Not so much. Watch this Polaris ad and you can see the kind of "off road experience" they are selling. Note racing, going through stream beds, tearing through lots of different terrain. Notice the suspension and engine power. Is it sensible to expect people are going to pay for a machine like this to ride gently over old railroad beds and graded trails at slow speeds?
I bike through lots of the old back roads around Boulder Junction, and there are few logging roads that would require much power to get through.
ATV companies are responsible ATV'ers worst enemies. They want to sell to responsible ATV'ers but they know there is a lot more money in selling oversized, overpowered machines to people who see the outdoors as nothing more than the backdrop to a video game.
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