Joel85350X
05-27-2003, 02:59 PM
As you may know myself and Jordan and his brother stephen went to the sand dunes at Silver Lake. We had a good time.
I thought it would be appropriate to mention all of the three wheeler sightings that week. We arrived Monday night, and while driving the truck around to see the sights we rolled past the entrance to the dunes parking lot. We noticed that there was only 1 truck and trailer in the parking lot, but there were 2 '85 350Xs at that truck! WOW! Later on we found that the 2 Xs were camping at the same campground that we were. Come to find out, they are two upper 30s guys from Peru, Indiana. They have just recently gotten back into riding 3 wheelers. One of them saw my 350X gas tank cover and insisted that I sell my extra to him. He even threw in $5 so I could ship it to his place there in Peru. The 350Xs were both in nice shape and had paddles on the rear.
On Wednesday we ran into a green Tecate with a wide front tire. I think it was an '85, but I never got a chance to talk to the guy. It was not from the '86-'87 era. It did have the radiator on the trippletree.
Wednesday also brought about a nice stretched out '86 ATC 250R. We never got to see the thing run, though, because the owner was too busy racing around in his stretched Banshee. The shee was doing probably a buck after 50 yards.
Thursday we ran into the abusive guy and his wife who brought an '86 350X that he said "I dug out from back of the house this morning and kicked her ten times and she started, love that bike." He was missing a few fries from his happy meal. :) He had with him a 700 Kawasaki Z-Force. That thing was huge! 500lbs of whiney automatic transmission and orange blur racing across the dunes. He said he bought it for the wife because it is the only thing on four wheels that he has ever found that would wheelie and ascend bluffs like the 350X would. I almost told him he was crazy, but I figured I would leave that to the doctors. His 350X was all stock, and pretty badly beat up. Not much to look at, but he could ride it pretty well.
Friday we saw a 185s crunched into the back of a short bed truck with an '85 200X. In addition we saw another '85 200X, and Jordan said he saw a nice '86 350X, but I didn't spot it. We didn't talk to any of these people.
Overall, mine was the nicest there, but we were all impressed with the three wheeler turnout. Monday night in out campground there were 3 350Xs and only 2 four wheelers. Made me proud to know that we were at a public place where the three wheelers outnumbered the four wheelers.
On Tuesday we were the only people on the dunes for quite some time. By Friday, the parking lot was almost full, 300-400 people, easy.
We got to see a few buggies that I found out were in the $50,000-$65,000 range. They had huge long travel suspension with 45" King shocks. These things were flying 8 feet in the air and landing softer than a babies ass. Absolutely jaw dropping.
I thought it would be appropriate to mention all of the three wheeler sightings that week. We arrived Monday night, and while driving the truck around to see the sights we rolled past the entrance to the dunes parking lot. We noticed that there was only 1 truck and trailer in the parking lot, but there were 2 '85 350Xs at that truck! WOW! Later on we found that the 2 Xs were camping at the same campground that we were. Come to find out, they are two upper 30s guys from Peru, Indiana. They have just recently gotten back into riding 3 wheelers. One of them saw my 350X gas tank cover and insisted that I sell my extra to him. He even threw in $5 so I could ship it to his place there in Peru. The 350Xs were both in nice shape and had paddles on the rear.
On Wednesday we ran into a green Tecate with a wide front tire. I think it was an '85, but I never got a chance to talk to the guy. It was not from the '86-'87 era. It did have the radiator on the trippletree.
Wednesday also brought about a nice stretched out '86 ATC 250R. We never got to see the thing run, though, because the owner was too busy racing around in his stretched Banshee. The shee was doing probably a buck after 50 yards.
Thursday we ran into the abusive guy and his wife who brought an '86 350X that he said "I dug out from back of the house this morning and kicked her ten times and she started, love that bike." He was missing a few fries from his happy meal. :) He had with him a 700 Kawasaki Z-Force. That thing was huge! 500lbs of whiney automatic transmission and orange blur racing across the dunes. He said he bought it for the wife because it is the only thing on four wheels that he has ever found that would wheelie and ascend bluffs like the 350X would. I almost told him he was crazy, but I figured I would leave that to the doctors. His 350X was all stock, and pretty badly beat up. Not much to look at, but he could ride it pretty well.
Friday we saw a 185s crunched into the back of a short bed truck with an '85 200X. In addition we saw another '85 200X, and Jordan said he saw a nice '86 350X, but I didn't spot it. We didn't talk to any of these people.
Overall, mine was the nicest there, but we were all impressed with the three wheeler turnout. Monday night in out campground there were 3 350Xs and only 2 four wheelers. Made me proud to know that we were at a public place where the three wheelers outnumbered the four wheelers.
On Tuesday we were the only people on the dunes for quite some time. By Friday, the parking lot was almost full, 300-400 people, easy.
We got to see a few buggies that I found out were in the $50,000-$65,000 range. They had huge long travel suspension with 45" King shocks. These things were flying 8 feet in the air and landing softer than a babies ass. Absolutely jaw dropping.