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I've still got a Yamaha. It don't run anymore though.

Haha 3 wheelers, god damn I'm lucky I lived through em!!!

Oh, it was waaay easier, than easy!!!!Haha

yea I can attest to having one run up your leg. Had the idle set too high and started it in gear. Things pops a wheelie and instinctively you try to plant your feet right in front of two baloon tires.It turns from 3 wheeler to steam roller. I limped around for 2 days.

They were the scheit in AK and went for good money.

Much easier to load/unload from a boat.

Dad had one of these out in Colorado. Kawasaki 250 Prairie. Used it for elk hunting from 1988 to 2003. When dad moved back here he gave it to me. Had it for 4 more years until the bottom end seized up. Had a knob on the left rear wheel hub you would turn to lock in the rear axle. Would climb a tree but tough to steer, would push that front wheel in a turn. Never wrecked it though.Shot a mule deer buck once and couldn't find dad. Couldn't get it on the rear rack. Tied it to drag but couldn't get up one steep hill, it would wheelie half way up no matter how much I leaned forward. Finally got up and was so tired I dragged it on the road all the way out. Tenderized the right side and took off most of the hide.

I've never heard of that Kawasaki. You'd think as much as I scour craigslist, one would have come up on the used market. Looks like there is a master cylinder on it, real shocks on the front - very clean design.

Yeah I think it did have a master. Speedo too. Had it up to 42 mph at 9000' at dad's once. When I got it back here I was older and wiser and never cracked on it. When coming down out of the mountains you you put that front wheel in one of the grooves in the road and let the 2 rear wheels ride each side. It was quite a workout.

That reporter is one smug son of a bitch.

He acts like Honda was selling meth.

Wife had two sisters. One sister and her husband bought a couple three wheelers for their kids to run on the family farm. The farm kids and our daughters ran the three wheelers all over the farm for months without incident. Had a family reunion on the farm. Sister number three showed up with her hellions. Wrecked both three wheelers in less than two hours. Including turning one upside down on a pregnant passenger.

Like the old saying "It's the Indian, not the bow...", with three wheelers, many (most?) of the issues were the BIKER, not the bike.

I have always heard this but never understood it.

Never seen this model but would like to have had one. It was called the Duckster .

Missing a wheel but from the same time period....I resurrected this one several years back. I've been busy with other projects and it sat for two years until last week...I cleaned it, check fluids, replaced the battery, fresh gas and hit the button !!!

too many video games evident there in the 3rd sister's kids. It was hilarious watching my 13 YO son and a friend ride 4 wheelers for the first time. They thought they could just romp on the throttle, as if in a v-game. Took them a while to understand the real-life mechanics and physics of the Yamaha Big Bear.

Yamaha still makes the tw200 alot of aftermarket support for the too. Gas pack mule.

No

that looks like something from WWII

I grew up in 3-Wheeler HEAVEN. A couple pards got killed,a couple more paralyzed...schit happens.

Was it the 'Wheelers "fault"? Nope.

Did we miss not having an '87 250R? Yep.

Fhuqk it...I had a Baja Bug,Camaro and a Jeep with a Big Block. No thang,with a job on the backdeck of THE Highliner.

Hint...................

Nice restoration EFQ.

Those are cool bikes.

The old Samurai was another good example of lib thinking.

To this day people will tell you they’re “death traps.” Even though they’re still made and driven all over the world.