Hi y'all! I'm new to this forum so this will be my first time posting. I'm having trouble deciding the best sized quad for my daughter, she is 14, around 5 foot 3, and about 100 pounds. I'm a little scared that if she would get a big quad she wouldn't be able to control it because she is kind of small. She had a Polaris outlaw 90 but that was way to small for her. I was thinking around a 300, it can only be automatic because she hates shifting. I was thinking about a brute force 300 or a Yamaha grizzly 300. Possibly even a sportsman 300 if I could find one with relatively low miles. What do you guys think? Do you think she might be able to handle a bigger quad? She's not wreckless and is a decent driver.

 

too bad she hates shifting, my daughter rides a 2007 TRX250EX, it has the sport clutch/centrifugal clutch. she can use the lever or not. she's about the same size/height. it's nimble, handles good, and she loves it. but if y'all need the CVT, depending on application such as sport vs utility, maybe consider the trailblazer/trailboss or like you said, the grizzly is hard to beat. before i bought the honda, i put her on it and fit the quad to her, not vice versa. welcome to the forum.

 

A 350 Grizzly is a nice mid size chassis ATV. My friends 9 year old son has a 2wd model and handles it well.

Its the smallest gas and go automatic Yamaha makes themselves so it has more quality then the subcontracted 300 Grizzly thats made by a Taiwanese company.

If you go to a showroom you can checkout the size, but since the 350 Grizzly has not changed in over 10 years their should be a lot of good used ones around.

I just sold a nice condition 2007 4x4 350 Grizzly for $3000 Canadian, A lighter 2wd model in the States should be no more then $2000 tops.

Super reliable, just add gas kind of ATV.

 

I'll defiently have to look in to the grizzly 350. I just did some research about where other 300's are made and it looks like they're mostly all made very cheaply. So it looks like I'll have to go a little higher than a 300. I'm gonna start looking at what other manufactures have in theirc350 to 400 class.

 

Usually all the 300cc and under ATVs are subcontracted out.

 

Kymco makes the Brute Force and Yamaha Grizzly 300. Very good quality. I haven't seen much, if any, complaining about them. But, were it me, I'd go with the models mentioned.