The all-time best smokers. These days it’s getting increasing more difficult to even buy a 450cc pure sport ATV for trails or racing, a very sad fact when you consider that a little over a decade ago there were 12 of them from which to choose. What’s even crazier is this isn’t the first time […] More »

You have to see it to believe it. Typically when we think of private collections, we think of things like stamps, coins, maybe baseball cards or model cars. This guy collects Banshees. No, not posters, advertisements or sales brochures. Actual Yamaha Banshee 350cc twin cylinder 2-strokes. We’re going to go ahead and assume he is […] More »

Drag quads are a different breed entirely. Yamaha’s 350cc twin cylinder 2-stroke Banshee is a legend in sand dunes the world over but apparently sometimes that’s just a starting point. The poster of this week’s clip says that he weighs in at 205 pounds but you’d never know it with the way his modified Banshee […] More »

Simple trick. Failed execution. The stoppie or nose wheelie is a staple ATV trick and it’s usually pretty safe to execute too. Why? Well, because if you feel yourself going over too far forward, simply letting go of the front brake lever should bring the rear of the quad back down. We say “should” because […] More »

New for this year: BNG Yamaha has had a very storied history with their flagship 2-stroke 350 twin Banshee. And though the old soldier has been retired back in 2008 (North America) to make way for a new generation of 4-stroke performance, the vehicle was largely unchanged for its entire production run. As such, you […] More »

From a time before Youtube. It’s not often you think of a nautical disaster being a result of an ATV taking a jump but that’s exactly what we have here. The year was 1991 and the stunt was an attempt by Matt “Kangaroo Kid” Coulter to take his Banshee over a steam ship. The attempt […] More »

Long live the 2-stroke. What happens when you sandwich a Yamaha Banshee 350-twin 2-stroke engine into a Honda TRX450R chassis? The answer is this. Braap!