Honda see's a big market in it, they will be there. Usually a few years after the others have been out. Honda has a great name and folks will stick to it. I feel comfy with Honda, so I stick with them as well. You'll see a bigbore quad but probably wont get it till next summer anyways, or april. Everyone can speculate till the cows come home but it means nothing really but tension.

How far do you think this will all go? I doubt too much more or it'll get rediculous. 660 is pretty huge for a quad, I dont suspect they'll go much more than that. At least until new technology is found. Heck look at the cannondales or the suzuki 400, they scream, and dont need the extra cc.

 

You guys are pathetic. Why do you need so much power in something that weighs 400lbs and has handling equivelant to a garbage truck??

Buy a Raptor and be happy. Forget Honda. They didn't come through then and they aren't going to start now.

Captain

 

<< You guys are pathetic. Why do you need so much power in something that weighs 400lbs and has handling equivelant to a garbage truck??

Buy a Raptor and be happy. Forget Honda. They didn't come through then and they aren't going to start now.

Captain >>



Capt,

Handling equivelant to a garbage truck......that's the perfect way to describe a Raptor....good thinking.

 

LMFAO!!!

I was thinking the same thing.

 

Just ignore captain carl. He gets on the cannondale and yamaha forums and starts the same junk. Get a life captain! I would suggest that you guys just ignore him. That is what we started doing on the cannondale forum.

 

<< Buy a Raptor and be happy.

Captain >>



Since Captain Carl said that, he is an outstanding coating person.

Chet

 

<< Ya know, it kind of seems sad that so many people are always waiting for Honda to release the next best thing for sport ATVs when there are so many capable sport machines already out there. Of course I would like to have a new 250R, or CRF450-powered quad, or even an XR650R-powered beast... but it just isn't going to happen. Wake up people and smell the Raptor (or C'dale, or Z400, or DS, etc, etc)... >>



Exactly!!! It's all well and good to hope and pray for something new from Honda but how many years does that have to happen before somebody actually says &quot;forget it, I'm buying something that actually exists NOW&quot;.?

Some of you guys should read back to the posts from about 1 year ago and 2 years ago when these exact same topics were being discussed... Deja Vu.

 

honda has good spots bikes, they just aren't good dune machines. the EX is down on power.....but all the power in some of them isn't needed for my applications

 

I hear Honda is goin with the CBR 600 F4i engine.
599cc liquid-cooled inline four-cylinder, DOHC; four valves per cylinder, Programmed Fuel Injection (PGM-FI) with automatic choke. About a 100 hp or so
Now,........ANY TAKERS !!!

 

no, i heard they're droping the RC-51 V-twin in it, 180HP race ready thumper..........or was that the new VTX1800 motor..........i'll get back to you. lol