the first race i went to we watched then race and there was a banshee and the 400ex and the 300ex couldent come close to catcheing the banshee
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yes they do 400ex and a 400x and id rather get a 4 poke because they have more torque than 2 strokes
Is the class only 4 jokes? If not, I vote big bore stoker blaster and show those raptors and fourtrax's what for.....
if you are talking flat track, which you are I don't understand why you would want anything but a banshee. it will smoke everything on that list and it is made for speed. the suspention and handling of a shee isnt' the greatest but all ya gotta do is drift on a flat track. mo power mo better
If the choices are the 3 on the list, I'd stay with the Blaster. Isn't it common practice to shorten the swinger 1 to 2 inches for flat tracking? I would think that a nice 350 Raptor is going to set you back about $2500. Spend half of that on your Blaster set up and, except for a Banshee, there shouldn't be anything under 400cc's that would have a mechanical advantage on you.
The Raptor 350 is a glorified Warrior which is a heavy tank of a quad. The 250 Raptors are awesome MX quads but the 350's are heavy piles. The 300EX is a VERY durable quad and it can be heavily modified to be a mean machine. But it's still a 300cc in a 400cc class. The 400EX or 400X is a very reliable, modifiable machine. It can be made VERY fast with just a little work. The LTZ400 is a valvetrain munching machine. It eats valves and timing chains quicker than any other quad. The Banshee would be probably your best choice here. It can be heavily modded and is a VERY fast machine! I would say Banshee or 400EX/X. I'm a Honda fan personally but if your not running a 450 you might as well buy the Banshee.
for controllable sliding "on dry asphalt around my neighborhood" the 4 poke does much better. my 450 is VERY predictable and I slide it like nothing on dry street with like new mxr6 holeshots my banshee, with half gone mxr6 holeshots same size I have to say is scary to try to get just right to slide on the street and thats with tires that have less traction.
for me, for any racing, I'd pick which bike "I" can do better times with on the type of track the racing is on. MX I actually prefer my old LT250r or a trx250r, the lighter bike is easier for me to control to do better times, I don't have a problem screaming it to stay on the pipe so much as trying to correct the quad that weights 120 pounds more lol. not saying I don't try to bomb my 450 I can pretty easily overshoot most of the jumps, I just can come through corners with more speed on the lighter 2 smokers it seems like to me. wife said watching, I looked more controlled and comfortable and faster on the 2 smoker as well, the trx was my buddies and it was my 1st time on it and it was a race gas build and he's almost twice as heavy as me and still on his overly stiff suspension I still did better times lol
so you need to figure out which you ride better on the flat track and go from there, if you're racing money isn't an issue as you will blow through plenty of that green crap no matter what you pick! sh*t WILL break additional costs WILL come into play...
for me, for any racing, I'd pick which bike "I" can do better times with on the type of track the racing is on. MX I actually prefer my old LT250r or a trx250r, the lighter bike is easier for me to control to do better times, I don't have a problem screaming it to stay on the pipe so much as trying to correct the quad that weights 120 pounds more lol. not saying I don't try to bomb my 450 I can pretty easily overshoot most of the jumps, I just can come through corners with more speed on the lighter 2 smokers it seems like to me. wife said watching, I looked more controlled and comfortable and faster on the 2 smoker as well, the trx was my buddies and it was my 1st time on it and it was a race gas build and he's almost twice as heavy as me and still on his overly stiff suspension I still did better times lol
so you need to figure out which you ride better on the flat track and go from there, if you're racing money isn't an issue as you will blow through plenty of that green crap no matter what you pick! sh*t WILL break additional costs WILL come into play...
