If your going to ride the trails, you better learn how to tap dance that shifter good, she is def a tempermental beast. My boy has one and usually by 1, or 2 he's ready to go home. Banshee is better suited for sandpits, or open areas, were you can just blast it. My boys flys though, he's got a cool head, Toomy T5 pipes high compression pistons, and ported cylinders. This bike absolutly flys. The accelaration is unbelivable, you have to ride a modified one to see. I still don't think there is a faster 4 stroke out there. The Banshee competes with Raptors and DS650s, and still blows them away.