Need I say more?

Flame all you want... I can take it!

 

Hard to say. I know that they have defective spindles and I have been told that they are hard to start when hot, they have tranny problems and that you have to remove the gas tank to get at the spark plug. I hear that their bikes are regarded highly, but BIKES AIN'T QUADS!

 

Now what would possibly be your motivation to take a swipe like that at a bunch of Americans just trying to provide the buying public with what they felt was a better product? Do you have specific news from the company onall these problems or is this just heresay? I could say that siince my neighbor found a mouse in his ex airbox that "I heard that HONDA airboxes are ratty"....See how stuff gets started? C'mon man, You're smarter than that!

 

No, there just isn't the competition in Quads. Newzboy or whoever else is on here from Cannondale, your MX Bike has MANY problems and costs ALOT. That doesn't make me want to rush out and buy it. If you want I will list the known documented problems with your machine. The longer you have the machine to test, I'm sure you will fix the existing problems, but as it sits right now, the Cannondale MX400 is the laughing stock of the MX World.

 

besides the 86lt250 that is

 

I would be careful how hard you rip on Cannondale. They are in this for the long haul and as I speak, their new bikes are being tested by the mags... They have made giant leaps in the last 18 months and I believe are there. Just dont act like you were on the bandwagon the whole time when cdale gets their due. BTW, I dont work for cdale. I just like to acknowledge it when someone goes to great effort to excel. Standing there tapping my toe saying "Well, is it perfect yet? Is it bullet proof yet?" just doesnt seem right to me. Give these guys a break. I think they've earned it.

 

If you don't work for them then you must be a dealer, right?

I bet the Honda CR450F will SMOKE any bike Cannondale comes out with... and probably for thousands less!

 

Otterbob, please think before you make an attempt to speak. How much does a Cannondale cost? Now how much do you think I spent on my 86 LT250R? Now its becoming clear huh???? Newzboy, a company whether its in PA or Afghanistan is responsible for the reliabilty of its machines, and if you don't work for Cannondale, then you have obsessive compulsive disorder. Moto, you are right, a theoretic YZ426 ATV or CRF450 ATV would blow away the Cannondale and cost alot less, the bike is waay outclassed by the other machines in its segment, but its gets such adolation in the ATV form because what it is being compared to, the Raptor, 400EX come on! One thing every sport inclined ATVer owes to Cannondale is respect for their participation in the bastard child of the Racing comunity..ATV Racing.

 

Manilow, Dont tell me....Now you're an expert on mental health, right? OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) is a disease associated with one's obsession for doing compulsive things which have no basis in reality. (You really should have looked it up). After reviewing your posts for the last 3 months, I find that you could actually be accussed of that very thing. How many posts have you written trying to pretend that the 2 stroke is alive and well (nevermind that lt250 r went out of production when Geoge W's Dad was president) I can appreciate the fact that you love your lt. It 's a great bike,but there's not going to be any more of them. The ECO freaks have outfoxed us in this one instance. What to do? Well if I am a potential manufacturer wondering where to put my millions in R & D, I'm not going to develope some great 2 stroke quad only to be caught with my pants down in 2 years and have to punt. People's jobs are at stake. I realize that to some its more important to blast around on the bike of choice than to be concerned with stupid stuff like land closures, ecologists with lots of money and thousands of manufacturing jobs, but guess what? Some companies are fighting fire with fire. The four stroke engine that cannondale has developed revs better than some 2 strokes and produces nearly as much HP/liter.(which is saying something for a 4 stroke). For the last time, I dont work for Cannondale or a Cannondale dealer, I just love what they are doing. Why is that so hard for you to get ahold of? And you know what keeps coming back to me? A lot of the stuff you love about 2 strokes (light weight and high revving motors)actually carries over with the Cannondale line. Why havent you ridden one? Same for you moto93 ... Have you ridden one? And another thing, moto 93, You are not doing Honda any favors by comparing Cannondales to NON-EXISTENT bikes that Honda will probably never produce. Compare them with what is out there now. (You may not want to do that)

 

Moto 93, I may have been hastey in my last comment to you. At first I thought you were comparing a "cr450f engined" quad to a Cannondale quad, but now I think you were saying that the new Honda motocrosser is better than Cannondales bikes.(for thousands less)...It may surprise you that the x440s costs 300 less than the honda while the flagship x440 has GP controlled field tunable EFI, a cassette tranny and electric start and cost 700 more? Is it better than the Honda? I really dont know yet.... but you what else that means? It means that you don't know yet either, SO DONT BET YOUR HOUSE.