As many of you know, last year a group of us raced "hardtail" ATC200, ATC200S, ATC185S machines at Pine Lake. We had such a blast. We had some basic guidelines to follow for the bikes we raced / built. Known as the SAS Class (short for Stock As ), I can say it was one of the best times I have ever had on a track on 3 wheels. The guidelines are listed here:
Any hardtail 185, 185s, 200, 200s, 200m, 200 BR (god help you)
Must be semi auto
Stock frame
Stock engine (Freshen ups allowed if you feel its needed, not all 33 year old engines are mint and its understood)
No high comp pistons, cam, “clean up” porting none of that useless crap.
NO bolt on power mods
Unbolting items allowed, example: skidplates.
22 minimum front tire
18 minimum rear tire
Max of a +6 rear axle, anymore and your over the trike triangle anyways
This will keep us handling all the same or close to it
Any period correct STOCK part is allowed. For example, if a 81 atc 200 wanted front suspension from a 85 200s. Im cool with that. Keep it within reason. Atc 200 muffler on a 185s that kinda thing. Parts can be hard to find for your certain model and swapping may be needed.
Just keep in mind the IROC series of racing, stocker the better.
Gearing,
Please keep in mind that this is for fun, and it was just an idea a few of us came up with. We are not going to tear your trike apart, we don’t care. If you check out and pull away from the other 14 riders we will know you’re a cheater and a POS that can go camp with (Name Withheld but assumed).
General RPFLU machines will have….
Large honda H on front fender
Gold Rims
Sticker pack on rear fenders
Vented front numberplate
Stock fenders
And a "pete" name. Example. Slippery Pete or Peters dragging or sneaky pete
Keep the vintage look! Make it old school!
We plan on running ashtaboola in the spring for a test and tune. Trikefest and the actual ashtaboola in July so far. Maybe even the Hamlin PA race. This is going to be excellent racing and dirt cheap to do!
If this gets out of hand it'll just turn into a free for all then you might as well run open. We all can dump 3 g into a hardtail but this isn’t the point.
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And so the saga continues. 3 of us at this point have gone a step further as to build actual well modded out hardtails. We were all very surprised at just how well these little bikes actually handle on a TT / Flat track. And so here we go with another build. Here is what I am starting with. A Facebook Marketplace find just 30 minutes from my house (my favorite year and model too) a 1985 ATC200S. It's really looks pretty rough, but all the parts I will be using from it are the frame, the front end, and that's about it. I will update this thread as I continue to build this bike.
Here is what I started with. Note the signature Joe Dasher rear fenders.