It seems that the only ATV manufacturer that uses something other than centrifugal belt clutches, most of these clutches built by the same company, is Honda.
Honda uses a regular automatic transmission as found in a car, albeit a very small car. I expect that in other than US markets, they have some very small automobile that uses a tiny automatic transmission that is essentially the same as their ATV transmission.
Last year our veterans memorial raffled off a donated Honda ATV as a fundraiser. On several occasions I had cause to drive it a short distance. The transmission was fabulous. The rest of the vehicle comes up really short when compared to a Gator. It has a single cylinder engine that vibrates like crazy. It has very short travel suspension that would really be bad for those of us that do a lot of high speed trail or rough dirt road riding.
In short and in my opinion, other than the transmission, our Gators come up far superior to the Honda when sitting in the drivers seat.
It appears that the centrifugal clutch belt system is the defacto standard and is here to stay, but it's hard to not imagine what our Gators would be like with that little Honda transmission.
Just dreaming.
Honda uses a regular automatic transmission as found in a car, albeit a very small car. I expect that in other than US markets, they have some very small automobile that uses a tiny automatic transmission that is essentially the same as their ATV transmission.
Last year our veterans memorial raffled off a donated Honda ATV as a fundraiser. On several occasions I had cause to drive it a short distance. The transmission was fabulous. The rest of the vehicle comes up really short when compared to a Gator. It has a single cylinder engine that vibrates like crazy. It has very short travel suspension that would really be bad for those of us that do a lot of high speed trail or rough dirt road riding.
In short and in my opinion, other than the transmission, our Gators come up far superior to the Honda when sitting in the drivers seat.
It appears that the centrifugal clutch belt system is the defacto standard and is here to stay, but it's hard to not imagine what our Gators would be like with that little Honda transmission.
Just dreaming.