Hi, im looking for an atv to be able to ride on trails, have decent speed, be able to go through snow and not get stuck alot. i know a guy who is selling his warrior with new plastic and tries for 1100 dollars. i think that is a good price but im not sure if i can do all the things i want it to do. please help me if you can. also if you a utility or 4 wheel drive might be better please tell me thanks

 

a warrior would be an ok quad for you. but ideally you would have a 4x4 maybe a scrammbler or a wolvy or something sport utility. the warrior will do everything you said you wanted it to do. unless the snow was really deep. i think 1100 would be an ok deal for it if it runs good and is in ok shape. I would look it over really good, since it is fairly old for rusty welds and what not. if there are you can work him down some more and then just clean it up and re weld it it isnt that hard. hope this helps.

 

yea 87 is pretty old, make sure there is nothing internally wrong with it, and yea try to work him down on the price if you can.

 

Mine was an 1100 bux machine and been great.
I have not had it for a winter season yet....but will be trying it the snow.
As for the trailer...its been great! Good ground clearance...I love it.

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I've rode yamaha most my life. I loved my yamaha's and think they are a great company that produces great machines............but.........their weakest link so to speak is the warrior. Every time I went to the cocranton poker run (a very large poker run in NW Pa, 3400 quads last one) the warriors by FAR had the most trouble every time.

 

I had an 87 warrior and it was a great machine. Sold it because I wanted 4wheel drive. It was is great shape mechanicaly, but the plastic was kinda bla.... $1,000.00

My favorite thing about the 87 was how heavy the front end was. It would not wash out, and did not feel as if it were going to flop over going vertical hills.

Although, it has very weak front A-Arms and tie rod set up. I bet 5 front A-Arms @ 115 a piece over the years. I replaced the stock tierods/end with ricky stator stuff. When the ricky stuff broke, sent them in, and got new onse back. Not to bad if you ask me.

It is a good quad and hauled me around the rockies for 2 years. Throw in a larger rear sprocket and you will have enough torque to pull down a house.