What I suggested is he needs it both ways! It's a great idea to have a ute in your stable here, but that shouldn't be you primary ride. If you are just starting out , you will have more fun getting the sport quad first...then pick a ute (a 4wd...not a 2wd!) up later on.

Just for the record, I have lived in mud country too! Alaska, British Columbia, Minnesota (home of Polaris and A Cat), and West Virginia.......

 

Welcome to the forums. Enjoy

 

Take your bold print and your not so warm welcomes and stick them somewhere dark moist and smelly, I think you know where, its really close to you, look right behind you you will find it. We need to have every atv inthusiest together in forums like this to keep our sport growing strong. Every day people are losing there riding areas to tree huggers and, in my area, people who think someone will actually use hundreds of miles of abandon railroad tracks for a walking trail. ATV's have been riding these tracks from town to town for 30 yrs. and I have never seen anybody walking on them. PLEASE dont turn people away.

Velocibiker

Welcome to the forums, most people out here are not out to bash. Most will help anyway they can. GOOD LUCK with the Rancher. Honda is IMO the most reliable atv made.

 

....and, I'll be counting the days until his ES shifter quits working. Could have warned him about that one too.....