a side by side is fine if you have open ground, if there's bushes and trees, you're lost
For sure but there is no lack of speed. I'd take a dirt bike over an atv to compliment the sxs where it can't go.
The problem we run in to like with my dad's family is the cattle have no respect for atvs, dirt bikes, etc. If you try to push cattle with an atv they will come see you. They won't do it to a sxs.
I had a cow throwing her head and trying to fight my mule a couple years ago. When I decided she wasn't bluffing any more and she dropped her head I hit her going pretty solid with that tough country bumper on the mule. That was the end of that. I saw my uncle try to bluff a bull on an atv and it threw him one way and the atv the other like nothing.
I don't do that stuff to my cattle though.