Hey im getting a new atv and im wondering if i should get a predator or Banshee. I think to many people have the banshees but then again i think it will be more fun ot ride...i ride mostly woods and long dirt trails, and grassy hills

 

Ive honestly never ridden a pred, but them shees are fun to rip around on!

 

well what real riding are you going to be doing? wide open places were a good suspension wont really help you or tight rough trails and jumps?

if its open places id go for the shee, though better grab one fast, this is the last year their making them

if its trails and jumps that your looking at the predator is for you

 

i ride places that are wide open and rolling hills that u can cruz on and traisl that you can go full speed down. the woods behind my house are more rockey and hilly and jumps and mud..i also do alot of river crossing and goin thru mud to get to more trails .so i dont really know but ive never seen a predator in action except in aruba wen it flew by us on the road

 

I rode a pred one time for about 5 minutes. That was enough fo me, so I dumped it and got back on my 450R. The pred suspension ain't all that,in fact it kinda stinks. Go for the shee, you won't regret it

 

If you decide a 4 stroke would be better for you, look at the TRX450R, the YFZ450, and the new suzuki 450 before buying a predator. they are all much better quads.

 

I fully dissagree. There is no way you can make claim that all 3 of those quads are better than the Predator outside of Speed, Weight, and reliability. And you cant even count the suzuki because so few are out to the public no one has really even gotten to ride one. Not to mention the TLD Predator is as fast if not a tad slower as a TRX450.

 

Here is some video of both a Pred and a Banshee that was taken over the weekend. Me on the Preddy and my neighbor on the Banshee. As you may be able to tell by the video, he had mega bucks into his Shee but there isn't much he can't or won't do with it. My Preddy is stock except for the mods in my sig and there isn't much I won't do with it either. You really need to decide how much you want to put into it. And what you want to get out of what you put into it...if that makes sense.

Anyway, here's the video.

 

then you've got some old fart riding it [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

 

LOL...yea spyder, that don't help none...