I love my atc, just wondering if anybody else has one. Post pics, I will try to get some up too.

Don't own one. My leg spent 6 weeks in a cast beacause of one. Does that count?

Somebody posted a "3 wheeler" thread a few days ago.
Funniest thing I've read in a while.

No, thats just giving example for more people to dislike them...

Jk.
what were you riding and what happened?

quote Originally posted by Raydar: Somebody posted a "3 wheeler" thread a few days ago. Funniest thing I've read in a while.

link?

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quote Originally posted by LitebulbwithaFiero: link?

https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum6/HTML/067899.html

A 1980's honda 250. I got off my nice and safe quad and got on this thing. 4th gear around a corner. Rolled it over on top of myself. My leg got caught in the nerf bar and stayed there. *snap*

quote Originally posted by 87antuzzi: A 1980's honda 250...

Somebody at work has one of those for sale. Want me to send him your email?

I am a little confused about that ebay sale. Did the guy waste money listing it just to make fun of trikes or was he really trying to sell it?


Ya you can't drive them like a quad. I never rode a quad so I didn't have any relearning to do. An 85 or 86 250r is my dream ride

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I had a couple back in 1979 or 80.....one was just like the one in the E-bay ad,a 175 Yamaha 2 stroke. I could pull a wheelie forever on that thing. I also had a 250R Honda....I remember bringing home the 175 in three pieces once. Our motto was "If you don't wreck at least 3 times while you are riding, you weren't riding hard enough."........... I never really got hurt to bad. Thanks for bringing back some fond memories. I will try and find some pics to post.

Cool. I like to see pics of them in their days. I ride is a honda 200s 4 stroke auto clutch. But I got a higher compression piston coming to compliment my new cam. I have rode a 350x and that thing had some power. Haven't been on a 2 stroke one, yet.

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had a yamaha 175 trimoto when I was a kid. Thing was way to big for me lol I had to stand on the fender and jump in there backwards with the pull string to get it to start. My friends found it funny...but they weren't laughing when I would smoke there ass riding around. That thing was quick!

I had a 125, 250x, and 350x all hondas in the mid 80's they were all a lot of fun. If you know how to ride them you will not roll them. I was almost always at wide open throttle and never had a problem. Most people tend to shift their weight the same way that you do on a motorcycle and that just does not work.


Sean

I have two...
1982 ATC185s and a 1985 ATC250R modified for sand drag racing. Its bored out to a 295cc, has a custom pipe, 9" extended swingarm....

Racing the 250R:


ATC250R:


250R during a tear down:


Fun on the 185s:


Edit: added picture

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Heres my 1985 200s


My buddies 1985 200s


My 1985 110 that needs motor work

heh, I grew up riding Big Red 250's and 300's. To me, there is nothing better than an ATC, and I'd rather have one than a quad any day...

Been looking for another one actually for cheap, but they are getting pretty scarce...

I also have a quad but I prefer riding the ATC's or a dirt bike. I guess its the added danger involved.



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Nice drag pipe on that R

Thanks.

Matt Shearer of Shearer Custom Pipes made it for me.

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How'd you do at the sand drags?
Race any Banshees?

I have the fastest stock cylinder ATC at the drags.... Most of the time i'm also faster than the ATC's with the aftermarket 330cc cylinders.
Its all in the tuning & gearing.

The highly modified Banshee's are faster than me but they do have a good 20 hp more than me. I blow away any stock or lightly modified Banshee.

Thats sweet.

I want a 250r but I would keep it more everyday riding friendly.

Around here they do grass drags and the snowmobiles dominate.
Although my brother 1987 Kawasaki 250 dirtbike held its own out there

I didn't know anyone still owned 3 wheelers. I remember seeing videos of them flipping going over two bumps in a row and landing on the rider.

I rode my hardtail in a bumpy field for hours without any injuries or accidents. Just like anything else, you have to know how to ride them.

yea it was a lot of crap for nothing. They were only as dangerous as the idiot riding them. I rode mine through all kind of fields and terrains. Did I wreck it yep..but it wasn't because the bike was dangerous or unstable. It's because the rider was!

quote Originally posted by firstfiero: yea it was a lot of crap for nothing. They were only as dangerous as the idiot riding them. I rode mine through all kind of fields and terrains. Did I wreck it yep..but it wasn't because the bike was dangerous or unstable. It's because the rider was!

Exactly!
A while back there was a report that showed the # of 3-wheeler related injuries compared to the # of 4-wheeler related injuries. The # was EQUAL.

I think the worse thing that happened in the ATV world is the HUGE automatic 4x4 machines. Anyone can get on one & go.... and go anywhere. This is why I took my 250R off the trails & just race it on the track. The heavy 4x4's were tearing the trails up but the people with the sport machines who are limited as to where they can go were being blamed...
I watched one guy on a 4x4 sit in a stream gnawing away at a bank trying to get out. A few weeks later it was all eroded & the EPA stepped in & closed off the whole trail. The trail had been there for at least 20 years prior.

Sorry about the rant.... If you cant tell, its a sore subject with me.

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I haven't done any trail riding yet. But when I do I will probably be the only 3 wheeler out there.
In the beginning there were only 3 wheelers, not quads. So all the injuries were from 3 wheelers. Then as the 3 wheelers became better, they came out with 4 wheelers that were also better, and when people got on their new 4 wheeler they weren't getting hurt like the earlier people getting on there new 3 wheelers. So simple minded people figured that them 4 wheelers must be safer then those crazy triangular machines.

I always got complements when I rode my 185s on the trails.
I dont use it too much now but it still starts on the 2nd pull!

Funny, I bought it over 15 years ago for $500. Still had the little nubbies on the original tires! (it was 12 years old)
The guy rode it around his yard only a couple of times & parked it in a shed.

My 200s has been beaten to hell and back and still starts on the 1st or 2nd pull. Its hard to kill these old Honda 4 strokes.
Thats why I decided to bump the compression ratio up a bit. Going from a 7.8:1 piston to a 9.5:1 piston. Should give it a little more power, and hopefully not make it to much harder to pull start

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Just be careful with the pull start recoil assembly. They are becoming hard to find. Usually you'll pay a premium if you do find one.

We had a hard-tail Yamaha 3-wheeler at the farm. It was great. I started riding it when I was probably 8yrs old or so, whenever I was big/strong enough to handle it. I rode on it as a passenger before that. I spent many hundreds plus hours riding in bumpy fields and through the woods on it with never a mishap. Its all about the driver, I don't think it was an inherently dangerous design, just dangerous/stupid riders.

Here’s a pic from back in the day. I can't find the one where I brought this home in 3 pieces.

Nice pic with the 3 wheeler and mustang II in it.

I don't use my pull start. The string snapped and I am too lazy to redo it. I just use a rope around the cage the pull start catches. You can still get all but the housing new for them too.

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quote Originally posted by LitebulbwithaFiero: Nice pic with the 3 wheeler and mustang II in it.

The mustang was my wifes first car, not mine.

quote Originally posted by nmw75: Just be careful with the pull start recoil assembly. They are becoming hard to find. Usually you'll pay a premium if you do find one.

true ..I remember my buddy had two honda 110's and that was what always took a crap on him.. every couple months it seemed we had it tore a part.

This is the 3 wheeler I'd like to have. If anybody feels so inclined, it would make a great birthday gift for moi

Arn

How come that type of 3 wheeler is allowed, but atc aren't?

Hello, the two front wheels are in front with a very low center of gravity where as the ATC has a very tippy high center and one front wheel. The TREX will do circles around most cars let alone a ATC.

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There are motorcycle 3 wheelers set up both ways with higher center of gravities then atc's

I will have to try and post pics of all of my trikes later, I have quite a few. And just as a note ATC's can be road legal and are legal to be imported and have been able to be for years.

Pics would be great.

From what I read, originally back in 87, or whenever they did the ban, it was a 10 year ban. But then the one of the last things Bush did while in office is make them permanently illegal.