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In '85 an Old Boy built THE Oddy-Saki...which was a Honda Odyssey frame,mated to a 600cc 'zuki powerplant. The bitch RAN like a raped fhuqking ape,though "suspension" was LIMITING.

'Nother pard mated a Chevelle body to a 'Burban Big Block Frame and rallied THE fhuqk outta it. 48" Swampers were THE schit and 36" Buckshots what you gave your Prom Date.

Now a fhuqking Rice Grinder RULES The Roost.

Too funny!..................

I fail to see where a Four-Wheeler is any less dangerous than a Three-Wheeler. I thought at the time, the companies making them were behind the anti-three-wheeler push and resultant laws. IMO it was because the originals were so good that everybody had them and they weren't selling new ones so good and needed something to jump start the market. This plus as I remember it the Four Wheelers were a lot more expensive than the Three's.

Old trucks were a whole lot less expensive than new ones and it ain't all inflation. New trucks have a lot more features (and are a lot better IMO than ones made in the 70's and even 80's). It's comparing apples and oranges though as 'til the mid seventies hardly any trucks had four wheel drive and now they are extremely common plus the popularity of extended cabs and full four doors which were hardly ever seen until the late eighties or so. Same thing with four wheels vs. three. The three wheelers were great, bargain vehicles mostly with a lot fewer features than four wheelers.

Thanks deflave, well worth the effort on the rebuild...runs like a top !!

Had a Yamaha 225 and a big red 250

Fun machines. Traded both for an XR. Wish I still had them. But I've always preferred two wheels

-Jake

Good riddance. I haven't seen one in years and never want to ride another one. I grew up riding dirt bikes and motorcycles, but those 3 wheelers handled completely differently. My buddy had a Big Red and he could ride it well, but not me. I'd lean one way like on my dirt bikes and the wheeler would go the other way! Around a corner I'd put my foot down and the back tire would try to run over my leg. The last straw was trying to get the thing back to camp through a 10 acre open area with one tree out in the middle. It was like that tree was a magnet and reeling me in to hit it. Four wheelers are way better for me.

You’re not supposed to put your feet down on a four wheeler either.

And I admit the three wheel configuration makes little sense. But if you watch that 60 minutes report you can see they want to ban bikes and quads too. They’ve just been unsuccessful at it.

I haven’t seen one in ages.

60 Minutes used to air letters from readers at the end of each program.
A few weeks after this segment aired they read a letter from a viewer that was very well written. The viewer pointed out that it pure hypocrisy for 60 minutes to villainize the 3 wheeler when a week or two previous 60 Minutes aired a segment praising the virtues of the Ferrari (Testarossa or Countach can't recall which). The letter was well written, it used some of 60 Minutes own benchmarks for comparing safety, and the 60 Minutes spokesman was noticeably chagrined and unhappy at having to be the one to admit that there was nothing objective about their reports on the 2 vehicles. Essentially, the Ferrari was more dangerous then the 3 wheeler when using the same comparisons that 60 Minutes had used.

They were dangerous.

What isn’t dangerous?

They were great.


I have near 100,000 miles on a ATC 110 with electric start.


Yeah, I wrecked it a few times. Once I ran over the steel basket that was bolted on the front. That flipped me.

Greatest thing a 6 year old could have.

I believe they were banned due to young children flipping them. Another case of unattentive parenting. A simple roll bar would have solved the problem. Like the eary jeeps. No roll over protection

Three wheelers are great for weeding the retards out of the gene-pool..... figures liberals would ban them.... can't be losing constituents....

Yeah, we flipped them all the time.


Go up a hill and they would come over on you.


Go down a hill and you would go over the front....only to be run over.

Hit a deep rut at speed and you would spiral like a well thrown foot ball.


Made safe riders out of us.

This^^^^ you had to be on your game or they would eat you alive.... love it!

I was thinking about the duckster when I opened this thread, a friend from high school had one. It ran over my leg as well.

They discontinued the Yamaha Rhino for the same reasons.Never had rollover issues with mine.People rolling and wrecking them that should have never owned a four wheeler in the first place...As to the three wheelers,I had two of the mini's I got in a trade and two of the big ones...At the time they worked...I would take another one at the right price.

Not if you take it down to the local tire store and have 8 ply radials mounted up. My Vinson has no bounce from the tires at all, and is quite resistant to puncture vine. But you do have to slow down a bit in rough stuff, or it will shake your teeth out,

I had a Yamaha 225 shaft drive, That thing scared the heck out of me. Used it to get from one field to the next and for hunting. An interesting fact, toward the end of the 3 wheelers when the government was shutting them down there was a company that came out with a front end kit that converted the front end from a single to a steering axle making it a four wheeler. A friend of mine put it on his Honda 250R. Wow was that a ride.

TRUE. - Ridden carefully, I had NO problem with ours.

yours, trex