Cheap quad bikes

[AJW74]

Thinking of getting my son (6) and daughter (7) a quad bike. With the Suzuki etc ones sitting around $1500 and up, I've been quietly wondering how bad the cheap ones ($399 or so) really are?

I'm assuming they are Chinese or Russian and I know 'You get what you pay for' .....

The last thread on this topic headed off into crash statistics and rugby injuries so even if your girlfriend's uncle's neighbour had one and you know that it died after a week, post about it !

Thanks
Adam

Metal is very soft and light on the brackets. Give my Dad a call on 02 49661577 as he runs a bike shop that sells them in NSW. Speak to Dick.

[AJW74]

Thanks Chooky B, will do that Monday.

[grand jg]

my mates son has had one for about 2.5 years with no major issues, i think it has gone through plastics and brake leavers but that was about it,

parts are hard to get for it from what im told, but not imposibale if your prepaired to do some hunting,

[Gildo]

Yeah Dicko is the man, had a long rave with him about these some months back, clutch was an issue with the Chinese ones but not difficult to mod and fix, small kid on a small bike is likely to out grow it before if breaks.

[Mick]

I bought my young fella a suzuki i have seen the cheap ones break my mates young fella broke the frame on two the shop did replace the bikes but saying that his kid rides them hard.What made me buy the suzuki is there reputation and there resale they still bring 800,900 second hand cause they are so good i got mine new for 1400 with a helmet and i herd they where at the field days for 1100..i no i thought the same thing y would u buy a second hand 1 when news no that much more

[Matty ducati]

I was thinking about one of the bigger ones for hunting, from what i heard they just need the odd mod to keep them going, nothing for us jeepers we do it all the time