Now that is a stupid question cause I can tell you all love your rides, but what do you really think?
I am in a dirt bike club and was looking for a biggish quad to help with marking out tracks for events, it had to have racks for carrying stakes, arrows and such. I didn’t have a particular model in mind. I didn’t think I wanted a 4WD and looked at lots of other 2WD quads, this 2002 Kodiak Ultramatic came up real cheap, but needed some loving care and work (hence it was cheap), so I bought it on a whim. My theory was that I could sell it if it didn’t suit my needs.
Well I can tell you I am never selling this baby (well maybe trade up to an IRS model), I have been on a couple of big rides since the rebuild and it is fantastic, I can not believe the hills this thing will climb, a week in our Flinders Ranges (like the Rockies but a tenth the size) and just recently a weekend in a local forest marking out an event, it does everything I want it to do. The front drive shaft spline was chewed out so I haven’t got 4WD on her yet, which is why I was stuck in the mud hole, my order is of to Partzilla soon, and I have been having this much fun in 2WD I can’t wait till it is 4WD, it will be damn near unstoppable! The 2nd photo doesn’t do hill justice, it was real steep and slippery, Kodiak just stormed up there, the mud hole looks easy but I slipped into a 4WD vehicle trench and it was very soft mud, I had to be towed out, might have to get a winch as well.
I am in a dirt bike club and was looking for a biggish quad to help with marking out tracks for events, it had to have racks for carrying stakes, arrows and such. I didn’t have a particular model in mind. I didn’t think I wanted a 4WD and looked at lots of other 2WD quads, this 2002 Kodiak Ultramatic came up real cheap, but needed some loving care and work (hence it was cheap), so I bought it on a whim. My theory was that I could sell it if it didn’t suit my needs.
Well I can tell you I am never selling this baby (well maybe trade up to an IRS model), I have been on a couple of big rides since the rebuild and it is fantastic, I can not believe the hills this thing will climb, a week in our Flinders Ranges (like the Rockies but a tenth the size) and just recently a weekend in a local forest marking out an event, it does everything I want it to do. The front drive shaft spline was chewed out so I haven’t got 4WD on her yet, which is why I was stuck in the mud hole, my order is of to Partzilla soon, and I have been having this much fun in 2WD I can’t wait till it is 4WD, it will be damn near unstoppable! The 2nd photo doesn’t do hill justice, it was real steep and slippery, Kodiak just stormed up there, the mud hole looks easy but I slipped into a 4WD vehicle trench and it was very soft mud, I had to be towed out, might have to get a winch as well.
Wayne from Oz
