Category: Yamaha

Dear ATVC: I’m wondering if you could help settle an argument. I say Polaris has always been the leader in the UTV industry, my friend says it’s Yamaha. Who’s right? Actually neither of you. While it’s true Yamaha enjoyed the largest market share with the introduction of the Rino UTV line and Polaris now holds […] More »

If forced to identify one good thing about the riding season coming to an end, we would have to say that that’s when the good deals start surfacing on new & used ATVs. Each week we rummage around SprocketList in the hopes of finding some good deal on a pre-owned quad and this week’s entry […] More »

Pint-Size Powder Keg From afar it’s easy to classify the Yamaha Raptor 125 as an entry level ATV. After all, it’s a fairly simplistic; air cooled small bore 4-stroke nestled into a chassis that’s very user-friendly to younger, smaller and beginning riders. And if you chose to view it accordingly, we don’t fault you and […] More »

Each week we rummage around SprocketList in the hopes of uncovering some spectacular deal on a nice used ATV so as to offer hope to those in need of a new (or new to them) set of wheels for the upcoming season. This week we happened across an ad that takes us to a place […] More »

Yamaha’s Chad Wienen secured his first AMA Pro ATV championship aboard his YFZ450R this past weekend at the 2012 season finale in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. Thomas Brown, who finished an impressive fifth overall for the season, helped Yamaha secure the AMA Pro ATV Manufacturer’s title.

Not to worry if you don’t speak the language of the victim of today’s ATV tomfoolery, figuring out where it all goes wrong is pretty universal. Albin, atop his apparently street-ready Dinli quad on what appears to be either a dock or some sort of boat, decides to attempt a NASCAR-worthy burnout only to run […] More »

Hey we know watching freestyle riders on TV can inspire delusions of grandeur but in this case going big on a Yamaha Raptor 660 that may or may not be due for new bearings quickly becomes a cautionary tale in knowing one’s limitations. Sure, times are tough.. Perhaps full MX gear is overkill when attempting […] More »