Shock help please

Need some advice on new shocks for my 2013 XP9 2 seater.

I've read every thread I can find and most seem to be related to riding in the dunes out West, which I will never do.

I'm a slow trail/technical rider. I need shocks that offer a pretty good ride to help with 12 hours in the seat on super rough terrain. I rarely get over 40 mph on the trails, so high speed performance isn't really important. Every now and then I'll shoot over some whoops for fun, but that's about it.

I also tend to act a fool and climb some pretty stupid hills.

I'm really not interested in re-springing/re-valving, so please don't suggest that. I'm also looking for those of you that have actually used the shocks, not read reviews as I have also read every review Google can provide.

Also, I'm not really concerned with price, but don't want to drop $3k on Kings if they're really not worth it.

Shocks I'm looking at so far, in order:
Sway-Away
Radflo
King

Possible Alternatives:
Bilstein or Exit

Please provide some seat of the pants advice.

Most shocks seam to be set up for sand fleas. Even if you buy a different brand, like some on here have done, they still had to send them to the manufacture to get them re-valved and re-sprung to ride what we ride. My opinion would be to send them to Smoothride on the site and get yours redone that way. Big R and others have done their 900XP shocks that way and love them. I love mine on my S now that I did that.

How much does Smoothride usually charge?

navestoy wrote:

How much does Smoothride usually charge?

Give him a call @ 423-863-0186 (Tim)

With out question Smoothride is the way to go. Many of us here have tried different shocks but you can't buy a shock set up as good as what Tim can do.

My guess is about a thousand bucks or less for a 900 two seater.

$750 for revalve and rebuild shocks with new springs, for the RZRS. His springs feel so smooth, when I was running the snow plow (lots of weight on the springs) and using the winch to pull trees down and around recently, I though they would start sagging. Never had to make an adjustment yet.

Wow thats some great prices I know what I will be saving some money for now.

Give us a call anytime Tim Ison aka smooth ride 1-423-863-0286

Smooth ride is da the man best mod I have ever done

I've have the shock job done on my old rzr s from smoothride. There was a difference, but not a huge difference. I went the way of Elka stage 4 on my 900 and they were freaking awesome! I got the Elka's for $2060 shipped. Call Elka direct and ask for Sebastian. Tell him your exact riding style, terrain, weight of accessories ect....maybe Jody T will chime in here too. He's running the Elka's along with several others in our group.

Yeah, I'm not going to go the revalve/respring route. I understand that smoothride will make a nice difference, but I'm looking for the best I can get. I think I have it narrowed down to either Radflo's or Bilstein's. I was initially going to go with Elka's, however I have read several threads on the other forum about concerns with long-term quality. If I'm going to drop 2-3k on shocks, they need to last. I checked with Wide Open Designs and they setup Radflo's for XP's pretty regularly and they are in Tennessee, so they understand the type of terrain we ride in.

Smooth ride can also build you a set of shocks I had him build me a set of afcos for my 800

Why don't you ride my machine before you drop a few grand on shocks. My buddy paid $3,000 dollars for shocks and then had smoothride redo them. Just saying.

He wants "The Best" Ronnie not some revalved, resprung shocks. Id buy some Kings or Racerunner full billet, coil over, remote reservoir, progressive sprung, rides like a SCORE Trophy Truck shocks.