I currently have a 03' Kawasaki Lakota Sport that I love, but it just isn't fast enough and I am goind to pass it on to my wife and kids to ride. I am looking to buy a new atv and am trying to find the one that is going to best fit my riding style.

My riding style - I love to ride trails and I tend to ride them as fast as I can go. I love to jump when there is a good spot. I love a good hill climb. I have taken my 2 wheel drive lakota on four wheel drive trails. I like to ride the toughest trails, but love to open it up and go as fast as I can on a flat road. I am tough on the bike riding as hard as I can. Some of the places I ride have a lot of big rocks, so I need something that is going to take bouncing of rocks.

Any suggestions on the best bike for me?

 

polaris outlaw 525irs loves the rough stuff. make sure you jet it. it comes lean from the factory

 

CAN-AM 800 all the power you'd ever need,and you don't have to do anything to it. RENEGADE your wife can carry the cooler.

 

Raptor 700 with a good aftermarket swingarm skidplate, and 22" Holeshot HDs.

 

raptor 700 or outlaw 525. i like rapor more you can make big power for not alot of $.

 

Well, I would have to say the Outlaw 525 looks like a great fit for me. I am really excited now, gotta go make the money!!!! This bike sounds like the bomb!!!!

 

Any of the great trail quads: Suzuki Z400, Honda 400EX, or Raptor 700.

 

I ride with a guy on a Lakota on our rough rocky trails and he had to replace his low hanging rear sprocket and guard more than once. The only "light weight" ATV with good ground clearance is a Outlaw IRS.

Not sure if there are any sport ATVs straight axles with shaft drive? They are low on the ground clearance also but a rear diff can hit of rocks all day long without causing any damage at least,unlike a chain sprocket.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: TLC

I ride with a guy on a Lakota on our rough rocky trails and he had to replace his low hanging rear sprocket and guard more than once. The only "light weight" ATV with good ground clearance is a Outlaw IRS.



Not sure if there are any sport ATVs straight axles with shaft drive? They are low on the ground clearance also but a rear diff can hit of rocks all day long without causing any damage at least,unlike a chain sprocket.</end quote></div>

Tell me about it. I got tired of banging my gaurds back into place and I beefed it up with a 1/4 inch steel plate across the center. First ride out, the part I beefed up held up great and kept the gaurds in place, but then I just dented the gaurds into rotor and sprocket. The IRS is what I am loving about the Outlaw.

 

if you get the 525irs you'll may have to adjust your riding style to suit the quad.i try to read evey shootout and review of the outlaw.like you i think it would suit me and the terrain i ride in. i would say about 95% of the reviews complain about the "body roll".i'm not sure if they feel the body rolling or the irs working.i know their skills are far beyond mine but they are riding the first sport quad with irs. i believe all the sra quads have the same style ( you can ride all the quads with little adjustment ). i'm not sure if they're adjusting to the outlaw irs or if they want it to handle like an sra.