Tiger Thursday

[Mickey Dunlap]

Tiger Thursday

Yesterday I was humbled and honored to see my 200 Tiger prototype race bike I started working on in around Oct 1985-March of 1986. There were so many little things I seen I did that I had forgot about, but then there were thing that had been changed too that wasn't done by me, such as a longer swing arm and some one had put the different rake plate and the adjustable front end kicking it out too far, but for the most part it was all there. But then as I started looking at all the rest of the collecting I see my first Factory 250 that had the new frame with the rake where it should have been and someone had put my rev. cyl. in it so the pipe came out the rear of the cyl. and the side mout carb, which wasn't done right but those were all my race parts. I had taken both these bikes to San Jose in 1986 for my first National. The sad part was I tried to clear a small set of jump and landed on the second on in practice on the 200 and got knock out when the bike landed on me splitting my sternum and was unable to race. We found out later that the blue prints showed something like 10 inches of travel in the rear and I lowerd the bikes down 4-5 inches, but we really only had about 8 inches, so when I hit the second jump it bottomed out hard.

For more info on the Tigers and more about my time there you can read the history here.https://sites.google.com/site/tigerrotax/home

[Aulbaugh]

Very nice story! The pictures are jaw dropping, thank you for sharing your trip down memory lane.

[christph]

Are all these pictures from a present-day collector or back in the day? It must be incredibly hard to restore one let alone multiple models.

[schlepp29]

Very cool atc history

[xrider]

They were all restored recently by a board member.

[Mickey Dunlap]

Are all these pictures from a present-day collector or back in the day? It must be incredibly hard to restore one let alone multiple models.

This was the second load of them a guy from OR. was picking up from NY, and he stopped by my place here in PA. to sign some papers and 3 of the machines, 2 which I had rode and worked on while I worked at the factory as the R&D manager. That was the most I ever got paid to sign stuff! LOL

[Mickey Dunlap]

They were all restored recently by a board member.

For what he paid I think they should have all run and been put back the way there were. He is going to make some changes to make them more correct. But over all there was a lot of work done just to get them to this point.

[jays375]

Your Team Honda 200x had a bad 3rd gear when sold.It was on ebay not long ago and the seller said thst in the description.

[Mickey Dunlap]

Your Team Honda 200x had a bad 3rd gear when sold.It was on ebay not long ago and the seller said thst in the description.

Your so dumb, the kick starter started slipping on him a little. I told he I would fix it if he sold it. You can't tell the truth if you had to. lol This is what it looked like inside when I built it.

[jays375]

Really.Funny when you get exposed.You sure have a lot of issues kickstarters and 3 rd gear.That is coming from customers.Like kids who spent their hard earned money.

[jays375]

Also for a guy who has worked on 200x's so much.Should do it perfect in his sleep.

[Mickey Dunlap]

Also for a guy who has worked on 200x's so much.Should do it perfect in his sleep.

For a guy that follows me around just to talk crap you think you could get the facts right, but since your such a dumb ass I guess that just isn't going to happen.

You know I have never did anything to you. You blamed me for a pipe I told you to buy, then it didn't work because you had them build a full race pipe with a spark arrester in it and killed the power. Then I only found this out after I sold the pipe for you to my customer Jim, then I found out what you did. I took that out of the pipe and now the customer has a bad ass 502cc monster. All this was nothing but me doing right by you, what a loser!

[jays375]

Well for a guy to produce a big bore kit without a pipe to go with it is smart?You shoukd be thanking me for providing one.There was a reason for that spark arestor.My trike does double duty.It is required to ride state trails.The main problem with that pipe was it's diameter.Being my motor is mildly built.It was a concern of mine before I purchased it.That is why I asked your opinion on it.Thinking you know a lot about stuff like that.

[jays375]

You could have used one of $35 Hong Kong special mufflers perhaps.

[Mickey Dunlap]

Well for a guy to produce a big bore kit without a pipe to go with it is smart?You shoukd be thanking me for providing one.There was a reason for that spark arestor.My trike does double duty.It is required to ride state trails.The main problem with that pipe was it's diameter.Being my motor is mildly built.It was a concern of mine before I purchased it.That is why I asked your opinion on it.Thinking you know a lot about stuff like that.

Wrong again, like I told you before it's the same size head pipe as the DG pipe. I flowed it on my flow bench, it could breath as good as my 200x pipe. You must really have something wrong with you that you can't understand the simple truth, they messed up the pipe, it couldn't run on a stock bike, the DG pipe was better because it didn't have the restictor in it.

It's hard for me to understand people like you, just can't hear the truth, it's like you watch the news on every chanel but Fox, and you believe the lie, you drink their coolaid! I feel sorry for people like you, I really do.