- Location
- Very Southern NSW Australia
At least out here, I don't know of many blokes who could top 140 plus km's a week on a quad bike. Note that that's one bloke on about 1800 acre's
Most reliable/ strongest quad bike for farm use.
- Thread starter Pilatus
- Start date
- Location
- West Wales
My main bike did 5,000 mile in 3.5 months over pre lambing and lambing, that’s an average of 47 mile a day, it had a service at the start of January and the brakes went early April.
Cab-over Pete
Member
- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
47!!!!
Christ, what were you doing? Joyriding and cruising for chicks??!!
Christ, what were you doing? Joyriding and cruising for chicks??!!
We‘ve a Can Am,pretty new at moment.
Only gripe is while working with sheep we had left the quad holding the yard gates,the pressure in the braking must have tailed off and it took off backwards. Down a steep incline bouncing off the landlords stone barn.
It was one of those oh feck moments you couldn’t do nothing about,daughter was closer and sprinted after it,reached but the flaming thing has no brake lever on the side she was on.
The brake lever was still applied.
Moral of the story is if you leave a Can Am on a bank with the hand brake lever for a period of time make sure you put the gear box in park.
Other than that not a bad quad.
Only gripe is while working with sheep we had left the quad holding the yard gates,the pressure in the braking must have tailed off and it took off backwards. Down a steep incline bouncing off the landlords stone barn.
It was one of those oh feck moments you couldn’t do nothing about,daughter was closer and sprinted after it,reached but the flaming thing has no brake lever on the side she was on.
The brake lever was still applied.
Moral of the story is if you leave a Can Am on a bank with the hand brake lever for a period of time make sure you put the gear box in park.
Other than that not a bad quad.
Can am here after 25+ years of Honda . Old man still has his Honda but find there not the bike they used to be ( served my time on Honda's )
Can am a beast of a bike , awesome out the hill & goes like stink on the road
( 77mph top so far)
Not had it long enough to comment on long term reliability.
Can am a beast of a bike , awesome out the hill & goes like stink on the road
( 77mph top so far)
Not had it long enough to comment on long term reliability.
Got one here on the croft. pulls a 1200kg ibc trailer and water pump round the water troughs no problem. I have to be selective of whch troughs i fill first. Leaving the ones in the rough ground till the tank is below 500 ltrs
- Location
- Very Southern NSW Australia
You must have a good road to do that speed on. Mate got his 110kph so 67 odd mph but that was on a dirt airstrip.
- Location
- Netherlands
I see some replies of people with gators and kubota rtv's. We have a contract with a municipality for salt spreading on narrow roads and bicycle roads, and we are thinking of using a Kubota RTV or something similar. I have a Holder C3.42 with a spreader. Really compact and I can get in every corner with it, but the comfort is terrible. Our route is 60 km driving (25 km spreading), and you're quite beaten up after a few rounds... Problem is we have to carry at least 1000 kg or 2000 lbs for a single route. Does someone have experience with a kind of gooseneck trailer on utv's or something like that? Than we could spread the weight on the rear axle and the trailer axle. There is a company that builds kind of bolt on beds in combination with a forced steered rear axle to convert a rtv to a 6x4. (check youtube 'Kubota RTV 1100 6x4') Looks great but the custom built unit costs >6000 k in euro's....
- Location
- Scottish Borders
Won't go wrong with a Suzuki 500 in my opinion. Had mine just on a year now and put 8500 miles on it. Comfy, powerful and feels really safe on the steep stuff. Only gripe is that they're a bit plastic and bits of trim etc are easy knocked off/broken.. But I'm not the most considerate of users! Would have another over just about anything at the moment
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
All can am s do that , you soon learn to use park !
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Cfmoto look good and quite sensibly priced .
- Location
- Scottish Borders
Had a demo cfmoto buggy a year or two ago and was fairly impressed. Bit loud and rattly but they're all like that really
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Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Place my son works has quads in stock I think they look good
- Location
- West Wales
Quads in stock? I’ve waited close to 4 months for a new Yam and I’ve already ordered to change the next one, it isn’t due to change but it probably will in 6 months or soPlace my son works has quads in stock I think they look good
davidroberts30
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
Had a 450 can am dropped off here today as my Honda went in for service
I wouldnt want a can am
- Location
- North of Perth
Ordered a new Suzuki in June.still waiting for it.Quads in stock? I’ve waited close to 4 months for a new Yam and I’ve already ordered to change the next one, it isn’t due to change but it probably will in 6 months or so
michael N123
Member
I demoed a 450 canam and was disappointed aswell
the big ones are meant to be better but I didn’t bother trying one of them
davidroberts30
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
It's all rev
Mud guards too small
I keep going for the right hand brake lever that's not there
- Location
- West Wales
Same dealer I use I assume? I’ve had 1 can am as a courtesy that I liked which was a big one but it was way to quick and would’ve gone over very easily!
I had a can am, its was terrible on fuel, the plastic was unforgiving and after 3 years kept going wrong, in the end the four wheel drive went and I cashed it in for a Suzuki 400 18 months ago. that bike is brilliant, never have to fill it although only really runs on tick over all day and has done 1000 hours and only 5000km. Its a shame they stopped making them. One of the estates I help on had a Honda 500 at the same time and has spent more time being fixed than they have it, so much so the curtsey bike was broken last time I was there as well!