Long Live 3Wheeling Magazine

[3WW Star-driscoll333]

we fabricated an aluminum tank where the tank usually goes, right between your knees. for off-road we ran a thicker seat. and for short course and speedway we used the stock seat. the 360 mugen kit was before yamaha tri-z. it was a big bore kit for the honda 81 thru 85, i think. fast fast fast

[Old 179]

Did you use the original seat while your whole racing career or did you convert to the tank on the cross bar, or tri-z speaking, bars?
You mentioned the mugen 360? What is this? A new trike we do not know about?

360 was a big bore kit made by Mugan. It was adapted from the use on the honda cr 250 dirtbike. $700 for the kit. (1981 Dollars)(Cylinder head, cylinder, piston, rings. mikuni powerjet 36mm carb., reed valves, intake manifold, clutch spring kit, ect. Stock crank was used, Bore was changed from 70 to 83.5 mm.
Crank cases were split and milled to except the new cylinder. cost of another $150

[HondaHarry]

http://www.vintagefactory.com/mugen_shop1.htm

read and learn.

[Old 179]

http://www.vintagefactory.com/mugen_shop1.htm

read and learn.

Good info. That is for dirt bikes only.

They had the atc mugan kit. Thier ads were in Dirt wheels and 3Wheeling mags
81-84 (our bibles) My mention was out of the Dirt Wheel, Sept 81 issue, pages 42-43 artical. Atc kit included the 36 carb where the dirt bike must of had the 36 already on the bike! The same pamplet for the machining is in both kits.

[3WW Star-driscoll333]

yeah, i think i had to travel to hesperia CA . and pick everything up. I was teamed with craig corda on that bike. we won the parker 400 SCORE, that year. . that motor was vicious.

[Tecate250]

Thanks for clearing that up.

[mad_max]

Dean, I saw a pic of the "europen tour" jacket over on Driscolls thread...
Whats the story behind that?

[3WW Star-oldfart]

In 1985, Brett Dirscoll, his dad Mike, and I went to Rotterdam, Holland to race an indoor ATC event. This was run on a bicycle veladrome, but the ATCs ran up and down the aisles and down in the basement. The event was put on by Veronica TV, which is Holland-based, kinda like our ESPN, but they not only broadcasted these events, they promoted them as well. Veronica's Bob Dejong, paid all of our ways to have Brett race against the best Euopean ATC riders of that time.

We flew on a chartered 747 owned by Martin Air, and Brett brought along all of his tuning stuff, as there was a basic/borrowed 3-wheeler for him to ride. That event was on TV all over Europe.

Later on that same year, we came back to Holland for the big beach race at Scheveningen, and Brett and others, rode again.

Now about the jacket. Brett as you may know, is the king of silk screening in the Imperial Valley, so making up some custom jackets was too easy for him. The European Tour was about having some riders form American come over to Holland and race against the European riders. The other jacket, was his Factory-Tri logo, when he was making parts for the Tri-Z. I think either of those jackets have only been worn only a few times. Brett also made up custom jerseys and long-sleeve T-shirts for the staff. That one cover on 3Wheeling, with the night pit scene and our Dico trailer, Brett made up all the shirts for that photo session. We never had to worry about cool T-shirts, etc, when Brett was around.

[DomanD]

hellow has any 1 heard of a pacesetter 3 wheeler and if so can any 1 tell me about them

[3WW Star-oldfart]

Amazing what you can find when you clean out your garage! I uncovered this sign from 1981. After 3Wheeling and Honda ran the Parker 400, and then a month later (March 1981), the Mexicali 250, we showed the ATCs at the annual SCORE show at Anaheim. This was the sign I had made up to display that famous ATC250R.

As you know, Bob "Ace" Williams died a few years back, and Mike Chester has been paralyzed since 1983. Steve Wright is a successful clothing retailer based in Alpine, California.

[Bryan Raffa]

thats cool old fart.. you got alot of that kind of stuff layin around?

[firefirefire90]

What company does steve run? Oh, and did you get pictures of those sticks? I did send you my email, no?

[firefirefire90]

Did you know a Factory rider named Marty Smith. From Kawi?


A little birdie told me where to find the trike in a certain spot under a tree in Nantucketville, Santee.

GET BACK TO ME

[3WW Star-driscoll333]

steve, owns the "out house" in a couple of malls in SD. they are like pac sun. yes, i know marty smith. i saw him 2 years ago at el cajon MX track.

[viper]

well i started reading this thread last night about 9 pm and didnt ( couldnt ) stop till i read all 40 pages ..just couldnt sem to walk away from this thread ..thank you guys for sharing your stories with us it was very cool .................shannon