You never know, two good friends of mine (guy and wife) won a new Sportsman 500HO from the Kiwanis Club yearly raffle 4 years ago. At the time, I figured they'd never use it. They rode it up and down their dirt road a couple times then stored in under cover. Believe it or not, they had a really hard time selling it at $4000, there was something like 4-7 miles on it, the little knobbies were still on the tires. They finally let it go a couple months ago for $3000. Even though it was 4 years old, that's half price or less for a new unused machine.

 

Some people buy a quad for hunting and that's the only time they ride it. They might put 20-30 miles a year on it and that's it. I can't imagine letting a machine sit that much. If I spend that much money on something, I'm going to use it.

 

If I was around there I'd ****** that up as soon as I heard about it and see if I could sell my old one for nearly the same price.

 

Good point, but other than fuel injection I don't think I'd be upgrading too much. My 2005 is pretty much like new, it only has 1975 easy miles and 261 hours on it. I basically use it for putting around on the BLM 2 track roads through sagebrush country taking pictures, stopping now and then to try to call in a coyote. Plus running up the road to open the canal headgate when irrigating my pasture. The deepest water it's ever seen was crossing the Wood River in Sept when it's so low it's just a narrow ankle-deep stream when riding into the Kirwin Mine west of Meeteetse, WY. (interesting place--Google it).


"Some people buy a quad for hunting and that's the only time they ride it. They might put 20-30 miles a year on it and that's it. I can't imagine letting a machine sit that much. If I spend that much money on something, I'm going to use it."


Worse yet, I know quite a few that do that with their horses. At least you don't have to feed a 4wheeler the rest of the year.