Buying guide · by the team at All-Terrain Motorsports, Grand Junction & Rifle CO · updated 2026-08-20
"What should I buy?" depends on a map. Western Colorado has four very different kinds of riding within two hours of our stores, and the perfect machine for one is the wrong machine for another. Here's how we walk customers through it on the showroom floor.
Wide-open BLM desert with whoops, ledges, and room to run. This is where the big sport machines shine: RZR XP and Pro R, KRX 1000, Maverick. Width doesn't matter, suspension travel does, and the four-seat versions let the whole family run the same lines.
A meaningful chunk of Colorado's best high-country trail networks are width-limited. A 64-to-77-inch sport machine is simply not allowed on them. If those trails are your goal, the machine list shrinks fast — and the CFMOTO Ibex 450 has become our go-to answer: genuinely capable, narrow enough to be legal, and priced like a starter machine even though it isn't one.
Property in Whitewater or Silt plus weekend rides? The Polaris General and CFMOTO ZForce carry a bed and a trailer hitch without giving up real suspension. This is the most-regret-proof category we sell: nobody ever wishes their do-everything machine did less.
Black Bear, Imogene, and the alpine passes reward low-range gearing, good engine braking, and manageable width more than horsepower. Crossovers and trail-width machines both work; leave the 77-inch desert car home for this one.
Desert families: a four-seat sport machine. Narrow-trail explorers: Ibex 450. One-machine households: General or ZForce. And if you tell us where you actually ride — text (970) 999-1221 — we'll tell you what we'd buy for that zone at your budget.
CFMOTO IBEX — 65 in stock from $5,499
Polaris RZR — 151 in stock from $6,499
Kawasaki Teryx KRX — 62 in stock from $18,999
Polaris GENERAL — 18 in stock from $20,999
CFMOTO ZFORCE — 93 in stock from $11,799
Counts and prices update nightly from our live inventory. Website prices include freight & setup.
If you'll ever regularly carry more than one passenger, buy the four-seat now — used four-seaters outsell two-seaters in our market and the resale reflects it. Solo or couple riders keep the sharper two-seat handling.
Effectively yes — it's low-desert BLM land that rides well even in winter, which is why it's the Grand Valley's default riding area. Summer heat makes spring and fall the prime seasons.
OHVs need a Colorado OHV registration or non-resident permit, and machines on designated trails need spark arrestors. We handle registration paperwork on units we sell and can walk you through the rest.