By Mike Calabro

Sand-X claims that they have built The World's fastest and safest Tracked All Terrain Vehicle (T-ATV). But How safe can a vehicle that allegedly does  185 kilometers an hour (115 MPH) and accelerates to 100 km/h (62 MPH) in just 2.8 seconds actually be? The Sand-X T-ATV currently comes in two models; a militarized T-ATV1200 powered by a Rotax 4-stroke fuel-injecting 1,200cc engine and it’s slightly tamer  2-stroke 800cc engine. [ Read Full Post ]

By Lance Schwartz

Loading and Unloading ATV’s from a trailer seems simple enough.  With that said, I’ve heard countless horror stories of people hurting themselves or trashing their equipment by improperly or unsafely carrying out this task.  With some basic knowledge and a little bit of patience, loading and unloading should be quick and easy.

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By Lance Schwartz

Aluma A8816 ATV Trailer
MSRP: $4,137

Performance:
I put the Aluma A8816 to work hauling demo machines to various riding locales all over central Pennsylvania. The fact that this trailer only weighs 760 pounds unladen allows small truck owners, like me, to haul multiple ATV’s or side-by-sides. With brakes located on both axles of the trailer, a heavy load doesn’t burden the braking system on a smaller truck, as long as the truck is equipped with an add-on brake controller.

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What are you going to buy with your tax refund this year? Even If you owed money, you still might be able afford this...thing.

A custom builder in Hungary is selling his 4-wheeler, correction, his thing on hasznaltmotorok.hu.
 
Here's his description of the listing (now off-line) according to Google Translation: [ Read Full Post ]

The headline on Yahoo the other day said oil has climbed above $124 a barrel. When are these prices going to stop? It cost me well over $100 to fill up my van the other day. There is no way I can afford to fill my ATV as well. We need to find other sources of fuel to power our toys. Luckily, these guys have it all figured out.

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I went out to Silver City, Idaho to photograph and test out the new line of winches by WARN. One of the test riders told me that you can winch up anything. The first thing I pointed to was a 50-foot vertical cliff. We set up a bomb-proof anchor at the top of the cliff and started spooling out the cable when another rider from our group stopped us.

I apologized for trying to destroy their ATV. He said that the winch would have no problems dragging the quad up the cliff — the problem is that some gas could spill out of the tank and no one wanted to be on the ATV while operating handlebar-mounted winch control.

We settled on this, easier, rock face instead.
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