I have 3 atv's 2 have winches , the problem I sometime have is loading onto the trailer if the bed is wet or of frosty. there have been times the winch is needed. but , what to do if the w/o ATV or any other perhaps dead ride needs to go onto the trailer . 99.5% of it came from harbor fright.

All my 4-cycle engines (without a catalytic converter) get a little 2-cycle oil mixed with the gas. The pistons and valves love it, never fouls plugs. "Upper cylinder lube" is what the additive bottles call their snake oils. My mix ratio is 1 ounce for 2 gallons gas.

A few more pictures from the weekend. You can also ride into another state park called Lyman Run. Recently opened you can ride to Denton Hill State Park, which was a ski area, closed in 2014 but is now being rebuilt. Now called "Denton Go" They have added camping sites and cabins and plans to re-open skiing in 2028.

Never thought about it ,why get close?

Can you carry brass knuckles etc?

OK ...so the club's wisdom was good...BTW...of the 94K miles I only put thee last 30K miles on him.

I had a FLA. Conceal Carry for years then when I moved to Indiana I got a Lifetime Permit here!

OPen carry! I don't open carry...of course I have Concealed carry Permit...You will never see my gun until you see the flash from the muzzle. Fla 'carry ' allows for carry of other weapons...I have a steel baton and a blade in my sleeve. The trouble in Florida is I dont have much on to be able to conceal

My Kaw concours had a 7.5 gal tank. I added 1 ounce.

Nothing wrong with doing that the 2 cycle oil just gives the engine a little more top end lubrication while running and that is not enough oil to cause any plug fowling problems. I am assuming that is abbout a 4 gallon tank.

Some Truck MFG Trailer controls Send a millivolt signal out to the brake circuit. The control looks for a milliamp load at all times to verify the trailer is there. If it does not see that amperage load the control sends a warning that the trailer is not there! Some electric brakes or Hydraulic over electric brakes may have enough electrical resistance to produce the milliamp load. Others may not and require a parallel load across the brake circuit; i.e., brake power (12 vdc when energized) to Bat (-).

BTW ...ilearned from experience that MFG installed trailer brake controls can be tricky to wire. The std wiring as shown will not work per se as an additional Parallel brake circuit is required.

Here is a link to various connectors and plug wiring for trailers.. Also posted under another title in the Other ATV Files section of Downloads.

Wow....That is a nice reciever hitch set-up. I'll need to look for that.. BTW the Winch rating os based on using the mechanical advantage of the block.

Ok....Here is a question; My Kawasaki Concours (1992 so it has four (4) air sucking behemoth carburetors) has a 7.5 gal fuel tank. The Club wisdom was to add 1 ounce of two cycle oil to ever fill up......HMMMmmmmmm? good idea? BTW my concours has 94K miles on it....just saying

That sounds like a nice one, not a really steep price for new. You should not have any tranny problems for many years, but you are right their trannys are quite complicated, like a car automatic transmission.

found new Honda Foreman $7K I need to be able to climb steep grades . Honda appears more drivetrain rugged, albeit I probably cannot work on Honda tranny. I know how to maintain a CVT machine.

I've had good luck with my Used 2003 Arctic Cat 300 4x4 w/ Hi Lo trans-!

There are several good models to choose from, I PREFER HONDAS OR YAMAHAS. DON'T GET TOO FANCY WITH ALL THE OPTIONS THAT YOU CAN GET ON AN ATV. BUY A PLAIN JANE. BUY A USED MODEL, BUY An EARLY 2000 OR A LATE 1990S MODEL. THEY ARE EASY TO REPAIR AND KEEP RUNNING. KEEP IT SIMPLE!

You guys know a lot about Hondas, i have an older one 87 great machine and am looking to get a newer Honda something newer early to mid 2000s, what is the difference between the Rancher and the Foreman and why would i pick one over the other.

Yeah.. I put heavy loads on front and rear, and can still lower myself down, or back up, on hills to steep to trust your footing on. That's one of those old fifteen speeds with three reverses.. haha.. It is a bit excessive but I have really steep land and it's brilliant.. And I've tried other quads here as I worked on them.. Hard to beat the creep along speed. The dairy farmers though on rolling land, and all the guys at the beaches, they all love hondas..

A couple of thoughts on that... My old Honda's first gear, is called ( in the manual ), "Super Low".. you don't use it unless it's uphill with a load. For normal use, it's only the top 4 gears. ( 2nd through 5th ). The wife's 2021 had a dual range on it, low or regular. And you van pick between 2 WD, 4 WD, and 4 WD, with the front diff locked.. Also in dual range, so effectively a ten forward speed transmission. It also gives you your choice of auto shift, or manual shift. To tell the truth, the auto shift is amazing! Just when you think that it should be in another gear, it changes as smooth as if you'd ridden it forever. The Suzuki King Quad , ( mine is a '97 ), works out to be ( I think), around 16 different drive train configurations / ratios. Way over kill! but cool as hell if you want to yank on something big, without abusing the clutch.

I think you're right Chuckster.. Honda are super simple and super reliable.. If it wasn't for the really steep land i live on, (which the suzuki super low is really handy for), I'd have a honda,.

Back in '22, the wife was looking at getting a brand new ATV. We were at a Dealership that sold both Polaris, and Honda, and the salesman kept pushing the Polaris ( which he had a LOT of stock ), over the Honda, which he said we would have to wait for. We ( I ), have a 1996 Honda Foreman 400..... I asked her how many times the Honda had broken down, or been in the shop. The answer was "Never".. Which was basically true, as it had only been in the Dealership for the first couple of services when purchased. Ten seconds of silence, and then she said, "I'll wait for the Honda." Yup, 20 years of neglect, with only occasional maintenance, ( It's been treated WAY better since it became my problem), and it never left anyone who used it on the side of the trail. One set of tires, and a few batteries, other than that, nada. I've got a '97 Suzuki King Quad, and my neighbour has a Polaris.. Can't say the same for either of those. The Honda is the workhorse