26 inch tires on RTV900

[cchaffee]

Mornin' folks.
I just talked to my tire guy, and UTV tires are really hard to get. 1st time since 1974 i will buy tires from someone else.

So i am looking at Carlisle Versa trail 26X11X12s. My machine is a tired old 2005 RTV900. Any input on whether these would be too much for the old girl?
Appreciate your input.

 

[Doc]

I think you'd be fine with those. You might go with 26x9x12 on the front. Makes it easier to steer and works great. That is what I did when I bought last Dec.
I went with 27" and no rubbing. 27x9x12 on front, 27x11x12 rear. See this thread. https://www.nettractortalk.com/forums/threads/new-tires.17909/page-3 Post 54 is where I start talking about the size and the tires I bought. The Rocky ATV site had great prices and fast fast shipping. I had the tires two days after I ordered them. Good luck.

 

[bordercollie]

I had the 05 model also. They have the old style ujoints so the 26 is as high as I would go. 9 in front.11 rear

 

[cchaffee]

Just a follow up.
I had the Carlisle chevron tread tires, and they wore funny at the end. I also developed a nasty vibration in my metal cab and doors.

I did buy the 26X11X12's above, and they fit prefectly. Best part I drove the RTV to get the tires changed, and took the long way home, many dirt roads. She road wonderfully and i found i now have no vibration issues. Real happy with them

 

[Northern redneck]

Late to the party as always and though I don't have an rtv, I use my cfmoto uforce 500 for much the same things as I have been reading about on here. Hauling gravel and firewood, trail riding, hunting etc.

I recently upgraded my stock 26" tires with 27x11x14 all the way around. My stock tires were 9" on the front and I was going to go with the same thing but I found these swamp lites for sale with rims for $750. Up here, that tire setup is roughly $1600 new plus the government share.

I had previously given the utv a 2" lift last fall. I don't do much mudding other than what I encounter on the trails. I just needed the clearance for rocks and stumps and going through washouts etc. So if you compare the 26" and 27" tires, you can see they are significantly taller which adds clearance. I think I gained around 5" in total on clearance.

 

[geohorn]

Pardon my critique….but the wheels you NEED to “upgrade” are the ones on that TRAILER!

(I have a step-daughter who couldn’t afford to buy new tires for her little pickup truck and asked me to buy tires for her. When I next saw her little truck it had it’s OEM steel wheels replaced with jazzy-chromed-wheels from china on which were mounted huge oversized tires. I explained to her that was why her tires scraped her wheel-sells and the vehicle now handled poorly because she had defeated the expensive factory engineering that had been designed into the vehicle.)

I admit that I’m disrespectful of the fad of replacing factory wheels with ghetto wheels.

 

[Northern redneck]

Yah, those trailer rims are pretty ugly. They match the rest of the trailer but have new rubber. That's the main thing. I didn't upgrade the tries and rims for looks. I did it for clearance and increased traction. Plus, the old tires had 3800km on them and had a couple patches that leaked. I've taken those tires through places where I previously would have been either hung up on a rock or stump or I would have been stuck. I don't intentionally go looking for mud but if I'm in a tight trail and come across a mud/water hole, I want to know I can make it through it.