My buddy from Kerrville called me today to see what is happening. He dropped a bomb on me. He bought the new 04 TRX 450 and has already sold the yammaha 450. LOL I give him a month before he buys another yamaha 450. I am talking about rodsquad. As we all know he changes quads like socks. He told me he got tired of looking at the red frame on the yamaha. There is a upside to all this. I will shortly get to ride the new Honda and then i can bash first hand. lol

 

Your not brand loyal right 14mins? Dont you have a tecate?

 

Let us know what you think of the new Honda. I am anxious to know how they run. Slim

 

Oh, but rather look at the red plastic on the honda?? Makes perfect sense....[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]

 

This will become a familiar occurrence. By the way, did your friend actually take delivery of the quad?

 

No he has not taken deliverey yet. He told me the day that he will get it. ( he knows somebody) He did tell me that his friend has one in the shop in Arizona doing some work for honda.

BTW i am not brand loyal. I have a honda and a kawasiki in the garage.

learningtofly- I do not anticipate many to rush and buy a new honda that just bought the yamaha. To big of a hit in the wallet. My friend ROD will keep the honda a month and then buy another yamaha 450. It is kind of like test riding except he writes the check first. LOL Rod spent over 20k last year building a custom CRF450 quad and dumped it in a hurry. Sweet quad and no power

 

well.. my friends friend lol actually 1 of my dad's installers his friend had a custom built 450 ( not by honda) b4 they were on market i foudn this out in july-augst( can't remember) but yea he won some race up in michigan that day...

 

14 mins- thanks for the info. I plan on giving the YFZ a test drive before I make my final decision. Worst case scenario, I'm out a $100 deposit on the Honda. The problem is that test driving either machine will be very limited. Both dealers have a small area that you can do a few laps, but it's not sufficient to get any idea of what the machine is capable of. If it scares the crap out of me, I may have to buy it.

Just sitting on the YFZ, the ergonomics haven't really felt right. They just seem a little to cramped, the size feels very much like that of a 300ex. This is great for a lot of riders who are shorter than 5'10 with small to medium builds (150-175). Unfortunately, I don't fall into that category. I am curious however, if over time I would become accustomed to the ergonomics. Maybe I just need to stretch more. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

Ya, I've never seen Rod with the same quad twice in all the times I've seen him lol. I'm sure the Honda will be sold for something else in a matter of months [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

Sounds like this guy's got money to burn. 14min, if he had 20k+ into a crf450 based quad there is NO REASON why it shouldn't have FLEW! I saw a crf450 quad with $18,000 stuck into it run at a MX track and it was FAST FAST!! It started on the first kick and it had a FULL Walsh chassis set up....I don't know what was done to the motor but my uncle said there wasn't a whole lot done and it was REALLY fast. So I don't really know why this friend of yours quad was slow!?