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makes for an extremely slippery surface for drive wheels
and for steering even if you're driving in slotted tracks.
With i-4WD activated, the Honda Talon 1000R was
absolutely stuck to the ground on all four corners with
massive traction driving the vehicle through turns
and accelerating in the straights. If ever a front wheel
threatened to spin, the power was diverted from the
wheel losing traction to the others and the vehicle
would literally grab some grip.
While Brent and Haley thought 2WD would be the
most fun in slippery stuff, it turned out the i-4WD
system turned the Honda Talon 1000R into a finely
tuned rally car, pulling the driver and passenger around
corners with serious traction.
This was a fun discovery, as our test days in Utah had
us in soft sand or hard rocks, nothing really in-between.
Here, with loose traction on top of hardpack, having
on-demand drive force really shined.
Next up, we take the stock Honda Talon 1000R and
throw Honda's Parts and Accessories catalog at it to
explore some increased usability and convenience in the
driving experience.
Let's add some parts and test it again!
Testing stock vehicles is one thing but making it
custom is all the better. In this episode, we slap on a
catalog of Honda Parts and Accessories to make the
Honda Talon a little more terrain dominant.
Up to this point, Brent and Haley have been learning
about, and driving, a mostly stock Honda Talon 1000R.
Honda's media department had a half-windshield, nice
A-arm guards, and beefy tubular nerf bars on this test
vehicle when we picked it up. All of those additions are
things we'd do to our Talon if we bought one, too. And
since outfitting and customizing SXS's is in the sports
DNA, we thought it'd be fun to bring more parts with us
to Tucson.
We selected the most reasonable accessories from
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