How did you get into trikes?

[Zach]

My dad bought me my first machine when I was about 5 (which I still have) it was a JCPenny Scat Tracker with a 5hp briggs. He had an atc 90 with a huge big bore kit and bent front forks so I was too small for that until later. But it all started there. When I was 14 I bought my own first trike an 85 200s from my dads best friend that when I got in 97 had only been ridden about 3 times. When I was 21 someone cut the locks on our pasture gate and stole that sweet little bike. I just got back into it earlier this year when I bought an 85 200m on Craigslist for $100 new top end and she rins sweet!



how did you get to love these sweet death machines?

[SeaBass8]

Back in '84 I wanted a CR80 but my mom said that it was too dangerous and I could get a three wheeler instead.

I've never owned a 2 wheeler since.

True story.

[i58829]

My cousin had a 225dx and thats what i grew up around. I've only ever owned 1 4 wheeler and i only rode it about 8 times in the time i had it (over a year). They are fun but not for me. Plus i like older stuff. I still run TBI chevy's, have some old mopars, and of course the 3 wheelers. It's just more interesting to have something that makes people look twice and how often does anyone ever ask the owner of the brand new trx450r how much time it took him to restore it? More often than not they are wondering how he paid for it. Oh well i like it all, but the sport 3 wheelers are definitely my favorite atv to date...

[inv3ctiv3]

My aunt owns a huge ranch in Texas and I have spent just about every summer there for my entire life. And they always have had this Yamaha 225DX and I just grew up riding that and a Honda TRX350. I loved it and always looked forward to riding it all summer even though it was thrashed haha. Fast forward to this year and I have bought 4 trikes and am finally down to one, my 350x which I hope to keep for the rest of my life.

[dcreel]

Back in 1984 my parents took me to Glamis to hang out with some of their friends with motorhomes. I was 13. My parents friends kids were there with their 3 wheelers and rail. I rode an atc 90 all weekend. I remember thinking wow look at that 185.. after riding the 90. 6 months later my parents bought me a new 85 250sx and the rest is history.
My first ride on a 3 wheeler.

[4cfed]

i went to a friends house and rode his 200x, and he rode his 250r, 2 days later i traded a street bike for the 200x and a beat up mazda protege for the 250r.... that was alittle over year ago i got a late start

[old-yellow]

I went over to this girl's house that I met in high school and when I was there I happened to notice that at the neighbors house siting out by the shed was a beat down YT125 sitting there and I can tell you as soon as I seen it I had to own it, so I went right over and talked to the neighbor and he told me he picked it up to go hunting with but never got around to getting it running, then he told me if I gave him a hundred bucks I can take it, I bought it and never could get it running so I showed it to my buddy to help me to get it to run and he said that he had a neighbor up north that had one just setting out in the woods since he was ten years old, so he asked the guy about it and the guy said if we could get it out the woods we could have it, so we used my buddy's 4-wheeler and shovel and pulled it out, the funny thing is that the motor was in better shape then the one I paid for so I put the two together and now I got a good trike. Alex

[dajeepman]

When i was 12 my dad got me a beatup honda 110 i used it for hunting and riding until i split the frame right behind the gas tank.. did the same thing to the 125.. Then my neighbor gave me his 200m i think Honda and rebuilt the Carb and replaced the rear bearings and chain... Drove the fire out of it. Now I have a Honda Fourtrax 200sx and Hope this weekend get a 87 or 86 Big Red 250...

[threewheelin-feelin]

i grew up on 3wheelers...my uncle owned a 83 ALT125 and a 84 200S me and my cousins rode the snot out of them from 89 to 2005 thats when i upgraded to a 350x and a 250r

[torker]

There were no 4 wheelers in 83. My neighborhood was full of trikes. Of course I didn't have 1. My neighbor of 6 houses down got a 83 ATC 250R. What an awesome machine. Long story short, I fought my parents every single day for a 70. In 1985 I got a used and very abused and beat up 85' ATC 250R. I had learn to trike in my neighbors 83' R a year earlier. After a lot of years out of trikes, but not ATV's, in 05' I decided to do a search and see what had become of them. I have 4 right now and downsizing my fleet after having 6 at one point.

Still going...

TORKER.

[posty2100]

was about 14 and couldnt afford a quad cuz mommy and daddy wouldnt buy one for me like some people and bought my first 200x myself for $300 and rode the snot out of it and basically started from there

[harryredtrike]

when i was about 13 i used my paper route money and bought a 74 atc90,that was 1980.ive had 1 or two since.ha ha i have 5 now.

[MonroeMike]

^ It's his fault.

[this guy]

A friend (turned girlfriend, turned ex) wanted something to ride with us out in the desert, so I poked around and got a free 185 with all the trimmings and her and I would be fighting over it even tough I had a DRZ and a quadzilla. I got to keep it, and still hear about it from her.

[MudBug]

when I was in about grade 1, I was in the attic of my old shed with some friends showing off my dads moose racks. then I saw a small 3-wheeler in the corner with no plastics. I showed dad, and he had forgot about it.. it was my big brothers old tri zinger. so for the next month or so, we worked on it and got it running. we also had an 85 big red ever since I was born.