kingquad 300/250 quadrunner
May 12, 2006 | 06:16 AM
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kingquad 300/250 quadrunner
Tremendous milage. Very efficient. Stable as a manhole cover, hard to flip it with a forklift. Gears to hell wouldn't have it. Pull a house if you have the traction. Not very fast uphill. Decent handling. Great hunting rig. Poor dune racer.
May 13, 2006 | 10:39 AM
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kingquad 300/250 quadrunner
Glenlivet sums it up very well.
It's a great work quad with the gearing and differential lock. The IRS and very low center of gravity helps it snake around in rough terrain very well. It's one of the most stable quads ever made... in my circle of friends there are about 25 ATVs of all makes (mostly honda and polaris), and all agree that mine is the most stable of all of them in steep terrain (hills, ditches, etc). It does pretty good in the mud and rides great on the trails when you're going moderate speeds. DO NOT think about jumping or whipping this thing around though, the suspension is a little restrictive for that kind of riding.
If Suzuki had worked with it a little more... like changing the rear IRS to a A-arm style suspension, giving it a little more ground clearance, and dropping a 500cc engine in it, it would have been one of the best quads ever made.
It's a great work quad with the gearing and differential lock. The IRS and very low center of gravity helps it snake around in rough terrain very well. It's one of the most stable quads ever made... in my circle of friends there are about 25 ATVs of all makes (mostly honda and polaris), and all agree that mine is the most stable of all of them in steep terrain (hills, ditches, etc). It does pretty good in the mud and rides great on the trails when you're going moderate speeds. DO NOT think about jumping or whipping this thing around though, the suspension is a little restrictive for that kind of riding.
If Suzuki had worked with it a little more... like changing the rear IRS to a A-arm style suspension, giving it a little more ground clearance, and dropping a 500cc engine in it, it would have been one of the best quads ever made.
May 21, 2006 | 01:09 PM
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kingquad 300/250 quadrunner
glenlivet is right. i have a 250 and it is a great little atv. THREE RANGES, diff lock, independant suspendion, and can be found dirt cheap from people "trading up".
the first time i took an atv to Moab, it was the Suzuki 250 quadrunner lt 4X4. it did a dandy job. i did put a small electric fan from a little foreign car radiator in it pointed at the cyllinder head for better cooling.
on the minus side, the front and rear tires are different sizes, making tire choices limited to what you can find both sizes in, and the lil 250 kinda needs three ranges to make up for the puny motor and massive (for it's size) weight.
on the plus side is pretty much everything else. i have close to 2,000 hard miles on mine and have only had to replace a CV boot. (along with oil changes, ect...). i also plow snow with mine in the winter. the front axles are heavier than my Brute's axles, and they have more oil capacity than some cars. more ground clearance than a SRA. the huge rear tires of the 250 make it possible to go places in 2x4 that other machines need the 4x4 for.
i view them as the "flat fender jeep" of the atv world. not real comfy to ride, not that fast, but if you need to count on an atv, these are bulletproof. when i bought my Brute, i couldn't part with the Quadrunner, so i did not trade it in.
on a medium difficult trail where i can get out of super low range part of the time, i can usually expect 60 miles on a tank of gas. i don't ride on easy trails much so i dunno how far it would go in high range.
monty
the first time i took an atv to Moab, it was the Suzuki 250 quadrunner lt 4X4. it did a dandy job. i did put a small electric fan from a little foreign car radiator in it pointed at the cyllinder head for better cooling.
on the minus side, the front and rear tires are different sizes, making tire choices limited to what you can find both sizes in, and the lil 250 kinda needs three ranges to make up for the puny motor and massive (for it's size) weight.
on the plus side is pretty much everything else. i have close to 2,000 hard miles on mine and have only had to replace a CV boot. (along with oil changes, ect...). i also plow snow with mine in the winter. the front axles are heavier than my Brute's axles, and they have more oil capacity than some cars. more ground clearance than a SRA. the huge rear tires of the 250 make it possible to go places in 2x4 that other machines need the 4x4 for.
i view them as the "flat fender jeep" of the atv world. not real comfy to ride, not that fast, but if you need to count on an atv, these are bulletproof. when i bought my Brute, i couldn't part with the Quadrunner, so i did not trade it in.
on a medium difficult trail where i can get out of super low range part of the time, i can usually expect 60 miles on a tank of gas. i don't ride on easy trails much so i dunno how far it would go in high range.
monty
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