Well im no expert on which is faster than what. I own a 400ex thats been modded a bit and it gets me to where i need to go. Now i pick and choose my battles when in the sand. I wont line up against all piped and modded banshees. But i will line up against anything else 4 stroke. Ive lost to raptors and ive beat raptors. Ive been blown away by shees, and ive beat some shees. Sometimes the sun shines on a dogs A$$ every now and then. I think that if all you plan to do is sit and drag people all day long, than the funnest machine out there is the Banshee. But who in the hell wants to set there all day long and compare whose dick is bigger than whos? Hell who cares, get your paranoid *** on the trails or go find some steep hill shoots. And i dont mean those wide open bowls either. Im talking about the tight tree hill shots, that kind thatgive you no room for a run at the bottom. SUre you can sit and drag in a wide open spot all you want. But until you back that quad down the bottom of the woods and try to maneauvre your way out,,,you are missing out on a whole lot of fun. Im talking sand dunes people. Not gravel pits or farm roads.
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This is the last time im posting in a post like this. I own all three machines the first one i got was a banshee in 2000. I am really good at driving this one. Then i got a raptor and a DS650 Baja at the same time.

In top end the DS650 Baja will destroy both of the other ones. The mag says 76.1 well that must be for the regular ds. The baja has a rev limiter set higher then the reg ds. The baja will go faster tne 80mph. This is proven with GPS.

Out of the Raptor and Banshee the banshee is faster top end not by much but it is faster.

In a drag race the banshee is last up until 5 gear. The raptor and ds will go head to head with the raptor somtimes taking the lead. But around 3rd gear the ds starts to pull. If the race is up hill the ds will win no prob.

I was watching the news and a guy on a DS got pulled over on a highway doing between 130-140km. That is fast and it is possible that it was stock.

All my machines are stock and this is honestly how a race would end. 1. DS 2. Banshee 3. Raptor.

Also the Mag speed reviews are so wrong its not even funny. I have driven 2 raptors mine and my friends and i never got close to 76.9 i sometimes saw 72mph. They must have tested it going down a hill.

 

Hungry Valley MX Park

Cannondale-1:17.8
Raptor-1:18.7
400ex-1:19.2
Banshee-1:22.2
DS650baja-1:22.5

Heads up drag race 1/8th mile
Cannondale-8.89seconds
DS650baja-8.98seconds
Banshee-9.19seconds
Raptor-9.28seconds
400ex-9.66seconds

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