Tag: four-wheeler

I built it. I’ll crash it. When this week’s clip starts, things look good. Especially if you’re into the look of a custom wheeler decked out in diamond plate and appreciate riders sporting their best green vest over a rolled up flanel. However, just because you built a machine from scratch, never get overconfident when […] More »

Backyard engineering is the art of developing a machine or a modification much in the way MacGyver used to escape hopeless situations: with abundant creativity. Usually we tip our collective hats to some of the wildly inventive solutions we encounter this way. Other times the only logical conclusion is “What in the world were they […] More »

Years ago things were simple — bikes leaned while ATVs slid when it came to cornering. Then the line began to blur several years back when road-going three-wheelers began appearing with geometry and configurations that allowed them to lean over like a bike without sacrificing the stability of self-balance. Yamaha has had a concept called the Tesseract […] More »

Dear ATVC: What exactly is a “quad-bike”? Is this a specific type of ATV, a slang term or something different entirely? The term quad bike is rarely used in the United States to describe an ATV (though “quad” alone is certainly common enough in reference to the vehicle’s four-wheels much in the same way trike […] More »

Dear ATVC: Found a pic of this quad on the net and can’t figure out what it is. Obviously a Kawasaki of sorts but I never saw its like in any of the product brochures. Indeed you aren’t going to find this ATV’s exact match no matter how thoroughly your scour Kawasaki’s product brochure archives. […] More »

As an industry, we’ve made great strides in separating the ATV concept from the “redneck”, “hillbilly”, or “backwoods bumpkin” stigma and yet, thanks in no small part to the fact that almost everyone’s phone has a camera these days coupled to the magic of the internet, there are more public examples than ever of how […] More »