We've had two Yahmaha YFM 225's, a Honda 300ex, a Honda Fourtrax 250 and now a CanAm Outlander 400. My brother also has an Outlander 400 HO. The best bikes of the whole damn lot by a wide margin were the Yahmaha's. We beat those things, and beat them, and beat them, did a ring job and then beat them some more. The only other that cam close was the Fourtrax 250. The 300 sits in pieces. Clutches bad and crank splines gone. The Outlanders are good bikes in a way... but I don't care for the way they drive. It's always at half throttle or more to move, and then hurry up and burn gas. They don't descend hills very well because they either want to stop or roll away. You can't just ease them down a hill. There's also been minor electrical problems and a broken shift lever on one. As far as I'm concerned, they'r ebasically a F*****g old Ski-Doo and nothing more. If I was buying another today I'd look hard at Yahmaha again. I'd also look at the Chinese bikes. I've looked at them a bit. If you've seen the one I think you have, it's the Baja 250 which is a DIRECT copy of the old YFM225 Yahmaha's we had. The only question in my mind about that bike is whether the Chinese were able to produce the bike to the same tolerance as Yahmaha did. If I knew they could I'd probably buy one for some purposes. I'd suggest that you get FWD though. That is invaluable. A lot of the pounding our old bikes took was because they were getting pushed through mud where a FWD would have just driven through... I would suggest staying with a smaller bike though. The bigger ones get too high and heavy which make them unmanuverable and not so pleasant for a lot of jobs.
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