The year was 1986, I was 15 years old and off to Coos Bay, Oregon to stay with my Uncle. 10 days of whatever I wanted to do, and the only thing I wanted to do was ride the dunes on one of his atc 250r's. Had the absolute best time of my life, flew alone no rents, and the last leg of my journey was a prop job to get me to Eugene as best as I can remember. Rode the dunes for as long and as often in those 10 days.
Bull run was the name I remember of an awesome part of the Coos Bay dunes that was high banked berms and really cool to ride. Cant remember exactly but I believe sometime in that decade they decided to pave that area for tourists to go to the beach and now some of bull run is a parking lot.
Box car, the view coming to the dunes all the people working the hill by the trains and all I can think of now is the smell, the sound of the trikes working, the distinct sound of the 2 strokes vs 4 strokes, so cool.
Fast forward to about two months ago. My wife and I bought a house in October of 2004, and I left a bunch of stuff at my parents house where I reside in Florida. I cleaned out most of the clutter and amongst the clutter were many issues of 3-wheeling magazine and dirt wheels. My *Edited**Edited**Edited**Edited**Edited**Edited**E dited* thought I would never need or wnat those mags and with no help from my wife, I threw them away!!!!
One month later I stumble onto this sight, I still have red butt cheeks from kicking my self in the ass for throwing them away, what an idiot. Well we are all allowed to make a few mistakes in life and somehow I gotta get over that one.
When I got back from Coos Bay I had to have a 250r, but had no place to ride and no way of getting there, I did however have a 57 chevy and that is where my time and money went for the next 20 years. Now I am 35 and have the ability to get something I forgot I wanted. I have the fever and want to get an 85 or 86 250r. I have started to look at ebay and scanned all of this forums classifieds. I see prices range just like old cars and people portray them about the same.
What do you think of this one on ebay,
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1
I have a friend who lives about 80 miles from there. What is the value of this trike, all opines welcome. I will be lurking on this sight until I get my trike and will continue to look for my dream ride. Depending on how things go I will also be posting a wan to buy on the classifed.
One last thing, remember how lucky you are if you live in an area with good riding as Pinellas County where I live sucks!!! And if you are close enough to a great set of dunes then just take a deep breath of that fresh air and throw some sand on the guy behind you.
Mike D.
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glad your here! you got some decent riding near by Ocala and Croom is right up the rd in brooksville, there should be some R's for sale in florida 
Originally Posted by AZ250R
