ran across a used one with just 100 miles on it as a very reasonable price. Just curious. Okay, more info...they are owned by Textron Corp who also owns Bell Helicopter, Cessna & Beechcraft aircraft, Ez-Go & Cushman and Arctic Cat and a bunch of other companies. So are thy cheap Chinese crap machines or are they good to go?

In my state you don't need a helmet if there is a roll cage and seat belts so seat belts but no helmet when riding off the property. On the property at low speeds I don't use the seat belts either.

Thanks for that. Just got back from a 74 mile group ride. My wife and I had to wear shooting earmuffs to keep our ears from ringing. We tried the FRS headset radios but they didn't work very well. So the plan is... -Re-route the air intake -put sound deadener on the inside of the engine cowling.

I bought a used 2021 Axis 500 last April. Low mileage and got it for considerably less than what they go for new. The first thing I did was change the oil/fluids and also put a new drive belt on it. The only other thing I did to it was add a rear vinyl window that zips open and rolls up to keep the weather off. I used it on my 52 acre property to check trail cameras, service the food plots, haul fertilizer, seed etc etc. It's has a good size bed and is not too big or small. It has worked well as a utility vehicle. Other than using on the trails working around the property I haven't used it much off road...at least until last weekend when I went on 74 mile group ride around the county. In my state it's legal to ride on any road that's not a state or federal highway. The group started in town, rode about 30 miles on back roads to the state ORV trail system. Then did about 20 miles on the trails and then headed back via back roads to town. It had rained for 2 days straight prior, so the trails were one mud hole after another. It was very challenging. The good... -It worked fine, never had any kind of issue with it since I bought it. -It kept up with more expensive machines on the trails. I was the only one with a CCC (Cheap Chinese Crap) machine. -Fairly comfortable to drive. -The roof, windshield and rear window kept most of the rain off when it started raining in the afternoon. -Okay, I cheated. I peeled off the AXIS 500 stickers on each side. Everybody in the group assumed I had a Rhino. They didn't ask, I didn't tell. The not so good... -The horsepower rating on the 500-cc engine is 24 hp but it seemed underpowered. While I could go about 35 mph with the pedal to the metal on pavement and hard packed dirt roads the best I could do on loose packed roads was 27 mph. I had trouble keeping up with the others in the group. It also bogs down on inclines in high gear. On the other hand, in low gear and 4wd I didn't have any problems going through mud or sand or up hills. -It is LOUD! Had to wear shooting earmuffs to keep my ears from ringing while riding. Going to have to address that. Overall Impression... I was impressed with it on the trails, and it is a good utility vehicle for working around the property. Considering what I paid for it I am very happy with its performance.

Well...to answer my own question I found an FRS radio that clips onto Walker Razor slim electronic noise cancelling ear muffs. Plugs right in and you can hear the radio through the muff's speakers and it has push to talk or voice activated microphone. Since I already have a pair or those ear muffs I ordered a pair of radios to go with them on Amazon Hopefully I'll get a chance to try them out this weekend. These are fairly short range FRS radios, they say a mile but my experience with FRS bubble pack radios is you're lucky to get 1/4 mile. Which is fine for talking to someone sitting next to you or in a vehicle a couple hundred yards in front or behind you. [url=https://imgur.com/FyRnEmC][img]http://i.imgur.com/FyRnEmC.png[/img][/url] [url=https://imgur.com/T5HcCb4][img]http://i.imgur.com/T5HcCb4.png[/img][/url]

Just bought a used UTV, my first SxS. It is extremely LOUD! Was thinking of wearing shooting ear muffs to muffle the noise but then my passenger( wife) and I couldn't hear each other over the shouting we have to do now.... On the other hand we sometime ride with my brother and his wife and would like to be able to communicate. We throught about FRS and/or GMRS radios (we are licensed for GMRS) but we'd have to wear earphones under our ear muffs. My state doesn't require helmets to ride UTVs. I suppose if everyone has a cheap FRS/gmrs bubble pack radio with a ear phone we could all talk to one another. Just wear an ear plug in the other ear or ear muffs. Looking for suggestions.