Fasted 250 Big Red needs tall gearing.

[yamaha225dr]

Glad you found a way to change the gearing Mickey! I'm not sure who learned that trick on how to change the gearing by swapping out with gears from other quads but the mud boggers back home in Louisiana have been turning Honda 300's into serious machines by doing the gearing reductions. They have them from an 18% to 54%. Those guys did understand that you want to gain top speed instead of lowering it, right? My memory is a little vague right now but I thought using the gears from the Foreman 450 gave an 18% reduction in gearing.

[Mickey Dunlap]

Glad you found a way to change the gearing Mickey! I'm not sure who learned that trick on how to change the gearing by swapping out with gears from other quads but the mud boggers back home in Louisiana have been turning Honda 300's into serious machines by doing the gearing reductions. They have them from an 18% to 54%. Those guys did understand that you want to gain top speed instead of lowering it, right? My memory is a little vague right now but I thought using the gears from the Foreman 450 gave an 18% reduction in gearing.

That's what I was thinking because this was a mud guy. It's kind of funny, I got on the internet to help people because I read so much bad info. So now I'm on the other end of it trying to get good info, and how many different way have I been told how to do it now, six? lol

The good news is I rode my first Big Red of my own today! I think that's also the first three wheeler I have rode in about 27 years. lol

[yamaha225dr]

Cool deal,Mickey! We all need help from time to time. I done some googling and found that using the gears from an 85 Model 250 Big Red in a Foreman 450 will yield an 18% gears reduction. I am betting that is what the information you received was for. I didn't know Honda changed some stuff on the 86 Big Red, the guys said the last two years of them would not work.

[big specht]

That's what I was thinking because this was a mud guy. It's kind of funny, I got on the internet to help people because I read so much bad info. So now I'm on the other end of it trying to get good info, and how many different way have I been told how to do it now, six? lol

The good news is I rode my first Big Red of my own today! I think that's also the first three wheeler I have rode in about 27 years. lol

Except the flat track 70's

[Mickey Dunlap]

Except the flat track 70's

I'm sorry, you are right, but I was so sick I don't remember that much about riding them. Plus I was only on two wheels most of the time if you know what I mean, and that was only at half throttle! lol

[big specht]

I'm sorry, you are right, but I was so sick I don't remember that much about riding them. Plus I was only on two wheels most of the time if you know what I mean, and that was only at half throttle! lol

Lol yea they are differant to ride