Crazy 3 wheeler stories

[90guy]

Well guys I'm curious if anyone else has heard crazy 3 wheeler stories like I have. Where I had worked at they had a contract in the 80s with honda to purchase around 650 big reds. Well when time was up and the plant was built they had to crush and bury these wheelers to prevent the market here on the machines from crashing and keeping them in business. So in1985 the time came and people caught word of this and started to steal the machines. They would get gravel trucks in and they'd dump the gravel and people would but the machines in loader buckets 3 at a time and put them in the truck. The truck would then leave and dump the wheelers in the ditch on a country gravel road. It just seems so disappointing that hundreds of good running machines where crushed and buried. Let alone it was before the outlaw. Just thought I'd share with everyone and see if anyone's else has stories like this.

[Matrix]

Wow that's crazy! I would have hopped on that band wagon and "retrieved" some of those beauty's and kept them for my self. What a shame :( Are some still buried? Would be good fun to dig them up just for the fun of it.

[90guy]

As far as I know they where all crushed and are out there somewhere deep in the books. No one knows

[fabiodriven]

I heard a UFO came and beamed them all up and dropped them on the dark side of the moon. No one knows.

[ezmoney1979]

My next door neighbors daughters sisters uncle rode a US90 across the Atlantic.

[captainweezy]

I bought several boxes/crates of atc 90/us90 parts about ten years ago. The seller was a guy who purchased them at an auction at a power plant several years ago. He also was an operator during the time the dirt work was being done. The building construction company's had them to run around on the site in the 70's. He didn't get any complete trikes just a ton of parts. He said they had so many 90's that they would order tons of parts to have on hand so they could fix them on site. Which is why I have 2 bazillion recoils, a bunch of rear fenders and a ton of 90 motors which have parts robbed off them. Sorry but this one is actually true.

[ebaccm26]

My next door neighbors daughters sisters uncle rode a US90 across the Atlantic.

That's so not true, not even close to possible. Now if you said the Pacific that would have been fine, I've done that 3 times...

[El Camexican]

I might could tell ya’ll about the time I was offered a ride on a 1988 KTX 500 prototype, but the factory made me sign a document stating that I was never to discuss the power or handling of the aluminum framed machine. I can tell you it was shod with experimental Trail-Pros and had an adjustable tailpipe that could be positioned to blow smoke directly up the riders azz.

[Lord Letto 20]

How about crossing the Arctic Ocean to go to the North Pole to See Santa?

[ezmoney1979]

All joking aside, a few years ago I met up with some trike enthusiasts from the Coos Bay/North Bend area and did some riding. One of them was a member on airfoolers. As we are standing around our trikes, BSing, he tells me he knows of two crated 250Rs that a local ATV dealer had kept hidden away for all these years. It was the usual story, guy won't let anyone see them, and no pictures of course. I thought nothing of it for obvious reasons.

Then came the legendary "crated 250R" that Andy Siebel had for a while. This thread is from when it first hit the radar- http://www.trx450r.org/forum/92-lounge/165483-take-look-piece-honda-history.html It came from the Oregon "duning" area, so I'm pretty sure the guy I was BSing with, wasn't full of crap. Maybe just had things a little mixed up. Since knowing the crated R came from Oregon, and this guy saying he knows of two of them, maybe one day Ezmoney will be the next "crated 250R" owner. Well.................... its always nice to dream once in a while.:beer

[90guy]

Yeah this was a process plant everyone used to ride those around. You can ask anyone who's worked there will tell you the same thing. Lots of big reds buried in an ash pile. Over 20 years ago. That land has now been reclaimed.