Explain what the most abuse is that you have given to an ATV & how it actually handled the abuse [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

I've never abused an ATV to any extreme however I have seen MANY of the older Honda 300 2x4 utility ATVs that have been ridden for years and never had an oil change. No joke! I'm talking about serious riding today including being burried in mud and used for farm work day after day. Those machines and most Hondas in general are relaible as heck even without proper care.

 

heck, when i bought my 3wheeler the oil was ... well, i'm not sure it qualified as oil anymore. my grandpas foremans are lookin like some good cantidates for most neglected and abused too. those foremans are the new tractors/everything else farm vehicles. they sure take it well.

 

I have 2004 700 efi It will Be on the turf company during the week upside down every day, pulling drags and skids. On weekend going on 300 mile trips across country. or certain weekend cross country races ( low fuel, low oil, over heating). Thats only a normal week. I have done worse.

 

I saw the most abused atv ever the other day. It was an early model Bayou 220 and had never had an oil change. When the mechanic tried draining the oil nothing came out. It was caked inside. The owner who I didnt know had brought the thing in to find out why it wasnt running like it use too. Funny thing is the damn thing still ran just wasnt running all the fast. The dealer where the four wheeler was at, told the owner how much it would cost to fix it, and the guy agreed to pay for it. $2500+ to fix it. He could buy a new quad for alittle more.

That Bayou deserved to be in atv heaven for the crap its been put through.

 

my brother in law's 91 honda 300 utility has been to he11 and back. 12 years no of oil change or maintainence. Broke through ice in Vermont while ice fishing, remained submerged for 5 months, was retreived after 5 months stuck half way into the silt bottom of lake. After complete tear down, lube, fluid changes and reassembly it still runs like a clock. I know you think I'm making this up, but I aint. Scout's honor.

 

My only tale of abuse is my son when he was 7 took his Yamaha 100 Champ off the side of a fire road up in the Bitterroots. He luckily got bailed off and only rolled about 40 feet but it was straight down. When I got to him the wheeler was nowhere to be found. He was okay.

I continued down the nearly vertical mountain (these is GREAT big ones here) for maybe 150 yards, still no wheeler. I finally get to an opening in the trees, and down to a rock outcropping, and waaaaay down in the canyon I can see the river. There were people out in the middle of the river just freaking out.

We finally get down to them, and turns out they are Californians up to Montana for a wilderness flyfishing adventure. They hear some noise up the mountain and look up anticipating maybe some elk running along and here comes this 4 wheeler flipping all the way down the mountainside. It finally gets to the last cliff, and flies out for the final graceful hundred feet or so descent to land right in the middle of the river. The quad is wadded up into a little ball. They are sure a dead body is coming right behind it.

So, somewhere in California, around a campfire, there is a wild story being told about a Montana flyfishing adventure.

 

My 200s has had some serious abuse. Besides rolling it 9 times in one drunken night session around the short ice circle track at the cabin, the best was a ride we took towards the end of the sleddin season. The sun had melted the top layer of snow and then it got cold again. We were able to ride the trikes all over without getting bogged down in deep snow. The recoil was broke, so we had to pull start it with a snowmobile. Things started off by me rolling it over in a field when I was trying to turn around. The tire broke through the crust and it just rolled over. No problem with a trike, you just "walk off" it as it is rolling over. We tried pull starting it with the sled. When I put it in gear to start it, the front wheel drove into the snow and I went **** over tea kettle. I almost hit the guys on the sled when it catapulted me over the handlebars. We then got it out on the trail to try again. It just wouldn't fire. We pulled it around for at least a 1/4 mile. Here's the best part. We are going down the snowmobile trail (right next to town, so don't get on my case about riding on the sled trails, I would never get in the way of an F7 or Thundercat doing 100+mph). and the guy driving the sled decides he is going to cross over to the other side of the trail. This part of the trail is divided by power lines. When the sled goes over the median, the trike front wheel doesn't make it over and the trike starts sliding along the median. Uh-oh, here comes the next power line pole! I bailed off while screaming my head off for the sled to stop. The sled driver notices, but its too late to stop. As I am sliding down the ice, the tow strap clothes lines the pole and the trike does 1.5 complete turns, in the air, around the pole before smashing to a stop. It was hanging there off the ground when it stopped. The impact pulled the bumber right off the sled. It took about 5 minutes to stop laughing. Funniest thing I ever saw. Probably the funniest thing the sledders ever saw when they went riding buy.

Get this. After unwrapping the trike, we went to pull it back to the cabin. It went about 10 yards and fired right up. Rode it the rest of the weekend without fail. Honda rules!

If only Honda would buy Arctic Cat, then you would have the fastest sled and you wouldn't have to work on it all the time.

 

lounched off a cliff 25ft. 15ft down. bent the frame broke all the lights and plastic. once i got it out of the ditch it fired right up. my wife 2 weeks ago rolled the magnum of a cliff in beaver ut. rolled it 5 times down the cliff and only got a small bruse on her leg. and the mag only spilt some oil and bent the rear rack. when i got the bike tipped back over it also fired right up and drove it out. and some people say polaris are week. HA

 

my best friend took my 86 trx125 for a ride around a cranberry bog 1 time when i was a lot younger. he was tapped in 4th going down a long straight way on the bakside of the bog and didnt see the cement irrigation channel with with big metal lock doors to hold water in the pond or in the bog and didnt have enough time to turn so he bailed and let the quad fly of the embankment and into the channel were it slammed into the cement channel wall. the quad was completely totaled, the frame was bent, broken, and craked from front to back, the front axle was snapped, both front tires were popped and the steel rims were smashed flat on 1 side. when the quad finaly hit the bottom of the ditch it was upside down and in 2 feet of water. me and 3 other kids pulled it out and in my disbaleif it fired up first try with some handy work with a poket knife because the key was launched somewhere on impact. good ole honda reliability.