We had a bunch of em over the years. My cousin broke his pelvis riding my dads. We got rid of em when 4 wheelers came out. I think it was about '94-95 I went to Ontario on a bear hunt. We got on the far side of North Bay and I HAD to call my dad. 3 wheelers everywhere! If the Canadians didnt have a 3 wheeler they had an Argo. You played hell to find either around our house at the time.
We had a Honda 125 at the Ranch for years. Our cows hated that sombitch.
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"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
We bought one when we sold the last of our horses.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
I traded a nice 82 XR250 dirt bike for a new 85 ATC 200x. One hour into my first ride I thought, what the heck have I done? I traded something I could ride for this damn thing. I got used to it, had fun & traded next year for a new 86 because they had changed the entire platform. A much better unit. Was a little wild back then & had a growing ex-ray file at the ER. Had fun though. I wasn't really sorry to see the fad die.
Now it's just a grandpaw 450 Honda 4x4. I wouldn't mind having a side by side but the cost of new is ridiculous IMO, & ain't about to buy a used one that I don't know the owner or history.
I remember as a kid seeing three wheelers and Honda Odyssey single seaters just about everywhere it seemed like.
I was in my 20's before I ever rode one. My brother had a souped up 3 wheeler of some type. I rode it a few times and figured I had broke enough bones.
Used one as a kid to check fences. Didnt drive it like an idiot so never had a problem with it.
Also drove narrow front end tractors so I knew they could be tippy on steep slopes. I knew that the higher the speed whether on a tractor or 3 wheeler the easier they were to roll. Guess it's important to protect idiots from themselves.
"Put none but Americans on guard tonight." -George Washington
Was watching a young fellow practice riding what I assume was a new to him fairly good size 4 wheeler out in a sports field behind work one afternoon. He started off just putt-putting around slowly on the level playing field then after a little while tried driving it down into about a 4' deep ditch and trying to get it to go back up the other side. The other side of the ditch was steeper and he couldn't make it climb all of he way up and out of the ditch so he kept giving it more and more throttle. Last time he tried he fired it up big time and came close to making it out too until it damn near tipped over backwards on top of him. Luckily it went back down right side up. I would imagine several hundred pounds of steel and plastic falling from that high and landing on top of someone probably could be painful at the very least.