I agree with you (elbongo). Brand loyalty will sell the Honda 450, not it's performance over the others (or lack their of).

By the way Predators sell just fine around here. The only major thing that I see that Polaris did wrong was not sign a major rider who can win a few races. The predator has the ability to win races. It's just that the best riders started out on Hondas and the loyalty will keep them from riding the polaris until or unless someone signs them on.

Just the way it is.

 

I agree stryder.....they are selling great around here to..and as far as racing Rob Arnold is running one this year in pro production and pro-open am and his is running awsome...thats my 2 cents....lol...later

 

There are a lot of 03 Predator's at the dealers, in which many are selling below $5000. However, the 04 are hard to come by. My brother was looking on trading his Z for a 04 Pred, and it took the dealer a 1/2 day to find a dealer with one in stock. So I don't know if it's Polaris not making many, or they are just selling as fast as they get them.

 

remember there are die hard polaris guys to!! the predator is better all around machine.

 

Interesting rambling thread, so my 2 cents worth.

I've owned 7 quads........4 yamahas, a honda 250x, and now 2 Troy Lees Preds. Owned the first pred for a year and loved it so much I just traded off a sweet 404cc big bore dune prepped banshee for the second Troy Lee. The Banshee was a dream in the dunes, but as I only do about 5 dune trips a year, is it really worth having an incredible, yet single purpose built machine that you only ride a couple times a year?

The preddy (especially for the price) is a great ALL-AROUND quad. Its fun on a putt putt trail ride, a rip snort fast logging road blast, climbs most any dunes, and even play racing with buddies.

Pro racing like TT or MX might entail 5-10% of the ATV market. While a purpose built MX racer like a YFZ450 might be at home on the track, I've only heard horrible things about the hard seat and long trail rides. The Honda seems to be down a notch in the MX department, but will make a great all around quad too I'm sure.

The prices of these new machines is getting insane. $6899 for the YFZ, plus freight setup and tax makes it over $8,000 to get it into my shop. Ouch!

Dare to be different I say, and I love lining up and beating raptors on my predator. After owning 4 yamahas, I got tired of always breaking them, wrenching on them and getting reamed by overpriced parts.

So I went to the "dark side" and bought Polaris, and I've never been happier with a quad that always starts.

There is no 1 "perfect" quad, it's all about your pocketbook, riding style, and terrain application.

 

hozed- they got the new hondas up here in maine now huh? Do you know what dealership he got if from?

 

ya.. reynolds moto sports... its nice... they have another one down there too... with the HRC kit already installed.

 

I herd the 450rs need that HRC kit in order to compete with the others-----You here anything of this???

 

Well put Bro[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

not true.. i dont care what any1 says.. the new honda has the pred everywhere.. the only thing the pred has more of is weight.