I saw this thread and had to reply since nobody seems to have been on a Rincon.
I have owned Grizzly's and Kodiak's and they are fine presently I have a couple Kawi's and like them.
A couple years ago a friend of mine wanted me to help him on an Elk hunt, he said "lets just take my ATV's", he had 2 Rincon's.
We went on a very steep trail that gained about 4000ft in elevation, I was not very impressed with the power for being a 675cc motor, most other brands 500's have more power but we made it.
The real eye opener was coming back down. every other brand but Honda has engine braking that's why they have the clutch's and belt, Honda has some fancy transmission with virtually no engine braking and to make matters worse the Rincon has truly ungodly horrible brakes. It truly took 4 times longer to come down than to go up because we had to stop every 15min to let the brakes cool enough to continue, would not have been an issue with any other brand of machine. A true pile of junk. hard to believe that Honda could miss the mark so badly.
I’ve never owned a Rincon but have owned many Honda’s and every one of them was an excellent machine. Keep in mind the Rincon is basically still the same machine it was when it was first designed almost 20yrs ago. This is strictly the fault of Honda but hard to compare apples to apples versus some of the newer machines.
