Hello Guy's just got the bug again for a three wheeler and happened upon this site, man I am blown away at what a come back three wheeler's have had. Anyway I started riding them in '75 when my dad brought home 3 of them and basically dumped them off and said the arrow has to point at the N to start it. Well after a time we got one going and that started the whole thing. We rode at Sand Mtn, Pismo, Prairie city, Mammoth Bar, E Street in Marysville, this is just a few places. We then made the big move getting a 185s which I started racing in Sacramento at Sac Raceway(1980ish) mostly on Wednesday nights. My dad loved it as he raced anything with a motor and on Wednesday's they had bracket racing so he got to help me and enjoy drag racing. The next big jump was a 200x which I can't really say how much I loved that bike back in day, I worked on it and raced it with my dad's help. We also criss crossed the Western US racing the 200x which at the end had a major melt down.
We used a guy out of Oroville to build our motors, this guy was to put it lightly a genius and a mad scientist with small cc engines. His name is Gordon Siems and he was well know in the N. Ca race scene. I was lucky that Gordon would build my motors and I in turn would help in his garage/barn. One of his claims to fame was that he held the 80cc land speed record at Boneville. Now these motors were fast (dual spark plug 13:1 with goldwing coil) the bike was every bit as fast as Sparks or Dunlap just the rider wasn't. But in reality they were ticking time bombs that would blow up (not if but when). I could go on about this guy but he was something special. Thanks Gordon if you ever see this.
I have some pics from that time that I will upload most are from the N. CA region I raced in the 200 expert and 250 at the end and if your from the area hit me up I'd enjoy a trip down memory lane lots of great folks back then. Given the majority of my time was on the 200x Mickey and Curtis were my race hero's as they did amazing things with 200cc's. The pic on my album were taken by me as at the time no one really stopped you from being on the track if you were racing. Anyway I look forward to meeting some new and old friends on here. I'll try and get my pics up soon.