How did all of you 3 wheeler riders get into riding trikes?

[soon2becomeaowner]

How did all of you 3 wheeler riders get into riding trikes?What was your first trike. Post some pics of your first trikes if you can..

[3WheelsForever]

I got into trikes about a year ago in the summer. I was just browsing the web and stumbled across this site. At first I wanted a quad but then there was something about trikes. I liked the way they looked with the dirtbike type radiator shrouds and I enjoyed riding them. I emailed Howdy and talked to him and I had my first trike around 3 weeks later. It was a 1985 250sx. Around 2 monthes later I checked out these forms and really started to enjoy posting here. I then went to TF03 and had the time of my life. Ill definitly be making the trip to TF04. Here is a pic of my 250sx. I just got rid of her about 1 month ago. I now have a 200x and a 350x.

[Honda125m1984]

my first run-in with a 3-wheeler was not quite what i expected.... my uncle buought a little 83 110 and said it was just like riding a 4-wheeler so i took off on it..... i got down towards the end of my drive-way and try to turn too quick and ended up running into a telephone poll and getting knocked out cold. ever since i have only rode 3 wheels or less.

[Aaron2003]

i had my first one when i was about 13 it was a new 84 110 had it for about 3 or 4 years had alot of fun with it, then last spring a friend of mine found a 200s and a tri moto 200 and sold my friend one so there i was wit out one they let me ride one of them and i had the old feeling back so that day i found me a 85 225 dx tri moto i had to have something faster then them, since then i have sold the 225 and now have 2 a 83 250r and an 85 350x both are a hell of alot of fun i ride them almost every day

[whiteman350x]

Got an 82 110 (still ride it.) in about 85-86. I took it to a cousins mechanic shop and fixed the rear bearings over spring break (7th grade). Hve no been w/o a 3 wheeler since.

[NebraskaTrikeRider]

I got into trikes in July(2003). I had riden them almost my whole life around the farm and hunting but never really cared much about them :? .

My first and only trike of my own was a 1984 Honda ATC200s...although my family had a Big Red :?

[ATCnut]

My older brother came home from the honda shop with two brand new ATC90s in the back of his Chevy LUV. After I helped him unload them, I said "Lets go ride them" So we did.

[Yardbird]

My ole man brought home a brand new 1982 110. I was 15 @ the time and have ridden trikes only ever since.

[thefox]

Well, in 5th grade (8 years ago) my brother had a 1979 Honda 110 given to him. My dad then bought a '84 Yamaha 200 because "he had to make sure that Rob would be safe when riding" (he realy wanted to ride too). I rode both machines untill 8th grade when I got my first bike, a 1984 Kawasaki 110. I loved that bike but it just didn't have the topend to keep up with my dads 200 and my friends 200sx (quad). Since then I have had a bunch of trikes (see sig.).

-Andrew

[VABCH350X]

I always wanted a mini trail or a three wheeler when I was a little kid, but my dad kept telling me to save my money and buy one if I wanted it. You don't have a lot of income when you're 8 years old, so it took a while. :-D By the time I was 10 I had saved up $250 and bought a used 83 Suzuki ALT50, which I was entirely too big for, but I rode the hell out of it none the less. When I was 12 I bought an XR100, and I was definitely hooked. I went through an ATC90, and a 110, and a few dirtbikes, a couple blasters, and a 200X, and then my friend found a mint 85 ATC250R for $400 bucks, and I was completely in awe. I found a well-used 83 ATC250R, but it was no match for the 85. Then I bought an LT500R and rode it for a year or two before joining the military. I got the bug again a few years later and bought an 85 TRI-Z to fix up, and I was hooked again. Now I finally own the bikes I always wished I could have as a kid, and I spend my free time restoring old bikes, putting to use all that mechanical knowledge I picked up while working on a bunch of abused bikes as a kid.

[skippy]

christmas in 1983 i had a brand new 185s sitting in my barn, 20 years later, and around 100 bikes later, im still here, but now i rarely ride them, mostly on the trx anymore, and actually have cars for transportation, use to count on the bikes for the wheels back then! the 250r's are ran now and then, the 350x's are washed and started, the 250sx seen more useful days, the trizinger and atc 70's are ridden by the boys, and the tiger sits and waits!

[okieRrider]

back in 83 me and my dad went to an atv show they had here in okc and while there my dad started talkin to the suzuki guy about a brand new 83 alt 50 and they struck up a deal and he bought one right there...lol i rode it my sis rode it my cousins learned to ride on it and here is a pic of my 5 yr old on it....still on original tires, piston, rings everything is totally stock on this machine and it still runs perfect...the other is the tri-z that i have now....chris

[Crash104936221]

back when i was around 8-10 my stepfather took me for rides on his 83 big red 200 that he is the original owner of then i went looking to buy a 4wheeler about 4years ago found many but they were out of my price range then my dad said that a guy he works with had a 3wheeler so i stoped by and had a look at it it had the original tire was bone stock with a broken brake leaver, a hole melted on the black ruber around the left fender small tear in the seat cover so i bought it for 650CAD took it home and rode it for about 8-10 months almost every day to work and back and lots of play then it broke (timing chain tentioner) it was parked and i just pulled it out this past month and am now fixing it and geting it ready to roll

hope to be going soon

Joe

[Manny55]

My first trike was a 1982 ATC250r.

[yater]

I first rode these things at our hunting camp in North Louisiana. We had 2 big reds ('84) that were shared among 20 or more guys. Needless to say, these things were ridden hard--but they ALWAYS ran. (this was in the mid to late 80s) We could access the whole lease by 3 wheeler and it was a blast. I tried to buy one myself but I was 13 at the time and they all seemed to sell for $1500. I finally bought my own '84 big red in may of this year and since then, I've added an '82 110 and an '86 200x. I'm hooked.