Which Quad would you buy

[Benr]

Looking for a bike for light use seeing and moving stock. Probably do around an hour a day on it.

Honda 250 2008 20,000 km £1800
Honda 250 2014 11,000 km £2400
New Honda 250 £3750

Kawasaki KLF 300 2004, 8000 miles £1950
Suzuki Ozark, no speedo. Looks like new on original tyres which hardly worn £2200.

All from main dealers, serviced etc.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Well definitely not the KLF

 

[Skintagain]

A 90.

 

[livestock 1]

I wouldn’t buy any of them

 

[Benr]

I wouldn’t buy any of them

What would you buy?

 

[Benr]

A 90.

?

 

[livestock 1]

What would you buy?

Honda 500 Suzuki 500 Yamaha Grizzly Honda 420 Honda 350 in descending order of Jap Crap

 

[livestock 1]

The first two wouldn’t pull a clocker off it’s nest and the third one would be laid up likley

 

[Northeastfarmer]

The KLF are sh!te

 

[livestock 1]

The KLF are sh!te

They are all shite it’s only the depth that varies

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Hondas have served me well. Our first 250 went for 10 years. The replacement 300 reached 18 when the back carrier gave way. The second 300 is now 21. Present 2 420s are 13 and 8. Get worked pretty hard as well but carefully maintained.
I have no experience of other brands.

 

[livestock 1]

Honda 500 you will need Texaco behind you
Suzuki 500 will knock drive shafts out and run badly in time but you won’t need to go for your hips replaced for a few years as soon as the riders of the 420 or 350
Grizzly will be dear second hand and dear to fix
Honda 420 will knock ball joints out for fun be like riding a plank of wood and generally break down
Honda 350 will be like riding a plank of wood that doesn’t follow the ground but be a generally better made bike until it drops the valve seats after the oil cooler blocks up and it overheats

 

[livestock 1]

Hondas have served me well. Our first 250 went for 10 years. The replacement 300 reached 18 when the back carrier gave way. The second 300 is now 21. Present 2 420s are 13 and 8. Get worked pretty hard as well but carefully maintained.
I have no experience of other brands.

I’ve got a 420 with just under 40000 Ks on and it’s like triggers broom my third 420

 

[Tim W]

Bought 2 KLF's about 12 years ago ---2nd hand----cost me @£3k the pair
Just traded them in in the last 12 months---both worked well and gave me very little hassle & i got £450 each as trade in value
Can't argue with that

They will all be fine if you just want to move /check stock
It's a cheap used bike just buy what you fancy/can afford & don't listen to the doom mongers

 

[livestock 1]

Bought 2 KLF's about 12 years ago ---2nd hand----cost me @£3k the pair
Just traded them in in the last 12 months---both worked well and gave me very little hassle & i got £450 each as trade in value
Can't argue with that

They will all be fine if you just want to move /check stock
It's a cheap used bike just buy what you fancy/can afford & don't listen to the doom mongers

You must farm in Holland

 

[Boveyfarmer]

Go for a Yamaha, had 2 in the last 15 years, reliable machines.
Have to admit though we have just bought a Kamasaki Mule, mainly because we have got fed up being wet.
Also it runs on 'red'.

 

[MOG]

The KLF is at least 2x too much money.

 

[ford4000]

The chassis on the kawasaki at that age could be near the end of It's life
I would buy the new Honda, second hand quads seem a bit expensive considering someone else has had the best out of them

 

[bitwrx]

We only ever ran honda, till we bought a Kubota RTV. Always the same model (TRX 350D) and barring theft, we'd probably be only on our second now. They did an unbelievable amount of work, feeding about a ton of pig feed every day towing a half ton hopper trailer, plus bedding up, plus moving stock.

Our last one was retired about 8 yrs ago, but turns 30 this yr (I think). It's still in the shed and it still goes. Turning, stopping and changing gear are more difficult, but the engine just will not give up. Truly phenomenal bit of gear.

They don't make em like that any more and they never will again.

On that basis, I'd say the oldest honda hou can get is the best option. But not ours. I'm keeping it.

 

[Willie adie]

I bought a klf quad last spring at 10 yrs old with 800 miles on it . ive put another 500 miles on it i use it for fencing rollong out lines and rylock and going back and forth.
I was told they are the fordson major of quads.
Done me well so far