I live way up north where its cold and isolated. I have recently decided to purchase a quad. So for the last three months I have been reading and asking questions about comfort, reliability, and maintenance of various quads. Some of the people that I talked to work for the gas field companies. These people must drive miles through thick woods and bog to get to their worksite. They put anywhere between 1000 - 3500 miles on their quads in one year! All of the quads are bought buy the companies they work for, by the way. When asked what they prefer the answer was ... Honda. They have tried Polaris, Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki, Honda and Arctic cat. These guys beat the hell out of these machines and on the average Honda stood out as having both low maintenance and high reliability. I dought that any one uses their quad as much as these guys do or treats them as bad, (remember they didn't pay for them the company did). Some quads are known for the ride (Polaris) or the power (Kawasaki Prairie, Polaris twins) but ask around and you will see who sets the bench mark for reliability. Not saying that Honda's don't break down, that would be a silly thing to say, But pound for pound you can't go wrong with Honda when reliability is most the important issue. If you wish to speak about performance or ground clearance or comfort then that is something different. Although great in theroy rarely has it been the case where a locking front end was the saving grace of the day. Honestly how often does one really need an option like that, " nice to have" is usually associated with it. So when I buy It will be Honda. Even though solid axles are not as comfortable as IR suspension, walking is still worst. Any thoughts would be greatly appriciated ... I'm sure there will be lots!

 

Your lips say honda but your mind says Yamaha,or why else would you ask anyone here?...come to the blue light,the blue light!!!

 

blue light=k-mart special[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] lol

 

flashing blue light = cops [lmao][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

First you have to ask yourself what kind of riding will you be doing. After that you will be able to make up your mind.

You looking at a honda sport quad, sport/utilty, or full utilty?

 

The blue light is the only thing honda riders can see though the thick dust and tears coming out of there eye's from buying such a slow piece off shi* lawn equipment,go to the honda forum and re-enter your closet,while your there swap a generator motor in that grocery cart with wheels and call it a upgrade...honda first out last in...rather be dead than ride red... i did'nt mind honda's till they come in here spittin' dust everywhere.

 

Gee hellfish i guess you got a point .... on top of your head!

During the recent baja 1000 the HONDA Rincon took first and third place .... third place guy blew a tire and still got to the finish line. And yes the atv class does have grizzlys, kodiaks and sportmans also p650 and bombardier.

How's the slow lawn equipment looking now 'o' wittless one! I asked for an intelligent debate not this, HA HA HA!

 

Then you had better ask the winner of the paris to dakar rally which is far tougher race HE WAS ON A YAMAHA pos 1/5 closest honda 10th,better get your shi* straight on here dust eater.hahahonda...oh yeah this is a Yamaha forum last i checked...when you change your oil go to the supermarket and buy a couple of jars of vaseline for that senior citizens atv it's like Spam wordSpam word Spam wordSpam word Spam wordSpam word Spam wordSpam word Spam wordSpam word Spam wordSpam word  for a honda!

 

Sorry Wasn't a flat tire it was a broken spindle ... hows that for reliability! After all this debate was about reliability so I'll get my stuff together if you learn to understand what you are reading. The honda still beat some pure sport machines in the baja! Including the Banshee! HA HA HA

 

Well i'm sure if you ask around here you can get a Banshee or raptor 80 owner to drag you around till your wittle honda blows it's string out...why do you go on a Yamaha forum at all to rant about honda reliability..seems strange to me...it must be envy!