Honda Pioneer 500 - Camping & Ride in Vega, Alberta 

Great ride along. Thanks for taking the time to put it together.

When you said that you brought the most important thing, I thought that were going to reach for a six pack of beer. Great video.

Looks like a fun camp and ride

Great video, keep up the great work.

love the lights,, thanks for the idea

Nice video! I had a Honda four wheeler and was considering the Pioneer 500 but life got in the way. I miss it.

I am running 25" Bighorns on my P500..I like them and they work really well and go where you aim them, and Greg is right, i find myself looking for the extra gear some times. But all and all it does what i got it for, Work around the camp lot and some trail riding with the wife.

I use a Marmot Limestone tent i love it and the full rain fly's.

I am looking at one of these, I like the width, firs in a smaller pickup box but thinking it seems a bit under powered. When you are in the back country, at times, you need the ooomph to pull you through an obstacle. Great vid. Cheers.

I recognize the first trail I think......west side of the area that comes out at the road or wellhead. Where is the creek in the second half though? Up the power line somewhere?

I considered buying a Pioneer 500 recently myself, until I test drove one. I'm not a huge power junkie but the Pioneer has to be the slowest, most underpowered off-road machine I have ever driven. 28 hp for a machine weighing 900 lbs isn't a very good power to weight ratio. Heck, I owned a Honda Recon before and it would run circles around a Pioneer 500 and its basically the cheapest atv you can buy. I like the idea of the 50" Pioneer and the paddle shifters are a great idea but Honda has to give this machine more power to really make it a capable ride. The one instance where it got stuck was because it just doesn't have enough power to get through mud. The poor ground clearance with the tiny 24" stock tires doesn't help either. The 700 engine from the Rincon and in the Pioneer 700 would be an improvement but its underpowered too. The 700cc single from the 700xx has a lot more power and would be a great choice for the 50" Pioneer. Or a scaled down version of the Pioneer 1000 twin in the 800cc range and about 55-60 hp would be great too. Its a good platform to build a multipurpose machine but the outdated Foreman 500 engine can't be the only choice. Its not even powerful enough for the Foreman, let alone a machine weighing 250 lbs more.

Do you think with a front diff lock you would of gotten through that??? Of coarse something like a Maxxis bighorn 2.0 26” tires would made a huge difference too. That mud didn’t look that deep hard to tell in the video. It did look super thick and sticky though. Supposedly there’s a front diff lock coming out this year for the P5

stock tires??,,,,,,,oh,,love the videos, ,, I bought a set of LED rear lights and put them in the same place after watching your older video

Hi Greg Rowe - Sorry I can't reply directly but you have reply restricted - and I hope you check back for my comment. I truly believe you should be a Honda designer! Everything you said is utterly true - so true it's painful. I hate the machine is capped @ 64 kmph - I hate the crappy 24" tires - I dislike the underpowered engine. I wish Honda had taken more of a risk and made a 90 kmph machine with 28" tires and a torquey 850cc motor in the same 50" chassis. I LOVE the form factor! It's small and agile, has the big bed on the back and the riding position for me is perfect. If I won the lottery I'd modify my P500 to exactly those specifications and ask you to test it :) (oh and I would make the front diff locking / and add an option to auto shift for the gears). Great comment thanks for taking the time for a well thought out response.

Hello. You sound British if i am not mistaken :) Cable ferry.... That reminds me of Sweden. actually, that whole area reminds me of Sweden.

Does it seem that the ATV quads in this video outperform the Pioneer 500?

Is the Honda noisier than a quad bike. Thanks for posting.

Any tire upgrade coming soon? Great vid.

If you get stuck and 1 wheel is not turning, does the Pioneer 500 have the common Honda front diff where you just ride the brakes a little and it adds more power to the stuck wheel? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WxzsQ9TO6dM.html.

Lots of Bears there too We hunt in there all the time , Mulies`s everywhere , There`s some nicer trails with lakes north of Westlock way closer to Edmonton I live in Westlock .

What river was that @ 8:31?

where is this ?

my 2015 can am outlander max xt 1000 2up is only 46 inches wide

certainly muddy hope you made some good pies!, ha ha

Needs more Cup a Soup.

like to do some chicken hunting I'm looking for a older 410

You should get the yamaha wolverine

When you got stuck you should have kicked up a gear and floored it

put a jacket or something over that cable, if it breaks you will have no teeth