A friend of mine has talked about another of our friends 3 wheelers that are in his shed. I recently bent my 250R front rim and we went to his shed because he said he may have some spares. Well he opened the shed and there is his old 200X race bike, and there was the infamous 200R that I had heard him talk of. Not a sleeved down version, but it has a smaller crank and the short cylinder. That is not all.. laying on the ground upside down going to hell is a 250R flattrack tank off of the bike. This baby is the real deal. There must be 8 sets of Ohtsu H-Track tires and Hoosiers laying around. Rear shocks,axles ,headlights,number plates, Paul turner pipes, ALL GOING TO HELL...ROTTING AWAY. I was so excited I almost pissed myself, but did not want to show my excitement. In the other shed sits a TRX 250R that was raced in nationals by somebody I am sure you have all heard of. But I'm not telling.....yet. I said I want thje 200R to restore but he said he does not want to sell anything. But it is all rotting away. I told him he can still own the 200R but just for the sake of the history of it to please let me give it some well deserved TLC. He does not give a crap about the bikes,will never ride them again,or open the shed in the next several years I know. But he is the kind of person who figures to just let them rot away instead of selling them. BUT and a vary big BUT ...I now have something he wants and needs. So I think it may be time to wheel and deal. I want that bike and I will have it somehow........Oh yea, This kid has been a friend of mine forever, our dads are friends, but we have never talked trikes. I was telling him about how passionate I am about Trikes and about my Tiger. I mentioned my friend that raced the Cagiva WMX 200 and he said " Yea I had one too, It was good for nothing but running wide open flattrack racing"" It was a ill handling piece of crap. He said he got rid of it for the 200R. This guy is killing me...........
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