I love the automatic! Just bought my first one a few months ago. 03 450 Kodiak. Has around 700 miles, everything is original, garage kept, like new, $2800. I didn't know how I'd like or trust it. I was new to yamaha as well. I've owned several other brands and really enjoyed my Hondas and Suzuki. I'm now convinced that the Kodiak was the best machine ever made. I love that I found the older model with the pull start, diff lock, and straight rear axle. I'm a hunter and have a lot of land, attached to miles of woods, to take care of. I'm so impressed, I'm now selling my brand new dual sport to buy a second yamaha, preferably a grizzly.
@mattphillips19107 ай бұрын
I bought a Kodiak on opening day of Deer season in 1997. I still have that bike. It still runs great. Occasional maintenance is all it needs. I have several newer bikes from various manufacturers. They all have pluses and minuses. But that old Yamaha will never leave me stranded in the woods. Great machine!
@Dan-in-the-WildАй бұрын
My dad bought a Big Bear new in 1996, so I’ve spent decades on that rig. In the mid 2000’s I bought a 98 Kodiak for the extra cc’s and rode that a few years. Both had diff lockers installed for the extra traction in the swamps and the ability to crawl over down trees, etc. These things are perfect for our land and the jobs we use ATVs for. Everything we do requires a lot of snort, never a need for more than 15, 20 MPH. It’s shocking to me that you’d take a work machine like this off a jump. Twice. Just seems like taking a tractor off a jump.
@WeTryMotorsportsАй бұрын
@@Dan-in-the-Wild awesome story there! glad you got some nice work horse machines. I take all my machines off the jump for fun. I like to test all aspects of it!
@happycamper59003 жыл бұрын
Thank You! I just got in a 1996 Kodiak with 250 miles. I had no clue how to start it. You saved me a lot of grief. New carb rebuild and it purrs.
@joshmackenzie93683 жыл бұрын
I recently got myself a 1995 Kodiak 400 and on a flat straight stretch I got it to max at about 80km which is 50 mph, I've had the speedometer maxed out going down hill but it's really sketchy, it takes a while to get going though and if it wasn't all time 4x4 it would rip, the older Kodiaks aren't really meant for speed I find, they handle really good off road though
@WeTryMotorsports3 жыл бұрын
wow! yeah solid off road machine, lots of fun. glad you're enjoying it :)
@phil4633 жыл бұрын
love these videos. All of them remind why owning a honda is the very best choice you could ever make. I had one of these and it was a piece of junk versus the same year 400 foreman i ended up buying a few years later
@allrightsreserved32376 ай бұрын
I just bought a 96 400 Yamaha kodiak, the plastics had been sprayed with gravel guard, looked aweful, not sure what year plastics came with the bike, but they are much better and i like the look of the square headlights better. Rebuilt the top end, new carb, new brakes all around, cant find a foot brake assembly though, runs amazing, pulls violently well, looking forward to after its broken in again
@Guystufff3 ай бұрын
Blows my mind how slow they are. Just got a 1997.
@WeTryMotorsports3 ай бұрын
@@Guystufff yeah they're not known for speed haha
@palangnar35883 жыл бұрын
Very good ,useful info, good explanation, i am in look/check to see to buy a ATV, so thanks.
@WeTryMotorsports3 жыл бұрын
no problem, thanks for watching!
@ЛешаМарков-х9б2 жыл бұрын
Hello, tell me, I plan to buy a Kodiak 400 (Big bear 400), if it is carefully operated, just drive without mud and swamps and regularly serviced, then 15,000 km will pass?
@edy98828 ай бұрын
Hello, I'm calling from Romania. I also have this model of atv but I don't know where the mileage is. Can you tell me where it is. Thank you.
@TaNgLeD21212 жыл бұрын
Great bikes…. Bullet proof
@jlucier59 Жыл бұрын
Terrible ATV probably the worst 4x4 on the market
@Fctsdntcarebouturfeelings Жыл бұрын
@@jlucier59that's definitely opinion and not fact.
@Fctsdntcarebouturfeelings Жыл бұрын
If you take care of them, which many people don't, they last forever.
@Landenzettle8733 жыл бұрын
Nice four wheeler
@andrewinsinga2993 Жыл бұрын
Those particular tires on your machine are known to pull the bars from your hands
@WeTryMotorsports Жыл бұрын
yeah they're a little aggressive
@tonimiers30926 ай бұрын
Do you know how much horse power it has? I literally just bought one 10 minutes ago 😅
@WeTryMotorsports6 ай бұрын
not much haha
@tylerthomson38503 жыл бұрын
Do you have the timber wolves
@The007astig Жыл бұрын
Is it straight gas no mixing oil on the fuel?
@WeTryMotorsports Жыл бұрын
straight gas (4 stroke) on this one
@masoncarlisle3632 жыл бұрын
Whoever put that front basket rack on the REAR rack should be horsewhipped. Hello, lower back bruises! I remember when this machine was one of the biggest cc 4-wheelers offered. I never saw that many, but the vibe I got from Yamaha fans felt like it wasn't the jump up from the Big Bear that it should've been. I got to spend an hour or two on one back in winter of 2000, and aside from top-end performance, it did what a 4x4 utility quad was supposed to do.
@christianwilson21023 жыл бұрын
What is the app that you are using for the top speed called?
@Tristarr212 жыл бұрын
Can you buy that foot shifter for the quad anywhere? We have one but the shifter is gone and we use a wrench lol and it sucks cause it always falls off
@WeTryMotorsports2 жыл бұрын
I sold Muffs a complete parts atv, check for them on eBay. very likely they still got one. out of Rhode Island - give them a call. Muffs Motorsports
@Tristarr212 жыл бұрын
@@WeTryMotorsports ohh okk thanks
@flafaloon3 жыл бұрын
the atv needs shocks. Also this llooks like new jersey
@tylerthomson38503 жыл бұрын
Do you still have the big bears 250
@WeTryMotorsports3 жыл бұрын
Na they're gone, I normally only keep them so long
@kylechrestman69553 жыл бұрын
If bear was 350. Timberwolf and beartracker waste 250’s
@FlawleZ313 жыл бұрын
@@kylechrestman6955 The Timberwolf is a great a ATV.
@brendansweeney83303 жыл бұрын
Is it 4wd all the time ?
@WeTryMotorsports3 жыл бұрын
Correct!
@kofibieniemy3395 Жыл бұрын
Yes
@johnnyjack19883 жыл бұрын
Just hold the brake and u can start it in gear
@johnlecoure1642 жыл бұрын
Hope you have a new go pro. Sound cutting in and out while picture doing the same.
@WeTryMotorsports2 жыл бұрын
yeah, it's super annoying. I am going to get the app plus a mic for the phone
@viperxd12443 жыл бұрын
what was the top speed and does it have a revlmiter
@WeTryMotorsports3 жыл бұрын
11:00-13:35 is the top speed run. 37 mph on this bike, no limiter
@jacko3772 жыл бұрын
The throttle may have a screw that limits the maximum. @@WeTryMotorsports
@WeTryMotorsports2 жыл бұрын
@@jacko377 naturally, but no ECU. without one you'd explode the motor lol
@enjoythesho19922 жыл бұрын
I prefer the automatics they make great trail quads
@darrell5363 Жыл бұрын
same but i dont mind the 5 speed
@kenharrell66863 жыл бұрын
Sure it has the ability if not more
@pops66073 жыл бұрын
Thats not a 1996 its 1995 m'y 1996 is not the same
@neon34053 жыл бұрын
Quad
@connorparsons67106 ай бұрын
mines louder mine is custom
@jlucier59 Жыл бұрын
Worst 4x4 ever made mine gets stuck everywhere it's a pile of shit 2wd ATV will go much further
@kofibieniemy3395 Жыл бұрын
My 1995 handles the Mud well it’s very swampy and Muddy down here in Louisiana creek bottoms etc and this old Yamaha deals with it
@dls951 Жыл бұрын
sounds like operator error
@darrell5363 Жыл бұрын
dont run your quad in holes jeeps go into then you dumb fuck