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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.

For the rookies that can't ride a 3-wheeler.

Had a 200 and a 70 bike

Best times of my life

Graduated to a cr 80 1983

Ended up with xr650l

My dirt riding bud got his leg/knee tore up.

Caught his leg in the back tire

Girl killed her self rolling one

Bad

We had a Honda 125 at the Ranch for years. Our cows hated that sombitch.

We never chased cows with our three wheeler.


We rode horses until the day that grandpa got to where he did not want to get up and down off a saddle horse all day.


Grandpa introduced a blue Polaris Trail boss 2 stroke 250 to the operation.


The first time we rode that out to the cows I swear every one of their brains rolled over.

They just went insane.

We bought one when we sold the last of our horses.

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.

navlav8r,

SPOT ON. = The 3-wheelers were NEVER made for HOT-RODDING. - Instead they were made to go nearly ANYWHERE at LOW speed.

yours, tex

I don’t believe the 250R was made to go anywhere at low speed...

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.

250R's are capable of flying also......



I died on this day....... well not really, but it was close...

Sorry for the crappy pic

cv540,

ALSO TRUE.

yours, tex

And yes we did drink the 12 pack before riding.......

Big red doin it's thing.....

Pre-quad days....

Someone may have observed that this video is very old; Ed Bradley has been dead for 13 years.

Yes captain obvious.... they banned them years ago..... you lib's aint to smart huh?

Nope the 250r was wicked fast, especially if you bought a 300 cylinder and bolted that on...I had a friend with a radar gun that clocked it at 96...

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.