ATV News

NORTH BEND, Ore. - It's been in the works since 2001, but a new ATV recreational park north of North Bend will be open to the public starting Thursday, May 1.

Purchased with a grant from Oregon State Parks and the ATV Allocation Committee, the 135-acre Riley Ranch now offers 50 camp sites with water and electricity, two camping cabins, limited ATV riding and access to Butterfield Lake.

The plan is to connect Kentucky trails to those in West Virginia, making an ATV ride a multi-state adventure.

Lieutenant Governor Daniel Mongiardo says the way to make it happen is to get Pike County involved.

The Lt. Governor was on hand in Pike County, where officials are applying for a 25-thousand dollar grant to get the adventure tourism project up and running.

It wasn't so long ago that the 30-somethings and the kids zoomed off into the sand dunes, motors revved and granules flying, while the grandmas, grandpas and the wheelchair-confined sat back in camp with the toddlers.

Then an all-terrain vehicle called the Rhino changed everything.

CYPRESS, Calif., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Yamaha Motor Corp., U.S.A. is proud to announce the first GRANT awards, totaling more than $190,000, from its OHV Access Initiative designed to support safe, responsible riding and sustainable, open riding areas. GRANTs (Guaranteeing Responsible Access to our Nation's Trails) were given to 19 organizations across the country to fund projects including OHV trail and park development, trail mapping, safety and land stewardship programs.

Yamaha is recalling the Rhino ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) amid concerns that brakes on the Rhino ATV may fail. The recall, which covers about 7800 Rhino Side-by-Side ATVs, is just the latest safety issue to plague the Yamaha Rhino ATV, which some consider to be the most dangerous ATV on the market.

According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the brake caliper on the left front wheel of the recalled Yamaha Rhino ATVs could have been made incorrectly, resulting in brake fluid leaking. This can

The newest step in the move to “green” farming could be the quietest so far.

The Register was on hand recently when Robert Jordan, vice president at Buckland Vineyard Management, and Juvenal Magdaleno, a foreman for Buckland, tried out their new all-electric ATV from Barefoot Motors in Sebastopol.

ATVs are the workhorses of vineyard, Jordan said. “We use them for weeding, spraying, mildew applications, irrigation monitoring and taking pruning samples” as well as dur

The U.S. Forest Service is about to make a major decision about where ATVs can go and cannot go in the vast Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota. This decision will keep some of them open. Others will be closed. The stakes are high, in part, because the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is located in the national forest.

All-terrain vehicle riders and off-road motorcycle enthusiasts will have a new 8,000-acre trail-riding playground this summer, when the Burning Rock Off-Road Park opens near Beckley.

A joint venture of the Raleigh County Commission and Beaver Coal Co., Burning Rock will open July 4 with 100 miles of trail - 80 miles double-track to accommodate ATV riders and 20 miles single-track for motorcyclists.

When he walks, Cody Shelton is unsteady, legs inverted at awkward angles, flanked on either side by people or walking sticks.

But when he races ATVs, the 12-year-old is a picture of balance and precision.

“He rides where he can’t walk,” said his dad, Mitchell Shelton, 44.

A Hooper Bay resident and others who fought to keep four-wheelers from destroying important bird nests and berry patches have won a national award.

The village’s ATV Trail Project Partnership, which keeps riders off the tundra with a unique trail built last year, was one of 21 projects recognized across the country for the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Cooperative Conservation Award.

It may sound like a soap opera, but the Department of Natural Resources wants to find out if its true love between ATV's and LUV's, as in Lightweight Utility Vehicles. Mike Simonson reports.

So the DNR is conducting a pilot program in a handful of northern Wisconsin counties to find out if the relationship can work. Florence, Forest, Sawyer, Marinette, Langlade, Lincoln, Oneida and Washburn Counties are eligible for the pilot program, if local governments approve it.

The numbers are in, and they're not pretty. Last week, the Consumer Product Safety Commission released its annual report on ATV (all-terrain vehicle) deaths and injuries. (You'll need Adobe Acrobat software to see the report.) We can all debate where the fault lies (irresponsible riders? a regulation-resistant industry? lax rule makers?) until the cows come home, but that won't change the facts.

If mother nature cooperates the sixth annual ATV Snowmobile Poker Run for the town of Heart's Delight-Islington will be off to a good start this coming Saturday, Feb. 23. The event, hosted by the town's volunteer fire department, usually draws around 100 participants.

All-terrain vehicles will be allowed in the Mississippi Headwaters State Forest in northern Minnesota, but with restrictions, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday.

Although the restrictions presented Thursday are more restrictive than earlier proposals, it's doubtful the new plan will satisfy those who argued the forest there should be closed to all off-road driving, or those who argued for fewer ATV restrictions.

Water leakage is rarely a good thing and when the recipient is a throttle switch on an all-terrain vehicle, it can be deadly.

Transport Canada advises that water can get into the plastic sheathing that protects a throttle switch on more than 7,500 Honda ATVs and, once there, can freeze in winter driving conditions, causing the throttle to stick open and preventing the engine from returning to idle. That, says Transport, can be dangerous and could lead to a serious crash.