well, this weekend my cousin came out from PA, and unfortunatly, im in the process of rebuilding my 2 quads. So in order to go riding with the rest of my family, for $150 i rented a stock YFZ 450. figured, hey this thing is supposed to be so great. and a banshee killer, so might as well check out the compettion. Well, needless to say, i was not impressed with it. It never seemed like it wanted to pull through any gear past 4th. Your had to keep it at high RPM's in order to get any type of accel. Things i was impressed with... the look was nice, it had a very nice wide, low stance to it, the suspension was a change from the banshee, it was nice, plush, etc. Another nice change from the banshee (quite frequently as it did) when it stalled, to just push a button and it starts right up. Now one of the more incredibly uncomfortable things i noticed, it to the right where the exaust pipe comes out, IT GETS HOOOOT. it was wicked uncomfortable, if u wernt moving at a fast enough pace to keep a constant high amount of air going through the radiator, it sucked. And i was wearing heavy duty jeans! and when i was towing the blaster back to camp at a slow speed, the 5 minutes of slow drving, i finally PUT MY LEG up onto the plastics cause it was burning my leg so bad, it sinched my hairs! O.o But other then the heat and the lack of power, its a pretty nice quad. Even though im almost positive my all stock banshee could kick its ass.