Long Live 3Wheeling Magazine

[3WW Star-oldfart]

I'll tell you, today's printing and shipping prices would scare you to death. The idea is great, but the cost would choke a horse. I'm affraid that even though we still have all the page negatives, and flats for all the issues of 3Wheeling/ATV Sports, they will probably will never be used again. Sad but true. Dean

[Curtis-Tecate3]

Dean, I don't know if you have already addressed this but what are the legalities and repercussions, if any, of scanning and posting articles etc. from your old magazines. Someone, like me for example, that has nearly every issue of 3Wheeling/ATV Sports since it was a quarterly publication could possibly make a major contribution to this website..??

Just curious.

By the way I see people on EBAY selling scanned and printed magazine articles.

Regards,

Curtis.

[3WW Star-oldfart]

The idea of scanning and reproducing a printed article is not legal, and not fair to those who originally did all the hard work. I think when you charge money for this "service" you cross the line. Selling reprints of past articles on E-Bay would piss me off, to say the least! While I am not in a position to give permission to reprint anything that Wright Publishing did over the years, even if it is for entertainment purposes and not for profit, I/we can't be everywhere at all times to police it. Just use your better judgment.

[Curtis-Tecate3]

Dean,
Please don't misunderstand me. I have never done anything with my collection other than enjoy it. I have however recently seen on ebay people selling b&w printouts of scanned magazine articles. I do not remember whose publication it was but it was not 3wheeling. I agree that selling such material would not be ethical and possibly illegal unless they obtained permission.

My main idea was to contribute articles to this site but the more I think about it the more I agree with you.

Thanks for the input and thanks for all of the memories on your previous posts.

Curtis.

[HondaHarry]

Dean, the mention of your DDS wheels in an above message, reminded me to ask if you are going to be in Fontana or Phoenix next month to cover the VW shows? I am planning to go to Fontana, but dont know yet so I figured I would see where you would be so I could meet up and say hi if able... I always ask Cormack what you are up to when I see him. Last time I ran into you was a while ago (Berg Cruise in Denver '01) so you may not remember me. thanks. HH

[3WW Star-oldfart]

Honda-Harry, you guys are confusing me to death! Let's see, are we talking about ATCs, or VWs, or Anglias? Yikes. Okay, I just got back from a ten day road trip to Texas and back... about 3800 miles towing a VW. No rain, plenty of wind, and gas prices went from a low of $1.89 in McAllen, Texas, to $2.59 in Wilcox, Arizona. Saw plenty of ATCs all over Texas.

I will be covering the Bug-In event in Fontana on April 10. Dave Cormack is doing the Phoenix Bug-O-Rama on the 16th. If you're there, come up and and we'll talk... Hondas, VWs, or Ford Anglias. Deano

[Apollo]

Yes, the ATC is alive and well in Texas. These gas prices do suck. That is a long trip going through west Texas and I do not miss it.

[Captainuno]

Hiya Dean,

Way back in the day I used to hang with all the boys back in the old D38 desert racing days, Dricoll, Sundahl, Corda, Coe, Dickson and many more. I was there the day they did the article on the Tiger 500, Craig Corda was the rider and a very good freind of mine. He & I teamed in a Bikes with Trikes desert team race that Fud put on. I was the #1 125 expert at the time riding a Cagiva, he was on the Tiger, we ended up 2nd overall out of 126 teams, the guy was majic on that monster.
Craig is still farming in the Imperial Valley, but still rides his XR650 out in the desert for fun, I am Vice President of the newly revived AMA D38. We are back putting on desert racing, Corda has helped me pound stakes and tie ribbon in our last 2 races.
Mike Coe graced us with his presents at our last race placing 2nd Quad Expert, goes to show you he still has the talent. Dean Sundalh has been down here a few times himself, still fast as ever on his hand made framed Yamaha Banchee.
Just thought I'd bring back a Blast from the Past.

Kirk Hester
President of Roadrunners Off Road Racing Club
Vice President of AMA District 38

[3WW Star-oldfart]

Kirk, great to hear from you. I had so many awesome weekends in the El Centro area. The mud hills, the dunes, and some of the best Mexican food around. I can't say enough good things about the Driscolls. We often would head to the valley on Friday afternoon, flop on Mike's couch for the night, go to SunBeam lake on Jet Skies, and on and on. Sure miss Otis Fudpucker, he was the king of D-38. Dean

[3WW Star-oldfart]

The year was, I can't recall, but Jimmy White was riding for Kawaski, and we were all in town for the big event at Santa Cruz, Calfornia. Jimmy by that time, had a full time contract and was making over 100K a year..... Daryl Bassani was still his engine builder, so the Super Crew was still all together, and giving Wes McCoy fits! By this time, rental car companies had Jimmy's name on their no-rent list, so, they used Dave Jordan's rental, who was a big-wig for Kawasaki at the time (basically, JW's boss). So, here we are, riding in Dave Jordan's rental, Bassani was driving, JW and Rhonda were all in the front seat, and Orchard and myself we in the back..... During the course of the weekend, we drove to and from the race track, back to the Holiday Inn in Seaside a million time.

On Friday afternoon, Team Honda was setup in the Holiday Inn parking lot, working on the trikes, and getting things ready to move to the track the following morning. Now, Wes McCoy was as about as high-strung as you could get, and everytime JW and Daryl were around, Wes freaked. Honda had some serious competition then, and Wes had a lot of pressure to win the 250 class.

So, here we were driving down Highway One south, going back to the motel. Daryl is driving about 110mph, weaving back and forth in traffic, and at one time, slammed the car into first gear. Smoking was pouring out of the wheel wells as if someone lite the car on fire. Cars were scattering all over the place and no one wanted to play with Bassani. At one time, as we exited the off-ramp rather rapidly, the car got airborned. Luckily for Bassani, Dave Jordan had rented a car with a center-pull e-brake handle, which he often used to set the suspension up for the next radical full-thorttle turn. I recall one time, we were back on the freeway, and he set the e-brake at 60mph, and locked up the rear tires. Smoke was pouring out the backend. It was great.

Now, going back to the motel after dinner and few adult beverages, we hit the off ramp at speed, then wheeled around the frontage street and aimed towards the Holiday Inn parking lot entrance. With a loud crash, the front end bottomed out on the dip, and we charged into the Honda pits sideways. A perfect 3-point slide. Wes McCoy had a heartattack.

By the end of the weekend, Dave Jordan's rental was "thumping" down the road with square tires and a whining transmission. Brakes? None left, thank you very much. Bassani was a master of the rental car.

Sorry I have been away too long, enjoy!

[trikerider2oo7]

lmao dean...thats pretty funny. did he get insurance put on the car? i hope so lol

[Billy Golightly]

Hey Dean, back when you guys changed over to ATV Sports, Bruce Simurda did an article on a Laegers conversion kit for the mid 80s CR500s to turn them into trikes (March 88 I believe it was). Were you by any chance there when Bruce rode/wrote the article on the conversion? I recently bought one of these old kits on ebay but I'm running into a couple problems...

My seat, to gas tank gap is about 2.5 inches if I mount up the seat pivot to the subframe and use the bolt holes already provided in the pivot.. Do you happen to have any recollection if Mark or someone at Laegers changed the way the subframes mounted up while they were making the kits? Mine is clearly different then whats shown in that article. Trying desperately to get it done in time for Trikefest. Thanks in advance.

[3WW Star-oldfart]

I sure couldn't tell you... I didn't ride that conversion (at that time), and I'm sure that these conversions went through a number of design changes, and ours was a very early model. Sorry.

[Billy Golightly]

No problem, I figured it was a long shot but I appreciate it anyways.

[mad_max]

Dean,

Great story about Wes McCoy!

When a rider was sponsored by Honda how much help did they actually get?
I heard they were more or less on there own as far as mechanics were concerned.... I assume the parts were covered by Honda?