What's Honda's next BIG BORE Sport Quad ??
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What's Honda's next BIG BORE Sport Quad ??
When the XR650 first came out, if Honda had thrown that engine in a 400EXish chassis, they whould have cornered the market. But, unfortunately at the time they were sinking all their R&D into developing utility quads with highly complex automatic transmissions, and for those years the sport quad lineup was left to absolutely stagnate!
Yamaha forced Honda's hand on the 450R (Honda had to rush the development on that one), but apearently Honda has no interest in competing with the big bores (and the 450 is faster anyway!). Rumor has been that the XR will be history soon, and if you look at Honda's desert racing efforts, the Baja 500 was recently won by a 450X, so it looks to me like Honda is putting all its eggs into the 450 basket.
Yamaha forced Honda's hand on the 450R (Honda had to rush the development on that one), but apearently Honda has no interest in competing with the big bores (and the 450 is faster anyway!). Rumor has been that the XR will be history soon, and if you look at Honda's desert racing efforts, the Baja 500 was recently won by a 450X, so it looks to me like Honda is putting all its eggs into the 450 basket.
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What's Honda's next BIG BORE Sport Quad ??
Hey reconranger, would something like this have you jumping ship?[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]
http://forums.atvconnection.com/mess...did/494608.cfm
http://forums.atvconnection.com/mess...did/494608.cfm
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What's Honda's next BIG BORE Sport Quad ??
Originally posted by: mywifesquad
What happened to Bings post? I was just going to comment on it! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]
What happened to Bings post? I was just going to comment on it! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]
i went to edit it,,,,and deleted it by accident,,,,and got frustrated,,,,,then had to use the little boys room....oh well
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What's Honda's next BIG BORE Sport Quad ??
I think they should blow everyones mind with a CR500 powered quad
at this point the big bore honda, if was a sport bike, would have to have to be a 700, have EFI to say that its a true raptor competitor.
.....and what an intersting thread about a 4x4 light 450 from suzuki..hope its not a rumor. it they do make one and do it right, they just officially started the next, long awaited class of atving...
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What's Honda's next BIG BORE Sport Quad ??
Originally posted by: Floorit
funny how the whole thread can get changed when others change the subject. I thought I started this as a BIG BORE 'SPORT' Thread ??
funny how the whole thread can get changed when others change the subject. I thought I started this as a BIG BORE 'SPORT' Thread ??
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