well i've been watching all the stuff on the predator being faster and slower than other machines, and i just wanted to come on here and tell what i saw, my wife and i went to the coast with the family , and some friends. we ride ds's and they ride raptors. we have always been faster than them. stock for stock, well i changed the gearing on ours and they work very well, so we go out to competition, hill and get in line to race, well a predator came out and i have to say it put it to the stock raptors bad, it had the pipe and gearing , but it was a great race between my wifes ds and the predator, and hers was the best running ds out there this weekend, well the kid on the predator was about 150 and my wife 140 and she would get it by about a bike and a half, when i rode 180 it was about a 1/2 bike and there was a lot of others left behind. we went out to the flats to run and it was about the same there the ds would slightly pull it on top but change rider size any and it would have been another story. well i'm sure there will be others on here saying there stock what ever beat something, and i'll be the first to say that that predator would beat a stock geared ds, hands down, but he was regeared and piped also, well it looks like a fun machine, and if there wasn't ds's i would have to really look at that machine. i know all the raptors and banshees that it beat were looking at it.

 

sandman-finally somewill admitt that the predator is a good machine.it really is.i was out riding this weekend and i saw three ds`s and they looked pretty ko.i havent got to ride one yet.but thatll change soon.if u wouldnt have got a predator it would defently be the ds.raptors are brand and thats it.

 

if i.sorry bout that.if i would have not got the predator i would have got the ds

 

i rode a predator and i like how it handled reminded me of my ds, well have fun with the predator i know i would, it rocked.