Learning About Your OHV

Your Best Resource—The Owner’s Manual

The best way to learn about your OHV is to read the owner’s manual. The information included tells how to:

• Improve your OHV’s performance and your enjoyment.
• Maintain your OHV to help it last much longer.
• Improve your riding skills.
• Perform simple repairs.
• Operate safely to protect yourself, others, and your OHV.
• Get more information about questions you have.

Workhorse and Recreational Vehicle

Today’s OHVs are used for both work and play.

• Work-related uses include farming, ranching, construction, oil production, land management, field maintenance, law enforcement, military applications, and rescue operations.
• Recreational uses include trail riding and transporting items, such as hauling gear to a fishing spot, campsite, or hunting grounds.

Getting To Know Your OHV

OHVs can provide hours of safe, enjoyable off-road riding. But OHVs also can be dangerous if you don’t understand your vehicle or know proper riding procedures.

• Different types of OHVs have their own handling characteristics, so it’s important for you to learn how to operate your particular model. For example, most ATVs have front and rear brakes, but some have linked brakes. You need to know the correct braking techniques for your ATV.
• OHVs also use different transmissions, shifting mechanisms, throttle mechan­isms, starting mechanisms, cooling systems, and axle designs. Controls and their locations also differ from one OHV model to another.