Frame prediction?

[OutlawBill]

I think it will have a SST frame like the Outlander

[rollie]

i highly, highly doubt it will have that type of frame, im going to say its aluminum.

[OutlawBill]

To be the lightest they will have too due something out of the box. How about a aluminum SST frame.

[yamadjs08]

To be honest, I'm clueless. If they are claiming the lightest 450, they are going to have something unique. While I'm sure an SST frame is possible, nobody has really seen one on a sport quad... It will definitely be interesting...

[culichi]

but if they continue to make this frames ligther the will break more

[LTR450_#67]

They have been at this since 2001. Which is before the Cdales and other 450s. So really they had no clue where to start except to be better than a 400EX. I'm guessing the final concept was to be better than the YFZ or a Cdale and go from there. I really doubt they would start over after seeing the LTR or KFX and try building a whole new quad to beat them in a one year or 6 months.

[rollie]

Originally posted by LTR450_#67
They have been at this since 2001. Which is before the Cdales and other 450s. So really they had no clue where to start except to be better than a 400EX. I'm guessing the final concept was to be better than the YFZ or a Cdale and go from there. I really doubt they would start over after seeing the LTR or KFX and try building a whole new quad to beat them in a one year or 6 months.

No, but im sure they tweaked it a little after the LTR, possibly added a few inches to the width or something relativly simple.

[ThePhantomRider]

This is completely abstract and nothing I have heard points to this, but to truly be revolutionary perhaps a multipiece frame like the Raptor 700 with aluminum and chrome moly...maybe the lower rail is chro-mo to be compact and take a bashing like the lower part of the SST while the upper is more traditional split frame design out of alloy.

Really though we will see the frame on the 12th anyway.

TPR

[Dill]

for those of us who don't know, what does SST stand for?

[OutlawBill]

Originally posted by Dill
for those of us who don't know, what does SST stand for?

Surrounding Spar Technology. It is a continuous steel frame the fellows the center line of the quad using fewer welds, less material and less weight