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    Quote Originally Posted by brrcuda View Post
    This winter a guy pulled up to me and started to talk to me. I was on my Tri-z at the time blasting some snow covered trails. This guy was riding some older 4x4 quad with bald front tires. He had no helmet on and riding with his 4 year old on the front of the quad, who was barely hanging on. He looked down at his son and said "those were banned cause they were too dangerous".

    I looked back at him and just smiled cause he was doing the most irresponsible thing riding with his 4 year old on the front of his old ratty quad. I just said - "all ATVs are dangerous you just got to know how to ride them". He agreed.

    If your gonna ride trikes, your always gonna hear some of this *Edited**Edited**Edited**Edited*. Part of the territory i guess.

    I have to say this summer everywhere i have taken my trike, even on atv club rides, I get a lot of respect on the trails, usually a small crowd around my 20 year old trike at the parking lots. Its nice to be different.
    The only people that give me a hassle about my wheelers are my close personal freinds. (just bustin chops of coarse!) as for meeting folks out on the trail. It's always been "wow! I haven't seen one of those in a long time!" or "That thing is in great shape for it's age!"

    As for your comment about being diffrent. Well you hit the nail on the head with that statement Paul. When your out riding.. all you see is raptors and banshees... BORING!!!

    Now,, how often do you see nice tri z's or tecates etc. out on the trials? Almost never. I think this is one of the biggest factors in my addiction. I love the attention I get. Well that,, and I can't a fford a new raptor or banshee!!!

  3. #18
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    yeah, i like to lead by example on mine, every time i see a quad when im riding i usually show my a** a little and give a demonstration to leave them scratching their headz.

    the good ol poor mans 4 wheeler!

  4. #19
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    I had some retard at Autozone ask me what some spark plugs were for that I was buying.. I said for my 3-wheeler.

    He told me I should get rid of it.

    I laughed at hime.

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    he prlly wanted it! lol

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    VenomRS4 is offline At The Back Of The Pack Arm chair racerAt the back of the pack
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    I cant remember who said it, but the statement about turning people from trike haters into trike lovers is what i prefer to do. The problem is that most people who hate them have never even ridden one. They only go by what they have heard and seen in the media. One ride on a trike and most people are hooked. I have changed many minds by just letting people take my Tri-Z or 250R for a spin.
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    Quote Originally Posted by VenomRS4 View Post
    I cant remember who said it, but the statement about turning people from trike haters into trike lovers is what i prefer to do. The problem is that most people who hate them have never even ridden one. They only go by what they have heard and seen in the media. One ride on a trike and most people are hooked. I have changed many minds by just letting people take my Tri-Z or 250R for a spin.



    i didnt say into lover i said in to believer. witch is true threw and threw
    . take my friend father. he hated them he took my old s for a spin and his attitude changed. he still dont love them like us but he dont hate em anymore. thats all i wanted is for him do understand that they get a bad rep as you said.
    down to parts because i no longer have a place to ride trikes.

    GIT IT RAAAGGGGG !!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sykolincoln View Post
    no dont slap him! just tell him HELL YEA THERE DANGEROUS MY 250R CARRIES A GUN! dont piss it off or it will put a cap in yo' ass!

    BWWWAAAHAAAHAHAHAHA thats funny right there! these threads are priceless
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    yeah, I rode my buddies wolverine the other day and was glad to get back on my three wheeler! felt too big and akward for me, just not used to that much crap under the handlebars!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sykolincoln View Post
    no dont slap him! just tell him HELL YEA THERE DANGEROUS MY 250R CARRIES A GUN! dont piss it off or it will put a cap in yo' ass!
    Where would the trikin' world be without SYKO

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    my 83 250r ate a baby!
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    jeez man these things are killers. mine chased a cop down and mugged him. dam thing came home with a 45 mag, night stick, and cuffs. it then proceeded to cuff me beat me and almost shot me. i asked him why why you doing this. he said "didnt you know im deadly ?" dam cpsc even has the trikes thinking their deadly.



    maybe i should get a quad or bike.
    down to parts because i no longer have a place to ride trikes.

    GIT IT RAAAGGGGG !!!!

  13. #28
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    Well, being a frequent attendee at Silver Lake dunes, i have noticed increased curiosity in our groups trikes. Never really hear any bad comments, but lots of " i remember those, or, i knew someone that had one, or, just someone pointing and throwing the thumbs up." We always get lots of attention since we all keep out trikes clean and running good. But my favorite one is dam, that thing runs hard!! Love the compliments. Long live the trike!!

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    I too get a lot of people that come up and say "man, I havent seen one of those in a long time", or " I remember when I used to have one of those". Plus you are the center of the crowd everywhere you go. I love all the attention. lol On the other hand, I get a generous amount of the "aren't those thing dangerous" comments. I say somethin like "Your right, I think that was the third or fourth time I got killed on it last week", or "I'm still alive, ain't I?". " Ya, your 4 wheeler has air bags, doesn't it?"

    My friend accross the street always thought I was a slowpoke cuz I would just putt along on my Atc 200, and it drove him absolutely nuts when he would follow me. Until one day when I told him I got a new headgasket on my 250r and upped my compression a bunch and that I was ready to race. All the sudden he couldn't race me until he had a new headgasket too. HA!! So then the next day I asked if he wanted to go for a ride, . We had one of those "silent start" type of races where you just take off without warning on an asphalt road. I beat his YZ490 through the first 3 gears, then he passed me in fourth and we come to a corner and slowed down. Not too bad I thought. But once we got to the dirt trials I let it loose. A couple miles of this and I stopped to wait for him, and when he caught up his excuse "I had to slow down for the corners." HA!!

    Before I had my top end jetting I raced a Raptor 660 through 5th gear and came out about 2 bike lengths behind. Upon arrival back to his house I said I though my little 250r did pretty good back there against a 660. I guess he was planning on wasting me, and didn't quite get far enough ahead to take the pride trophy home. His excuse "Well yours is a two stroke, so that doesn't really count."

    Dont know how I got onto racing, but I love unintentionally turning heads just puttin by one my bikes.
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    read this one, its horrible, I am about to write and say how much of an idiot this guy is but its really not worth it!!!

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