Yee haw! Sometimes the life of an ATV enthusiast and a rodeo cowboy isn’t all that different. Take this week’s clip, for example. In effort to show off the performance of one of his many Yamaha Banshees, this rider enters what’s known as a swap and quickly experiences the equivalent of a bucking bronco 2-stroke […] More »

Machines that fall in that sweet-spot between performance and maintenance. Dear ATVC: Hey guys, looking for opinions on which one is more reliable, easier to work on, and has longer longevity. My dad is looking to purchase a quad this spring, and he’s considering the following two models. He’ll mainly be exploring logging/fire roads. He […] More »

Retro race sounds in the modern age. As hard as it is to imagine now, there was once a time in recent history when quad racing meant the sweet scent of 2-stroke oil, a slight blue exhaust haze in the air and the music of braaaaps bouncing off the trees. These days the thumping of […] More »

Valves on both ends? Yes, sometimes. Dear ATVC: Appreciated your article on the two-stroke power valve but have to laugh when you say the to-stroke engine is designed around using no valves. If it has a reed valve on the intake side and a power valve on the exhaust side, I’d say it is a […] More »

Didn’t need valves but had some anyway. Valves are a fact of like in the four-stroke engine. Intake valves open which allow fuel to enter the combustion chamber, a spark plugs ignites the fuel/ air mix, sending the piston sailing down the cylinder and then exhaust valves open to allow the spent gaseous byproducts of […] More »

It’s been a minute since we’ve seen a brand new factory 2-stroke. For most of us, the days of the 2-stroke equipped ATV have waved goodbye long ago. Yamaha’s legendary Banshee 350 ceased US distribution back in 2006 and the last production 2-sroke available, the Spanish made GasGas Wild HP 300, suffered a similar fate […] More »

The one that started it all. Would it surprise you to learn that the ATV industry owes a debt of gratitude to a James Bond movie of all things? To appreciate this interesting origin story, we have to travel in time all the way back to 1970. ATVs did exist prior but they weren’t what […] More »