RIDE what you want... as for me im going water fording in my ferrari enzo.

 

Good luck with that...but i think that car is made for deep mud bogs....

 

just get one for whatever u will do the most, i got my beartracker cuz i love the mud, im wantin more speed so in the next 6mo or so im buyin a blaster so i can race it and just have some speed and im keepin my tracker for the sake of the mud haha L8R - fanninator

 

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Well now.....that is your opinion and only yours. My view is why would anyone want a sports quad. They are not for anything but racing. You can't use them for hunting, they don't have racks for carrying hunting equipment or deer. q]

700vtwin, You are wrong, sport quads can be used for anything you want them to. You can modify them as you see fit. Granted, it might not be best or smart money wise to convert one to 4x4.

I have a mojave that has front and back racks on it. I take it hunting along with my other quads. So, far, the mojave has hauled out deer, boar and elk. So, yes it can be used for hunting. Quit stereo typing. We all might have different types of quads. But don't we have them to get us up off the couch and enjoy the great outdoors? Who cares what your riding, Just ride.

 

Until you have ridden a fully moded 800 prairie you will never under stand that utilitys ROCK![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

Amen to that MD! Utes are elevating performance in a BIG way. DOes anyone know where to find a feature on Penland's Prairie? I'v been trying to get some equip. spec.s.

 

I just got back from two days of riding tight woods single track (Hungry Valley, for you So. Calif. readers). Technical (but not particularly rocky), but with lots of nasty off camber stuff, tight hairpin turns, lots of sketchy uphills and downhills, and big whoops in the straight stretches. Thank God I was on the 400EX, the worlds best sport trail bike! You would have rolled a big, top heavy utility a dozen times back there. The stable EX, with its low center of gravity, just scoots right on through, no sweat. MAY GOD BLESS HONDA, for building this machine!!

For any given ride, you can come up with a list of:
A-BIKES THAT ARE PERFECT; B-BIKES THAT WILL GET YOU BY; C-BIKES THAT DON'T CUT IT (the wrong tool for the job). A serious rider needs to have enough versitility in his stable, that you are mostly riding in category A, or occasionally B, but never C.

For yesterday's ride I would pick:
A-400EX, 300EX (with moded engine), Z400
B-Many sport bikes, and maybe some small light very agile utes (Recon size)
C-Huge sport bikes and all other utes

My local mountains (tight, rocky, technical trails):
A-Medium and small utes
B-Large utes
C-Sport bikes

Now, if you live in Mudville, your list might read:
A-Monster mud bogger
B-Most other utes
C-Sport bikes and 2X4 utes

Glamis:
A-Big power sport bikes (450's, Raptor, DS, Banshee, etc.)
B-Many other sport bikes
C-Any underpowered sport bikes and all utes

Just because you CAN get away with riding a bike in category C, doesn't mean you SHOULD ride a bike in category C. Just because you can do a job with the wrong tool, doesn't mean it is a great tool, it just means that you were a poor tool picker. (Granted, in some cases the right tool may not even exist!). Just because you may have done a category C ride, doesn't mean you should do a post claiming it is the ultimate machine!

 

I own a grizzly and a '00 Yamaha R1 - i can do close to 60 in the sand/woods/whatever, go through most any mud hole u put in front of me, climb rocks, almost climb over your sport quad, and if i want real speed, then i can do upwards of 180 on the track on my bike. im not knocking sport quads, but everyone has their forte, mine just has to be those utilities that "dont have any power" as you say.

 

Hey Mickey, Good to see ya! how are the knuckle draggers doing back at that Yamaha forum? I'd just write the idiots off if I were you...

Everybody here, hold it a sec. Notice the fellow who wrote the first post hasn't been back with any other comments? Of course not. All he has done is instigate a bunch of angry argument by making one outrageous statement, and now he gets to sit back and watch everybody work themselves into a lather over it. By writing one ignorant post he's bought himself three pages of free entertainment... so far.

You can keep amusing him if you like.

Can I do that too? Here's one: "Two strokes are really stupid. They foul plugs constantly, smoke and they are gutless." I can't wait for the big argument. Oh darn I forgot, I have to start it in a new thread...

 

For one thing I live in the north east and I don't think I've ever been on a trail that I could completely open up my ute. never mind an 85mph sport ATV. Almost all the ATVs on the trails I ride are 4x4s because they have to be to make it through the trails up here. Sport quads are just so limited to where they can go with there low ground clearence, high rpm power and gearing, and manual clutches that make driving in really technical terrain miserable. We have no sand dunes up here so we ride utes. If all my riding was in a sand box then I would probably drive a 140hp mod Banshee. It kind of bothers me that anyone would even question someones choice of ATV. After all, no matter where we ride or what we ride we are all doing it for the same reason and that is the pure enjoyment of what the sport offers to us.
If we need someone to hate, don't hate the other ATVers hate the DIRT BIKERS

Rich.