yep i bought a 05 z400 and 3 days later i sold the king ..didnt have any intrest in riding it anymore..i havent rode the king for about 4 weeks..i sold it and payed off the loan insted of haveing 7000 in the shed that im not using..i got real sick of taking the king out and finding the biggest mud hole i could find and getting mud in the belt..i didnt have to find the biggest mud hole but that was the fun part about riding the king..

 

[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] this was coming from the man saying how much better the king was then the vinny....... [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] all i can say was i warned all ya guys....

glad to see you get a z-400 good luck with it, they are real nice bikes espacially the 05's

v581

 

youll have way more fun on that Z than you ever will on that king.

 

has long as you don't ride where we do. No way you would follow us in the mud.

 

yea i guess you could do a lot more on your king. i was just stating that sport quads are more fun in general

 

yes this is coming from a man that said the king was better than the vinson..it still is..and always will be ..

 

apparently not, read the problems [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

v581

 

oh you just got served!

 

even with the reverse issue .it was still better than a vinson..you will never understand unless you own one..i used to own both and the king is much better in almost everything i can compare to the vinson..first year bugs no biggy..look at the vinsons first year it had a shifter update that involved splitting the cases..

 

yea but suzuki fixed it, not turned their heads, and said oh the ecm update will fix it...... i have ridden a kq and wasnt all that impressed, i dont think the power was all that spectacular, not better then my vinny i'll tell ya that. and if i nailed it from a standstill it felt like a quad just jetted wrong, i couldnt live with a cutting out feeling, and full throttle reverse is just nice to get you out of situations. you dont need to tell me of first model year failures, because i had the following

shifter update
bad digital display
bad rear brakes
frame that breaks and includeing the motor mounts

well so far the kq has had a few short comings, but reverse going out is unacceptable, you said you are a service manager of a suzuki dealership, well then you should be informing suzuki of the problem, i guess if the kq was better you would have kept it.....

you guys might have never thought i would have said it but, honda gets it right the first time without problems, my 2002 rubicon is used solely for hard work, and never misses a beat, my 400ex is used well beyond its limits, and those hondas seem indestructable, i mean come on look at the trikes from the 70s and 80s still going strong, i have seen people with origional 200x's and 350's as well as the old 300 4x4 still all stock with the motor never touched,

i belive suzuki builds the best motor, but has the worst frames, which is something they need to work for. i am still a die hard suzuki fan, but have lost some respect for them because of there lack of careing about the customer......

v581