Mike Ft. Laud 200R Pictures and more

[Jeb]

Great Find Mike!

I have a set of old Hoosier Tri-Tracs. Very bad cracking all over them.
The Hoosier I want it is the Tri-Trac front. It has straight grooves. Can you still get them?

That 250R seat cover is a stock Honda cover, but I would bet that someone carefully removed the middle of the "5" with some kind of vinyl safe paint or ink remover. It was probably who ever built the engine as part of the package.

I think someone might could rescue that 250SX if they got it cheap to start with.

I like the 200X too. Do you have anymore info on it?

There was a Selvy 200R on ebay a couple years back. It ended up being a 3 hour drive away from me. I didn't have the money to buy at that time so I couldn't justify a 3 hour drive just to go ook at it and not load it up. I emailed the guy back and forth a few times. He was an old racer from the 80's and had a CR125 conversion trike. He was supposed to get pics for me but never did. I offered at the time to trade my Tri-Z for the 200R since it's got allot of old racer parts on it. He said he was getting out of the trike business after all these years and didn't want anymore trikes, just cash!

[trikerider2oo7]

cool find. where are you going to get parts though?

[Yamahammer490]

Awesome find Mike! Congratulations!

[Jeb]

That fin on the flywheel cover is interesting! Can you tell if it was welded on or was it cast that way?

[Mike Fort Laud]

JEB.....I have studied the seat on this bike very close. There is no middle of a 5 to remove. On my 250R the bottom of the 5 is angled and the top left of the 5 is squared. On the 200 both the top and bottom of the 0 is angled. Plus the top half of the 0 is bigger than a top half of the 5. It cannot be an altered 250R seat. The whole 200R was done at the same time. Not to say I could not take a blue seat cover and have is silkscreened to say whatever I wanted. to me it looks like it came from a factory of some kind. And as far as the fin on the stator cover. I cannot see any trace of a weld mark or weld pitting. It also looks like a factory part. If it was welded it is a VERY clean job.

[skippy]

hay mike, in ref to the 87 250sx.. i bought and sold 2 last year,, a local guy down here has two more, he owns a junk yard and used 4 of them for the run abouts.. i ended up parting 1 of them out.. cause couldnt sell it.. still have the frame and title for it.. like i said i can pick up two more, they are rough.. but out there... thx

[AirManCam]

That's awesome. And Jared them style Tri-tracks are discontinued from hoosier. I have a set, I just need some 10 inch rims to put them on!

[threewheelin-feelin]

wow what year is that how does it compare to the performance of the 250r speed and quicker??? and if it wasint for the seat trailprotrailpro coulnt tell them apart just by looking at them. very cool man vintage racer baby.

[250rAL]

Back when I was looking for my 250R back in the late 80's, I ran across a 200R racer at a dealership. I didn't want something that had been highly modified and raced (on the Grand Nat'l circuit) so I didn't even consider it. Boy, what that would be worth now!

[Glenn J]

Sweet finds! Good to hear they'll be restored.

[AirManCam]

I was kinda figuring that the 200r would have a calfab or a westcoast also But it still is awesome that theres one around!

[deathman53]

I guarantee you there are more old 200r racers around sitting in sheds, barns, garages. Just gotta find all of them, it would be interesting to see a racing tecate. A freind of mine around 85 or 86 was in a kawaski dealership and they had a tecate racer for sale, speaking of tecates anybody know if Jimmy White still has his trikes? Anybody know where he is now?

[threewheelin-feelin]

i would guess he died with his trikes

[Jeb]

... speaking of tecates anybody know if Jimmy White still has his trikes? Anybody know where he is now?

I'm pretty sure he's not dead. One of those ATV web site had a write up about a legends race a couple years back and he was there.

I believe he still has an 86 KXT racing 3-wheeler. I think Curtis has talked to him. and there was an article in a mid or late 90's dirtwheels that he was riding his old 86 at some dunes.

Yeah, you never see 200cc KXTs come up for sale. There's been several Honda 200Rs show up in recent past. I always figured there were more KXT 200s out there because the 200 conversion was easier to do on Kawasaki than a Honda.

[Curtis-Tecate3]

I have spoken to the Kawasaki Legend #31 Jimmy White. He is most definately still alive. He works in the industry for one of the ATV tire manufacturers. Believe it or not he is the only one that I talked to among seven different Kawasaki Factory or factory suported riders from the 80's that still has his Tecate. Approx 2-3 years ago his Factory 86 Tecate was stolen and recovered with the motor seized and basically all torn up. Ron Baker at PEP suspension was rebuilding it for Jimmy at that time.

Curtis.