this thread is lame..if you know what you are doing you can wheelie a king quad no if, ands ,or butts about it..i can wheelie mine with 26in mudlites..my buddy has a 05 vinson with 26in mudlites and can wheelie his too..its all about the timing and the pull back on the bars..and from the sounds of some of you ..your not going to be happy until they put a hayabusa engine in a 4x4 quad that has 15 inches of ground clearence and 29 inch tires with a 10000 pound winch and can junp over the bigges jump at any race track..what the hell its a 4x4 quad ..not a super monster quad..give it up..

 

well said . i didn't buy mine to do wheelies. i bought mine to ride in the mountians and deserts also at the beach here in Oregon. Pete

 

You want to see what a KQ is good for look at my pics when they are approved. Its stll runs fine just had to pull the plug and crank it over a couple times. AND it must be a "good" KQ ...on PAVEMENT it will scrap the rack in low just by punching it, and scrap in high if you load it up on the brake then let go and punch it. ALSO one quick question while im here does the air box have a drain in the bottom. it had a good gallon of water in it, we had to tip it sideways to get it all out.

 

I can't understand what many of you are talking about when you say "I can make my KQ wheelie".

Listen, here is how you can tell if your KQ will wheelie. Sit in your normal riding position, with nothing on your back rack. Don't shift your weight back and don't yank on the bars, just punch the throttle from a dead stop. If the machine wants to flip over backwards, it can wheelie. If the tires barely lift off the ground, it can't wheelie. Simple as that.

Standing up, leaning back, and yanking on the bars is not a wheelie.

 

My point exactly. Any quad with a good yank on the bars can wheelie, but that is you yourself making it wheelie not the quad. The KQ will not lift the front into a wheelie without tugging on the bars, even on pavement. But it will do it in low range on pavement.

 

Listen, through all of my complaining, if you read my posts, I think the KQ is an AWESOME quad. It just lacks something that is very important to me, low end. Yes it frustrates me because the KQ does EVERYTHING else so well. However I simply can't live with its lack of low end. I mean no ill will to anyone, regardless if your opinion differs from mine because in the bigger scheme of things it just doesn't matter.

 

Seeing that many of you have rode most of the 700cc+ machines how would you rank the KQ in "low end torque".

KQ, TP, BF, Sportsman, Grizz, AC (please put these in order for me) Remember I'm only talking about low end, nothing else.

 

1. BF
2. TP
3. KQ
4. I assume you mean SP700 EFI
5. AC650
6. Grizz

This is LOW END ONLY. However, the SP800 has not been widely tested so who knows where it will fall in the pecking order. It was a shame DW tested the SP700 EFI in lieu of the SP800 in it's most recent big bore shoot-out.

A BF on pavement in low gear will wheelie like a sport quad, so will a TP. But make no mistake, until proven otherwise, the BF has the most raw low end of any utility quad. Numbers 3, 4 and 5 are all so close they could easily be switched with little argument. The Grizz is a GREAT quad, just needs an update.

I was dead set on getting a BF on Tuesday but now I can't decide. I might get a Team Green P700.

 

I'd be more concerned about the reverse failure than wheelies. If your set on a KQ wait til they get the bugs out of em. I wish I'd waited on my brute til Kaw had gotten the carb settings right.

 

If the KQ has as much low end as the 700 SP700 EFI, Grizz, and AC I'm sure it's enough for anything that I can throw at it. And I can throw a lot here in Alaska.