First-world Rant...
Many moons ago the wife and I got ATVs... much fun. The premise behind getting my ATV was to move snow, of which, it has moved a lot of the stuff. The wife, who had sworn off of ATVs years prior due to a little misadventure of my making, rode my ATV once, and decided that she had to have one of her own.
Fast forward to now...
Both ATVs are getting a few years on them, but really don't have that much time on them. The wife's really only gets ridden once or twice a year, and that is when we make our annual ATV run up to a lodge in the nearby back-county. Sadly, we are both getting older, and there are things about the ATVs that make them uncomfortable to ride. One of the biggest is the thumb throttle, it is a little painful before arthritis decided to set in, but even going out in the nearby woods to plink off some .22 rounds has gotten painful. My ATV, a Foreman 500, is difficult to ride at speed due to its solid back axle; the wife's is a Rubicon, and it screams over the rough terrain with its independent suspension. There are a number of other issues that really make us not look forward to riding...
We still like to be out in the woods, one with nature while having the throttle wide open. Forever I have been trying to talk the wife into getting a side-by-side. Something we both can ride in comfortability, only one machine to maintain, and something that I can still use to plow and do work on the property. She has resisted because she likes the 'bike' feeling of her ATV, even though she can't ride for long, and does not ride much at all. Because both ATVs are in great shape, and because her ATV has low hours, we'll get a good trade-in on a new machine. But, it is her ATV, unless she is willing to part with it, I am not going to trade it in. Finally she is starting to see the light, and has agreed that it is time for us to change how we scoot through the woods.
Having done a ton of research, I have landed on the Can Am Commander XT-P. Its a big machine, great for work and for fun, and has the power to get us down the trail. Yup, all is right with the world... The problem, is that no one has any. The dealers have to order 20 at a time, for some ridiculous reason. So, to get one, I have to put a deposit down then wait until next month. IF the dealer has 20 orders on the books, they submit the order to BRP. If they don't have 20 orders ready to go, they wait until the next month to order, because they only have a small ordering window each month. After ordering, if EVERYTHING goes right, they are no supply chain SNAFUs, and the gods are smiling, three to six months later we will get our machine. ***sigh*** :roll:
Like I said, first-world problem....
