It wasn’t designed for this! The Bombardier (Can-Am) DS 650 is known for many things but deep mudding isn’t generally one of them. Its water-cooled 653cc Rotax high output engine mated to a manual clutch, 5-speed transmission, rear drive only platform made it one of the earlier performance 4-strokes that would come to dominate race […] More »
No ramps? No problem! When it comes to the art of loading and unloading our ATVs, riders typically fall into one of two camps: Pickup truck beds that require ramps or trailers with tailgates that serve as ramps. However, as this week’s clip illustrates, there is a third camp. When tasked with unloading his wheeler […] More »
The saga of how this man was banned to the couch for life. If you happen to have married yourself someone who understands your love of ATVs, let’s your young child enjoy them with you, even grabs the check book when you ask if you can buy a used one for winter adventures, you probably […] More »
That’s one way to increase your machine’s ground clearance. There was a time in the ATV world where sitting on 20″ wheels was considered ridiculously over-exuberant. This guy went ahead and more than doubled such madness on his Honda Fourtrax. An interesting side-effect to introducing what are in essence massive circular rafts to the equation, […] More »
We don’t mean to suggest the hot setup for the mud pit is abundant bottom end but as this week’s vid demonstrates – it certainly doesn’t hurt! After conquering this pit, this guy decided to take the opportunity to showboat a bit by walking his Honda Rancher to greener pastures.
Universal translator. There are a few constants in the world – things like hunger, thirst and panic when we see one of our fellow rider’s getting in over their head. We’re not sure what language is being spoken in this week’s clip – but we’re pretty sure we know exactly what they’re saying.
Look of defeat. When mud looks like butterscotch pudding, it can be really difficult to accurately gauge the depth ahead of time. More often than not, the bottom drops out and we find ourselves in much deeper than anticipated. However, once in a great while the opposite is true. We prepare for the worst and […] More »