hey guys recently I did a trip to West Virginia and I took my maverick trail on
that trip and I got a lot of questions about how had it set up and I like to
share information because I'll go on and surf on social media and see how people
set their machines up so that way maybe the next ride I'll make some adjustments
and figure out what worked for them and what might work for me so I'm just gonna
give you a quick walk around tell you some of the things I did for this ride
to make sure that I was prepared for no matter what happened one of the first
things I really like to do on any machine that I get is upgrade my tires
and wheels and the Maverick Trail comes with a 26 inch tire on it and it's a 12
inch wheel and one of the things you'll notice is you get a lot more ground
clearance off of this this is a Sedona mud rebel r/t and what I did was I went
to a 28 inch mud rebel r/t with a sparks wheel now this is a 14-inch sparks wheel
and this is a 12 inch wheel now the reason why I like to go with a 14 inch
wheel and a side-by-side is because I have left side wall you know you got a
lot of sidewall with a 12 inch wheel so you're gonna have more flex and body
roll with your machine whereas with the Sedona tires it's more of a structured
sidewall so you don't have that flex and body roll when you're going into corners
so it just rides better it handles better and with the sparks wheel I went
with a six plus one offset because I wanted to keep it as close to factory as
possible I didn't want my tires hanging way out because if I did get on a 50
inch trail I didn't want it to be all tire and not be able to fit so that's
one thing that I really like to pay attention to because when I started this
out with a 26 inch tire I had ten and a half inches of ground clearance now when
I put the 28 inch Sedona mud rebel r/t on I got about twelve twelve and a half
inches of ground clearance without a lift kit and I didn't want to get too
crazy you know mess up the center of gravity it is a narrow machine so I
didn't want to go too high but I wanted to get up off the ground a few more
inches so I clear some more obstacles and that's exactly what I got with this
tire and then something else I did was I threw HMF front bumper on here and this
is really easy to put on this thing is just a matter of minutes you drill a
couple holes in the existing bumper that's on here
and you just bolt it up and then you also have places to put lights and then
you also have a little bit more protection and it just kind of adds to
the accent and the machine makes it look a little bit better another thing I did
was add an HMF rear bumper to the Maverick Trail and a lot of guys were concerned
about the shocks being exposed so this kind of eliminates that worry and it
also looks good now HMF stuff I've been using it for a
couple years now and one thing I noticed about everything I order from them is
it's easy bolt on, it's only two bolts up here two bolts here and two bolts in
the bottom and this thing is on which is a good thing because I don't know about
you guys but whenever you order something for a ride you want to go on
the UPS guy always seems to bring it the night before at like 6 o'clock or 7
o'clock so you're out bolting stuff up on your machines in the dark or in your
garage trying to get it ready for your ride that you're leaving next morning
really early so that was the case with these bumpers so I'm glad that they were
easy installation it saved me time and I wanted to get him on for my ride and
then up here I didn't have a box I didn't have a bag so what I did was I
put a Yeti cooler in here and I wasn't really using it for a cooler I used it
as my toolbox and I needed something waterproof because it was gonna be cold
and rainy so I put this in there and I used the cooler commander strap this guy
here a couple years ago he sent me some of these and I'll still use them they do
a good job they hold your cooler down you know they don't get out of control
and just using straps and strapping it down and flying all over the place or
running across the top and then you have to take it off every time you open it up
so this is pretty much you know easy access. Can am also has over a hundred
accessories for the maverick trail and I only have a couple of them on here one
of the things I have is the sport roof and then I also have the rack extender
and a lot of their stuff has the link system on and what that is is it just
kind of snaps right in you can take this and put it on really quick and this here
is the link system you just put it in and snap it on and then if you want you
can use this lock down screw and lock it down so you can't take it off or it
doesn't come off or you can just let it out like that and undo it if you want to
clean it or take it off for any reason but it in a matter of minutes it just
goes on and locks right in
whenever you're out on a trail ride you never know what time you're gonna get
back so I like to have extra lighting on my machines and on the trail for this
trip I put a thirty one and a half inch open trail light bar on top and I like
to keep it nice and low profile so that way it's not up real high in case you go
under low limbs you don't take it off and with this light here I have a double
row set of lights so I get a lot more light out of it instead of a just a
single row I mean you'll still get some good light out of a single row but a
double row man it really lights things up and in my opinion you can never go
wrong with extra lighting.Then we come in here to the cab and some of this stuff I
have set up I do on every machine that I have like a mirror I like to see what's
going on behind me I make the helmet hooks here I just make these out of like
a bungee strap I just bend them bolt them in there and then I can hang my
helmet up keep it out of the weather keep it protected
another thing we used on this trip that really came in handy was a rugged radio
setup now this is where it plugs in and then what happens is you have earpieces
in here and it's just like it's almost like stereo there's one on each side and
then you also have a mic where you can talk and it's crystal clear you don't
have any wind coming in and you can hear each other it's great for safety if
there's something hanging out on the trail like a log or somebody coming the
other way or they're making a turn and it also comes in handy for all that
stuff but then again you can also socialise and bust each other's chops
while you're going down the trail which is always a good time here's the radio I
was using this as a portable radio from rugged and this is the a ATV set up the
antenna extender is a game changer you want to make sure if you use this radio
you put the antenna extender on there because the standard antenna that comes
with it it doesn't do a good job at all so the extender is the way to go and
then you just basically plug this in right here when you get in your machine
and you're good to go and anyone you want to communicate when you're going
down the trail I have my button set up on my shifter here I just hit that talk
to them let off and that's all there is to it
excellent communication and this is the portable setup so if you don't want to
set it up on your machine full-time this is a this is a good option here's
another thing I did and this is not how you're supposed to do this I put a seat
heater on here you're supposed to put it under the seat cover but this was a
last-minute deal it was 30 degrees cold snow and rainy so I put this on here to
keep my butt warm and it's really simple I just put it in like that and I have
the controller here you can put it on low put it on high and this made all the
difference in the world because I had a heated vest on and a seat heater and I
stayed warm even though it was cold and rainy so that's how I had my machine set
up for my West Virginia trip now what I'm getting ready to do next is I'm
gonna put a warn winch on and then I'm gonna put this HMF exhaust on now this
just came in the mail yesterday so I didn't quite have it in time for my trip
but this bad boy is going on here today or tomorrow as soon as I can get to it
I'm gonna do the install now I'm supposed to get four more horsepower out
of this pipe and I got the standard pipe I didn't get the one that's loud I got
the just a regular decibel pipe because I don't like a real loud pipe because
the trails we go riding on we just like to keep them open and noise is one of the
number one reasons trails get shut down I also got the optimizer so this is an
electronic fuel injection controller I put that on and I don't have to take it
anywhere to have anything done I'm all ready to go try it out and get out and
do some riding so I hope you guys enjoyed my walk around if you have any
questions or any details that you want to know about what I put on feel free to
hit me up and I'll fill you