Sell my 350x for TPC or....

**devilman** · 01-16-2010, 11:30 AM

let me know what you decide to keep the X. i have a red rear fender that i don't use. it has been zip-tied repaired on the right side and is perfect for your riding. i will send it to you, only if you keep the X.

**inv3ctiv3** · 01-16-2010, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by devilman

let me know what you decide to keep the X. i have a red rear fender that i don't use. it has been zip-tied repaired on the right side and is perfect for your riding. i will send it to you, only if you keep the X.

Seriously!? I would pay for shipping it! I have decided to keep the X no matter if I get a 450R or not, right now I am leaning to just keeping the X and doing the 450r project later on.

**Kintore** · 01-17-2010, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by Mosh

If I did buy any one of those, I would still keep my R. My R is my favorite Trike, and my Favorite of all my ATV's. I ride it everywhere. Straight from the trails right up to the starting line with no changes.
For the money it takes to purchase one of these, a guy could easily go get 2-250R's and still have money left over for massive upgrades. Word on the street around here is quite a few racers are looking to get back on the TRX 250R.
But I am oldschool biased too.
Give me 2 strokes, Atari's, 80's hair metal, Carbs, and rear wheel drive cars, and 8 tracks forever! I want public smoking in hospitals, airplanes, and resturants. And the Mullet should be the national haircut

And I still like being able to fast forward a VHS tape past the FBI warning when I watch a movie.

You sir, have made me cry. That was Beautiful. I will vote for you in the upcoming election.

**jensenracing77** · 01-22-2010, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by inv3ctiv3

Should I hold onto it? I have been in the works of getting money/parts together to build a TPC 450r and really want to do it. I love my 350x more then any other trike I've ridden/owned but when I take it to the MX track I just feel bad cause it is in such nice condition I'd hate to mess it up. So that's what lead me to the idea of building a TPC 450r, a new trike where I can easily find parts (imagine being able to go to the dealer to get fenders!) and that is really built for doing what I like to do and I won't feel bad.

With that said the 450r will be quite an expensive project, I could sell my 350x and that would help fund it but I'd be trikeless until I finish the 450r which could take months.....I am contemplating just taking my time with the 450r build and keeping my 350x for trail riding/weekend cruises....

What would you guys do?

Sell the 350x and be trikeless for a bit but finish the 450r faster?

or

Keep the 350x and take my time building the 450r so I have both?

i had a 350X for years and there wasn't much i couldn't do on one.(if you have not seen my you tube video here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sczmc8CSEuc ) in 1999 i wanted to do something new with the sport. i was getting tired of trashing my 350X and having to reframe it all the time. i also wanted to race MX and at that time i knew of nowhere i could do it on a 3 wheeler. i decided to go to a 4 wheeler and race MX. after i discovered modern suspension with the 4 wheeler i had zero desire to do the stuff i did on the 350X because i discovered that it was tearing me apart as well. so, i decided to sell the 350X because it was not going to keep up with what i could do with modern suspension that the 4 wheeler had. if the TPC 450 and the OTC MX races were around in 1999 i can say without a doubt that i would never have went to 4 wheelers. the suspension on that thing is as modern as you can get in geometry and you can call Axis, PEP, Lonestar, Walsh,.... and get anything you want to make the suspension even better. when is the last time you looked through dirtwheels and seen aftermarket parts for a 3 wheeler? well now you can, and in every issue that comes out.

as far as quality goes, i will tell you something that i did not even tell Bill at the first race. up until this past race i have never raced a bike that someone else worked on. i have always worked on my own bikes. i really don't trust anyone to work on the bike that i am going to ride with the level of riding i do. when they showed up it was the first time i ever seen the bike other than a picture. i looked it over like my life depended on it. i would bet that i looked it over more than even bill knows. i will tell you it is very well built. i trusted it fully with no hesitation. yes i know, everyone will say jensen has to say that because he has got a free ride this year on it. all i can say to that is, if it was not true i would have never raced it.

for if you should sell the 350X to build one, i will let you decide that one. for me, the only reason i would want to keep it is to put it in the corner and look at it and say " look at this nice 85 350X" after riding the TPC450 i would never want to go back to a 350X. i believe in the long run it would be much cheeper to go with the TPC. like you said, (imagine being able to go to the dealer to get fenders!) my wife may kill me but the 400EX may go for sale to build a TPC next year.

**fabiodriven** · 01-22-2010, 07:44 PM

^^^Wow man. I always have liked the idea of the TPC's, but now you really got me thinking about that. I don't race, except for recreational drags, but that thing sounds amazing.^^^

**KASEY** · 01-22-2010, 08:33 PM

hey Eric ...there has always been a smoke screen around the trike since it was built...... are you racing the second tpc? or is it the original one? the original is so far and away from what people think they are going to build as far as costs go. maybe now with you as a spokesman some of the grey areas will clear up... the whole cost thing associated with the tpc has been completely a joke.. bill tells people they can get into a tpc for as low as $6000 and in the same sentence compares it to his . ok i will buy it for $6000 . the fact that he advertizes to everyone that he beats all he races against with a stock 450 ,,,, pretty lame its not stock, its a hybrid of parts from honda not a stock motor.
anyway maybe you can shed some light on the subject unless your on a short leash,,,,, people should be aware that they are not going to have anything close to the first one for a mere $6000 and i don't see getting one built for that,,, unless you have a $2000 trx450r laying around. but then again your starting with a $2k beater too.............

**jensenracing77** · 01-22-2010, 09:44 PM

right now i am racing Bills bike till he gets mine done. the first race it had the stock suspension on it. i can say that for general riding and even some jumping, the stock suspension will be fine for many people. but if you are going to ride at a higher level or race i would want a little longer swingarm. his engine has a CRF head on it but that will give you no more power than the TRX head. the porting is differant but it will not give you any noticeable power increase. he has the HRC cam also but we are going to go to the TRX stock cam. (wow, when i was racing a 4 wheeler i would never have told anyone about what my setup was, lol). for pricing i don't know. i figure that you would want to start with the stock setup and then modify it how you want. if you want it with all the aftermarket stuff then the $2000 beater will not be that big of deal. the frame will be reworked and the suspension will all be new and the front suspension from the 4 wheeler won,t be used at all (you could sell the front suspension to a 4 wheeler guy). that leaves the engine used the back finders used and some hardware. i can't say much more than that because i just don't know that much yet. i will answer anything i can but i only have one race under my belt and only met Bill in person last week.

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