Yes, I'm saying that you would have to push the bars a long way using a lot of force without the sponsons to make a turn. Yes it can be helped by adjusting your riding position constantly but I'm spoiled. I can hold the little dog in the left hand and run up a tight creek easily steering with the right. The extended tabs smooth it out and stabilize it no matter where you are sitting. Use your riding skills to run faster in narrower and shallower spaces, not just overcoming the handling short falls of the craft.
Spim this is my humble opinion. I think you and Justforfun are the coolest cats getting the most modded X4 riding done around south Fl from what I can tell.
sorry i wasn't "dissing" sponsons, just thought that its a steering problem, not a sponson problem. I like AM sponsons, but they don't solve steering problems.
just my humble opinion as well but i've ridden with stock and am sponsons,
and as long as the steering is right, or reasonably so that I didn't notice issues with stock sponsons, actually in many degrees I prefer the stockers in two situations especially, slow carving turns and spinouts (as opposed to a 360).
i found that with river riding slow carving that the stockers flowed very well, had good release on a turn to hit the str8's. with beach house installed from the carves right up to hitting surf as a rec rider it is very much more a "white knuckle" ride since the sponsons are so responsive, mid/high throttle turns had a real bite to them .
IE: learning curve to am sponsons and to me a learning curve includes many instances of landing upside down in the water after you ski makes a perfect 180, but you only completed 125
good times when it happens in 4 foot seas, so much fun to reboard lol (actually it is fun when it works lol)
anyway
when your zigzaggin around crab trap markers (poor mans bouys) I want the beach house all day long.
what I meant to say when I said maybe there is something wrong its because
if u have to pull that hard on turns, its not because you have sponsons, its because the steering needs fixed.
you standard rec rider would be better served with stock and maybe move up to am after some time.
your rec/+ rider would be better served with AM. but their ride won't suffer terribly because of stock.
your rec/hard rider needs AM, he's already juiced up the motor so nothing else was left
and actually there are a lot of x4 junkies around here, some really sweet ski's and a lot of cute little 717's puttering along
