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Best Quad for FREESTYLE
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Posted by: 4Wheels

What quad do you all think is the best for big air and big landings?
Or whats to look in Quad for to make a good flyer?
JZ

Posted by: Wired

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Originally posted by 4Wheels
What quad do you all think is the best for big air and big landings?
Or whats to look in Quad for to make a good flyer?
JZ

400ex's are good for flyin thats for sure, ive heard R's are good but i dont prefer them. the new yfz450 i heard is awsome, i'll give an update when i get to ride one and the Z/KFX seems to work well too.

Posted by: Ballistic Atv

How is a suzuki quadracer for freestyle?
I am buying one this weekend and am going to use it for freestyle/ mx, but i am going to buy longtravel front and rear suspsension.
13 inches of travel

Posted by: Nausty

I got a 400ex with basically just shocks, exhaust and filter and I jump 80ft plus about every time I ride. Not very good at freestyle but I can do some lil stuff. Heel clickers, ect. Personally i don't think a 250r would be a good freestyle machine as unpredictable 2 strokes are.

Posted by: Ryan

If you mean stock? I would say probably the new Yamaha, because of the suspension.

Posted by: JACZ400

Cdale is the ****, she flys perfect and the stock suspension on a speed, cannibal, or blaze is sweet. Too bad the best stock quad had to go outa business, i cry because of it

Posted by: Honda4trax250x

id say 400ex

Posted by: freeride132

im comfortable on my 400ex , but if u were in a arena id say an R because of the better brakes and snappier power, but id rather ride a 4stroke 2 strokes alway feel like there gonna blow

Posted by: kxrider

they got that dude in the mag. with a bone stock raptor except a new axle, and he goin off

Posted by: Nausty

thats sheldon riggs. I dunno though I just was looking at my 400ex a couple days ago and noticed places on the frame where the frame has been stressed chipping off the paint like on the front shock mounts and other places.

Posted by: D-4our

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[i]Personally i don't think a 250r would be a good freestyle machine as unpredictable 2 strokes are. [/B]

Ive never found my 250 to be un-predictable at all, but thats just me.

Posted by: Narly R

Well I couldnt belive how easy it is to do stuff on the 400's but I got mad (as usuall) because I couldnt do that stuff on my r, so one day I just went out and said that I dont care if I crash I WILL do tricks and by god now I can, it doesnt feel as comfortable as the 400 when doing tricks but it hasnt let me down and I can monuver it just fine in the air!!! Those are the only 2 bikes Iv ever freestyled on before so.......

Posted by: Nausty

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Originally posted by D-4our
Ive never found my 250 to be un-predictable at all, but thats just me.

I guess I worded it wrong, not saying that 250r's unpredictable but if you've ever spent time on a 400ex they are the easiest machines to ride, the powerband always come on steady and is not intimidating at all. I kinda think it would fun to have a 2 stroke just because I CAN NOT scare myself on the 400, I feel I always know what it is gonna do and how it will react to everything. The last time I even crashed was last fall.

Posted by: bsf150

My R flies nice and straight. I would love to ride a 400ex though. But I do get bigger air on my R than any other quad I've ridden. Hell, last weekend I was on my girls Lakota sport. I hit our jump with everything the little pig had and pulled a no handed lander. I've got the bruises to prove, it bounced all over when I landed. Fun as hell though.

Posted by: tants

400ex IMO are too heavy, it takes a lot more muscle'ing around to move them around in the air. I like 2strokes beter, i think it takes more skill to ride then a 4stroke IMO.

Posted by: Chanman420q

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Originally posted by tants
400ex IMO are too heavy, it takes a lot more muscle'ing around to move them around in the air. I like 2strokes beter, i think it takes more skill to ride then a 4stroke IMO.

ya its ur opinion, but if a 4 stroke is harder to move around in the air doesnt that take more skill?? maybe i read it wrong

Posted by: 310Rduner

or more luck lol.. but i think he meant it takes more skill because you have to know the engine better and not be scared about feeling like youre taking off like a rocket and going too fast before you launch 90ft into the air...

and the powerband... personally i hate whenever i ride a friends bike out riding... if it isnt an R it feels obese to me.. lol and too tall

Posted by: quader400

yea i have 50 footer in my back yard and my friend with and R says he wants to come and hit it. and he said he would hit it right away. and so i didnt think he would and he was like have you ever jumped an R you can just hit anything with it cause its soo light and manuverable. so i think the R would be a better jumper but ive never jumped one but i really want to. and for anyone who thinks the z400 is good no. i was driving one at a track and it just sits way to high up.

Posted by: ROGERS

I am not an expert by any means in this category of riding, but I like to bust the occasional trick or two. It seems to me that the 400ex rear fenders are to wide. I had 250R plastics on my rig for a while and the narrower rear fenders weren't in the way as much. Now that I went back to 400 plastics I seem to be hitting my legs on the rear fender every time I try to move them back (for nac-nacs, etc.)

Just my little bit of input.

Posted by: tants

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Originally posted by Chanman420q
ya its ur opinion, but if a 4 stroke is harder to move around in the air doesnt that take more skill?? maybe i read it wrong

Yes, they take more skill to move around in the air, just in generel, IMO, a 2stroke takes more skill to ride a 4stroke, period. In any kind of riding conditions.

Posted by: freeride132

tants is right except i think a 400ex is very very easy to move in the air, the 250r power is harder to ride and u need to stay on the gas more, i myself would rather ride a 400ex but once u get used to one you like it more

Posted by: tants

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Originally posted by freeride132
tants is right except i think a 400ex is very very easy to move in the air, the 250r power is harder to ride and u need to stay on the gas more, i myself would rather ride a 400ex but once u get used to one you like it more

yesm

Posted by: kxrider

they are all good, nobody can say the"best one" is becuase nobody here has tryed all of them ?????????

Posted by: Freeride

HAs everyone forgot about the pred? It may be a little heavy but it comes with fox shocks stock.