I love to shift quads manually also...however, most of us aren't Bill Ballance! There is no way that you can be as consistent as a CVT transmission at keeping the engine/tranny insync in the powerband. You simply can't miss a shift when the guy next to cuts too close ...or you guessed the wrong gear halfway up a hill. I was only suggesting that this will be an awesome GNCC type racing quad. Time will tell.

 

No offense, but I don't think you understand how a CVT works. There are thousands of combinations of springs and weights for the drive pulley that can give you control of how much stall the engine will have and what RPM that motor will shift out at. Its tunable just like an automatic car, you can have instant engagement or you can let the motor rev up to 5000 RPM's before it engages. Once engaged, if tuned right the motor will stay at the optimal RPM's as long as you're on the throttle, no up and down like on a manual-shift quad. There are also different combinations of helixes and springs on the driven clutch that allow even more tuning plus you can add a roller clutch to the driven to make the CVT shift even faster. Once dialed in, I imagine the 700 will be able to do anything you could ever want it to do.