Actually it's more rideable than you might would think.I sometimes go to a place called sandcreek.I almost never get out of third gear.Around here riding areas are scarce.I still have the stock tranny(no override).The porting gave it more mid range so to me it become more rideable.Real tight trails where you must go slow would be a nightmare on it though.Banshees are not known for being trail rigs anyways.It does run pretty good.I've outrun alot of people,but I've been smoked several times also.Enforcer will out run me all day long.

 

LOL. firstly, I ride quads not bikes so my stance isn't because I prefer bikes. The basis of the question here is very simple. Your twisting it around by basing the quads' drag win on something that isn't supposed to be a factor here. We're talking speed and acceleration PERIOD. Not with handicaps that make one win over the other.

The question here is simple to understand. My explanation (and everyone else's) is simple to understand. If you don't understand any of it, you choose not to because nobody is that dense.

 

yes we are talking speed and acceleration, so your telling me that bikes have no acceleration in the sand, why is it bikes get handicapped and quads dont, i had holeshot tires and he had some kind of trail tire. this was down in the wet sand, and I was topped out long before the end and he didnt gain an inch on me.

 

We have drag raced 300' dirt for 3 seasons now and have yet to see a bike run times close to the quads. I'm assuming this is strickly due to traction issues in the dirt. We run 4.9's with our YFZ with pipe/filter/intake and have had many races with bikes 125's, 250's, 450's, and the fastest bike I have seen to date runs 5.2's with paddles. Most are running 5.5's or worse.

Used to race TT on a Cannondale and it was fun lapping the bikes. Again, traction issues.....

That being said I have no doubts that power to weight ratio would win everytime on pavement or other surfaces where traction is not an issue.

 

Here's a crazy idea.Crazy enough to work?Think it would be possible to mount an atv paddle tire and rim somehow on a dirt bike.Take the 250 and put in either a stroker crank or a big bore.Maybe add an alcohol carb or nitrous.Sounds fun if you could hang on to it.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

Cool.... Remember the "fat cats" ? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Not sure?Refresh my memory.

 

LMAO..............It was a 3 wheeler turned into a bike.........I thought they were as ugly as sin!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

They were ugly. AND hard as HELL to ride. Theres a few on ebay. -honda fat cat- 1986-87

 

its not even the same 250 from the qaud to the bike, very close but the bike puts out about 8-10 more horspower than the quad plus in a bike you you now get a powervalve and that would beat the hell out of any stock qaud, i think the closest stock quad would be a quadzilla and im not a suzuki lover but they sure are fast.