After reading all the latest quad magazines I'm a little confused why they only slam the DS for being wide. The Cannondale is only 3 inches narrower.
I agree that it's wide and doesn't fit on all trails the best but I never have heard anyone slam the Cannondale for this. That's only and 1 1/2 on each side.
I don't mind the back being so wide. I do wish the front was a little narrower though. I got thrown off the monster because of the width problem and it hurt.

 

The extra width on the DS has saved my **** more times than I can count. Those times when your not in the right position when you land or get surprised by a off-camber,steep dune. Or when you come into a corner a little to hot, the quad just saves your azz even though you are WAY out of shape. I LOVE MY BIG<HEAVY<WIDE<FAST DS650!!!

Biggerisbetter.

 

I don't think it's an issue with it being too big. I just think the trails are too small.

 

...only for a little while, and then we'll have'em widened out perfectly!!! hehehe[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

Anyone knows that all stock quads aren't wide enough for MX, most widen their banshees and 250 r's to 50 inches well guys we're already there but we still have a height problem thats makes it like the rest, well except a narrow tippy raptor, so to make a DS wide enough to handle like a race quad we would have to go wider than stock which make it ultra stable.
Some problems I have are not being able to go wider in the rear becuase nobody makes a axle wider than stock, and wheel spacers bend axles if your a jumper so i'm out for that, and my front end is 52 inches wide now and seems to be ok, Bailey runs reversed rims in front along with plus 1 wider a arms making his 56 inches wide, just looks a little funny with a 50 inch rear.
So let the magazines say what they want, you never see them slamming the pros for having nice wide quads.