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**Editors Note-A nostalgic look back at a Honda FourTrax 4x4 Project 4x4 Quad we built. Those of you familiar with Dirt Wheels know that we like to do hop-up projects on quads. We usually are not satisfied with the power and performance…
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Dune Heaven On our many treks to the Southern California dunes, there is a little oasis of a place near the legendary Glamis sand dunes that consistently gets over­looked.  A bit of dune heaven, as it were. It is called the…
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Let Cooler Heads prevail... Pro Design Cool Heads is one of the most popular engine mod­ifications seen on the pro racing cir­cuit. Cham­pionship motocross and TT riders Gary Denton, Tim Farr, Doug Gust, and Shane Hitt, as…
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Do ATV's Float? A question ATV riders have been pondering for decades is, “Do ATV's float?” Joe Lepore of Loxahatchee, Fl, claims his FourTrax Foreman 400 not only floats but can actually motor along in the local canals with a rider on…
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TRICK TRAX TEST The multi-time GNC Four-Stroke National Champ, Jeremy Schell, had just put together back-to-back champion­ships aboard his Laeger-chassied, TC Racing-modified four-stroke Honda. Unlike the football…
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TRAVIS SPADER’S FACTORY FLYER Winning the Grand Na­­tional Pro Series is the ultimate goal for most of today’s top ATV riders. Along with the excitement, ad­renaline rush, and glamor, one can al­­so experience constant frustration,…
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HONDA CHAMPIONSHIP MINI 80 Zac Willet has been riding ATVs for over a decade, start­ing out on a TRX70 in ’88. By the time he was ten, he had stepped up to a new TRX90. He also had an oc­casional spin on his dad David’s Four­Trax…
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4x4 WAR: HON vs. SUZ. The hot news so far in ’98 has been the two all-new, big-bore, four-wheel drives from Honda and Suzuki. Called the Honda Foreman 450S and the Suzuki QuadRunner 500, the two machines were only recently introduced…
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QUADRACER REBUILD SUZ LT250 REBUILD In case you didn’t know it, the Su­zu­ki QuadRacer LT250R was the first high-performance ATV to ever hit our shores. That momentous occasion oc­curred in ’85. It was the first four-wheel­er…
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Many new sport and high-performance quad models got their start in the bonanza year of ’87. Since then, on­ly a few more “just-for-fun” four-wheelers have come our way. Some, though, like the Yamaha Banshee 350 and Kawasaki Mojave…
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March 98 Sky Shot pilots... What do you get when you mix a photo crew with a bunch of high-fly­in’ ATV riders? Hopefully, some pretty crazy stuff. Top National racers Doug Gust and Joe Byrd, along with Steve “Cowboy” Runkle (he rides…
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march 98 HIGH-PERFORMANCE TWO-STROKE For the past ten years, Yamaha’s High-Performance Two-Stroke, liquid-cooled, twin-cylinder, Ban­shee has stood atop the throne of ATVing. Since its introduction in ’87, it has been the…
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