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Dammit!
Dean and driscoll333,
Do either of you guys have any good pictures of the old desert racing machines? Particularly the 1985/86 Team Honda 250Rs?
I've also heard there was some people running Tri-Z's in the desert but have never seen a picture of one. I've been wondering what they did for a larger capacity gas tank.
My next trike project is going to be a desert trike in the mold of the Team Honda machines. Finding images or any info about them is difficult though.
I don't have any pics of the desert hondas but I raced desert on them in 85-86. I remember the desert mods were the same for most honda riders back then. The axle was run in the shortest position. 22 inch ohtsu pro vector tall profile tires. Some riders ran the wheels mounted inward to shorten the wheelbase even more to clear large rocks. Acerbis handguards, desert tanks and beefy skidplates. I don't remember what pipes the honda guys ran but other than some porting and bigger carbs the bikes weren't tweaked too much. I saw Fred Wings ( he worked for Honda and was a great desert racer) up close many times and it appeared to have longer travel than all the others but his was the only one I remember like that. It would be very cool to do a Baja set up 250R. I'll ask my buddy Denny Wolf what he ran for a tank on his tri-z. He won Barstow to Vegas in his class on a tri-z in 85 or 86. I'll post that info soon. I remember some kind of fuel reserve tank mounted as a # plate but I'm not clear anymore.
own:
1986 250R- ported polished, carb mods, Esr atc-5 pipe and silencer
1986 250R- mild porting, carb mods (Clean!)
1985 350X- all stock (super clean!!)
1985 350x- desert project in the works
1986 250sx- Mostly stock
1985 200x- (pretty clean mostly stock)
1985 Yamaha tri zinger 60
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