Good Banshee buy?

[erik6767]

banshees are like 80-90's mustangs,,, there are TONS around for sale.. but 90% of them have been worked on by some hick who knows everything about everything, but really knows nothing... u gota watch out

[bones85]

Yep, same here, I bought mine for 500 bucks with everything cept the T-6's, spend a grand on it and 4 weeks and you see what it is now...and ebay. You can find reasonable quads on there for around 2500 or 3000, some are pretty nice also.

[turftaimer]

I got lucky, Picked up my 2001 for $2200. Looked great and ran ok. The dude didnt know how to jet it, so when he put the pipes on he ran it a little lean. Then I jetted it and it screamed again, but shattered a piston skirt. The dude running it lean gave it piston slap and bad compression, but 400 bucks later it good as new.

[Ed Gein]

A frame-up re-build is the best way to go. You will learn every bolt and nut, what it does, what goes where, and so on......Redoing the motor is the best way to learn, also. I had never touched a Banshee motor before the one I have now, but could re-build ANY Shee motor now. They're really quite simple even if you have no prior experience w/ them

[Simmias]

The best thing to do is get a cheap bike and rebuild it all up. Who wants to spend $3500+ on a 'good' bike and have it breakdown on you the first ride. I like to do things my own instad of hoping the previous owner knew what they were doing

[climb any hill]

I searched and searched for a quad... When i finally found my 01' standing up in someone's garage. I couldn't believe how clean it looked and couldn't wait to take it home. It's stock but it came with T5's. I took it home for 4 G's. I've seen them around for less, with nice upgrades but really bashed up. I might of paid a bit more but I think I made a good buy + I get to do my own upgrades from heren on.

[Ed Gein]

Why are quads on the West coast more expensive than the rest of the country? Can anyone explain this? $4K would get you a 04-05 Shee around here..........

[climb any hill]

You're completely right about that & don't know why???? So that price was good for me out here.

[MX86]

i don't think that them being rare on the west coast has anything to do with it... but then again everything is more expensive in cali :P when i bought my bike the 5th gear didn't work.. the guy thought it would cost a ton to fix so he docked off like 600 for that.. little did he know that i can rebuild motors, so 52 bucks later and a few hours of time i was off racing with a brand new 5th

[climb any hill]

yeah, everything is so damn expensive. We have to pay the cost for having beaches, hollywood, the lakers, kings & dodgers all within a 25 minute drive.