Picked up another trike tonight

[tbirdscott]

Got it off a friends dad, hes had it since almost new, before that his brother used it for trapping. Its a 1983 200 S(?) has been sitting in the corner of the shop for atleast 8 years that I know of, when I asked him he said forever lol He has a new honda fender somewhere, said he'll give it to when he finds it, the handle bar is tweaked aswell from my buddy putting it under a tailgate when he was like 10.

Here it is after dragging it off the truck










Needs a bit of work but alot less than my 185s needed when I first got it. I pulled the carb, crusty mess inside. I just put a new carb on my 185 (Brand new carbs for $30, more on that later though) which had`a buggered up slide and needle so I just swapped the old 185 carb onto the 200, bit of gas and she fired up in true honda fashion first pull, no smoke, no rattles, nothing.

Heck even the muffler is solid. Its got like new pro-ams all the way around though the one rear has a slow leak, the inside of the tank is 100% spotless and I dare anyone to find rust on the seat pan, The sticker on top of the air box lid says serviced '94 on it so I suppose it'll get an oil change in the morning!. Only thing I could find wrong is the tail light doesnt work.

Anyway i'm pretty excited about it as you can tell, just wanted to show off a bit heres a few pics of the two together.





And one of the 'ole lady' trying it on for size



http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/tbirdscott/trikes/


Scott

[rally4x4racer]

cool deal - what did it cost ya?

[tbirdscott]

He wanted 'around 5 or 6 hundred' I told him its worth 400 and he countered with 450 and I loaded it up, I knew mechanically it was in good shape so I dont feel bad, I could easily double my money parting it out.

And yes I know i have alot of cars but not too many, you can never have too many cars 6 cars, 3 trucks, 2 trikes, 3 snowmobiles, 4 bikes, 2 lawn tractors. At least I dont have a landlord to whine about it, my mom lives in edmonton, and my fiancee doesnt care so I'm a happy guy!

Gonna go to town and grab a tube for the one tire, pressure wash the dust off (i'm sure the enine is actually silver not brown lol) and change the oil then go hunting for mud. W00T


Scott

[Murph]

Brand new carbs for $30, for a 185s? You need to hook me up with one of those!

nice grab on the 200 also.

[Trouble]

Brand new carbs for $30, for a 185s? You need to hook me up with one of those!

me to!!.

awesome deal man!.

is that your wife or kid? cuz she's good looking!

[LonesomeTriZ]

Damn, does her hair ever get hung up?

It does not look like it needs much.

[tbirdscott]

Shes mine, back off! No kids, shes 20 I'm 22. the hair is good except when I get it in my mouth when riding lol

Put a tube in the one tire, changed the oil, fueled up the trikes and went cruisin last night, the 200 rides a fair bit better but its nowhere near as quick as the 185 is.

Gonna get some more miles on it, long weekend


Scott

[tbirdscott]

Well took it out with a friend on sunday, he hadn't ridden one of these "death traps" before and of course was scared of it from stories he had heard, He's hooked now and wants to come out next weekend to ride again Only had it out for a couple hours down by the river bank.

Went out again monday with another guy (Pretty much my father) gave him the 200, his neighbour came along with his 110 and my fiance and I took the 185 went on a 5 hour long ride down old logging trails and some of the nastiest mud holes i've had to deal with but we all came out in one piece allbeit a bit sore. I wish I would have brought a camera, seeing all 3 lined up caked in mud almost gave me a chubby.


So I think I did good for my $450 investment.


Scott