I am new here having just purchased my first ATV, I have never even ridden an ATV or QUAD, tips / help please [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

I am English but live on a farm in the mountains of Andalucia (Spain). I brought a Triumph Bonneville mobike with me when I came up here from the coast. The local roads were totally unsuitable for the bike being covered in muck / mud / gravel, the bike kept going over on its side, painfull for both bike and me. Therefore the bike was part exchanged for the TwinPeaks. The TP will be used on the farm, shopping in the local town, where my Landrover is a bit wide for the streets and for exploring the thousands of local tracks.

I ordered a Kawa Prairie 700, but the TwinPeaks arrived before the Kawa, so I took the TP instead as they seem to be the same ATV with different logos.

 

That sounds like a blast [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

Maybe get you some mirrors for that thing and maybe even some blinkers hehehe

Make sure you wear a helmet on the roads in Spain, I hear them guys drive pretty rough and crazy.

exposed melon + car isn't good, lost a couple friends that way, they were riding bikes/atvs on public roads and head on a car killing 2 friends of mine (different times and places) and another friend hit a deer and now drives a wheel chair with his teeth.

 

OH and get some good radial tires hahahah


Radials for the highway doh!

 

Hi
Quads + ATV's are road legal in Spain and can even be ridden on a autopista (freeway / motorway), if there is no alternative road, however before they can be registered and therefore be made road legal, they must be fitted with mirrors and indicators, most imported machines are. Helmets are now compulsory here for all mobikes, atv's and quads, if used on a public road. So are mufflers but no one has told the kids that on their 49cc / 49kph, which they can ride on a public road at 14 without a license.

 

now I know why your in Spain LOL

 

Dang, Id take a Raptor and buy the largest front sproket and the smallest rear sproket I could find, then put on some low riding shocks and get that thing about 2 inchs of the pavement with some slicks on [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

That'd be one hella fast Raptor! I wonder how fast a race prepped Raptor could go with such gearing?

 

Hi I took delivery today, the P700 turned out to be a TP700!
It was delivered to the car park of a local bar up it the mountains, 5 kms from my house, the last 5 kms being a bit too narrow for the dealer's van to get down.

I have never driven a ATV/QUAD before. I started up, opened up the throttle and the TP headed for a very deep drainage ditch, with several locals watching. I managed to stop the thing just in time. Then I headed off down the last narrow twisty, with steep unfenced drop on one side, 5 kms to my farm. Wow! I narrowly missed going off the road at least ten times.

Got home read the manual while having lunch, (I have never seen so many warning notices, if they omitted them the manaul would have been easier to read and a 10th of the size. Set off again with more success, cornering is improving, but I am still putting my foot on the ground when I stop,

It will mega fun when I get used to it.