Yeah, a couple of my friends have sportmans as well, they seem to be good quads. I helped one of them fix their speedometer after they ran it with a dead battery and blew up some components on the circuit board.
Growing up we had an 84 Honda TRX200 that we got cheap, my dad and I rebuilt the engine and I had a lot of fun riding it around. We just got a 06 Polaris Sportsman 500 X2 as we wanted something that could work a bit harder dragging things around the yard and had 4wd.