One of our sport’s leading brands got some well deserved exposure. Yamaha Motor Corp., USA, was recently featured on The HISTORY Channel’s season premiere of “Modern Marvels: Machines.” Don’t worry if you missed it – they are showing reruns often and most episodes become available to stream both through your cable provider’s streaming channel as […] More »

Is it really a Bear? Dear ATVC: I was told this was possibly a 2000-2012 Yamaha Big Bear 400; although the headlights seem too wide-set. Can anyone confirm or provide the correct year range, make, and model? Thank you. Based on the quality of this photo alone, that’s like asking a marine biologist to identify […] More »

The visual thought process. The thing we like best about clips like this one is you can almost see the thought process unraveling in real-time: This trailer is only a few inches off the ground, this machine can wheelie with a little pop of the clutch – why bother with ramps? We’re going to guess […] More »

What could make fuel spray out of the carb? Dear ATVC: I have Brute Force 650. The other day I was riding and it sputtered and cut off and wouldn’t start. Upon further inspection I saw that the return line had broke – so I fixed it and it still wouldn’t run! I took it […] More »

One more try. This would-be mudder shows off for his friend’s camera with a successful crossing. Sometimes going back for seconds isn’t he best choice for keeping one’s socks dry, however.

If it doesn’t seem fair, that’s because it isn’t. Dear ATVC: The county I live part-time in GA has allowed golf carts on public streets for years. Dropping my kids off at school, there are dozens of carts in the drop-off and pickup lanes every day. Those carts don’t have seat-belts, proper lighting and they […] More »

I was a man when this ride began. Sometimes approaching a mud pit with too much speed can result in the instantaneous transformation from regular old human into mud man. Doing so can also damage the ol pride bone, apparently.