Let's hear all those stories of peoples reactions to your trikes!!!

[Maine_Triker]

I've got a couple good ones.....

1.) Just the other day on our way back from Canada, we stopped at the American customs and asked what it would take to buy a trike in Canada and bring it back to the states.

The customs officer reacted: "A 3-wheeler? As in an ATV?? UH, I don't think you can drive those in Maine."


2.) And then off course you get the continous stares from people. The other day I passed a couple people walking on my 350x and they were like . Most other ATVers I see on the trails can't help but give a second look..... I can't wait to get the fender extensions on!!!! Picture how stunning she'll look then!

3.) Then it's the people in cars who stop for you at crossings and let you pass. That's a nice reaction!


Anyone else got any stories, I'd love to hear em'!!!

[nouseforaname90]

I'm guessing that you got your trike road-legal now?

[250r'en +TCB]

the other day I was riding the R on my local RR beds, since most people know nothing about ATC's they just asume they are old, outdated, slow and dangerous... But people see how effective and agile they are in the right hands!!!
I rode into a small sandpit where there was roughly 15 people some guys one big utilitys, couple of kids on 250ex's and blasters that were my age and I think 2 guys on 400ex's...anyway I pulled in and I got some stares, and people pointed, so I decided to show off, just a little... I got some speed in the tight little area and started throwing the sand every way I could!!! Pulling wheelies, turning on a dime while whiping the tail, you know how it is...... After I stopped got off and took my helmet off it was funny how people reacted to me, this was most likely because I'm just a semi-tall lanky 15 year old........people asked me how I got it and learned to ride it, I told them I restored it myself with the help of a LOT of money...And learned to ride by going slow and cautios and gradually working my way up....
A little while after some kid my age was talking to me, then he asked if he could ride it , I asked him what was the most powerful machine he'd driven and he told me a bored out blaster.......I told him sorry, but I can't let you kill yourself man, he understood though....

[Maine_Triker]

I'm guessing that you got your trike road-legal now?

LOL no, but imagine the kind of looks you'de get then.... especcially from the cops!

[oddball3]

This is what I always hear.

1 How can you still ride that thing.
2 I thought those were illegal.
3 Why do you still ride that thing.

[chris200x]

"One day your gonna kill yourself on that thing!" I just laugh.

[250r'en +TCB]

don't we all hear that? I just say, A 3-wheeler never killed somebody (then they look at me like I'm nuts!) But stupidity, inexperience, lack of respect for the machine and it's power and just plain incompetance have killed countless people, and thats not just on 3-wheelers.......They sort of get the message after that little speech

[nouseforaname90]

Most of the reactions I get are:
"Thats a nice machine to have"
"Wow.. I like it.."
"That has more power than you're ever going to need"
or
"You shouldda got an R"

[Yamahauler]

"wow, thats in nice shape"

one guy at the gas station asked if it was brand new

Or the cop that stopped me once, "I think those things are illegal to ride and you can't register them" I then showed him my registration.

[Yamahauler]

o i forgot...

"how much you want for it?"

"if you find another one, let me know"

[ATCWRENCH]

where I am from 3wheelers are a taboo now a days. I usually get the statement "ya should gotta 4 wheeler dude, they're a lot cooler than your 3wheeler". they all usually say that until they get there a**'s handed to them in the trails.

[Billy Golightly]

"What year IS that thing?"
"My buddy had one of those and almost got killed on it"
"I had one of those and almost got killed on it"
"Never seen one of those before..."
"Them things's 'illegal ya know?"

[Rednek200xRider]

last weekend i went with my boss, his dad, and son to a local off-road park riding. they all had artic cat 500 & 400 4x4 and i had my '85 honda 200x and i was makin it through mud pits that they were getting stuck in and i had all kinds of people lookin at me thinkin i was nuts for takin it out there for one and takin it in a lot of the places that i did.

[Pistonhead]

-Girls+Piston with wheeling stories= Girls say "thats hot".
-Kids say hey my uncle had one of those for a while
-Buddy who moved here said hey my buddy has one o them its a 350 somethin honda
-Other buddy moved here said "There were lots of trikes back in manitoba"
-Aint that tippy/dangerous/outlawed/illegal/a child molester?

They call me tripod folks!!!! I don't think its because I have 2 trikes either!

[mymint87]

i don't get looks, I get stares....
I get smiles from the old duners and
"Thats thing is absolutely sic." from the young kids