No 3 Wheelers Allowed In The Park..quads Ok,what Crap

[Mike Fort Laud]

I went to a very neat motorsports park about 1.5 hours from my house for Airboat Races this weekend. When we got to Felda Motorsports Park we were amased at the amount of people there. The place is 640 acres with a 50 Acre mud pit, a motorcross track, ATV drag track, Airboat Drag Race Tracks. There was every kind of swamp buggy, airboat, truck,dirt bike there. So at the Airboat races next month I planned to bring the 250R. When I came home and looked up their website right on the home page it says 3 WHEELERS NOT ALLOWED. I was so excited about the races next month so I could take my bike but now I dont know. I E-Mailed them to ask why. The website is WWW.FELDAMOTORSPORTSPARK.COM. just look at the site and how it says 3 Wheelers Not Allowed. Then E-Mail them and ask them why also. I finally thought I found a cool place to ride fairly close to home but I guess not.

[hazman]

Hey, I had the same problem over here in Texas. An ATV/dirtbike campgrounds/park type place allows everything from the kitchen sink with an engine on it, quads, bikes, buggies, you name it. They ban Jeeps and 3 wheelers though. I emailed the owner and he said that it is a stipulation that they have with their insurance coverage which does not cover them. I even told him I would sign a waiver not to sue if I got hurt but he wouldn't go for that. Later, David

[MR ATC]

welcome to the USofA were your free to do what you want as long as its what someone else says it is ok.

[Curtis-Tecate3]

Mike, I sent them an email basically stating why do they let people ride 600+ pound 4x4 quads around with no helmets & riding double and not allow 3 wheelers in there...? I am sure it comes down to some P.O.S. insurance company.

Curtis.

Mike, Lets see some airboat pics on the open forum.

[MR ATC]

yep thats it insurance. there is not one insurance company that will give coverage to three wheelers. at least that i know of (my ex wife used to be a insurance agent). this is why the AMA will not santion 3wheel races. off course some states have differant laws so there may be some exceptions.

[TimSr]

MrATC is right. Its all about insurance, although I think AMA just plain caved without a fight. All the way back in 1990, at my first Blackwater 100 they were prohibiting trikes. In CRA, most of the sanctioned tracks carry their own insurance, so the CRA is not responsible. I dont know how AMA works, but Ive always questioned their "insurance" answer. Ive also found that now, many tracks carry insurance that makes no mention of 3 wheelers since they are so few now, and theyve used that "loophole" to allow me to ride there. Always check ahead, and dont be surprised that many wont allow trikes.

Curtis posted "I sent them an email basically stating why do they let people ride 600+ pound 4x4 quads around with no helmets & riding double and not allow 3 wheelers in there...? I am sure it comes down to some P.O.S. insurance company."

I would just strongly caution against calling for even more restrictions on other vehicles as a way of making you feel better that yours has been banned. Restrictions are always incremental. (ask any gun owner) They start small and harmless and they progressively get more restrictive and intrusive. Those kinds of arguments backfire bigtime, and are a lot more likely to result in even more restrictions, than they are to result in a relaxation of existing ones on trikes. The more restricions they add, the more difficult it is to roll them back, because it too must be done incrementally, and its a heck of a lot harder to get regulations removed, than it is to get them added. Always try to make the argument that "we can be as safe as quads," and not that "quads are just as dangerous as we are".

[mojave]

i wanted to let you know i went to the progressive website and they quoted me a price of $75 a year for my 85 250sx so the will insure trikes and that was for $300,000 worth of coverage which is what i was told by the local cop is what is reguired in my city

[Curtis-Tecate3]

Tim, You are correct. What I wrote here was not what I sent them as I was more politically correct but it still burns me that one particular type of vehicle is not allowed over another. I will let you know if I get a response but it makes no logical sense (To me anyway) that they ban 3-Wheelers and allow quads riding with no safety gear at all. Their website shows a bunch of 4x4 quads with the standard baseball caps backwards riding double etc.etc.

Anyway, Point taken Tim. I am usually much better at looking at the whole picture before jumping.

Curtis.

[YamaChuck]

I'd like to clarify something. It's not the insurance company's fault that they won't insure these trikes and parks. It's the fricken lawyers that sue everything in sight to make that easy "big buck". After paying out countless frivilous lawsuits, of course an insurance company will "cut there losses" and quit insuring our beloved trikes. I get this info from my family who have owned an insurance company for close to 50 years now. It's lawyers people, not insurance companies, who have the insurance industry denying coverage to individuals and atv parks. By the way I also had coverage for my trikes thru Progressive. Now I have a company called American Modern Home Ins. Co. Around $55 for coverage.

[deathman53]

I guess I'm lucky chattsworth will allow tirkes(with your own insurance). Englishtown told me no way, I won't even try atco. your right its funny they will allow just about anything else, but they won't let the few(whom most of us can ride a trike very well)of us who go to these parks. But they will allow an odossy which is much more dangerous. this weekend I took my 250r and kicked all of the quad's asses, except for a few who had big bucks in there bikes and knew how to ride, one guy told me he hasn't seen someone on a trike ride like that in over 13 years, I told him wait till I get my ported top end if you want to see a nut.. There was people taking pictures of me, filming me on video camera. The crazy thing was once I got on the track half the people left(the harder core stayed on), what are they intimidated? I guess it is so rare to see a trike, no less with a person who knows how to ride it. I don't see why if we have our own insurance they won't let us ride?

[hondaATCman]

wait a minute... you can buy insurance for trikes?? sweet, what kind of coverage do you get? i mean is it like paying for someone else's hospital bill if you injure them or is it for you if you get injured or would they pay for damage if you wreck it??? Please let me know, thanks

Justin

[deathman53]

no, its liabilty insurance. I don't know how it works,I need it to ride there, so I got it it was expensive $400(with no collision, theft, pip, etc) 1/4 of my car insurance. with complete coverage it was over $500, I told the person why am I gonna pay $500 for complete coverage when the bike isn't even worth that in nada.