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Posted: 8/5/2023 9:37:12 AM EDT
[#1]
No, they aren't. But that kid is gonna have a ball regardless. Let him ride his ass off.
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Posted: 8/5/2023 9:38:39 AM EDT
[#2]
They're cool as hell but for just ripping around, jumping, going like a bat outta hell, ripping through the woods, etc. a dirt bike is far superior. For offroading and work a 4x4 is far superior.
I'd still like to have one. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 9:49:13 AM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 2 wheels is the best. this |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 9:54:24 AM EDT
[#4]
No. They don't do 4 wheeler stuff as good as a 4 wheeler, and they don't do two wheeler stuff as good as a bike.
They are just an in between bastard child. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 10:00:16 AM EDT
[#5]
Way back when We had a Honda Big Red, i never raced it around, used it to get around on our upstate property, drag out deer, whatever. It was pretty stuck proof with those huge flotation tires & it worked well in the snow. It was stolen.
They should sell 4wheelers with 4 of those fat tires on them. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 11:52:28 AM EDT
[#6]
I remember being a kid in the early 90’s and and older teenaged cousin had a Honda 250R 3-wheeler with a CR500 engine. That thing was a death trap for an unskilled rider but it was a fucking beast on the drag strip at the local riverbed.
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Posted: 8/5/2023 12:01:47 PM EDT
[#7]
Great for wheelies, not much else. Unstable as fuck.
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Posted: 8/5/2023 12:38:54 PM EDT
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted: For breaking arms, dislocating shoulders, busting out teeth, spraining ankles, and tearing up knee cartilage, yes. Snapping necks...the list goes on and on. Get a motorcycle |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 12:44:26 PM EDT
[#9]
It's harder to mount a snow plow on a three wheeler.
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Posted: 8/5/2023 12:55:09 PM EDT
[#10]
They're fun when your drifting curves on a dirt road, but that's it. I like my utilitarian four wheeler.
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Posted: 8/5/2023 1:38:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/5/2023 1:51:43 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I can’t remember James Bond on a 4 wheeler, so… https://www.design-talking.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Honda-3-Wheeler-Diamonds-Are-Forever-.jpg Ours was like this, same tires too. Crazy fun. Water crossings were a blast with those floatation tires too. Eventually the tires died by dry rot, amazingly never had a puncture. Replaced with standard rim and tire in the late 80's. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 1:55:35 PM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 3 wheelers are more unstable, harder to turn, and 2 wheel drive. 4 wheelers are more stable, easier to turn, and have are either 2 or 4 wheel drive. They each fill a need......but only the 4x4 fills many needs and can do many jobs. . I have a small 300 size 2WD 4 wheeler and it is just a solid rear axle, basically like having a locked rear diff all the time. It gets me anywhere I want to go, and it works for plowing the driveway in winter. I'd like to have a 4 seat SxS but prices are so stupid I'd be better off getting a used jeep. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 1:56:29 PM EDT
[#14]
I went through 4 of them as a kid in the 70s and 80s (90, 185s, 200x, 250) I didn't die. Never owned a 4 wheeler, I moved on to dirt bikes.
I can tell very few in this thread have spent any time riding a 3 wheeler, a hell of a lot safer than a dirt bike. I had way more near death experiences on my CR500 than on my 250R. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 1:58:42 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Way back when We had a Honda Big Red, i never raced it around, used it to get around on our upstate property, drag out deer, whatever. It was pretty stuck proof with those huge flotation tires & it worked well in the snow. It was stolen. They should sell 4wheelers with 4 of those fat tires on them. You can't buy tires? |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 2:02:11 PM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: As a teen, I put countless hours and miles on one of these. Too much fun. https://silodrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Honda-ATC-250R-Three-Wheeler-1536x864.jpg '85. Want an '86 as a project toy. Fucking expensive, if one could even find one. MSRP in 1986: $2348.00. Now? $$$$$$$  |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 2:08:38 PM EDT
[#17]
Two Wheels > Four Wheels > Three Wheels
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Posted: 8/5/2023 2:17:14 PM EDT
[#18]
Back in Jr. High and high school we had a group of friends who all had 4 wheelers who would ride trails and whatnot.
One kid was poorer than the rest and didn't have one and would just ride bitch with one of us. Until his Dad bought and fixed up an older 3 wheeler for him. Everyone wanted to ride his Until it became annoying. "Remember when I let you ride/drive my 4 wheeler? Now trade for the day as repayment". His dad finally stopped us all one day and gave the no one but his son will drive the 3 wheeler due to liability speech. We said yes sir and went back to pestering him right afterwards. Point of the story is 3 wheeler more funner than 4 wheeler. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 3:44:08 PM EDT
[#19]
They're both glorified mobility scooters. If you're under 80 get a dirt bike.
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Posted: 8/5/2023 3:46:36 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: For breaking arms, dislocating shoulders, busting out teeth, spraining ankles, and tearing up knee cartilage, yes. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 3:51:58 PM EDT
[#21]
Some folks just never learned how to ride them....fast.
Turn right to go left. Swing the ass end out around the turns, similar to what the damn kids today call drifting. They were so much fun. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 3:55:59 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I went through 4 of them as a kid in the 70s and 80s (90, 185s, 200x, 250) I didn't die. Never owned a 4 wheeler, I moved on to dirt bikes. I can tell very few in this thread have spent any time riding a 3 wheeler, a hell of a lot safer than a dirt bike. I had way more near death experiences on my CR500 than on my 250R. Dude you can’t compare a cr500 and a 250r lol Eta yes I’ve ridden both |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 4:00:11 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Dude you can’t compare a cr500 and a 250r lol Eta yes I’ve ridden both Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I went through 4 of them as a kid in the 70s and 80s (90, 185s, 200x, 250) I didn't die. Never owned a 4 wheeler, I moved on to dirt bikes. I can tell very few in this thread have spent any time riding a 3 wheeler, a hell of a lot safer than a dirt bike. I had way more near death experiences on my CR500 than on my 250R. Dude you can’t compare a cr500 and a 250r lol Eta yes I’ve ridden both How about an ATC500R?   The ATC500R is FINISHED! ATC250R With CR500 ????  |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 4:00:34 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Two Wheels > Four Wheels > Three Wheels This, much rather ride my CRF for farm/ranch work but will take an atv if needed. 3 wheelers sucked balls even when they were popular. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 4:03:16 PM EDT
[#25]
They are superior to flipping in turns.
Although, out of two bad wrecks, one in a 3 wheeler and one a 4, I ended up having acl surgery from the 4 wreck. The 3 wreck just destroyed the front forks and almost broke my rider's back. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 4:04:40 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: As a teen, I put countless hours and miles on one of these. Too much fun. https://silodrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Honda-ATC-250R-Three-Wheeler-1536x864.jpg Same I loved my 250R. I’d love one now but they are worth their weight in gold. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 4:06:49 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: They are superior to flipping in turns. Because you suck at riding position and weight transfer. Also throttle control. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 4:09:38 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Because you suck at riding position and weight transfer. Also throttle control. I'm not a professional rider and my 3 wheeler wreck was probably the first or second time I rode it, but surely you're hypothesis is not that a three-wheeler is less likely to flip in a curve than a four-wheeler? But to be sure, I do suck at riding the things. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 4:10:01 PM EDT
[#29]
 Is best.
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Posted: 8/5/2023 4:10:46 PM EDT
[#30]
If you were an accomplished rider, three was the way.
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Posted: 8/5/2023 4:19:14 PM EDT
[#31]
They should have never been made, most unsafe vehicle ever invented. I know way too many people that were injured and read about way too many deaths.
My BIL's brother hit an ant pile, flipped and broke his neck, the only that that saved him from severe injury was he was so muscular from unloading oyster trucks and his neck/shoulder muscles prevented major spinal cord damage. He is OK today, thank God. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 4:20:04 PM EDT
[#32]
3 wheelers are the equivalent of a chick with crazy eyes
1: They’re not for everybody. 2: You may, or may not get hurt. There’s variables you can control, there’s variables you can’t. See rule 1. ETA: a variable you can control, and one that many people fucked up on hard tail bikes, is air pressure. IYKYK |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 4:26:35 PM EDT
[#33]
You going to hurt yourself on the three wheels of justice. If you don't know the limits they will catch you out fast.
I have family (quite a bit) in Warren, Coffee, and Moore counties here in TN. They survive today in the hollers and still are administering chert road justice. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 4:34:39 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/5/2023 4:36:22 PM EDT
[#35]
I was a mechanic at a Honda shop when the ATCs (3-wheelers) were current. That was my first motorcycle mechanic job and I had not ridden one before, but we had to perform the usual maintenance tasks and repairs on customer bikes, and set them up new out of the crate, etc. Luckily the other mechanics and I got along well and they warned me about how easy to crash the 3-wheelers were, and gave me a few pointers before I rode one. I was a skilled motorcyclist but these things were different and had stupid light front ends under power.
It is no joke that someone unskilled could hurt themselves VERY badly on one very easily. They were tricky until you mastered them, and even then they wanted to hurt you. Do not downplay how dangerous to the unskilled they were. 
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Posted: 8/5/2023 4:42:54 PM EDT
[#36]
They are fine machines…not for the maladroit or ill behaved.
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Posted: 8/5/2023 5:01:09 PM EDT
[#37]
I spent a lot of time riding Honda Big Reds as a kid. You had to have a lot of awareness to not get hurt on them. They also frequently had brakes that didn't work.
I had a dumbass childhood friend. He rode one down a gravel road at high-speed crashing head on into a pickup because of course it had no brakes. The fuel tank ruptured and caught fire. He got 3rd degree burns over 70% of his body. Spend nearly a year in the hospital but survived. He is now a hard-core opiates user and just general POS. He was an asshole as a kid. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 5:21:33 PM EDT
[#38]
For some things they are, lots of flotation and smaller/lighter than a 4 wheeler, so you can go places you wouldn't on a 4 Wheeler, but trickier to drive hard and fast safely through twist and turns and side hills in my experience (my current 3 Wheeler is a YTM200, very narrow and still running the baloon tires, a wider rear axle would help a lot I'm sure). I have a lot of fun on both, they each have their pros and cons
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Posted: 8/5/2023 5:34:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/5/2023 6:03:58 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I went through 4 of them as a kid in the 70s and 80s (90, 185s, 200x, 250) I didn't die. Never owned a 4 wheeler, I moved on to dirt bikes. I can tell very few in this thread have spent any time riding a 3 wheeler, a hell of a lot safer than a dirt bike. I had way more near death experiences on my CR500 than on my 250R. Lol, you don't suppose the difference in at least 2x the power had anything to do with that? 2, 3, or 4 wheels could all be safer or more dangerous depending on the rider. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 6:04:47 PM EDT
[#41]
Got to vote 3 wheeler. Grew up in the 80s.
Hond 110, 200x, 250R. Still riding a Big Red occasionally. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 6:10:02 PM EDT
[#42]
3 wheels are superior, any assclown can ride a 4wheeler.
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Posted: 8/5/2023 6:18:41 PM EDT
[#43]
No.
You can buy new 3 wheelers. Just takes a bit of finessin |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 6:19:08 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: There's a reason why your 3 wheeler is old. It's old 'cause they can't be produced and sold any longer. I think your kid would be safer on 2 wheeler. https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/three-wheeler-1-1024x555.jpg |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 6:19:38 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 3 wheels are superior, any assclown can ride a 4wheeler. That username though |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 6:22:50 PM EDT
[#46]
Oh 3 wheelers are dead boo hoo
You pussies - you get these guys to make you one out of a KTM, and it's street legal  2021 KTM 300 2-Stroke THREE WHEELER build finished! BVC Trikes |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 6:25:00 PM EDT
[#47]
Started on a 185s in 1984.
Bought a 250r in 1998. Both tried to kill me. Only the 250r made me realize just how crazy they were. I used to be able to pull wheelies in 3rd gear by just cracking the throttle. It would climb any hill I dared and I would win gravel road drag races against modified banshees. I sold it because it was always breaking down and parts weren't cheap. Totally regret selling it. More fun than any 4 wheeler I've owned or rode since. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 6:26:27 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: As a teen, I put countless hours and miles on one of these. Too much fun. https://silodrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Honda-ATC-250R-Three-Wheeler-1536x864.jpg Those were absolutely bad ass. My best childhood buddy had one. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 6:29:53 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: As a teen, I put countless hours and miles on one of these. Too much fun. https://silodrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Honda-ATC-250R-Three-Wheeler-1536x864.jpg Wish mine looked that cool. |
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Posted: 8/5/2023 6:33:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I went through 4 of them as a kid in the 70s and 80s (90, 185s, 200x, 250) I didn't die. Never owned a 4 wheeler, I moved on to dirt bikes. I can tell very few in this thread have spent any time riding a 3 wheeler, a hell of a lot safer than a dirt bike. I had way more near death experiences on my CR500 than on my 250R. Dude you can’t compare a cr500 and a 250r lol Eta yes I’ve ridden both How about an ATC500R?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YCZArbrfxMThat thing is just nuts |
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