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See you at the top. Hill-climbers are a separate breed. They don’t concern themselves with trails, mud pits, MX tracks, dunes, or snow. Theirs is a simple mission – be the fastest up a treacherous slope that we can promise is far more intimidating and steep in person than it appears on video. With swingarm […] More »

Perfect icebreaker. Ever notice when it comes to riding, some of the things we think are good ideas to attempt turn our friends into instant psychics? Case in point – everyone in this video thought taking his quad onto the ice was a bad idea but him. Then, when he did it anyway, the predictions […] More »

Showing dad how it’s done. Blowing a perfectly controlled drift into a nice tight circle sounds simple but can be trickier than you think. But when it goes well, a trick we call a doughnut, there are few feelings like it in the world. This week’s clip shows the reality that there’s no such thing […] More »

6-wheel drive. Generally speaking, 3-wheelers didn’t make for excellent mud machines because that single wheel up front was difficult to drive. Here’s an interesting workaround! Sure the front wheel isn’t supplying power still, but the rear wheels, thanks to some cleverly placed tie downs, now has enough surface area to float atop the surface like […] 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 »

Some claw their way up. Others float. When it comes to punching our way up a steep incline there are generally two schools of thought – one is to claw our way up. Get as much weight on the wheels for traction, multiple drive wheels if possible and let the machine dig its way toward […] More »

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 »