Hi guys as usually its me just a voice over you are watching review machines and meet
the newest tracked ATV Caiman.
It is one of the cheapest serial produced ATV and today we are going to test the machine
in the most serious way!
Today we’ve found a very interesting and tough route, then we will be accompanied by
these little machines.
They are tracked so called motordogs equipped with summer set.
Moreover there also will be some quads to make it even more interesting.
The more atvs are in the video the more fun we will have!
Well we are going to have a long adventure today, so its high time to hit the road, lets
go!
As I’ve said today we’ve prepared a special very tough route with all the conditions and
obstacles to test our machine in the various ways!
We start with the simplest riding on these plain field.
But then we will go to the dark and gloomy forest with the most dangerous swamps!
Meantime we have the first obstacle it’s a flooded ravine.
As I know it is a favorite habitat for caimans – so lets try it here!
Wow it turns out quite deep here, but you may have guessed already that our ATV is a
real amphibian!
So a deep ravine its not a problem at all, we see the machine easily getting it over!
Now I think its time to have a little rest and look at some specs of the machine.
So Caiman – it is one of the cheapest produced on the line tracked ATV ever!
We’ll speak about the price a bit later.
The design and construction of the vehicle are quite simple, consequently it seems to
be a reliable machine.
The engine is Lifan in two variants.
17 hp and two cylinders 24 hp as we have here.
The transmission contains a cvt and a gear box, there is a front driving axle from a
car.
And briefly about the small atvs.
In fact it is a so called motordog with a double track and front attachable wheels.
There is 17 hp engine.
And the light version of the previous motordog.
There is a single track and 15 hp engine.
We’ll find out if these small machines are capable on offroading.
Well it is time to move on!
There are four sits in the atv, but in our case the most time there were six people moving
on the atv.
The machine is powerful enough to carry even six people without some efforts so the 24
hp engine is quite effective.
To my mind there is no much sense in 17 hp version, cause the difference in price is
about 400 dollars, more powerful engine is worth of it.
Mentime we are reaching the huge wood slash with deep puddles.
Of course it is a gloomy place, but interesting in terms of tough obstacles for our machines.
Well in fact Caiman doesn’t see here something interesting, lets look at other little ones.
The light atv decides to do another way right through the slash over the stumps.
But it seems not very good idea.
Double tracked goes right through the puddle and overcomes it like a snap.
Lets move on!
Now we find ourselves on a forest road, well if we can call this thing a road.
While we are moving here, I would like to speak in a word about the design of the atv
Caiman.
The engineers based the most their solutions on the huge experience of making similar homemade
machines.
They simply took the best ones and implement them in Caiman.
In fact many of us are able to build such machine ourselves, the construction is really
the simplest.
On the other hand there is every reason to believe that serial produced machine is more
reliable than homemade one, and besides I think it is not much expensive or maybe even
cheaper.
Well it is cheap as a matter of fact, but our task today is to find out if it is really
reliable and effective?
By the way in order to make this atv reliable, the engineers decided to get rid of any chain
drive in the construction, cause there are many opinions, that any chain drive is a weak
point.
There are only driveshaft here from the gearbox to the front axle, so the transmission should
be heavy duty.
Meantime we are moving in the forest and our route becomes harder and harder.
But Caiman is moving in such conditions still without any difficulties, but more surprisingly
our little machines are still keeping up with it!
The motordogs are considered mostly as winter machines, but as we can see now they are quite
capable in summer offroading if we equip them with special season kit.
Besides they are very affordable!
Next stage – it’s a bank of the small river, though we don’t need to cross it
but lets try that to test our atv on water again.
Well at least it is clear now – it can easily float.
But the speed of moving on water is not very impressive.
By the way, the engineers are going to equip this model with a crew propeller to provide
decent speed on water, that would be interesting I should say.
To proceed our journey we have to cut our way right through the thick bushes in the
flood land of the river, cause there is no other way.
Caiman like a real beast makes his way in a wild jungles.
Now its time to have a short rest again and look at some more details.
The tracks are made of a conveyer belt and numerous metal parts bolted together.
Such tracks don’t come off and provides perfect traction due to the metal hooks.
The width of the track is 365 mm.
There is winch at the front of the body.
Under the hood there is an access to the winch and a battery.
Then there is a good access to the engine from all the sides.
The handling is very simple by two levers and throttle nothing more.
There are many awesome boxes where you can put a lot of useful cargo.
Also we see here an antiroll cage and a tent that is an additional option.
The tent is quickly dismantable and simple to use.
And there are handles as in the real offroaders.
The next trial, this time it’s a forest abatis.
Lets cut our way through them.
In such condition windscreen is a very useful feature to keep the knots from the driver.
By the way the antiroll cage is an additional option, by I think it should be in a standard
set, cause it is quite dangerous to get over serious offroading without it.
The price of the cage and the tent is about 500.
Meantime our little atvs are facing quite serious problems, cause the route becomes
quite tough for them.
This time it is even hard for the motordog to escape from this dirt itself, so let Caiman
help us.
The tracked atv pulls out a motordog without a hitch, so we can proceed or trip, lets move
on!
While we are moving on I would like to mention that for now I noticed only one drawback in
Caiman.
As we can see it is quite effective on a real offroading, but quite rough for the passangers
at the same time.
The matter is that it doesn’t have any suspension.
But if you need a real offroader and the comfort is not important Caiman is a good choice.
We are moving closer and closer to the great swamp, and up to now we haven’t had any
obstacles that could stop our ATV, so we are moving on sitting in this rough but very effective
all terrain vehicle.
Finally we reached the place where our motordogs stopped and couldn’t proceed their way.
But I think they showed a very good result in dirt, taking into account that they are
mostly winter machines.
They are light very simple and affordable, perfect machines for winter and not bad for
summer season.
For example double tracked vehicle costs about 2300 dollars, and single tracked 1600.
I think good price for all season machine.
But now lets keep on going without them.
Finally we reached the destination of our offroading route.
We see now a real great swamp, lets try the Caiman here!
The swamp is covered with so called carpet.
It is a layer with grass and roots, and our atv can scramble here quite successfully due
to the effective tracks of course.
Frankly speaking it was rather frightening to go there, cause if we had got stucked there,
nobody could have helped us.
Anyway I think Caiman shows a good result in this swamp, it proves to be a real all
terrain vehicle, and it is high time now to speak about its price.
The model you’ve seen today costs only about 4000 dollars.
Quite affordable price for such a machine isn’t it?
Lets remember how much is the any all wheel drive quad for example.
So I think it has some drawbacks of course, but its worth its money.
In this way Caiman passed all the tests we had prepared for it and proved to be affordable
and effective ATV.
Guys what you think about this offroader?
Is it worth its money or maybe it should be more reasonable to buy a used quad?
Please post your opinions in the comments!
Lets call it a day!
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