Hey, since having all my quads stolen last wednesday ive turned my garage into a fort and have decided to replace my quads. The 250ex was under powered for me and now i have expirience i want a quad that just screams. so what do you think of a shee? i know its a honda forum but ive noticed alot of guys have these, thanks for any replys,

Hayve

 

im not particullarly a banshee man but they are quite fast quads, they have a ton of top end power but are really lacking down low so it takes some experience to keep it in the meat of the powerband. i dont no if u no about two stroke maintnence but it aint no 250ex. there is a lot more work invloved as far as maintnence goes.

 

What is your riding experience and what type of riding do you do?

 

some trial (very rare), but mainly just round fields and race tracks. Ive been riding 6yrs now and can really throw a quad about. Yeah i heard about the maintenance part. I was told aslong as i do all the right maintenance it will be fine for about 5yrs, but if anything does go wrong i have someone i work with does motorcross so he could fix it.

 

A banshee is fun to ride around big fields, but for race conditions, the suspension sucks. 2-strokes are still good mxers but 4-strokes seem to be taking over.

I noticed you are in the UK. In my opinion, I think you should get something that you can get parts for easily and that you dont have to pay a lot for the quad.

 

I'll ask around but im pretty sure i could get parts for it easily, coz they're is alot of shops around here that sell banshees, rappys, 400ex's etc etc and service them to. banshee is actually only about £4000, a rapter is like £5900, a 400EX is about the same etc.

 

Go ahead and get the Banshee, you'll soon be thinking why didn't I do this sooner. The Banshee is such a unique machine, everyone should try one at least once. Those of you that own Banshee's know what I'm talking about. Don't be too concerned about maintenance. My Banshee (2000) is just having it's first top end done. I'm picking it up this saturday from Dynoedge in Michigan where they have done a fresh top end, wiseco pro-lite pistons, aggressive porting and they just called and said shee's ready. Dyno'ed at 58 HP and I'm ready for that! Good Luck!

 

i want to buy a shee but is she good for liek long distance riding i do mostly trails and streets is a shee good for that will i be able to ride it for 2months with out needing to get a pistion or any thing else? if i clean air filter and waterver elese would i need to be able to keep it running for that long??

 

Buy it and see if you like it for trail riding.

You shouldnt replace pistons after 2 months riding. After 2 years of trail riding then maybe.

 

i dont want to buy somethgin that i cant ride so i am askign b4 i buy it i dotn want somethign that goign to sit in my shed all summer and my brother and cuz are riding