Should I buy a Cannondale Cannible?

Ive got a 01 400ex with laeger 2+2 arms, lonestar +4 axle, billet douglas wheels, works tripple rate front shocks. 18 in turf tamers, 19 in holeshots lonestar swing arm, white bros silencer stock motor with white bros rev limiter and k&n filter. Maiers with race plastic and graves seat cover, tag bars. This bike looks really sharp, but for motocross racing would I be better off with a cannible with shocks, 2+2 arms, and +4 axle? Ive got alot of money in the ex, but it has a stock frame, and im getting beat down the straights. (long straights). help,,, this is a tough decision.
Thanks guys,
Brent

[Castor-426ex]

do what you want:D

jk well a cannondale is faster...but you are going to have a LOT more maintainance
but you could have a little more fun


your call

[smitty]

Again with the maintance, You change the oil in both machines this one you change the tranny fluid in like a 250R. What's the big deal. I had a 400 got rid of it for the Speed. There is a SMALL time deferance in the maintance of one over the other that is all. Those long straights will go by alot quicker soon.

Smitty

thanks for the replys. Smitty, how much does the remap cost? and does it make much of a difference?

[Nausty]

your gonna take a pretty big loss when you sell your 400ex for your cannible but I think you would be better off spending that money your gonna lose on your 400ex. But to each his own I guess, I think the 400ex is about the best mx quad you can buy currently mod vs mod and stock vs stock belongs to cannondale.

[Crazy4bluEx]

I agree with what nausty said, you cant get much better then a modded 400ex....but a dale might suite you better.....
who knows....

*K*

[Bean]

personally, if i was u, id sell it for an R, but thats me, between the dale and the ex, id mod the ex out, all u gotta get is some motor work

[knighttime]

Your problem can be overcome. Get either a 416, 425, or a 440 kit complete with new cam. Try that before u take a loss and sell it.

[Sleeping Catfish]

Originally posted by knighttime
Your problem can be overcome. Get either a 416, 425, or a 440 kit complete with new cam. Try that before u take a loss and sell it.

as a cannibal owner i say go with knighttime. a 440ex will have more midrange than a cannondale, and that is what counts on the mx track.

[dawzie]

Well, I have a MX race ready Cannibal with every after market trick on it. I'll consider your EX as part trade. When we had a 440 stroker motor in our EX, the c-dale STILL beat it. Once we put the YZF in, it would beat the c-dale. We are now building a 450. Thats why the c-dale is going.

[Foxrage]

I wish you could get pics of it cause thats all i need to want to buy it.

Ive got pics, just trying to figure out how to send them. I'll probably have on on here tonight.
Thanks, Brent

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sorry, that pic is not working for me. Maybe youll have better luck. Ill keep trying to get a pic on here.

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ok, im no good at this. Im gonna quit trying to post pics until someone tells me exactly how. lol.

[Sleeping Catfish]

first you have to host them on the net. try www.imagestation.com

[smitty]

Some dealers charge some don't you can also get the software to do it for $300. Even if you mod out a 400EX, you still won't have the trottle respones, water cooling, and a few other + that come on the Cannons. That's why I got rid of my 400 and bought the Cannon.

Smitty

[Zero Z400]

I don't think u can beat a C-dale. I totally disagree the the 400ex is the best quad for mx mod vs. mod. The Z400 has more power and more to gain, The frames r close in geometry so the handling is the same. I think u can get can better than a modded 400ex, if they're so good then why r'nt any pros using them? This isn't a flame vs. the EX but just showing some points.


Later

[FullBore52]

The only thing better than a modded 400ex is a modded cannondale, or a modded R, or something

[Nausty]

Originally posted by Zero Z400
I don't think u can beat a C-dale. I totally disagree the the 400ex is the best quad for mx mod vs. mod. The Z400 has more power and more to gain, The frames r close in geometry so the handling is the same. I think u can get can better than a modded 400ex, if they're so good then why r'nt any pros using them? This isn't a flame vs. the EX but just showing some points.


Later

isn't doug eichnar last years 4 stroke champion?

Modded 400ex's dont even hang with c-dale's, get hte c-dale and do it right! imo c-dale's are the best made

cannibal will beat any stock quad out there, ive seen one beat a 250r with lrd motor mods and a banshee with pipes and a port job bigger carbs and boost bottle and all the cannibal has is a hmf pipe