KY, unlike you I am not afraid to admit that there are faster quads than mine. It's no big deal to me. The DS650 is quicker than a Banshee... I've witnessed it and raced the DS and lost... The girl on the Polaris is kind of well known at the Walden Sand Dunes; she beats a lot of Banshees. Of course her Polaris isn't stock but neither are most of the Banshees that she beats... It's a fact. I don't personally like Polaris but that doesn't mean that I would LIE about their performance. Nobody will ever believe a word you say if all you ever say is how they are always wrong and you are always right.

 

Yea, you might be able to beat him off the line but he will kick your @$$ at top end if you are stock. And he will also rip you up on hill climbing, trail riding and any other tight riding. The fact is, you banshee has NOWHERE as near as much torque as the Raptor and that power band isn't very usefull unless you have A LOT of space. Ive said it once and I'll say it again, the Raptor was not designed to be an all out racing quad like the Banshee or it would most likely be a 2 stroke. It was designed to be a versataile sport quad that apeals to many riders instead, hence the revers and electric starting.

 

Hey guy, it's not stock and who needs torque when you are wide open all the time and another thing the Raptor does not appeat to me. Enough said!

 

Was the Ds modified? Because I have seen Banshee's embarrass these quad many times! I go to the local track all the time and there are 250x's beating the 650DS. Pathetic!!!!!!

 

If I understand you correctly, jy2276, you claim the Banshee is the greatest, fastest, most perfect ATV ever conceived up to the present and into the infinite future, for all riders of all tastes and preferences; further, anyone differing from this point of view or questioning the Banshee's universal superiority is an idiot and/or a fool.

Have I stated your position fairly?

Tree Farmer

 

tree

I think you hit it right on the nose!

 

a farmer that raises tree's....

 

Thanks for the clarification, JY2276; however, I must tell you: someone using your username called another poster an "idiot" if he were willing to buy a Raptor, on another topic.

While you may genuinely wonder what a "tree farmer" is, I'm not sure why you wonder what the "hell" a tree farmer is. Nonetheless, I'll try explaining.

A tree farmer plants, grows, and harvests (as in fells, or cuts down) trees, sending the resulting logs to sawmills or pulp mills where the logs are transformed into lumber or paper products. If any portion of your house is made of wood, or if you read or write using paper, or if you consume fast food served in biodegradeable containers, you are the beneficiary of the labor of tree farmers like me.

We tree farmers say, in the sophisticated salons where we sometimes meet, "TREE FARMING! AMERICA'S RENEWABLE RESOURCE!"

Tree Farmer

 

I hope you meant that you and your fellow farmers meet in saloons not salons as in beauty salons because I am starting to worry about you.

 

All right mr. know it all what kind of trees does a tree farmer raise? Because the reason I asked the question is because I think there is more to it than someone who raises trees that is why I asked!