Road Legal Quads.

[panholio]

firman said:

OP do you have a sky dish? If so apparently it will be the perfect complement to your caaaancil house.

panholio said:

They are as chav as a sky dish. Seen all over the council estates of Britain.

Sorry but what a fking ridiculous statment. Snobbery of the highest order IMO.

Need a staffie as well

[PHmember]

In America they call the riders of road legal quads 'Donors'. That's all you need to know.

[firman]

panholio said:

firman said:

OP do you have a sky dish? If so apparently it will be the perfect complement to your caaaancil house.

panholio said:

They are as chav as a sky dish. Seen all over the council estates of Britain.

Sorry but what a fking ridiculous statment. Snobbery of the highest order IMO.

Need a staffie as well

Suppose you have electric gates leading to a tudor mansion with a 12 car garage and a pair of pedigree K.C registered weimaraners that one of your staff mambers walk 3 times daily.

[Hunky Dory]

essexplumber said:

Tell me why I should or shouldn't get one

Why you shouldn't?
They are a fking liability and there is absolutely zero enjoyment to be had from getting one to go round a corner on dry Tarmac.

Why you should?
Can't help you at all with that I'm afraid.

[DoctorX]

How about one of these?

http://www.quadzillaquads.com/rlbuggy.htm

[Baryonyx]

Absolutely rubbish things. I don't think they're that great in fields and country tracks (seen many a quad tipped over in the field), but they are very poor on tarmac. Perhaps that is the reason that when you see a quad on the road it is either being driven slowly from one field to another, or by an idiot who will probably soon be deceased.

[slevin911]

Get A road legal farm quad.Wont be very fast(which makes them safer) but once the snow comes you can have A laugh on your way to work and will go everywhere sideways! sell it then in the summer and get all your money back and buy A proper bike

[bamberwell]

here's how you get a quad to turn!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3_21LqEBPU&fea...
although the jinling 250 only has 18 hp tops so probably struggles to pull away , nevermind break traction...

[bamberwell]

or this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOYqfaG0Q8g&fea...

[essexplumber]

panholio said:

firman said:

OP do you have a sky dish? If so apparently it will be the perfect complement to your caaaancil house.

panholio said:

They are as chav as a sky dish. Seen all over the council estates of Britain.

Sorry but what a fking ridiculous statment. Snobbery of the highest order IMO.

Need a staffie as well

Who doesn't have Sky TV these days? Surely Sky TV is pretty classless now.


Thanks for all your replys btw, there is 0 chance of me getting one now.

[EDLT]

bamberwell said:

or this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOYqfaG0Q8g&fea...

For when an ordinary quadbike isn't lethal enough?

Blib said:

I've seen four or five on the roads in the last six months or so. Though, I've never seen the same one twice.

That is because they are stolen by PH's favourite minority group the moment you park.

[Blib]

EDLT said:

That is because they are stolen by PH's favourite minority group the moment you park.

MX5 owners?

[s3fella]

bamberwell said:

here's how you get a quad to turn!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3_21LqEBPU&fea...
although the jinling 250 only has 18 hp tops so probably struggles to pull away , nevermind break traction...

At least he has his safety speedos on!

[hman]

Quads are for little girls who can't ride real motorbikes.

On or off road they're ridden by non heads who just get in the way.

Rethink required for you.

[off_again]

Other than notoriously difficult to get to go around a corner and not really designed for the road - I am sure they are bloody hoot!



I am being overly hard on them, but they do require a certain technique for the road and they arent the most practical things. There is one around here thats fully tricked out with skinny tyres and some silly engine. Looks great and goes like the clappers, but for every knowing nod I am sure he gets an equal "bloody chav" comment... not sure the grief would be worth it.

[off_again]

Other than notoriously difficult to get to go around a corner and not really designed for the road - I am sure they are bloody hoot!



I am being overly hard on them, but they do require a certain technique for the road and they arent the most practical things. There is one around here thats fully tricked out with skinny tyres and some silly engine. Looks great and goes like the clappers, but for every knowing nod I am sure he gets an equal "bloody chav" comment... not sure the grief would be worth it.

[Mr E]

Ridden a road quad in Spain. The instructor had one that could do motorway speeds and was legal on the autoroutes.

Great fun batting down dry riverbeds, te little automatic ones we had maxed out at 80kph.

Absolutely horrible on tarmac. No diff, so you have to unweight the inside rear to corner. Huge unsprung mass, and pulling away from junctions is interesting (throttle, front goes very light, no steering, spear across road in straight line towards ditch opposite...)

[hman]

Well apart from the farm Quads used for
Duties of farming

[y2blade]

Great fun in the wet.
Great fun on icy/snow covered roads.
Hard work and no fun on dry roads.

I noticed that you get treated like scum on the road by ignorant others...I have never experienced reactions like it before or since.

[98elise]

In the right conditions they are great, but as a normal road vehicle they just have all the disadvantages of both cars and a bikes, bundled into in one package!