Honda Recon

I did a little research on the Honda recon prior to purchasing one, and all I heard were positive things, and if it was negative it was so minor that it didnt even matter. I'v owned this quad for about 4 months now and I have to say it has a great power to weight ratio and even hauls me around no prob at 245 lbs....it doesnt keep up with my trx 450r but what can? It's perfect for my wife and occasinally myself when we trade off. I would highly reccomend this fourwheeler to anyone looking for a strong reliable fun 4 wheeler. Ride ON!

I have a Honda Recon 06 auto shift with 2" lift from high lifter. Have to say the lift kit makes it look noticeably bigger and better looking but the handling is not as quite as good and also the shocks and joints wear a bit more but I like it better on. recommend it if , say you have a lot of fell trees and rough uneven terrain. Other people have said keep stock tires and I would agree, but putting big ass tires on it would be ok if you can compensate for it though like being light as a feather. I got a creek in my backyard and I can put it through about 2 1/2 ft of water go more than that well you'll flood(unless snorkeled) and the jets you'll be cleaning. The instruction manual that comes with it says 10 inches of water maximum lol. I've done a speed test on road with my gamin gps attached and it read 43 mph topped out. Also I have gone up 3 flights of 37 stairs soaking wet. I've pulled a 300lb - 400lb tree trunks with not much trouble has to be in 1st gear of course and make sure i... Read more

I have an 05 recon manual shift. It's a good atv for a trail rider with not much ruts because it does not have much ground clearance. I'm going to go get a 2in axle lift to get two inches more of ground clearance. I haven't had mine very long and i bottom out almost everyday. Today I'm going trailriding with some friends and today will be the big test about how good this thing is. That is the only bad thing about. This 250 is nice strong and these can be ran hard and long the other day i rode for over 12 hours and it still was running like when i turned. It is a very reliable machine and i have rode a sportsman for a while and it ran horrible. I got that new and the recon was used, but the recon works the best. My sportsman electric start didn't even work a month and it went out. but atleast it had kick start instead of pull. I don't like pull starts. The recon has a pull start but so far it doesnt look like I am going to need to use it unless my battery needs charged. It is very relia... Read more

I have been riding ATV's since i was 7. I am now 13, with 6 years of riding experience. I have ridden a Kawasaki 400 Auto, which was ok. I have ridden a Honda Foreman 450. I like the AWD, but it lags when you punch the throttle. A year ago dad bought me my own ATV. The 2007 Recon ES is the best ATV i have ever ridden. It has a small engine, it does GREAT on gas. It also has a good ammount of torqu, giving it a lot of get-up for a 250. I beat my friends in a 300 yard race down an open field. From a dead start I outclassed a Honda 400 AWD, and a Honda 300. I beat them from the start, but the 400 started to gain on me slowly. I run my Recon pretty hard and tend to beat on it, but it runs like new. The light frame of it is nice because it is pretty easy to get it free when you get it stuck. I have only had it a year and i can probably only get one more year out of the stock tires. The tires are great, and this is a good trail-riding ATV. I love my Recon and i HIGHLY recomme... Read more

This is a Great ATV i'm 15 years old and i own a 2000 honda recon i am the 3rd owner it is my very first four wheeler, i saved and saved for 2 and a half years for this thing and it is worth every day of saveing and it runs great! i've owned it for a year now and i ride it every day and I ride it HARD every day my dad owns a yamaha 350 bruin and my recon will keep up with that thing every day of the week he will try to start that thing in the morning and he has to pull the choke and then once he gets it started he has to sit there and warm it up I just press the start button even in cold weather and im gone and will get through the same mud my friends 350 big bear will get through...GREAT ATV!!!!!!

The 2002 honda recon model tm was realled due to the tires not being welded properly. I wasn't informed of it even thought honda had my information. The only way I found out was my son just recked his. He was driving down the pasture and the tire fell off. Please watch out for this and if you haven't gotten this fixed please do so.

This is a great quad. I am 19 and my family bought our recon new in 2002. Me and my friends have beat this thing to hell. It has been wrecked numerous times and still is still in near perfect wroking condition. We have never had any problems with it. It has been in 3 different diches. Once it was flown into the ditch at about 30mph and is still fine. I own other quads as well and the recon definitly is not the fastest, but it is very light and fun to drive. Wheelies on this quad are easy to do and also jumping on this quad is a lot of fun. We use it also to load wood that we cut. We load more weight on this quad than one should. We still have the shock tires on this thing and they are bald and still we are able to take this thing through deep mud and water without a problem. I love this quad and recommend it to all ages.

I see a lot of younger people reviewing this quad, and I know it is entry level quad, but that might turn some older riders away. I am 22, 5'10" and 170 pounds and I ride the 01 model Recon and have absolutely no problems with it. I have beaten this thing in every way imaginable, loaded up with FAR more weight than it should ever carry, towed things it should have never been towing and hit JUMPS with it that no utility quad should ever see and it just keeps ticking. The quad has sit outside through north east winters for 6 years without a cover, hasn't been maintained very well at all and yet still the only problem I have ever encountered was it needing a carb cleaning. The great thing about this quad for a full size rider is that it is just big enough to be comfortable, get over any obstacle and it has enough power to still feel quick (and more than enough torque to never feel bogged down if you pick the right gear) BUT since it isn't the biggest or heaviest quad it is cake to mane... Read more

I have an 07 Recon ES and I think it is hard to ride. It's like riding a basketball. Yea it gets around the sharp turns, but if you hit a rut on the trail you better be ready and hold on. I have decided to sell mine and get something that doesn't beat me to death on the trails.

This is a awesome fourwheeler im convinced its indestructable im a 14 year old girl but i ride rough i am now getting a bigger bike but i love it i have a lift kit a snorkel and 25inch mud lites i can gwt it through anything my dad has a polaris 700 with 27 inch mudlites, 4inch lift kit ans snorkels and i make it through everything he does but i can not tell you how many times i have flooded it and it still runs like day one its one of the toughtest 250s out there i also bought it used and the person who had it before me rolled it crashed it everything but we new lastics on it and it ran and looked like day one trust e buy it

I had a recon es when i was 10 years old and we sold it when i was 12. then we bought a rancher 4x4 which we later found out was great for trailing and pulling heavier things. the recon could easily keep up with my rancher but the rancher had more power to it. we sold my rancher and now i really want another recon because i realize now without having either, it gets really boring. for the price, the recon is a GREAT 4wheeler. a lot of people say it is hard to start when it is cold but if you keep it in a garage i don't think it is very hard to start at all. i would love to have another recon...... but the es is much better than just the regular recon. i would strongly recomend this 4wheeler to others...... TRUST ME IT'S GREAT!!! WILL SOMEBODY BACK ME UP ON THIS????!!!????

great 4 wheeler i dont care what u say my 2007 honda recon is a great 4 wheeler. im 13 and i have had my recon 4 3 years and have had no problems my brother also has one and we have no problems with it either. i live in west virginia and go riding every day i like the handling and the 5 speed standard. its cold natured but if u give it full choke and run it you will b fine.. i wish it was four wheel drive..but i love my recon i would buy one if ur looking to buy...

I have an 06 Recon ES & an 05 Recon S for my daughters and these bikes have been nothing less than perfect in performance. Now we do a lot of camping/mud riding at different atv parks and the mud does take a toll on the brakes but that is expected. These bikes will handle their fair share of most terrains. My kids are 10 & 7, these bikes handle very well.

My son has a 2005 Recon and for the most part we love it. Have some issues with water and mud getting in the rear brake drum housing and the jets in the carb seem to clog easy. The jets getting clogged could be our fault though, and samething with the mud in the rear brakes. Also it is a little cold natured.  Not one bit of trouble anywhere else though. Overall performance is great! Not the fastest thing out there, but fast enough for most trail riding. From a stop, I can easily bring the front wheels off of the ground in second gear. Dont know what the top speed on it but would say some where in the 40 mph range. But on the trails is where this thing shines. I have a 08 Honda Rancher 420 4x4 and on the trails where we ride, my son on that Recon can stay up with me. Now the longest straight stretch is about 75 yrds long (in which I can pull away) but other than that, the trails have a lot of curves, and speed isnt as important as handling is, and he can stay right there with me. My Ran... Read more

Great bike! It is usually a starter 4 wheeler which is why so many people give it good reviews. It's their first bike because it looks good and it's cheap for cost. The performance is right up there with the bigger 4 wheel drive bikes because of the Recon's light weight and handleability that will allow it to go anywhere a 4 wheel drive will go if you know how to drive it and you are brave enough. It does not do too well in sticky mud with no water available to wash off the tires. I recommend the stock tires that come with the bike even if the first set wears out. They seem to give the best performance for the Recon and were chosen to go with the bike for a reason. They give the optimum height to the bike and are not too big for the Recon's motor and seem to give the best overall performance. As with all ATV's you should not go in water deeper than 3" deep. OH, you can, but you will pay dearly 5 or so years down the line. The water will start corrosion to the back shaft. The seal beari... Read more

Let me just start off by saying if you are here looking to see whether you should buy a recon or not, the answer is YES!!!!! I currently have a 2006 Honda Recon with the Electric Shift option. There are tons of great things to say about this ATV so let me make a list of all the pros and cons i have found out about it over the last two years of owning it. Pros: 1)Great Handling -This thing handles like a sport atv, you can easily flick the back end from side to side allowing you to do extremely tight turns at high speeds. 2)Extremely Rugged -I live in Florida and there is nothing here but palmettos. This thing tears through them like nothing. In the event you ever do get stuck, this ATV is so light you can easily rock it back and forth until a tire catches and sends you on your way. If you ever get really stuck, all you have to do is jump off and pull it off of whatever your hung up on. IT goes anywhere and everywhere my Suzuki Eiger 400 4x4 will and sometimes has an easy jo... Read more

Recon is an awsome machine, I have ran into like 10 trees going almost full speed and the only thing that ever got broken was me.. besides a few scratches on it, its fine. Alot of people complain that it has trouble starting in the cold, you know there is a good explanation for that, Atv's generally have a tough time starting when u leave them outside to freeze, thats why I keep mine in a nice garage and it never has probs. You just half to be careful to never flood the exhaust pipe. (Dont get automatic) get manual recon with electric shifter. that way you can shift at your leisure and still never half to worry about clutch-work.oh yeah, and i am not joking when i say the honda recon is like a 250cc sport atv with a utility frame, its like its under cover or sumthin, + you can haaul aloot of stuff on this thing.

i have a 200 honda recon it's a good quad gos good for a 250 the only problems iv had is the jets get cloged and theres not enough ground clearence with the stock tires on it. the stock skid plates suck to if u buy one i highly recomend buying a after market skid plate

I have a 1999 Recon that I bought new. I previously had a Honda Big Red Three Wheeler. From day one the Recon was hard to start especially in cold weather. It is also very hard to set the correct idle speed. In cold weather it will idle and stop while at the same setting it will run too fast in warm weather. The transmission is hard to shift or simply will not shift while on a steep incline. Overall it's ok but I'm looking for a new ATV.

My wife was new to ATV riding when we got married, so I bought her a 2007 Recon 250 to get started.  She loves it.  We didn't fool around with the Automatic function we got the standard 5 speed shift option. This thing has plenty of power and it handles like a sport ATV, you can kick it and slide it around, its a lot of fun.  It doenst keep up with my 400EX but its not supposed to.  I haven't had 1 problem with this thing since we bought it.  This is a solid machine for someone just getting into the ATV market.  Once you get the feel of riding on this one, you can easily upgrade to something more powerful.

I just got one as a 13 year old girl it is a Honda Recon 250 do you think that is a good bike for me? I had no clue my dad had bid on it till 15 minutes before the eBay thing was up sooo i had to make a quick decision and idk.... soo i chose it was it a good choice?

their automatic is very undependable and honda has a tendancy to be old school on features for most of their machines.

I have a 2000 Honda Recon250, bought it brand new from a friend who bought it from a guy that needed monay to deal with court cases...All the time that i've had this ATV it has been awesome, its small and doesnt way much, yet its as strong as any other honda (besides bigger models) sometimes stronger than them....The only thing i dont like which i've seen alot in this forum is that its not 4-wheel drive, and you cant really tell but it would help alot if they installed dual rear suspension instead of single suspension, although you cant really tell...Other than that awesome ATV ALSO I NEED SOME SERIOUS HELP WITH MY ATV, IF SOMEONE KNOWS HOW TO DO THIS PLEASE EMAIL ME AT [email protected] i changed the oil in my Honda Recon 250 and all that went fine, but i cant find where the oil filter goes?! I looked EVERYWHERE, on the motor, on the sides of the motor, under the seat, i just cant find it? I called the Honda Dealership but they were closed and wont be open until monday, a... Read more

Good little ATV.  No four wheel drive.  Reliable.

can anyone tell me if the 2006 honda recon's are available with automatic transmission?

we have an older model honda that is stuck in first gear any help would be appreciated we gave to a family that has 8 kids for Christmas and they want to ride it again.

i have 2 1999 recons each with 8000 miles on them and they both run great with the exception of the transmission. when racing one it will sometimes slip back into a lower gear. overall an awsome atv and never any problems. didnt even have to have the transmision glicht fixed.

Great little 4 wheeler. The only problem is there has been a recall on the Electronic Shift models. The transmission won't shift at very bad times. On the side of a steep hill....I had to dismount and rock the vehicle to get it out of the gear. Then downshift to low. Took it to the dealer and they are fixing it. (no charge). Now thats MY kind of service.

I have a 2003 recon and have about 8,000 mi. on it and it keeps going. Up here in Wisconsin there is mud in the spring and snow in winter. It goes through it all. I just wish it had 4x4

Bad costumer service, Honda knows of speedometer problems and won't do anything about them or tell anyone about them. Don't buy

this muchine is awsome has good torque and is extreemly reliable

Although my Recon is reliable as far as starting, I think it is very dangerous has a poorly designed brake system. Wy wife and kids and I are all experienced riders and we all agree this Recon is junk. 5 people have ridden this Recon and 4 of them have flipped it. It started to flip on me, but I saved it. I've been riding dirt bikes and ATV's for 35 years and this Recon is the worst one I've had. I think if I widen the track by at least 6 inches, lower the seat by 4 inches, then it may be safe enough to allow my wife and kids to ride it. My wife flipped the Recon when she was taking a very slow turn and we are both experienced riders. As far as I'm concerned the Recon is too dangerous to ride in it's stock condition unless it has some modifications to make it more stable. It's okay as long as you take it easy, but this is not a sport quad and will not keep up on the trails with our Yamaha sport quads. I'll never own another one.

very reliable and fun.

I have a 1999 honda recon and it has been a very reliable atv so far.I got stuck in the mud real good once so i have equipped it with a superwinch 1500 and it gives me a sense of security. The only thing that i regret is that it is only a 2 wheel drive and it cannot perform in our canadian winter.Otherwise,it has been a good choice and my teenage daughter enjoys to ride it in the woods in Lac St-Jean,Québec.

have had two both demo models from our local dealer. both we have rung their necks and both just kept on taking a beating. the first we had for 7 years the other weve just got. one thing standard issue tyres have a soft ruber compound that wears out quick other than that great machine

We love our Recons! They're reliable, durable and responsive. Light enough that we never find ourselves in tougher spots than we can handle while still quick and sporty. Great machines!!

I have had many quads and the small but strong honda recon is one of the best mid-size quads out there. The 2002 comes standard with an oil cooler which helps alot on long rides. It runs great all the time and never fails. Honda at its best! Also i installed a K&N; air filter and it helped alot.

Very reliable and fun to ride.