Seriously considering one of these for next spring...

[grislyatoms]

http://powersports.honda.com/atvs/sport/model.asp?ModelName=TRX400EX&ModelYear=2008&ModelId=TRX400EX8

There are so many places to ride here.

I did a fair share of tooling around on a YZ80, ATC185 and ATC200x when I was younger. I really miss it. I would probably have to take the shell off my pickup, but...

I really want one.

I know for sure I want a 4 stroke, and I don't want anything smaller than a 400. 

[Larry Ashcraft]

We bought a used Suzuki 250 4x4 QuadRunner a couple of years ago.  Now I don't know how we ever got along without it.

We have 35 acres of river bottom and it's almost a mile to the river.  I can hook up a 4x8 trailer and run down for a load of firewood much easier than taking a pickup, plus I can usually drive right up to the downed tree instead of carrying logs to the pickup.

[grislyatoms]

Thats sounds like a great use for one.

If I do convince myself to get one, I'll probably get a used one as well, if I can find one that has been well cared for. I'm looking more at the sportier ones as it will just be a toy, but I haven't ruled out the more utilitarian models.

[Tallpine]

So where is that picture?  Looks sorta like northeastern New Mexico.

Or heck - it looks a lot like much of Montana.

My "four-wheeler" runs on hay.

[grislyatoms]

So where is that picture?  Looks sorta like northeastern New Mexico.

Pretty darn close, tallpine, that's looking down into the Rio Puerco valley just outside of Albuquerque.

My "four-wheeler" runs on hay.

I'd love to have one of those. My uncle has a couple of quarter horses but we haven't ridden them in ages. He does team roping though, so they get plenty of exercise...

[Jamisjockey]

So where is that picture?  Looks sorta like northeastern New Mexico.

Or heck - it looks a lot like much of Montana.

My "four-wheeler" runs on hay.

Looks like a great place for my four wheeler.  Except my four wheeler has two wheels.  And it runs on fat little man power.

'cept mine is a couple years old.  And Olive Drab.

[Gewehr98]

Where's the bottom chainstay/downtube pivot on that suspension bike?

(Is it covered from view by the front chainring?)

[Paddy]

jamis-did you jack the seat up for the photo?  Can your feet reach the pedals from that height?

[Fjolnirsson]

Hmm, suddenly your screen name makes a lot of sense....

[Tallpine]

Pretty darn close, tallpine, that's looking down into the Rio Puerco valley just outside of Albuquerque.

Well, I did spend a winter logging about halfway between Mora and Angel Fire

I knew it couldn't be MT because there were too many jet contrails.


I have a friend who sprays weeds for a living, and he has gone to all Honda ATVs.  He spends about $7-8K on each one, uses them hard a couple years, and trades them in.  The one thing that I've found that is hard on ATVs is driving them slow, because they get too hot.  I did weeds for a rancher a couple summers ago, and the dang thing would get so hot that I couldn't sit on it anymore, even driving in lo range to keep the rpms up.  I would start at 5.30am and by 9.30am it was too hot to work anymore

[mgdavis]

Hmm, suddenly your screen name makes a lot of sense....

My first reaction was "Hey, he got them to paint his name on the bike." It took about fifteen seconds for that light bulb to start glowing. 

[Jamisjockey]

Yeah the bottom pivot is behind the chainring.
Riley,
but it gets better MPG than your Pious!

[mtnbkr]

Looks like a great place for my four wheeler.  Except my four wheeler has two wheels.  And it runs on fat little man power.
'cept mine is a couple years old.  And Olive Drab.

Too many gears, too much squish, too many moving parts.  Rigid, fixed, SS. FTW.

Chris

[Gewehr98]

I kinda wanted to know if the pivot was near the chainstays or on the downtube side of the seat tube, hence my asking.  I guess I was too subtle in the posing thereof.

(Not keen on pedaling against the suspension, per the former technology, myself...)

[jefnvk]

Hmm, suddenly your screen name makes a lot of sense....

Make that a third person.

Buy used.  Look hard enough, you can find a decent used one under $2k.

[Jamisjockey]

I kinda wanted to know if the pivot was near the chainstays or on the downtube side of the seat tube, hence my asking.  I guess I was too subtle in the posing thereof.

(Not keen on pedaling against the suspension, per the former technology, myself...)

Oh its at the seattube end of the chainstay.

[Paddy]

Riley,
but it gets better MPG than your Pious!

Well, lessee....a double cheeseburger and fries costs roughly equivalent to two gallons of gas. How many miles do you get to a double cheeseburger & fries?  More than the 90-100 the Pious gets on 2 gallons of gas?

[Jamisjockey]

Riley,
but it gets better MPG than your Pious!

Well, lessee....a double cheeseburger and fries costs roughly equivalent to two gallons of gas. How many miles do you get to a double cheeseburger & fries?  More than the 90-100 the Pious gets on 2 gallons of gas?

It might be a tie.....

[Tallpine]

Well then - try burritos for lunch instead, jamisjockey

[cordex]

Well, lessee....a double cheeseburger and fries costs roughly equivalent to two gallons of gas. How many miles do you get to a double cheeseburger & fries?  More than the 90-100 the Pious gets on 2 gallons of gas?

Of course, you've still got to buy your food on top of the gas ...

[AZRedhawk44]

Riley,
but it gets better MPG than your Pious!

Well, lessee....a double cheeseburger and fries costs roughly equivalent to two gallons of gas. How many miles do you get to a double cheeseburger & fries?  More than the 90-100 the Pious gets on 2 gallons of gas?

That double-cheez and fries gives you about 1200 calories.

A bike burns about 50 calories per mile, so 1200 calories gives you about 24 miles (not counting residual caloric needs).  I think that $6 for Burger King could be spent on 2 gallons of gas for my truck and get me almost 40 miles, in less time than the bike.  My caloric needs are much less since no exercise is involved, so a twenty five cent granola bar can sustain me for the same trip.

Not that cyclists fuel themselves off of BK value meals, or that I never cycle.

[Paddy]

Well then - try burritos for lunch instead, jamisjockey

He's probably already exceeding noxious emissions standards.  Add burritos, and he would have to be fitted for an afterburner.