Nice looking 85 Big Red

[oldtime3wheeler]

http://baltimore.craigslist.org/sno/4061662198.html

[kb0nly]

Man thats cheap, buy buy buy!

[IronBear]

That's a great price compared to the one I posted earlier.

[Louis Mielke]

thanks for pointing this out!

[Mickey Dunlap]

I called him,grabbed some cash and was out the door and a customer pulled in so I couldn't get there today. If he has it still in the morning I'm there.

[tri again]

If it's real, worst case, offer a little more.
Has worked for me in the past.

[Mickey Dunlap]

If it's real, worst case, offer a little more.
Has worked for me in the past.

I'm just waiting for him to call back to see what time I can be there. He has title in hand.

[Louis Mielke]

It won't be there in the morning

[Mickey Dunlap]

It won't be there in the morning

Yea that's what I thought when he didn't call back. Is it as nice as I thought?:D

[Mickey Dunlap]

Well he just called it's still there so unless the farmer from Finksville (or something like that) gets it in the next few hours it's mine in the morning.

[Mickey Dunlap]

Well got another call from the guy,but it was him on the phone,it was some joker loading up my 3 wheeler on his truck!:cry: :lol:

And don't be rubbing in by posting up pics either Louis Mielke!:lol:

[Louis Mielke]

Just got home, post up some pics in a bit. If it makes you feel any better Mickey its not a showroom condition bike. It's nice but sadly its a shore bike. The salt has hit a few pieces. I'd rate it a 7.5 out of 10, and I'd have to say it was priced right for the shape its in. Good is the plastic is very nice, engine runs good, everything works, bad is that anything that was bare chrome or plating has surface rust.

Definitely is a low hour machine otherwise. Pics and more info soon, I'm gonna clean it up to a strong 8 but it'll never be a 10 or 11 without a couple thousand.

You didn't miss out on the little old lady three wheeler but definitely the old puttering man one.

[Mickey Dunlap]

Just got home, post up some pics in a bit. If it makes you feel any better Mickey its not a showroom condition bike. It's nice but sadly its a shore bike. The salt has hit a few pieces. If rate it a 7.5 out of 10, and I'd have to say it was priced right for the shape its in. Good is the plastic is very nice, engine runs good, everything works, bad is that anything that was bar chrome or plating has surface rust.

Definitely is a low hour machine otherwise. Pics and more info soon, I'm gonna clean it up to a strong 8 but it'll never be a 10 or 11 without a couple thousand.

You didn't miss out on the little old lady three wheeler but definitely the old puttering man one.

That makes me feel worse,I was thinking it may have been too nice to molest. But it sounds like I would have been let down a little at the same time.

I was going to get it and make it into a sleeper with a new 435cc kit and four valve head.

[Louis Mielke]

I have a trx300 4x4 engine I'm thinking about nabbing the crank out of to swap into this. Pretty sure the difference is in the stroke between these engines. Sound about right to you?

Honestly you probably would have been disappointed.

I played with it a little more, idles a little high and rough, pretty sure needs the carb cleaned.


Other bad news, the driveline feels good and tight but there's definitely blue rtv on the rear. Someone fibbed a little, I suspect the rear end has been apart/ rebuilt. Gear oil is clean as a whistle though so I'm leaning towards rebuilt, I'll do some more inspection/ testing tomorrow. Pics in a few mins.

[Mickey Dunlap]

Wow,that doesn't sound good!

The crank is a little longer stroke,but the 250 has a 19mm pin and the 300 has a smaller rod with a 17mm. I stroke the 250 to the 300 stroke and add my big pistons to build 380's for the mudders down south. I have a 315 big bore kit that is faster then the 300's which are really only 282's.

[Louis Mielke]

Thanks for the info, and thanks for being a good sport about the call btw, it was totally the sellers idea but I have to admit it was kinda funny!

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[Louis Mielke]

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Did I mention the dirty NOS tire that came with it?

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[Mickey Dunlap]

It was funny!:lol: What's really funny is when I first seen the add I thought to my self two things,first I hope you don't like Big Red's and second that you don't see this and where it was.:lol: So in reality it was your's the whole time,but you owe my customer that stopped me, or I would have been there at 3:00pm today! I thought he said he went to bed at 6:00pm or I would have still got there before you,that's why I was going to wait until morning to go. It worked out fine for both of us,it was just funny how it all went.:lol:

[Louis Mielke]

Absolutely! I was in the hospital visiting my sister when I noticed it, she just had her baby or I woulda been out the door too! If it wouldn't have been rush hour I would have been there at 620ish but the beltway traffic was horrible!

Honestly I have a 200s that I've been using to pull the yard wagon around with but it's just no fun pushing that thing back to hitch up the trailer, I've been wanting to find a clean big red and sell the 200s to upgrade to reverse. This big red will pretty much being doing firewood duty, as in bringing the wood from the stack to the back door.

I can make you a nice deal on a decent 200s, runs, nearly new tires, new trunk lid and very nice rear plastic! Clean front plastic.

[Mickey Dunlap]

Thanks but my whole motivation to building a 250 is all the R&D work I did building the cam for the reverse grind cam for the 250x/300ex heads I use when I build the big motors.

I think it will be a nice bike when you get it cleaned up,I wanted because of the OEM platic. Bill(007atc) has a few I'm looking at but they all need new Maier plastic. I'm putton 12' wheels and tires and chroming all the racks,head light cage and everything that can be with a powder coat red frame. So that one would have worked,but you are right, it wasn't as good as I thought.

[Xowner]

LOL Mickey I messed with louis the whole time he was on his way there. Told him you had posted that you had left 2hrs ago lol

[atc007]

I'm way late to this. I missed the ad. Looks like you bought it right Louis?? You will never get rid of it once you have used it.:) That is a great grab,but do you know if was salt or chicken manure that ate it like that? Either way,super buy!

[oldtime3wheeler]

Glad to see it was bought by a member.

[redsox]

looks very nice. ad was down by the time i read this. just out of market curiosity, what was he asking for it?

[Louis Mielke]

850$ i feel it was priced right and not worth much more than that.

[86T3]

Hey Mickey, Justben has a lot of powdercoated big red parts if you could settle for black instead of red.

[Mickey Dunlap]

LOL Mickey I messed with louis the whole time he was on his way there. Told him you had posted that you had left 2hrs ago lol

LOL I bet he was stuck in traffic freaking out pounding on the dash!:lol:

It was a race to get it for sure. I jumped the line first and got sent back to the 2nd row,story of my life.:lol:

[Mickey Dunlap]

Hey Mickey, Justben has a lot of powdercoated big red parts if you could settle for black instead of red.

No I have a pic in my head of what I want it to look like,but thanks anyway!

[IronBear]

Good deal! Congrats on the new ride!

[OKSTATE#1]

Whats the deal with the extra tire? is that a brand new 501 Ohtsu? wanna sell it?:Bounce

[Louis Mielke]

It is a brand new big red ohtsu, honestly I don't think I'm going to sell it, I think I'm gonna hold on to it for a while

[86T3]

Whats the deal with the extra tire? is that a brand new 501 Ohtsu? wanna sell it?:Bounce

Im 95% sure you can still buy those brand new if the 501 is the oem tire for 250es's

[Thorpe]

Heck of a deal! I just sold my 85 BR a couple weeks back for $1600 with Maiers on it...

^^ I believe the 501's are discontinued as of a few years back now...