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CobyLiam@reddit

Ahhhh, yes. Honda 110 ATV, Big Red. I'm 51yo now, it would likely kill me now more than in the early 1980's

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Klutzy_Winter5536@reddit

Fucked up my neck and shoulders at age 13 by tumping one of these into a ditch.

Boy, they were fun!

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MarchCompetitive6235@reddit

Dude, I rode mine an hour ago to go check the mail!

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SoquietPNW@reddit

in the 80’s I won a 1985 yellow Yamaha at my job selling Kirby vacuums. Sold it a week later because I lived in an apartment but got a chance to ride it around my complex.

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EnvironmentalBuy244@reddit

Almost lost a finger riding my cousins 3 wheeler. Fun times until then. Still have the scar and aches from it.

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BTW-- the pictured "new in crate" model has WAAAYYY too FUCCKKING MUCH air pressure in the tires (KINDA EXACTLY what made them SOOOO easy to flip over-- by the Honda manual IIRC-- should be about 3.5-5.5 PSI-- WELL FUCKING UNDER 10 PSI!!) They sold "special" tire gauge specifically FOR ATC's (or you just used a tractor one.. 🙄)

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SilentSniper062@reddit

Couldn’t stop putting my foot down in a power slide as I was used to riding motocross

Ram that thing up the back of my legs more times than I care to count

Fun times😀

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_plays_in_traffic_@reddit

the part that messed me up compared to mx bikes was that the kickstarter rotated forward. so if im just messing around and dont have mx boots on and the foot slipped off at the bottom of the stroke trying to started, the kickstarter would rotate back fast af and hit your shin and make a knot in it.

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_plays_in_traffic_@reddit

i had a honda 200x for a few years. it looked pretty much like this besides the graphics, the headlight had a small cage around it, and the rear fenders were shaped differently. it was pretty fun just getting it up on two wheels and balancing it while at speed.

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blueboykc@reddit

Yes. I wish I still had mine.

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1DangerousExplorer@reddit

Gave my self a good headache from it by flipping on to my back.

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PaleDreamer_1969@reddit

Yup and have the scars to prove it

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AwkwardDragonfly4186@reddit

Absolute death machine, loved those things...my little brother lost most of his right bicep to a barb wire fence while riding one.

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Iknewsomeracists@reddit

Damn. I saw a young kid about 14 do something similar on one hitting a barbed wire fence but it got his face. Split his upper lip in two. It was brutal. It was surprisingly not bleeding much though. His aunt showed up and lost her shit and made him freak out. Poor dude. Sorry about your brother. 😬

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AwkwardDragonfly4186@reddit

Dang, that’s crazy and thanks! He loves telling the story and showing the scars.

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Zerofuksyall@reddit

I know 2 kids who died on them

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Veritatem1@reddit

I knew one.

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Soldier8_1981@reddit

We had a Honda "Big Red" with cargo racks on the front and back.

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Iko87iko@reddit

The older kids would rent us younger kids their 3 wheeler. We'd drop acid and hit the trails. Good times until someone falls off the back or flips over the handlebars

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Accomplished-Beat779@reddit

Got one brand new in 1985 at 16. Flipped it going uphill and broke my collar bone but boy did i have adventures on it.

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d-rock769@reddit

Right until it helped crush my ankle

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AnswerAdditional8118@reddit

I had 250r smaller tires stupidly fast.

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landingstrip420@reddit

I had a' 83 Yamaha Tri Moto 175, a true death machine, the rake on the chain must been 40°. You couldn't keep the front tire on the ground, I must've wrecked it a dozen times.

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PuffPuff74@reddit

That’s an 1982 200s. At the age of 10, I got a 1983 110cc with no front suspension and a low / high gear box.

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landingstrip420@reddit

I remember when we found the high/low switch under the gearbox on ours, in high range it wouldn't get out of its own way, but God it was fast, it must've went 50 miles an hour

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somewhereinthenorth@reddit

Yep

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crone_Andre3000@reddit

These things kept my rural hospital in business

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razer742@reddit

I still have mine!!!! It works. Sort of....

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Worth_Drummer_2072@reddit

Literally took this out on some trails with some other kids without helmets back in the day did a wheelie the thing went sideways. Luckily, I landed in a creek and the thing didn’t roll on top of me. These things were unimaginably dangerous.

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Wolf359-Borg@reddit

I’m more interested in the vehicles in the background there.

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endosurgery@reddit

My wife had the big red. We had some weird 70s off brand. Low rider 3 wheel thing in the early 70s. Drove it up a tree and flipped it. Drove full tilt through a field and hit a rock and snapped the axel another time. My mom hated it.

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tigelane@reddit

Broken right collarbone……

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neoreeps@reddit

And rolled and crashed multiple times! We used to rent them at Pismo Beach every summer.

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ClaudeVS@reddit

I saw a video of someone doing skids with one the other day

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acecoffeeco@reddit

Yes and the 70 had no front shocks. Real fun jumping shit with that thing 😂

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Therealme67@reddit

And lived to tell about it

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knarfolled@reddit

I have a friend that collects them

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GamerDadofAntiquity@reddit

Hell yeah, I almost died on one of these at least 3 times as a teenager.

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bbark01@reddit

I had three over the years. A 70, 110, and 125. Had lots of fun with them and friends who all had them when we were kids.

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AlienProbe28@reddit

A kid at my school was killed driving on of yhese on a hillside when it flipped over on him. It rolled a couple of times and then landed on top.

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit

Had a motocross motorcycle and 4 wheeler, 3 wheelers only a few times. I nope to them now.

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RetinaJunkie@reddit

Looks like about to flip even when off

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MoeBlacksBack@reddit

4 wheel version

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Numbnuts696@reddit

Yes had one until about 10 years ago. Someone decided it would look better in their ownership illegally….

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Jackalope_Sasquatch@reddit

Yep! When I grew up in Alabama in the 80's we called them "three wheelers." Nearly flipped one over on myself and gave myself a good scare. Maybe it was user error, but it seemed to me they weren't as stable as you'd think.

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JWMoo@reddit

I did and crashed often.

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Flirtless1@reddit

Maybe but I don't remember exactly. Look at dem cars tho....

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emptythemag@reddit

Had one when they first came out. After tipping it over a time or 3, I learned my lesson.

Saw one a few weeks ago at one of the popular riding areas near me. It was in really good condition.

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Witty_fartgoblin@reddit

Ripped my scrotum on one at Glamis in 95

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spartanken115@reddit

I went flying off one a couple times lol

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LordRaven74@reddit

Wr had Hondas. My dad had a 185s, I had a 125m and my little sister had a 70.

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Jumpy_Tomatillo7579@reddit

Legendary tank slaps. The Wrist breaker

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Amazing_Factor2974@reddit

Neck breakers!!! Flipped a few!!

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Lastofthehaters@reddit

Hell yeah Honda 200 no suspension and jumbo tires. I can’t count how many times that thing ran me over while I was riding it.

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thisoldguy74@reddit

The closest I got was a remote control three wheeler.

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WrenchTurner84@reddit

Got a picture of my dad pushing me around the front yard on one of these death traps when I was about 4 months old 😂. Just old enough to sit upright and barely hold on to the handle bars. And when I begged for a dirtbike for the next 10 years after he just shook his head 😂

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Karate_Lauren@reddit

Yeah my dad had one of those and I almost took a header on one of our outings…it was fun though! 😊

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DominisDruid@reddit

Had a Honda 70 in 5th grade. Lived in a very rural part of Western NC. Replacement for my Mongoose when we left the ‘burbs.

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Trike117@reddit

My cousin on the farm had a homebuilt 3-wheeler that was dangerous as hell. I remember taking my younger cousin Hannah for a ride on it when she was 6 and she kept screaming, “Faster! Faster!” She’s 41 now and her kids do the same to her.

So many people were injured by these things that everyone stopped making them. Quadrunners are safer by a country mile. Maybe a bit less adrenaline boosting.

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According-Hat-5393@reddit

Not only did they quit making them, but Honda pretty much quit selling parts for them too (I tried to rebuild a few, and ended up welding the front forks solid, since I couldn't find any parts to rebuild the front forks).

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BeerandGuns@reddit

I’m in Louisiana and 4 wheelers are often in the news because of people getting killed. Running into trees, crossing against traffic etc. I know someone who’s a quadriplegic from wrecking one into a tree. And that’s the safer version. GenX really was out there trying to enter Valhalla every day.

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Trike117@reddit

Yeah, the 3-wheelers were stupid scary, honestly. My cousin’s got wrecked so many times it eventually broke in half.

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MoistBaguetteLawyer@reddit

I ran over myself with a Big Red once.

I was riding through a trail, and my right foot slipped off the peg And went under the tire. Next thing I knew I was face down on the ground while the wheeler was... Wheeling away.

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According-Hat-5393@reddit

My late Father was driving ours & hit a hidden loop of barbed wire in 5th gear. It ripped my right foot off the peg & under the R rear tire. It didn't pull me off, but I'm pretty sure it pulled/tore some tendons in my R knee.

Sadly, that foot/ankle under the tire was a VERY COMMON occurrence-- happened to me about 4 or 5 times..

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According-Hat-5393@reddit

My Dad and I had a 1984 Big Red 200ES. Its tires were maybe a little "larger." The thing that set it apart was a transmission with High and Low range (for farm/ranch work, which ours did a LOT of-- sprayed fields, hauled hay, etc.) as well as Reverse (probably the first/only 3/4 wheeler with Reverse).

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Maximillian73-@reddit

I had a '83 250r, loved that thing.

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RedHouse777@reddit

185 atc for my 10th bday. pretty sure my dad wanted me dead.

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DustyHound@reddit

I had the 250sx. I loved it. It got stolen and I was so sad.

It was definitely a skill. You had to really know how to lean well to not flip. Once you got it down though, donuts for days in the mud.

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bhewey206@reddit

Only in a big country

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Glittering-Rise-488@reddit

Yep. You had to learn how to turn that thing at high speeds. The guy I sold it to was all excited to finally get one. I warned him to be careful, he was going trail riding in the woods. He hung his knee out to go around a tree at a lot higher speed than I would have. Shattered his knee. He never walked right again.

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Laylay_theGrail@reddit

Yep! I flipped it over, knocked myself out and got a concussion (with low key amnesia). I was even wearing a helmet

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Magneto-Mark-1@reddit

Oh yeah!! Used to take my Daughter riding on it when she was a kid. Told her not to tell her Mom 😆😂

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matt71vh@reddit

No way those things were deadly. I drove a sensible machine CR480 and CR500. Yes I limp.

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Crixxa@reddit

Oh man, I skidded down our gravel road after tipping one of these as a kid. Fun, until it wasn't.

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MRC305@reddit

I have 2 1983 110s, first pull start. They have become barn queens. Both stiff have original paperwork, seats and plastics. I'll sell them someday.

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mishthegreat@reddit

Into a hedge multiple times the first time I tried, I was 10 or 11.

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nmincone@reddit

Super fun, flips easily.

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coolwon1973@reddit

Broke my femur on an 85 250 Big Red. I was 13. I was goofing off on a paved road and flipped it end for end.When I was in the hospital there were three other kids who hurt themselves on these things. As an adult I’ve owned two more and rode in a more responsible way. Haven’t hurt myself yet. It’s all in the way we ride them.

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Vegetable_Custard870@reddit

Yep those things on pavement were just " What the heck is happening and why can't I turn nor stop!"

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aspertame_blood@reddit

We had a Big Red! There was a luggage rack on the back that my brother and I would ride on while my dad drove us around what we called “Turbo Valley”. Great memories!

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Hour_Discount_5737@reddit

Oh yeah, still have it...

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SquareTowel3931@reddit

Wow, that one is mint!

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Glum_Season7904@reddit

WOW. Nice!

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Darkroom-Chemistry@reddit

Nice I had the same one and I wish I still had it.

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Hour_Discount_5737@reddit

Better than nice, it is immaculate!

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Ok-Celebration7935@reddit

Nice !

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harleychick3cat@reddit

Broke my foot on one of these by flipping it over.

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Several-Hat-1944@reddit

Still running mine. 250SX, it's a solid tank!⭐

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SquareTowel3931@reddit

Can't remember, is the SX a 4-stroke? Or a more chill version of the 250R?

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Several-Hat-1944@reddit

4-stroke, shaft drive. It's got amazing energy, and much quicker than you'd think. I'm 60yo, and impressed every time I run it. *Off subject, his name is Jimmy. Roll On 🍺🍺

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SquareTowel3931@reddit

Nice!

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Hour_Discount_5737@reddit

4 stroke

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giraffe-zackeffron@reddit

One of those things damn near killed me on many occasions. A combination of being young and stupid and having an three wheeler, it’s honestly a miracle I didn’t die on that damn thing,

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AltruisticAd7361@reddit

6 years old. Went to a not my family gathering on a farm. Me and my buddy were the oldest kids. We both got a schooling, I did the best, reactions, under standing, so I was the one to give all the smallies rides.. they would let us ride five or six piled on to the racks.. Goddamn I am grateful for my childhood..

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ThinkingThingsHurts@reddit

Yes, I had one. Only rolled it 4 or 5 times times. I have a scar in the shape of the muffler still on my leg. I dont recommend wearing shorts while riding anything. Helmets would be good as well.

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Potential-Dog1551@reddit

I look at the calf scar as a Gen X badge, I still ride one around sometimes and I’m amazed looking back that we didn’t all end up in wheel chairs. New parts are dirt cheap so I plan to make this one new again, but I won’t let the grand kids take it anywhere because I’m a hypocrite.

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ThinkingThingsHurts@reddit

I dont know how we made it to adulthood!

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Substantial-Chip-102@reddit

I didn’t have one but everyone that I knew who did got injured on theirs. For real!

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Worth-Canary-9189@reddit

Yup, myself included. Almost got killed on one.

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ZoLoftFTW@reddit

Me too. Tossed into a barb wire fence when the front wheel got into a tractor rut. Not fun.

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FakieManual@reddit

Yes, I owned a few of them. Some great times riding them out in the woods and through trails. So much fun.

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MisfitBulala@reddit

We had one of those to drag the infield after baseball practice.

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BigDelicious@reddit

Brad Wesley used to rock one of these at his lake house before Dalton came to town.

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Mindless-Mountain-51@reddit

I flipped one and didn’t break my neck…. That’s a win.

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jerryrigger333447@reddit

ATC 90 was incredibly fun

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MunsonSports@reddit

I have the scars to prove it…

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NotFYE79@reddit

Took the skin off the back of my calves a couple of times on mine. That thing was fun to ride though.

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FreeToBeYouandMe14@reddit

And flipped backwards on it!

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DividedStatesofFeces@reddit

Yes, have ridden and driven. Then...OUTLAWED!

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Glum_Season7904@reddit

Mine was green. My Dad's was red. He got pissed one day when we were riding. Could never figure out why he always used to beat me on the beach when we were racing. Then I figured out where the high low switch was. He never beat me again. I remember my dad was letter friend of his Tina, this fat chick, ride his and she dumped it into a big pool of water. And then there was the time when one of my friends broke his collarbone way up on the dunes and I he wrote down on the back of mine crying every time we hit a bump. Lots of great memories.

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TheJokersChild@reddit

Mine was green.

Kawasaki?

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Glum_Season7904@reddit

Both Hondas

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Willow_Alley@reddit

Ate shit more times than I can count on that thing. Good times 😁

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DorianGre@reddit

I had a 185s. Drove it all over.

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NotDougMasters@reddit

My cousin broke both arms on one of those at the same time. Plaster casts up to the armpits bad.

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Big_Cryptographer_16@reddit

Oh wow that’s horrible. Family member who was a tough old farmer type rolled into a ditch on one and it snapped his wrist pretty bad. We were in the ER waiting room for like 4 hours before they saw him and it’s the only time I’ve ever seen the man show pain.

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NotDougMasters@reddit

Yeah my cousin rolled in a ditch too. If i recall (~40 years ago) It flipped and he put both arms out and snapped both humerus bones. I’m sure it was the worst pain of his life up to and since.

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Big_Cryptographer_16@reddit

That just hurts to read damn

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Buckscience@reddit

I'd only ever ridden anything with two wheels. I put my feet down when I was coming to a stop and ran over my heels.

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TractorFan247@reddit

The first ATV I learned to ride on is my Grandparents Polaris 6 wheeler. It's still on the farm and still fun to run.

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TheSameDifferenc3@reddit

I’m be of those turned one of my best friends into a paraplegic

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ValuableItchy@reddit

Loved my atc. Used to play tag with it

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SuperJ4ke@reddit

Ran myself over while riding one of these when I was about 10..

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78rsabori@reddit

Yeah.. I’ve eaten shit on one of those! Born in 78’

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jrdogg@reddit

It tried to kill me. Many times!

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Excellent-Presence-3@reddit

Those were lethal, prob not to many still alive after riding one 🤣

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succored_word@reddit

No but I heard a story about a kid who got decapitated riding one…

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quantumsparq@reddit

One of those exact “Things” almost freaking killed me when I was younger.

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gberulz1968@reddit

Honda 185S. Thousands of miles. No wrecks. Wish I still had it.

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DapperDone@reddit

This was my favorite too. Sat lower than the big reds. Light enough you could hang off the seat and drift it. Awesome machine.

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Majestic_dong@reddit

I found a 110 up by my cabin. Redid the entire thing. I use it mainly for late ice fishing when snow is on its way out. Love that lil machine

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ImprovementKlutzy113@reddit

Looks like it just came off the showroom floor.

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wannabe-myself@reddit

Had one exactly like this as a kid. I always wondered what it would have looked like brand new, and you've just answered that for me. Thank you stranger, weirdly means a lot to me to see this.

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BlacktankFrank77@reddit

I’ve went miles out on Lake Huron towing a portable ice shanty on a clapped out ‘Big Red’ with aired down balloon tires. Vividly remember coming in at night with a group of friends and the ice had about 4” of water on top of it😅. It got me back and always ran

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_pamelab@reddit

That is the exact one we had! My dad let me drive it even though I was 6. My mom made us get rid of it after my 14 year old brother took a corner too fast and rolled over into a tree. I miss the reckless 80s.

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Educational_Panic78@reddit

I’ve had a lot of trips to the emergency room for stitches, and all but one were all in the 1980s.

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theelkhunter@reddit

Honda 185s here, max speed of 42mph. We drove the wheels off that son of biotch year round. We lived in Northern Minnesota and winter didn’t slow us down at all. Never broke any bones but sure end up bruised, leg stuck between the rear tire and foot pegs and the wind knocked out me. Upgraded to the 250r 4wheeler when that came out. I’m surprised I lived through the 80’s, wouldn’t change a thing. Good times

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ImprovementKlutzy113@reddit

250Rs are highly sought after

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Bitter_Ad_9523@reddit

Tons of fun until I crashed it. Fun time was over

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bjm64@reddit

rolled over easy and were difficult to turn

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bikingbill@reddit

I know of someone who got paralyzed as a teen on one.

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LeadPike13@reddit

The extraordinary fucked up X-Ray generator.

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One_Pouch_Man@reddit

"The Crippler"

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Machinebuzz@reddit

I put many miles on my 1981 185S. I still have it and my Dad still has his 1985 200S.

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TosaFF@reddit

My dad always did side jobs for money or barter his whole life. One time, he got us kids a Honda 185 3 wheeler. What a blast that thing was flying around the home farm where my dad grew up. Summer of ‘85-86, brother driving, me riding in back. He’s going full throttle through courtyard and down the driveway. After driveway was single pea gravel road, ditch and then barbed wire fence. I yell “brake!” He locks up both brakes, we slide off driveway, onto long grass slamming square into huge elm. Brother flies one way, I go the other. Both only grass stains. Front fork of machine bent so bad, tire was seized against the engine. When our dad got back from helping uncle down the road, he was so mad, he didn’t even hit us. Both of us believed we were getting the beating of our lives when he saw what we’d done. Loaded it in silence, told us to get in the fucking van. Drove us home, told to get out of the fucking van. Took 3 wheeler to a different brother’s farm. They fixed it and he sold it. Good times…

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BatAgreeable5559@reddit

Yup. It almost killed me several times. But so much fun.

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gnusounduave@reddit

What a death trap but fun as hell

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jstrong559@reddit

I know a guy in a wheelchair that use to.

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sveiks01@reddit

My friend jumped one and split a couple organs in halfsies. Dont worry hes "ok" now.

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JJD8705@reddit

Daaamn! Like his spleen and Liver?

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Eleatic-Stranger@reddit

A kid I went to school with died on one of those things.

I really wanted one, but my parents refused to get one for me. In retrospect, this was a very wise decision.

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DiscoNancy@reddit

Even got ran over by one too. Barely left a mark…lol.

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gotoline10@reddit

Def learned how to dive off that thing or else it was gonna be rollin' right over ya!

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autistic_insomniac5@reddit

I did. It nearly killed me on more than one occasion. One time I went over a hill and I launched several feet ahead and landed on my helmet. As I’m in shock of what just happened, it then finished tumbling down the hill and landed upside down on top of me and then dumped out the contents of its gas tank. The thing was a death trap.

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Bodieanddiesel@reddit

Had the 110 ATC. Surprised I didn’t kill myself with that thing. Good times though!

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Oldjamesdean@reddit

Me and my siblings had a 110 ATC, a 70 ATC, a 50 motorcycle and an 80 motorcycle. We were insane on these things. There were numerous injuries but nothing serious.

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SnooLobsters3497@reddit

My dad flipped one when going up a hill with me riding on the back. I didn’t learn anything because I got it on its side a couple of times later in my teen years.

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pinchhitter4number1@reddit

My uncle had one. I came very close to rolling it over. No helmet of course.

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XKD1881@reddit

Oh yes

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madlydia10@reddit

185S here.

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georgeyiii@reddit

Had an ATC70 as a kid. Moved up to a KLT 250. Good times!

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dwstinge@reddit

Yup

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Sea-Wave9114@reddit

Nearly died on the Yamaha version of this. Good times, good times.

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HackedCylon@reddit

This was the Honda ATC 200, and I think this is the S variant if I'm not mistaken?

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UKEE93@reddit

I did. Was a blast! Only wrecked once lol!

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Oldswagmaster@reddit

Currently have a 350x. Had a 110 as a kid

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HackedCylon@reddit

The 350X was a cruel machine. Big single 4 stroke.

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metoo123456@reddit

Lucky I didn’t get killed riding mine. Used to gun it going downhill on a road to see how fast it would go.

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Tensionheadache11@reddit

Yup - got a scar on my forehead from riding on one with my dad when I was little

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fuzz_nose@reddit

Yep, ended up in a ditch in the hills of Lima Linda because my BF couldn’t see well AT NIGHT! Good times…

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flashingcurser@reddit

"Lean the other way!! THE OTHER WAY...."

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Disfuct1@reddit

who flipped over on one of those? fun times

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TheJokersChild@reddit

Uncle's friend had one. I couldn't make a full u-turn on it and rode it up the side of the house, where it landed upside down on me. Had the bruise on my leg for weeks.

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Extension-Pen9359@reddit

Death trikes

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Extension-Pen9359@reddit

That burn kids legs, ouch!

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mrsroperscaftan@reddit

Hell yeah 5th grade Christmas present

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BalboaCZ@reddit

I had it's cousin the Yamaha 225dx. Great wheely machine, but tippy as hell.

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Ghia149@reddit

Took my atv safety class and learned on a 3 wheeler. Only time I ever rode one as very soon after they stopped selling them and they quickly disappeared

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acrowsmurder@reddit

No, but a kid in my class rolled one and was a paraplegic afterwards

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Mediocre_Wash2686@reddit

Dad had the big red

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Unhappy-Response-742@reddit

Rode one at a friend's farm place in NE when I was like 12 in the late 70s. Got on the wrong side of the crown of a farm road, almost tipped and managed a slow drift into a barbed wire fence... lost a lot of shin skin.

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Dan_Classic@reddit

I put one in an irrigation ditch next to an orchard and was briefly pinned under the bike under water. Dragged myself out of the ditch and walked a mile back to the house to get yelled at by my uncle for leaving the bike in the ditch. Lol

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groverlaw@reddit

Yes! I had an ATC 110. One time in sixth grade I was with my friend Jon at my house and I told him I’m going to order a pizza, you can ride, but be careful, don’t go to fast, and don’t go in the woods. Net thing I see while I’m calling to order a pizza is Jon zip across my yard too fast, go into the woods, then my three wheeler shoot out of the woods without Jon, tip over on its side and spin because the throttle was stuck. Jon’s head was bleeding, and he called his parents to pick him up. To this day, I don’t know if my parents ever found out.

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Past-Establishment93@reddit

Was trying to buy one today...

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shooter6684@reddit

Atc 70, 90 & 110… late 70s on my dad’s farm. Amazing

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HypotenuseOfTentacle@reddit

We were still using a 110 for deer camp stuff in the 2000s

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Secret-Ad-830@reddit

my buddy had one in the early 90s that he sold for a 4wheeler because he broke both arms on it. there also used to be one abandoned out in the marshland not far from my house. maybe ill go see if its still there although that was 30+ years ago.

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blamski@reddit

We all did. Only this of us who lived to tell the tale.

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gmwhiz@reddit

I had a friend paralyzed on a Kawasaki when we were 19. At least the Honda had the weight centered. On the Kawasaki the weight was more to the rear. He was going pretty fast and tied to turn. The front wheel just slid and he went head first into an oak tree. He got a settlement from Kawasaki based on the argument that they knew it was a design flaw. They drug it out for 4 or 5 years trying to find witnesses to say he was drunk. He's still around, 40 years later.

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DryFoundation2323@reddit

Everyone did.

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beefwindowtreatment@reddit

Rolled one towing my brother in his hang glider. Lost my shoe and still survived.

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scifijunkie3@reddit

Oh man I had one of these. My cousin and I used to pull each other on sleds when it snowed and there was ice in the roads. Fun times 😁

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Active_Manner_5175@reddit

Yep. I was riding on the back with a friend. Another friend up ahead of us crashed and we had to turn off the trail. Somehow, my foot got caught between the tire and mud guard. I don’t know how my leg didn’t break off. Scary

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Designer-Travel4785@reddit

Honda 200S.

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Keymod828@reddit

Kawasaki 300.

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GetBAK1@reddit

One of my friends ended up in pretty serious surgery after crashing one of those. I think he was 12. Something to do with the handlebar poking him in the gut.

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Potential-Dog1551@reddit

I just got one to restore, it runs and drives but needs some attention.

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GhostFour@reddit

I had a 200s. Rolled it, flipped it, raced it, sank it in a swamp. Always carried a spare plug for when I fouled the one in the motor. Funny enough I bought a 125 ATC from a guy that needed some cash. My plan was to let my neighbor's 10 year old kid have it since he's always hanging around wanting to do "man stuff". I showed it to him and he said "those things roll over easy and catch on fire". I told him I never had one 3 wheeler fire but he's actually scared of the damn thing. I contacted a local guy that collects and restore them. My 6'4" rear end can't comfortably ride a 125 anything. Oh well, I tried.

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Benzomatic@reddit

Yep through the mashes on the Delaware bay. Those things could go across anything and would really bounce if you had to ride off of something. Loads of fun

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Cosmicvapour@reddit

My collarbone called from 1984 to say "Fuck you, Big Red!"

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PersonalNecessary142@reddit

Had a "friend" that had one. Rode it a few times around the undeveloped lots in his "development" Don't remember much other than thinking that thing is fucking insanely dangerous.

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og_speedfreeq@reddit

I ran over my own leg with one of these.

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Wise-Trick-3608@reddit

I was the passenger and got my leg caught under the tire.

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MachineGunTeacher@reddit

Had one in the early 80s. I don't know anyone in my family that didn't get injured in some way while riding it. These bitches were built to flip and roll over.

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DougieDougieDougDoug@reddit

Dad still has it in perfect working shape! He still regrets not paying a little extra for the electric start.

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Main-Video-8545@reddit

Nope but my neighbor decapitated on one. He hit a guide wire and it took his head off.

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Dapper-Razzmatazz-60@reddit

Was this in Massachusetts?

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Main-Video-8545@reddit

Yes, it was but I’d rather not say exactly where or when.

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Carpinus_Christine@reddit

Yes. Many memories. My brother saved up for one just like it with his paper route money. We all had a ball on this thing.

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wayne1160@reddit

At the dunes in Pismo

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jamwin@reddit

yes rode these in remote research stations in Canada - prone to flipping but I was fortunate not to find out the hard way, great fun. Also the four wheelers, and snowmobiles in winter.

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Cheoah@reddit

Could bunny hop the hell out of that thing by pumping up and down on those bouncy tires.

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ConfusedWheels72@reddit

Hell yeah

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aumiket@reddit

My sister broke her finger on one when she was in 4th grade and I was in 6th.

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scienceprodigy@reddit

I rode one of these.

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Minute-Unit9904s@reddit

KX 80 ? Great bike ..I made the switch from a CR 60 to a KX 80 and loved it and my 1989 KX 125 was my favorite bike to this day

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scienceprodigy@reddit

Made the jump to a CRF 450 a few years back. Had a bad crash and tore my rotator cuff, then gave it up. Now I’m doing dirt jumping at bike parks which is a bit safer

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Minute-Unit9904s@reddit

Yeah dude the difference between 2 and 4 stroke is crazy especially if you hop on a crotch rocket 750 …I drove one a couple times but no way I could trust myself on it no way

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watch-nerd@reddit

Yeah, age 12, flipped it, got a concussion (no helmet), burnt had on hot exhaust, broke collarbone.

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Street-General-8041@reddit

Still have one

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DeadlyJoe@reddit

I was friends with a girl in highschool who broke her back (and a lot of other bones) in an accident on these. Luckily she recovered.

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Foreign_Incident5083@reddit

Friend had a super smooth blacktop driveway. We’d run water out the hose making the driveway super slick. Was perfect for doing donuts and drifting

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The_Alternym@reddit

Yes. Shattered my right elbow while riding as a passenger on one. 😵

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missbazb@reddit

Honda mini trail 70. Blue sparkly helmet. 9 years old 😁

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Brilliant_Activity39@reddit

In 1984 I had a Honda 200X and one day drove it through a fence avoiding the sudden appearance of a cow. I still have a scar on my hand from the barbed wire. God, I loved that thing.

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kperry1270@reddit

The things would tip over if you weren’t careful but they were loads of fun

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Drewzilla_@reddit

Rode Atc on Pismo Beach dunes as a kid. Almost died few times.

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arneeche@reddit

Flipped it over on myself and burnt myself on the exhaust 😂

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Enough_Equivalent379@reddit

We used to rent them at S Padte Island. Rode the dunes! Dangerous AF! The 3 wheelers could tip pretty easily. My BIL got a bad gash on his ankle from the brake lever, and that pretty much ended those adventures. Later it was with the 4 wheelers, running down the beach. That was a blast!

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MarcooseOnTheLoose@reddit

I owned a proper motorbike since age 10.

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wannabe-myself@reddit

Had a Honda 110, rode that sucker everywhere. Never wrecked mine.

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BubbaValentine@reddit

I had a yellow Yamaha from around age 4-12. Great times. Getting it good and stuck for my dad to have to pull it out his good jeans. 😂

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johnboy11a@reddit

Got one in my shed! The thing pretty much sucks ass to ride when you have gotten used to something with a suspension. But still a fun thing to check out from time to time!

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habituallyunusual@reddit

I had the 185S. I still have the scars

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tiny_chaotic_evil@reddit

they were far too fun to remain legal xD

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bon_motter@reddit

Yes still have the scars to prove it ….

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Toastmaster12343@reddit

I always had to ride with someone because I somehow ran my own legs over everytime I tried to ride by myself. 🤣

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LSpliff@reddit

I grew up racing motocross, I ran over my leg all the time on 3 wheels.

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Big_Cryptographer_16@reddit

Holy shit never thought of that lol. So funny that 90% of the comments where people say they’ve ridden them also include rolling over or rolling over something.

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OptimalRip4766@reddit

Used to jumpy big red all the time. Lots of bouncy unstable fun times

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titations@reddit

I flipped mine twice when I was a kid

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not_me_nope_never@reddit

And I still have the exhaust pipe burn.

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overabbreviator@reddit

When did they stop making three-wheelers?

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Big_Cryptographer_16@reddit

Immediate after my idiot friend Brian kept wrecking one in our neighborhood and several moms wrote a strongly-worded letter to someone important

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drugged_pug@reddit

Millennial here i have rode a 250R and 110. This was in 2009. I have flew over the handle bars and only got a bruised toe nail. My other falls only yielded some bruises. Guess I am lucky.

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Mnguy58@reddit

Yes. Turned like shit.

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T_Noctambulist@reddit

The handlebars were mostly for show, you had to tip it onto two wheels to turn off you were going more than 10 mph

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wizardwithgussets@reddit

Pismo Beach. Downhill at full speed was terrifying and exhilarating. Anything could happen

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moreflywheels@reddit

Yamaha ruled

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JasonMaggini@reddit

We had a couple of Honda 110s on my grandparents' ranch. There was one particular dirt road that had a good bump where you could catch some air.

I was lucky, I flipped quite a few times times but never really got hurt (helmets are your friends, kids!); one of my cousins crashed into a barbed wire fence and sliced up his arm, it was pretty gnarly.

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birdiebogeybogey@reddit

Big Red 250

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smoothallday@reddit

The Big Red 250! Nearly broke my neck on one. Good times.

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Turbinemechanic@reddit

I’m a survivor as well!

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Quaranj@reddit

Yes - GF's family in high school had trikes and quads. Had a blast on either.

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woohhaa@reddit

Rode and wrecked several.

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Beartrkkr@reddit

Right over my leg

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CakeRobot365@reddit

Every fuckin time. Mine used to ride right up my foot and hurt my ankle. They were just light enough to not break anything, but keep me limping for a day or two.

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SuperG__@reddit

Yep.. pulled us right off the bike

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CakeRobot365@reddit

Had one for a long time when I was about 13. Turned it over more times than I can remember.

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dianelanespanties@reddit

Hell yeah. 350X and a 250R

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EmergencyFace2326@reddit

I still have a scar on my right hand from rolling one.

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Important_Piccolo@reddit

Yep, nearly flipped one backwards going up a steep hill in the middle 80s. Never again!

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cindoc75@reddit

Yep and got tire rash on my leg after flipping it while waving to my dad. 😂

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geebeeuu@reddit

They were beat on snow days

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redwbl@reddit

Yes and it tried to kill me every single time.

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LatterGap1091@reddit

One of my neighbors had one and there was a vacant lot with trails on the corner. I was able to ride on it and took in down a small hill. My left foot got sucked in the rear wheel and I ended up rolling over myself. Most embarrassing moment for a 10y old. Early 80s. P

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Fibonacci999@reddit

Kid on the next block died on one at age 16. Sad but also not overly so because he was an absolute sociopath. He was so uncontrollable that police and ambulances were at their house fairly regularly. I was a few years younger and I’m convinced that the closest I’ve ever been to death was one day alone in the woods with him.

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Scrotchety@reddit

'79 here. Bucked by one of these when I was 3 or 4. Uncles huddled around me and shushed me and begged me not to tell my mom

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ogbuji@reddit

I was almost 12 and on the back of one with my cousin driving. Old farm road behind my house had large drainage ditch next to it. She was driving too fast around a corner and we fell into the ditch. Ended up with a spiral break right near the head of my femur, she was fine. I was in traction for six weeks until my 12th birthday. I already hated my cousin before this, just intensified that hate.

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Jibbajaba@reddit

One of my front teeth is an implant thanks to these things.

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NoBet8483@reddit

Fun to ride but the turns were a bugger.

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cre8majik@reddit

Owned, rode, flipped!

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soundsdistilled@reddit

One of these almost killed me! Flipped in one April 15th 1998; 17 staples, shattered wrist, thumb surgery and a collarbone injury that still gives me issues.

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txr2023@reddit

Almost killed myself multiple times on one of these. Good times! One of the many nostalgic items from the 80’s.

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GenerationX-cat@reddit

Yes at 7 years old I had a mini one. Flipped a couple times! Super fun because it was so unsafe!

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TempurmentalSam@reddit

First time on one I over-throttled and did a wheelie all the until my butt hit the ground. I held on and got dragged maybe 50-60 feet. We were in a parking lot just a few feet from a fairly busy road so I wasn’t letting go. I learned a bit of respect for that machine that day.

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Logan69_420@reddit

200S. My Dad bought himself one for his 40th birthday.

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Specialist_Clue_3168@reddit

My dad bought us one. It was a buzzed impulse buy. Mom was not pleased. I think I was twelve, my brother ten. First lesson was that they don't turn well on pavement.

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Fun-Sock1557@reddit

flipped one twice. one, head over heels backwards. one in an epic barrel roll. both ended on cruel gravel road. i don't recommend. in both cases, it was NOT the machine's fault.

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JohnMac67@reddit

Tri-moto 175 by Yamaha. Flipped it over a couple of times.

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biosfearmag@reddit

My Mom was working in the legal department of Kawasaki Motors at the time, so no way in hell was I allowed anywhere near one.

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stevencastle@reddit

I worked with a girl that had a brother who fell off of one of these and got brain damage. Her parents sued for a lot and won.

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myfapaway@reddit

Hell yeah, I remember my buddy and I riding on his. We were probably around 8-10yrs old. One time we went up some steep hill and the thing flipped back on us and put us on the ground. Fortunately, there were no injuries. Good times.

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yospeedraceryo@reddit

Hell yeah! 110 then moved on to a 200X before converting to quads.

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Walts_Ahole@reddit

110 also, then went to an xt125 along with getting a truck so didn't ride as much anymore. Still have the 125 and picked up a xt200 about 10 years ago, just to putt around the hood

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yospeedraceryo@reddit

Thats cool you still have the 125.

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Apprehensive_Row_807@reddit

I have a nice scar from one of

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Automatic_Project388@reddit

I had a lot of fun. I knew a great guy who was killed on one, I’m sad to say. Flipped backward on him and snapped his neck.

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379tuco@reddit

I had several of them, a 90,110, 200x and my brother bought a 250r. He was afraid of it and I rode the piss out of that thing.

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The_Man11@reddit

Remember the two fat guys in the Guinness book of world records?

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Vprbite@reddit

Got knocked out cold on one at about 7yo

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BabyBearMan@reddit

A few buddies of mine had them. My dad was a biker so he wasn't letting me get one of those. We were a motorcycle house, so it was a YZ 80 for me. Then up to a 125.

Edit: Holy shit, just did a quick check. They want 5k for a dirtbike these days? I think I got mine used for like 200 bucks.

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Formerlurker617@reddit

road one in the 80’s. Amazing i didn’t earn the “only gets coloring books for Christmas” injury. Should’ve.

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TheGambit@reddit

YUPP!

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imdugud777@reddit

I wan't lucky enough to drive any of those cars in the back. ;)

The three wheeler, wow. Take me back to the slate dumps please! A couple guys who rode with us had these. They were fucky as hell.

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ThoughtCharming8917@reddit

I had the 70cc model and tore up logging roads around our cabin for several summers. Grew into a 110 and my parents had a Big Red. So dangerous and so fun

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ItMadeHimMean@reddit

Once for about 12 seconds. Blipped the throttle and brought the front wheel up so, you know, no steering. Shot straight into a giant fir tree.

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DieHardAmerican95@reddit

Yup, ours was the 110. My uncle had a Big Red, then upgraded to a newer Big Red before they quit making them.

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Ben-solo-11@reddit

Yes. And they were outlawed for a reason.

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DCar060@reddit

My buddy had one. We rode that thing every day in the summer. My parents never knew

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Shag_Nasty_McNasty@reddit

My cousin nearly died on his. I had the Fat Cat.

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ASomthnSomthn@reddit

I had a neighbor with one. He got rid of it as soon as he got out of his full-body cast.

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sanderson1983@reddit

I believe they all died.

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2whatextent@reddit

I had one. Loved it. Never had a serious problem. You did have to keep its tendencies in mind though.

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FitProblem6248@reddit

I found that out the hard way, my 1st ride out on it. I was going about 20 on a gravel rock road, and figured I could just drift around an upcoming right curve; the curve wasn't that sharp really, the road was wide enough and (at the time) my confidence was up so send it. I received a valuable free lesson and found myself in a ditch under it flipped over (obviously). Needless to say, it's never happened again since.

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crohead13@reddit

ATC 90 You bet

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Lunchinator@reddit

We had the 200s. Flipped it and dislocated my shoulder.

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-Granby-@reddit (OP)

Remember the two wheel dirt bikes with the fat wheels? The Yamaha BW350

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Aggravating-Kale1837@reddit

Ozzy did.

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Basserist71@reddit

I got hit by a truck on one. Lucky to be alive!

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5ygnal@reddit

My big brother had two of these. I was 15-ish the first time I drove one. Holy hell was it fun.

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djjalil99@reddit

The cause of all the scars on my shins...

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HoseNeighbor@reddit

Yup, and liluckily drank enough milk that my leg didn't snap when i put my foot down and accidentally hit the throttle.

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CrayonData@reddit

I did something similar, I got pulled under from the rear tire crawling up my leg.

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potlizard@reddit

I can’t imagine how many stories that began with “Me and another 7 year old were out behind the saw-sharpening shop on ATCs.” could have gone south with dangerous/fatal/hilarious results.

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AEM7694@reddit

I didn’t own one, but did ride a few that friends had. Then one day when I was in like 6th grade or so, a kid in town tipped one and cut off a few toes on the chain. Every parent that previously let kids ride a 3 or 4 wheeler or owned one went full satanic panic on them and they disappeared from the area for a while. 3 wheelers never came back.

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Corpsey_Clownshoes@reddit

Yup. I flipped it the first time I rode it. My mom sold it after the first summer. I did not care at all.:)

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platypus5709@reddit

We used to go flying across our friends frozen pond on sleds behind it!!

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Major_Pestes@reddit

Had one flip over on me going uphill. My brother managed to run himself over doing doughnuts on it too.

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Evening_Judgment7203@reddit

Big Red

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RazorJ@reddit

Me too. Lived to talk about as well.

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c_r_a_s_i_a_n@reddit

Having heard the overwhelming consensus in these comments, what the hell were engineers thinking with this 3 wheel design? If you tried to turn beyond a certain radius at very moderate speed, it simply laid down.

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MetsIslanders@reddit

They were eventually taken off the market because of that but honestly you just needed to know how to ride. No off-road vehicle is truly safe. But we raced these things, motocross bikes, trikes and quads and I thank god I grew up when these things were available and there were places you could ride them. We left the house after breakfast and came back after dark and if we watched an hour of tv a day it was a lot.

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Zoopollo@reddit

Dad had a Big Red for ice fishing, wouldn't let me anywhere near the controls.

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Thomas15137@reddit

I did and lucky to be alive.

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WasLeftUnsupervised@reddit

Yeah my sister's boyfriend loved those things.

He was riding one up until about 2 seconds before he died.

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Capable-Historian392@reddit

A friend of mine whose family was VERY well off got one of these for his birthday.

I've had some fast dirt bikes (CR480R) which were borderline deathtraps, but this Tiger was another level altogether. Utter insanity.

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Upper_Economist7611@reddit

My cousin died on one at 16. She flipped it and it landed on her head. RIP, Christie.

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HotIntroduction8049@reddit

Fuuuuck some guys buy a fancy car in their mid life crisis. Me? 250sx, 84 200es, 83 200, 110 and a 70. I ride what my mood tells me to ride.

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prairiemallow@reddit

We tore around on these all the time at the farm! We had 3, and our cousins had 2. Just lucky that no one was seriously hurt.

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dickhertzfromholdn@reddit

Most dangerous ride ever. The video In a Big Country made them very popular.

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Igmuhota@reddit

Oh, the broken collarbones… good times.

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punktualPorcupine@reddit

Just going to turn… FFFAAAH-WEE!

There ya go over the handlebars.

Hopefully it doesn’t land on you.

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_Bendemic_@reddit

Oh yeah, on S Padre Island on the sand dunes. Wrecked and fell of then my dad ran over me.

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wirebrushfan@reddit

I rode one once. I asked it to turn, it told me to fuck myself. Crashed. Rode it back to it's owner and apologized. Never again.

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ccroy2001@reddit

I 1st learned to ride a motorcycle. When I tried a 3 wheeler I had 2 problems: I was used to counter steering to turn and I’d stick my leg out to slide and run over my foot lol. Thankfully those big balloon tires don’t hurt. I never tired a quad, they are supposed to be more stable but my niece once flipped one climbing a hill!

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punktualPorcupine@reddit

Those tires were so nutty, my friend would let people run over his head, he would wear a helmet, and they had to go slow, but it was still pretty wild to see it, the first 2 or 3 times.

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Skitzafranik@reddit

Still have the shoulder bruise to prove I rode one!! 😁😎

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Hogjocky62@reddit

I still limp because of it!

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International-Okra79@reddit

I wasn’t allowed to after a classmate broke his neck in 5th grade. Ended up buying some dirt bikes and motorcycles when I moved out. After some crashes I gave them up. Lucky to be alive. The bike ended up looking like an accordion but I somehow managed to walk away.

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Ok-Limit-9726@reddit

I did ,

Once…

Almost broke something, didn’t ride ever again,

Literally death trap!

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RCHeliguyNE@reddit

My problem with these is I owned dirt bikes so when a friend would let me drive their 3wheeler I would instinctively put my foot down to make a dirt slide - then run over my own foot. Never cared for them.

But the 250R was something to behold and respect

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RandomObserver13@reddit

So…I was probably about 11 or 12, early 80s. A “friend” had an older married sister and his BIL had one exactly like that and would let us drive all over the place on back roads and through the woods. My friend was a jerk and went as fast as he could. We took a jump once and my foot came off the peg and ended up under the rear tire…I still don’t know how I didn’t break my ankle.

I convinced my friend to let me drive it once by myself and rolled the damn thing off the edge of the road into some trees. Freaked out, had to roll it back upright, get it started and back on the road quick because we were supposed to leave soon. Honestly don’t know how I managed but adrenaline is a thing. Only thing hurt was the brake lever was slightly bent. I don’t think I even had a scratch. Never told anyone and no one knew. Last time we ever went up there, I think.

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StoutSeaman@reddit

Yep, I think mine was a 125. Lots of frozen lake use, plenty of tip-overs. Never got seriously hurt somehow. Which is something I say a lot about my childhood.

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CanadianExiled@reddit

My cousin did, rolled it on the first ride and we were all forbidden from using it. He had a collection of metal keeping his leg together from the incident.

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livinASTRO72@reddit

Still have the scar on my knee to prove it!

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huevosyhuevos@reddit

I think I spent more time under that thing than I don’t riding it

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SplodeyDope@reddit

Watched a a buddy get his leg folded in n half, the wrong way, under one. Good times.

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null_infinity@reddit

Still have the scars from 87', when I lost control and went through a barbed wire fence. Sliced my arms to shit, caught the strand that cut my chest open and pushed it over my face. Cutting my fingers to the bone. Scared the shit out of my Dad. He took a tape measure and measured from the cuts on my chest to my throat and said "9 inches boy, you were 9 inches from death!" Then he sat down all white and shaky.

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ThinkingThingsHurts@reddit

My dad's best friend had a son who was riding on the back of a dirtbike, the driver went through a barbedwire fence and decapitated himself the passenger was pushed off and wasn't ignored. He later committed suicide. He couldn't handle the loss of his friend, especially having to see it.

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Working_Farmer9723@reddit

87 feet is a long fall!

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Creative_Mirror1379@reddit

Honda 70 then a 110 three wheeler lol

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Substantial-Quit-151@reddit

Ah yes! The tri-wheel de-collarbone-ater.

The height of 80's bone breaking technology. Particularly nimble while turning while going downhill.

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Savings-Delay-1075@reddit

My very first job I had was a part time job at a marina cleaning boats and putting these together for customers buying them new. These babies were selling like crazy back then. Some weekends when I worked there they'd sell 5 or 6 of them.

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Rootin-Tootin-Newton@reddit

They were deadly, but fun to slide around on the lake

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livingadailyhell@reddit

Every summer we take ours to the dunes!

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AliMcLovinJr@reddit

Bunch of kids in the neighborhood had them. One family moved away and we never heard anything about one of the boys. Turns out he died in a tip over and the grownups kept it from the neighborhood kids. Josh was a nice boy.

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122922@reddit

Friends all had a 90’s with the smooth tires when they first came out in the 70’s. I bought a brand new 1982 Honda 250R and later on a 1978 Honda 90 for the kids. Spent many weekends at Glamis in the 80’s and 90’s.

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Duke-of-Glenmont@reddit

That’s how I broke my collarbone. Good times.

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TheOriginal_858-3403@reddit

Ahhh, the ol' Honda Necksnapper 250

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ChromeYoda@reddit

Hell yeah and it still runs great!

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Educational_Seat3201@reddit

Kawasaki 150 damn near killed my little brother

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crackerman13602@reddit

Had mine for 2 days (12 years old). Drove it straight into the culvert at the end of my driveway and bent the front forks. My dad said that when I figured out how to fix myself I could ride it again. Took a year of begging to get him to teach me how.

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Goodbykyle@reddit

You bet cha!

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Derff77@reddit

Of course not!

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NotRightRabbit@reddit

Yes, dangerous machine.

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UrsaMajor7th@reddit

Dad bought the Big Red.

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evilpercy@reddit

Had a guy in High school die on one of these after it rolled over his head, RIP Mike (80's)

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Robviously-duh@reddit

yup, uncle had one on the farm to check irrigation pipe along the creek... man those three wheelers were fun.. then the accidents started appearing in the newspapers and the aunt insisted the uncle get a quad instead... still fun

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iknownothingbutpaint@reddit

I crashed one of those back in the day lol

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Perfect-District@reddit

Didn't we call these atc's before atv's became a thing? Rember my brother hoping wheelie on a pistol beach rental and having his leg wrapped around the rear wheel as he tumbled backwards downhill. Good thing he got lucky.

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Pred-Al1en@reddit

In the mid 80’s I had a yellow Suzuki 50. I loved that thing. Within a week I was riding it on two wheels. lol

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Ok-Celebration7935@reddit

Had one of these bad boys lol

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saidcorp@reddit

There's my baby

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Vast_Maize9706@reddit

Dad had a big red with a tray on the front. The tray had a big rock in it to prevent it rolling backwards when going up a hill. Lots of fun.

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Flimsy-Researcher-30@reddit

Yep , threw my now deceased mother off the back who proceeded to get her leg tangled in wheel well and tire .

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quackman2025@reddit

My best friend had one. They were a blast in the snow.

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TasteIllustrious7585@reddit

And the Beach ⛱️

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saidcorp@reddit

Had the 250R. It was nuts. You couldn't let loose like a bike or 4-wheeler. That thing absolutely ripped for me as a 14 year old

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upirons@reddit

My friends had one and I remember being pulled by it, in the snow, on a big piece of metal that was tied to it via a huge piece of rope. If you started to fall off you either let go or your family jewels were going to take the brunt of being dragged. Of course, no helmets of any kind were involved in any of this - most sincere form of being a kid in the 80's!

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thealthor@reddit

A neighbor had one, she was my older sister's friend a couple years above me, so like 9. She flipped it a couple times, didn't get hurt luckily but it was gone pretty quick.

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Overall-Risk-5012@reddit

Almost died sooooooo many times. Fucking great ride.

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upperlowermanagement@reddit

200s lol my parents were so safety conscious 🤣🤣

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Sufficient_Ocelot868@reddit

My friend rented one in high school we went over and rode around his property. The brakes were GARBAGE(probably not maintained at the shop that rented it). Later his little brother rode it. Tore down their dirt driveway, couldn’t stop in time and hit a hay bale and launched into a camper shell that was on its stilts. Broke both arms.

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Ok-Abbreviations543@reddit

Nearly broke my leg!

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NotBornYesterday420@reddit

Yes, so dangerous

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mcdontknow@reddit

Still have it, still runs. First pull start. No it has not been maintained 😂

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CellistDisastrous467@reddit

Yes; I was one of the kids in the first class action settlement. Flipped one, burned my back, and spent a week in the Shriners Hospital in Galveston, TX, USA.

FortNine had a great video about these and the ban!

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Odd_Middle_7179@reddit

It was yellow! 💛

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bluenoser613@reddit

Yup. Just after they were banned due to legit safety concerns (they were justified), a container ship arrived in our port. A whole shipment was offloaded, brought to the dump and crushed.

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IllJackfruit6512@reddit

I had the Yamaha 125. Flipped it in every direction possible and a few that weren’t 😀

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OldSkooler1212@reddit

One of my friends had one of those death mobiles. I remember one crash he had with me on the back. A year or two after he got it his parents sold it and got him a four wheeler

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imtoowhiteandnerdy@reddit

Driving one through a saw sharpening shop, what could go wrong? ;-)

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EarlyLiquidLunch@reddit

LOLZ… exact same on. No helmet and rolled it with my cousin on the back. Nobody hurt. Done.

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Substantial_Way296@reddit

I believe they became too dangerous.. so discontinued.

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Carpedevus@reddit

Absolutely. That thing was fuckin sick. I had a great photo of me riding a wheelie somewhere. Wish I could find it

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Disastrous-Screen337@reddit

Every woman I've had a long-term relationship with has a 3 wheeler scar.

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androidguy50@reddit

I have a cousin that still rides one of these to this day. I remember when they were really popular, before four wheelers became a thing.

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Most_Maintenance5549@reddit

I remember when they were really popular and then they got lawn darted. They were just accidents waiting to be tipped over and kill people.

There was probably something to that. But they look so cool.

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Senior_Reaction583@reddit

We had 3 of various sizes. Good times!

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Glyptostroboides41@reddit

Here's a bunch of my buddies and me in the 4th of July parade - probably 1986.

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Glum-Poet5353@reddit

Yeah back in 85 buddy had a Honda 250 aka the widow maker lol. .

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SquareTowel3931@reddit

The 250R is a legendary machine...especially dangerous with the twist-throttle modification.

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Glum-Poet5353@reddit

Dude it was scary, if you didn't lean hard, you were getting pitched lol. .

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SquareTowel3931@reddit

Yeah, you couldn't really ride them passively, you either confidently knew what you were doing or you were in danger and only a matter time before you gassed it too hard (or not enough) in a corner and either got thrown or ran your leg over. The 250R was wayyyy too much for the average joe. You read all the stories in this thread about wrecks and broken bones on the little 70, 90, 110 and 200 4-strokes, lol. This thing was a purely made-for-racing-only demon amongst sheep.

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Glum-Poet5353@reddit

Exactly haha, crazy fact my buddy would uncork it straight header. It was loud AF, we would run it up n down the alley n then park it, the cops would be cruising the neighborhood. . We'd take it to the almond orchards n run the hell out of it, still have a couple exhaust burns on my leg haha good times. .

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ImpressiveCelery4992@reddit

My cool neighbor had one. It was a Big Red Honda and I was like 12. He said you can ride around this field back here, just be careful. Rolled 3 feet and ran over my foot. He helped me get untangled and off I went. Found a big mound of gravel and spent the next 30 minutes getting more and more air. No helmet. I felt like Superman! Then I landed after getting like 15 feet of air and dude is screaming at me “come here”. He was pissed, said you’re done and left me to walk home. I never realized how much I was tempting death.

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Gnarl3yNick@reddit

Drove one right into a hotdog truck at 10, no helmet. Oh the memories!

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msm70@reddit

My brother had a 250R that was powerful. It’s a wonder we didn’t have any major injuries riding that thing.

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hedge36@reddit

Jesus, I miss my 250R.

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Tall-Yard-407@reddit

Yes! They’re a hoot! Although one time I was tearing through some tall grass and I hit a stump which sent me and the three wheeler into the air. All I can remember with clarity was sky, ground, sky, ground, atv, sky, ground, atv, sky, and ground.

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Mimir_the_Younger@reddit

Hell yea

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IloveMe80@reddit

I rode one right into a fence. With my friend on the back. Still got the scars.

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wookiedberry@reddit

I still have a scar from one of these.

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Voodoo-Chyld@reddit

My father is a retired plastic surgeon. He said fixing people’s faces smashed by ATCs when they inevitably flip back and handlebars and brake levers land on their faces paid for my college.

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FarmerDave13@reddit

Still have mine!

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tlee1963@reddit

Me too :)

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BigSmoke74@reddit

Had one , they were the most fun ! Especially in the snow !!

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Z-man1973@reddit

My uncles had a couple and since my grandparents lived out on a large wooded plot of land, would take us riding… they were fearless too

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tspoon-99@reddit

What could go wrong?

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d_lbrs@reddit

Yep. But sometimes it rode me!

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Equivalent_Yogurt_58@reddit

Had more fun on one of these than a four wheeler. I remember the kits that came out that let you retrofit a different front end on it to give it 4 wheels.

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Elegant_Traffic_9697@reddit

Damn, my friend had one, we used to hold on to the back bar and get dragged along the grass for fun. His mom had a pink corvette

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secret-citizen@reddit

Yes, and I have the scars on my arm as a reminder.

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Japhet_Corncrake@reddit

Yes, very easy to roll.

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cointon@reddit

https://www.carscoops.com/2021/01/the-story-of-how-and-why-three-wheel-atvs-were-banned/

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LukeLovesLakes@reddit

Nope. We're all dead

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polishprince76@reddit

Absolute death traps. I know 2 people who died during a roll over and one who got paralyzed by getting thrown into a tree. I stayed the hell away from them.

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Turbulent-Today830@reddit

Yup!! Got the scars to prove it

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CompleteService8593@reddit

Yep, high-sided it and flung off like a rag doll.

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Stump303@reddit

Scar on my chin from launching it into a drainage ditch with my sister on the back and breaking the headlight with my face

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Alternative-Alarm-15@reddit

The 3-Wheel Sumbitch. Yes. And rolled one. Unsafe at any speed.

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Imbecilliac@reddit

I had a 200X that I rode the wheels off on old fire roads and trails. Fun machine but required a different approach to successfully ride without breaking bones.

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foon03@reddit

My mom supposedly had two of these bought for Christmas one year for me and my dad and then she saw the infamous 60 Minutes report on these and returned them.

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Sour_Gummybear@reddit

My cousin and I would ride around my aunts (his grandma) backyard pretending we were the Dukes of Hazard and trying to get as much air as we could. It was magical.

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Wildernessfan50@reddit

I lived for that 185S!

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Usual-Insurance-3843@reddit

A kid in high school with me in ‘84 begged his parents for one for months until he got one for his birthday. The first time he took off on it he flipped it and broke his neck. Paraplegic for life at 15.

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Accurate_Barnacle_16@reddit

I did!

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jaxknitsandknits@reddit

My parents still have ours! My dad's a mechanic and the damn thing still works. My parents have their grandkids riding it now days.

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Unready-Player-1@reddit

Rode one at Morecambe seafront when I was about 12. Had a blast. My 8 year old brother ran over/up his own leg. Still makes me smile now😁

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dysteach-MT@reddit

Yes!!!!! I started driving one when I was 10. I can’t tell you how many times I flipped that thing trying to go up a too steep hill.

My main memory was at our family cabin, right outside of Yellowstone. Once, I was cruising up the dirt road and a cow moose came out onto the road. The Honda 3 wheeler we had didn’t have reverse, so you had to put it in neutral to back up and push with your feet. (No, it wasn’t broken, it literally did not have a reverse gear.) I don’t know how I was able to get stopped and turned around so fast. Of course the story would be better if the moose chased me, but I imagine it was laughing too hard.

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Corey300TaylorGam3r@reddit

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Alarmed_Extent_9157@reddit

Had to use one (90cc) for work. Hated that thing. One bright spot was it was woefully underpowered and frequently got stuck in the mud but was light enough to pick up the back end to get unstuck.

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ilikemrrogers@reddit

My mom was a career-long 1st grade teacher. One year, one of her students died while playing with one of these things.

Every time I see one, I hear my mom crying over her student dying. He was a good country kid, she said. Didn’t cause any problems in class. Decent grades. Just here one day, dead the next.

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JammyDodgerMan@reddit

There was a 3 wheeler A bottle of Guavaberry rum And some trees in the night…

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Never_Dave_1@reddit

My grandpa had one. Rode it when we visited every summer. First time I drove it, my cousin was "teaching" me how to drive it. He was younger than me, but lived nearby, so drove it more often. I hit the throttle too hard, and did a wheelie, and lost him off the back. 🤣 After crashing it a few more times, I got the hang of it and would go flying through the woods nearby. My cousin was more experienced, but still managed to nearly kill himself at least twice.

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ApprehensiveAd5446@reddit

Yeah. They were a blast!

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apost8n8@reddit

I ran over my own foot while driving. Also I rolled it. Awesome times!

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Skarmunkel@reddit

Ah yes, the WIDOWMAKER (tm). This is the reason that quad bikes exist. They couldn’t justify the cost saving for 3 vs 4 wheels vs dying anymore.

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pigpen808@reddit

No, but I crashed several of them

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HolyHandGrenade_92@reddit

Yep, had one, a Honda 200-D, identical to that one. Could ride wheelies for miles, had a ton of fun on it. Too many people got 'em, got hurt being idiots, they got banned. I'd rather be on 3 out on trails than 4, 3 is more stable than 4

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gimme3strokes@reddit

Still have a few. ATC250R and a ATC350X. Fun, but absolute death machines to everyone that didn't grow up riding them. I also have a pretty tricked out Banshee.

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SquareTowel3931@reddit

Banshee is a certified killer. Friend of mine was in a "Halo" head/neck cast for over a year thanks to drunk driving his through the woods at night. Full speed, locked the brakes causing a stall, light goes out = Tree. Only more bad-ass quad I ever saw was a Suzuki Quad-Racer 500....with a twist throttle mod, lol. Thing would throw basketball sized clumps of sod and softball sized rocks just going normally through the gears.

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curious-thatguy@reddit

I’ve still got the scar today too prove it lol, don’t turn fast and don’t try and jump…. Great post and I can still see the scar.😝👊😎✌️

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Confirmationbias10@reddit

We had two three wheelers and 4 people so getting stuck riding bitch and getting thrown off like a ragdoll was part of the experience.

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LonesomeBulldog@reddit

A friend had two but they didn’t have front shocks. As result, the front fork was bent on one and it pulled hard to the right, so to go straight you had to pull hard and lean wide to the left.

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ChiknenPuffn71@reddit

Anything with three wheels is stupid.

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crashin70@reddit

I told my grandson you said this about his tricycle and he told me to tell you you're a poopy face!

Lol

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ChiknenPuffn71@reddit

Lol... Fair enough, I stand by my statement.

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clamdigger@reddit

Ural sidecar rig checks in. Doesn’t necessarily disagree.

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BWBHAMMER@reddit

I was 8 years old and ran myself over with one. Glad I had a helmet on.

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Different-Bag-8217@reddit

I grew up on a grape farm and we had two. We used to pull the sled behind them in winter. I can still remember crashing head first into the ass end of this thing. Thankfully we wore helmets.

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feathers1286@reddit

my buddy had the yellow Yamaha... didn't turn for shit.

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SquareTowel3931@reddit

If it was the 350 Tri-Z, that was a serious ride, on par with the Honda 250R's legendary balls. I don't remember any other Yamaha 3-wheeler besides that one. Friends older brother nearly died wrecking it riding it fell-send on.... railroad tracks...nothing like crashing at full speed on steel rails and wooded ties buried in 3" blue stone. It was a whole different version of road rash. By the grace of god he thankfully had a helmet.

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rolinrok@reddit

Yamaha had a Tri-Moto 200 with big balloon tires, but it was nowhere near the same league as the Tri-Z! As teenager I always wanted a Kawasaki Tecate, but probably would've killed myself lol

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Evening-Sir6460@reddit

Yep. Crashed on one too, like most people who rode them.

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TreaclePerfect4328@reddit

2 185s and a 250 big red.

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count_strahd_z@reddit

Nope, but they always remind me of Brad Wesley in Road House when I see one.

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texaspunisher1836@reddit

Yep rolled it twice. Gash all the way to the knee joint then rolled it again the same day the stitches came out tearing open the same wound again. Was so much fun!

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unclenoah@reddit

anyone else with any kind of motorcycle muscle memory stick their right foot down and have it caught up by that knobby right tire and nearly have their leg ripped out of the socket?

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SquareTowel3931@reddit

Yup. Only took a pulled groin and twisted knee for me to never do it again. My friends parents had those bolt-on nylon webbed foot rests installed on theirs so you literally could not drop your foot down.

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The_D213@reddit

I still have, and ride one today. Its a 350x

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Mk1Racer25@reddit

My buddy had a 350X back in the day that had a 401CC White Bros. motor. Was 13:1, and would only run on Cam2 or Sunoco Purple 114 race gas. It was nasty fast. He later put the motor in a 250X quad frame. Use to beat 250R 2-strokes regularly.

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SquareTowel3931@reddit

I had an 85 XR 350, my favorite bike of all time, even over my 86 CR 125.

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The_D213@reddit

Nice. I was a desert rat. Rode that thing all over the dunes.

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Technical_Code1148@reddit

Almost killed me an my sister on Mothers Day 1989. I was 18..sister was 18. She spent weeks in hospital....I did not even get a bruise. .....

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amery516@reddit

So it almost killed your sister but you were fine

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Technical_Code1148@reddit

Yeah... Still messes with my head.

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Sad_Percentage_4503@reddit

1984 Honda 250e Big Red. Quite the machine. Just sold it last year.

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Recent_Page8229@reddit

Bad being the operative word.

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Dogzillas_Mom@reddit

My dad raced motorcycles. These were forbidden. Too easy to flip. A little 50cc mini bike though, that was okay.

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TempleMade_MeBroke@reddit

Redneck friend had these as a kid and I managed to run myself over with one, slight hill and a grippy handbrake was all it took to throw me over the handlebars and it rolled right over me in first gear, that rear tread is no joke when you're wearing shorts lol

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SquareTowel3931@reddit

My brother was riding on the back and fell off, his pantleg got caught in the chain, ripped his pants right off and it sucked him under the wheels and spit hjm back out again....somehow only a few scrapes and bruises.

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Pleasant-Chipmunk-83@reddit

I got to ride one before they were banned - a little Honda 80cc 3 wheeler if I remember correctly. Since it belonged to friends of my parents, I took it easy and didn't wipe out.

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nosajholt@reddit

I wish!

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baconcheeseburgarian@reddit

Yes, these things provided two of my near death experiences as a child.

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llamadogmama@reddit

My fiance has and 85 250R (disassembled ) an 86 350x (also disassembled)and 86 250R(rare) that he rides. He used to race them in HS. It scares me to watch him jump them.

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joeyjoeskullcracker@reddit

I had a Honda 110 for years. I could ride infinite wheelies on it.

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SquareTowel3931@reddit

I had the 110 wheelie machine too! Traded a clapped 84' KX80 for it. Had a set of Vice-grips clamped onto the splines of the shift-shaft because the original shift lever was stripped. I'd be out on a ride and realize it had fallen off somewhere on the trail and have to backtrack on foot to find it. Could've just paid $10 for a new shift lever. Nope. Vice-grips ftw!

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Mere95@reddit

F-yea! Loved my 3 wheelers

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ghostrider4918@reddit

You mean nearly kill themselves on one? Then yes.

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BrutusMustangs@reddit

Death trap

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dorkus315@reddit

Yup. 1986 I was 11. Full throttle, no helmet, no shirt and cut off jordache jeans. Took a turn way too fast and was tossed into a patch of poison ivy and a huge rose bush. The worst summer ever in Hickman Kentucky.

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crashin70@reddit

The good old counterintuitive leaning machine also known the red painted mauler! It was so weird having to lean the wrong direction when turning fast so as not to flip it!

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BurritoBandito8@reddit

I have no idea what this even means. You lean towards the inside of the curve... aggressively on this one.

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Das_Rote_Han@reddit

I had the ATC110. The fear when tipping around corners or hoping the thing wouldn't land on you when you rolled. They were a lot of fun but was happy when the 4-wheeled versions started popping up. Now I just have road bikes.

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JWBIERE@reddit

Absolutely, buddy had one. I rolled over my leg on it.

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Harley_Mom@reddit

Yup tipped over in an embankment gor my leg caught in the wheel well and ended up with a big hole by my hip bone. Fun time.

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MuffinsMeridian@reddit

Yes. They were fun. You HAD to lean. Yes. Almost died multiple times. Including hitting a barbed wire fence at full speed while playing 3-wheeler dodgeball. I was looking backwards at the person on the 3-wheeler behind with the ball. Hit fence. Flew over the fence. Sliced my eyelid wide open, but magically no other injuries. Walked home about 2 miles which gave me enough time to figure out the lie to tell my (don't you go riding that weird family's 3-wheelers) mom.

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Sean_theLeprachaun@reddit

Knew a guy who died on one.

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desertrock62@reddit

My buddy ruptured his scrotum on one of these he won in a drawing.

Lucky.

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Realtor_In_Texas@reddit

Flipped or turned it over every time I got on it.

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keirmeister@reddit

What…you grew up rich or somethin’?

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excelsior4152@reddit

I flipped one scaling a sick hill, still got the scar on my cheek

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PopeInThePizza@reddit

The month I entered to high school, a guy who just graduated died on one of these.

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JustSomeBoringRando@reddit

My (much) older brother's friend had one. I remember them taking me out once when I was 6 or 7. And -weird random memory unlocked - they took me to McDonald's first and it was the day I was introduced to sweet & sour sauce for my Mcnuggets.

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belligerent_tortoise@reddit

Death machine.

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Immediate-Meat1762@reddit

I won one in a radio station giveaway when I was 12 or 13. Literally put in a single entry and forgot about it until they called me a week later.

Rode the S out of that thing. Some douche bag stole it when I was away at basic training.

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Oldmanwithapen@reddit

Still have a scar on my leg. Pro tip--don't jump them.

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Particular-Walrus439@reddit

Ah, the 185s

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Factor_Seven@reddit

I damn near got killed on one of these things. There's a reason they're not allowed to be sold in the states anymore.

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Dan-68@reddit

I wish. Hell, I didn't even have a bicycle.

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SinamonChallengerRT@reddit

"pay no attention to that line of incredible mopar machinary behind it..."

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Fluid-Engine3578@reddit

I have a scar and a deformed fingernail because of one of these.

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slappindabass123@reddit

I had a 1970 Honda ATC 90 it was green

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CorvusGraves@reddit

Almost died twice because of this shit.

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BreadfruitOk6160@reddit

I knew a guy that got a helicopter ride because of one.

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DovasTech@reddit

I rode one of those through a fence at a friends house when I was 9.

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Reddiculusness@reddit

Todd ? 🤣

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anyoutlookuser@reddit

We rode the shit outta these. The 70, the 90, the big red 200, no one around me got hurt which to this day still amazes me. Little brother had the Kawasaki version 125 I believe.

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denikar@reddit

No, nobody in our neighborhood could afford one. Couple of them had minibikes though.

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bernardfarquart@reddit

These were nuts. Had to lean left to go right, super easy to flip. FUN though!

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Square-Section-8418@reddit

Lived to tell the tale. My cousin broke both her arms on it though.

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Bahlore@reddit

Hell yeah, had an ATC, a Honda XR80 Dirtbike and a Honda 4 Wheeler, we used to play tag, pull sleds, and play cops and robbers with paint ball guns on em.

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KeepMeInspired1620@reddit

Rolled down a hillside on one. Still running as it sat on top of me.

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Huge_Many_2308@reddit

Smallest mobile death trap every made. The only thing that seemed more obviously dangerous was lawn darts.

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asmallercat@reddit

I think I knew 3 people who had broken their wrists riding these lol. Or maybe it was arms/collar bones? Broken bones in any event.

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FriendRaven1@reddit

Yup. Crashed that MFer at full speed into a bunch of alders. Cut to pieces but nothing lasting.

Never rode it again.

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Ill-WorldsCollide@reddit

I had a 1983 185s which looked just like this. Lots of fun and only once did I have a close call with having in come down on top of me.

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Prior-Chip-6909@reddit

Yes, my brother had a 185s..the last year they made them, I think 1984 or 85?

broke my first bones on it.

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thenewjerk@reddit

I have the pin in my collarbone to prove it!

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toromio@reddit

Yeah we weren’t allowed to ride those, even in the 80’s my dad knew they were too dangerous

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teddymoon22@reddit

Growing up, I had a friend who had one. I had a dirt bike and we rode together a lot. We only swapped a few times but I never felt real comfortable on them, I liked two wheels a lot better.

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Mk1Racer25@reddit

I owned several, in various configurations.

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Ckn-bns-jns@reddit

We had a couple at our Havasu house, dangerously fun!

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real_1273@reddit

Dropped one through a frozen lake as a kid, was epic fun to ride!

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Ok-Satisfaction3857@reddit

No but rode on the back of one, got my foot stuck under the wheel, and still have ankle damage 40 yrs later lol

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Careless-Gazelle-247@reddit

Flipped one. Got the same one stuck in a sink hole (I got it out). Went off an embankment because I was driving too fast on a gravel road.

Helmet? No.

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finkerlime@reddit

My cousins still have one and we ride it

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Civil_Defense@reddit

We had one at the family farm. When I was like 10, my grandpa let me whip around the farm on it and one day I moved my foot back too far and the tread on the tire caught the back of my shoe and twisted my foot and took the shoe right off. Scared the living shit out of me how fast it happened.

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Responsible-Bee1194@reddit

Wrecked one. How the hell my friend and I are still alive I don't know

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TheRododo@reddit

With the big balloon tires. We would ride down the river to the next town, catch a movie, and ride the water back home. Crazy stuff that Noone today would even comprehend.

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LandLongJohnSilver@reddit

Rode one as a passenger in the eighties, even that was nerve wracking

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WhiskeyCity502@reddit

I have two buddies actively looking for a couple of those right now. They're in their early 40's...they know not what they do.

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LONGVolSilver@reddit

They pop up on FB Marketplace sometimes, like some kind of time capsule gift offering.

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Uxoandy@reddit

I repeatedly ran over my own leg

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_Nutrition_@reddit

I was riding on the back of one with a buddy and put my leg down when I thought he was coming to a stop. He was actually slowing down to do a donut.

I got dragged under by wheel and got ran over. Then on his completion of the donut I got ran over a second time.

Miss those days.

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Uxoandy@reddit

Good times for sure. I think it was usually dirt bike guys that put their feet down.

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Exciting-Demand-8540@reddit

Yes. My. Cousin. Had. 1. But. I. Rode it all the. Time

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kaos95@reddit

I roamed a lot of the Wyoming range in a 1978 Honda US90 (my mom is digitizing slides from that era right now, apparently my dad got it 2nd hand in 1983, and I rode the shit out of the back country near Rawlins until we left in 1988, it also made the trip up to yellowstone with us in 1985.

My mom did insist that I wear a helmet, so I was much safer than everyone else. We left it in Wyoming when we moved back to NY, and when we moved back to my Dad's hometown my "Uncle" (dad's best friend from high school and my godfather) already has 4 wheelers (and an early side by side that he made himself).

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Nazz1968@reddit

Killed more men than Jesse James. I knew a kid who died on one over 30 years ago, and now he has a community center named after him.

I rode one once and felt much safer on my Honda 250cc motor-cross bike.

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Brilliant-Pie5207@reddit

4 wheelers yes. Knew too many who got hurt on three wheelers so not disappointed they banned them. My neighbor had a mini bike and we’d ride it too.

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tspangle88@reddit

I had two, an ATC 110 and later upgraded to a 200S. Miraculously, I never managed to hurt myself on either one. Looking back, I'm shocked my mom was OK with putting me on those things. Dad was more of a "eh, he'll be fine" kind of guy. ;-)

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Chemical_Evidence244@reddit

Front shocks! That was the fancy one

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LeeKinanus@reddit

I worked with the guy who sued Honda and got these things banned.

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Erok2112@reddit

lived out in the boonies so neighbors and brothers had everything from the ATC 110 to the monster 350x. So much fun especially in the snow.

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jB_real@reddit

Ahh yes. So many memories. Revving it and throwing it in gear so it flipped backwards and almost crushed me, running it into a car and flipping it, getting thrown off into a creek bed.

Good times.

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Serious-Mongoose-387@reddit

my dad worked in hospitals, often in ERs, so he had a super skewed view of how dangerous various activities were. i wasn’t allowed to ride any kind of motorcycle, 3-wheeler, or quad.

that doesn’t mean i DIDN’T though. i knew two brothers who had a 3 wheeler. they only crashed it once in a while, and as far as i know, never died.

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Olds1967@reddit

My dad bought one for my brother and I. I think we were around 13 and 12. My mother tried to put her foot down and came up with the argument that we would fight over who got to use. Meaning take it back this thing is dangerous. The next day he came home with two more. No fighting over them. Several trips to the ER, but no fighting.

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lil_larry@reddit

YTM225 and a Kawasaki 200cc. Don't remember the model though. I contributed to the downfall of them by breaking my leg on my Yamaha!

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CNote_89@reddit

The only people who rode those didn’t live to talk about it.

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This_Fkn_Guy_@reddit

Fact, I lost 2 friends a few years back when they flipped it backwards at one of their parents house.

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Medium_Roof_3745@reddit

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Letmepeeindatbutt2@reddit

I still do, atc 70. I put an electric start lifan 125cc engine on it. It is quite baddass

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KelceRant@reddit

'84 110cc was a blast in the snow, not so good on dirt or pavement...

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Fabulous_Law1357@reddit

Swapping the forks from a rebel 250 and adding ape hangers made them a lot more stable. Or maybe we were just scared to go more than 15 mph after we modified them .

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Financial_Leopard367@reddit

Andre enjoyed his.

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Animal907@reddit

1 GenX killer. Saturday morning PSAs that showed you how to shoot up were #2.

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CalifGirlDreaming@reddit

Yep, got stitches after driving one for the first time when I was 12! I had no business driving one!

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Honest_City_3512@reddit

I still have the scars from riding into a barb wire fence on old Big Red.

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HahnZahn@reddit

Big Red! My cousin ran in front of me while I was driving one at about 5 mph, and the brand-new front tire ripped a big chunk of skin off his calf, just hanging on by a little flap of skin. It’s one of those moments where time slowed down to a crawl. I remember him doubled over catching his breath, saying something like, “whew, thought you were gonna run me over.” And I just looked down at his mangled leg, mutely pointing at the bloodless white fat with a few little corpuscles running through it. He looked down, screamed and took off running home. I watched him run down that straight gravel road off into the distance, getting smaller and smaller until I couldn’t see him anymore. Kinda just sat there on the idling Big Red, stunned, and wondering what fate awaited us 12-year-olds. Eventually, I turned off the ignition and shuffled off back to his house. By the time I got there, his mom had it wrapped up and they were heading off to the hospital for 40 or 50 stitches. Has a big scar now. He broke my nose horsing around about a year later. Fucking Big Red.

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mg661994@reddit

Godmother got me one gift ever, 10 year old with a Honda ATC 70, 1985. She did get a helmet for me. Flipped numerous times, thrown from, bounced off, and crashed so many times. Bruises, scrapes, burns, sprains, but never broke anything. Sold it as a 16 yr old with 2 flat tires for $100. Looking back I'm surprised I didn't get injured more seriously.

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TinCanSailor987@reddit

125 or 200cc?

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dcpanthersfan@reddit

Broke my jaw riding one. Well, flipping one.

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Dangerous-Art-Me@reddit

Had a friend die on one after rolling it.

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yodelayodelay@reddit

Same, the whole 7th grade went to the funeral.

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coverallfiller@reddit

Super safe never a problem coughs

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Constantrage06@reddit

Ah yes. Core crashing memory unlocked. Thank you.

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notevenapro@reddit

I worked in a print shop in the 80s. We had a legal client that was part of the lawsuit against these thing. I copied cases and cases of accident reports and pictures of deceased victims. It was pretty gory.

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Its_noon_somewhere@reddit

My neighbour still visits our house riding one of these

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hus3695@reddit

My friends had one. We had a industrial area that had some hills and we would ride there, it was fun. Didn't really think or care about the tipping issue

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zebuli79@reddit

My dad broke his arm on ours.

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ShortestSqueeze@reddit

Anyone who had one of these is dead now.

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stirmixalot@reddit

We called them Big Red. Lots of close calls on those.

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-Granby-@reddit (OP)

Big Red was the one with the giant wheels. I wish I still had one.

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stirmixalot@reddit

I guess it helps if I read the whole post instead of just commenting on the picture lol. We also called them three-wheelers.

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Top-Nose2659@reddit

Flipped a 200 X a few times

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Loadtapchanger@reddit

We had ours for three days before my mom ripped it away from us. Three days = two separated shoulders, one scalp abrasion and black eye plus a broken wrist for good measure.

I grew up in a family of desert racers so this was a no brainer until it wiped out my brothers and I as well as half the neighborhood.

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UnderstandingEqual84@reddit

I am riding in a truck right now with one on the trailer

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justsmilenow@reddit

https://youtu.be/ilfu-WmRX_c?si=2YCCn2gbdoZ6kjDm

This dude has more than five videos on these things. He has at least three of them. Or has gone through three of them.

Junkyard digs good YouTube channel. Military mechanic that restores cars sometimes for free depending on the person. Sometimes because he's buying them and selling them, sometimes because he likes them.

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Character-Ganache187@reddit

Sure did. My grandfather bought me one before they outlawed them.

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sign6of6the6beast@reddit

The great paralyzer

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925doorguy@reddit

Family Friend had 2. Crashed it up at the lake house as a teenager buzzed on Zima. Still have the scars

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ChiliSama@reddit

I turned the front wheel to the right and it pointed that way but the rest of the bike just kept going straight. Right into the ditch.

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Serious_Lettuce6716@reddit

Nope. My parents would never have let me even if we lived in a place where a 3 wheeler would be useful.

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Shoddy_Tour_7307@reddit

Had a Honda ATC 125 when I was 12 back '86. Loved that thing. Had a few spill.but never get more than a couple of scrapes.

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mosura1@reddit

Flipped it on my first ride, no helmet. Babysitter freaked. Then I rode it again. I miss the 80s

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Entirely-Positive@reddit

Many moons ago while at uni, I spent a summer break doing a kind of agency relief thing (I'm a farmer's son) for dairy farmers when they were going on holiday and whatnot. One of them had a trike they used to bring the cows in for milking. I was used to motorbikes so was happy to tootle about on this until one morning when I put my foot down to turn the fucking thing, a I would have done on a 2 wheeled bike and the back of my wellie boot caught the lugs on the knobbled tyre. Next thing I knew, I was lying on my back with the trike some distance away going round in circles and a couple cows standing slobbering snot over me.

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Expensive-Function16@reddit

You didn’t ride those, they rode you.

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sherrib99@reddit

We had two, smaller and a larger one….i was a maniac on those things. Also had an odessey

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rilloroc@reddit

Broke the same collar bone twice

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Hefty-Squirrel-6800@reddit

It was Gen X's version of the deathmobile.

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SowTheSeeds@reddit

You guys call it a death trap but some of these kids survived, just paralized from the neck down.

All I had was a lawnmower and that's how I made my money as a kid.

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kapshus@reddit

Still have the scars but not the Honda 3wheeler. I came very close to going over a cliff when the throttle stuck at wide open and my left hand came off the handlebars so no clutch.

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Flimsy-Plankton-8974@reddit

Neighbor had one. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve been thrown off/ run over…

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Minute-Actuator-9638@reddit

I have still a circular scar on my shin from accidentally leaning into the exhaust pipe from the back and branding a circle into my leg. Good times.

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microhammerhead@reddit

Death traps!

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Times-New-WHOA_man@reddit

My brother had the ATC 70. The boys in the family had snowmobiles and my older brother had a motorcycle. All from my parents. The girls couldn’t use the motorcycle, my sisters were allowed to use the snowmobiles unless my older brother wanted to, and I could use the ATC if my brother didn’t want it, even though I was 5 years older. I remember he and his buddy nearly died on it after hitting a large rock. The friend flew off into a bog, luckily, but my brother was thrown into a freaking tree! Naturally he got a dirtbike after that fiasco.

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Toonces_Lives@reddit

Diamonds Are Forever

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Nobody-8675309@reddit

Yes, they were the most fun death trap a 13 year old boy could have

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Hungry_Investment_41@reddit

Everybody and their brother seemed to have one but me. I rode a snapper lawnmower

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TakingItPeasy@reddit

I almost died on my buddies 3wheeler maybe 3 times. One time his dad was screaming and yelling as he flipped it off me. As he got that unstable fuck off me. I realized he thought I had been crushed.

Crushed with a good time!

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Confident-Daikon-451@reddit

Nice thing is they were light enough to kick off of me as a 12 year old. Safely feature!

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pinkfootthegoose@reddit

Never. I knew they were unsafe the moment I saw them.

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Thagrillfather@reddit

That exact one. My uncle raced motocross and the first time he showed me how to drive it he said, “your dad had them put a governor on it so you can’t kill yourself. I took it off. Don’t be the reason your dad kills me.” Would give damn near anything you have it back.

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HighRootz@reddit

I can still taste the dirt like it was yesterday

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potter96@reddit

Oh yeah. Those were the days!

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BugImmediate7835@reddit

Still have my old Honda 110. Love it.

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Mtlkfn@reddit

My wife did all the time back in the day. She won't shut up about it lol.

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1989DiscGolfer@reddit

My best friend in school had Tri Rods, which were more lowly slung than these. I nearly killed myself on one in 4th grade. I remember taking a turn then seeing a bunch of blurry brown as my glasses broke in half. It didn't land on top of me, so I lived beyond 1982.

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k0alaFRESH@reddit

Yes! Had multiple. They were for some reason designated for the kids! I broke my collar bone at 11 one summer doing jumps at the river on one of these. Good times!

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Ok_Two_2604@reddit

We had a 3, a 4, a few dirt bikes, and an Odyssey. Then my dad’s friend flipped a 3 and died and my dad sold all of it.

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bungle094@reddit

I had a couple but they had 4 wheels. Even I knew I couldn’t be trusted with only 3.

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lisavfr@reddit

I used to own a Honda motorcycledealership. Pure joy to ensure these got restored correctly. Sourcing parts, taking the seat to the upholstery firm to re-do it. And! Being able to call Honda corporate to trace the MCO back and get full details on original sale date.

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Reddit_Only_4494@reddit

Take a trip to rural Newfoundland.

People there can make great efforts to keep them running and the parts exchange is its own economy.

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fourthofjulyness73@reddit

My buddy got a DWI on one of these bad boys….great story from 35 years ago to bring up in front of his wife

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ban-aipac@reddit

I feel like you had to be pretty drunk to get a DWI in 1990

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notjawn@reddit

Please tell me his nickname is Tripod.

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Chance-Night3198@reddit

My best friend's family had one. She lived on the edge of desert and some great hills and we and her siblings would be out all day on that thing. I think she and I were 10, her brother was 8, and her sister was 6. No adults. No protective gear. But all the luck in the world because we never got so much as a scratch. A few years later I remember a kid in my school crashed his and he was nearly torn in half (at least that was the exaggerated rumor around school). He survived but had to have a liver transplant and was never particulary healthy again.

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avega2792@reddit

The neighbors had one and I wanted one so bad. To this day I remember seeing the teenage neighbor kid pop a wheelie and 6 year old me thought that was the coolest shit ever. Still is the coolest shit ever.

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PlatypusDependent271@reddit

One of my cousins had one it was a blast.

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Away-Security-7689@reddit

My mom had one as her primary mode of transportation when we lived way up north in the 70s! This was the grocery getter and school bus and I’d cling to her back as a 3-4 year old toddler as we rode all over town running errands!

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JackfruitCrazy51@reddit

These things were bulletproof. We had an atc 110 and a 200 big red. As I got older, I moved to quads like a Yamaha blaster and DS650. The 3 wheelers made me a lot better rider.

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Joeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyy@reddit

Had a two fifty. All most broke my collarbone.

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Dazzling-Astronaut88@reddit

I had a friend who drove his into a recently added barbed wire fence line with a strand of electrical fencing. He was tangled in the fence getting shocked while screaming for hours before someone heard him.

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Traditional_Match_91@reddit

Had a 350x that I put paddles on and ripped around Glamis. Thank God Honda came out with the 450R.

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Ok_Impression6286@reddit

Yep. So many accidents and one hospital stay thanks to that damn thing.

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Outrageous_Film_3441@reddit

When I was a 10-ish I almost died on one of them. I was on a switchback headed down by a river and rolled it. After the tumble, it landed on top of me in the river pinning me down.

Never road one again.

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Pitiful_Hedgehog6343@reddit

had a 70cc three wheeler in 3rd grade, loved that thing

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notjawn@reddit

We used to ride 4-wheelers on our farm when we were younger and invited other folks from around the area to come join. When a guy with a 3-wheeler showed up for a ride up, my momma chased him away saying how dangerous it was and she wasn't going to be paying any hospital bills if he spilled out on the trail.

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fizzylove@reddit

Good friend was killed on one when I was in middle school.

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Prairie_walker@reddit

Yep!

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Only_Procedure_33@reddit

I think they all died on them.

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slade797@reddit

The big thing today are four wheelers/quads/ATVs. I see idiots operating these on busy roadways, like they don’t have a care in the world: no helmet, no eye protection, no PPE any sort, frequently with children on board. I’ve see enough ATV crashes as a first responder, many on roadways, and I’m begging you: please don’t operate these on roadways, especially at high speed.

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Peg_pond_gem@reddit

My dad broke his neck driving one of these. That didn't stop my family from letting all us kids pile on it and drive it around the field.

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Beginning_Key2167@reddit

Had a 1983 Yamaha 225DX, Loved it. Never got hurt on it. Used it daily even in the winter.

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filipkowski@reddit

No, my parents loved me.

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MissionDirect8529@reddit

My collarbone and my humerous bones remembers this "bad boy". Thanks to this contraption I can now predict rainy weather.

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Bubbafett33@reddit

Just don't brake and turn at the same time. You can brake, or you can turn, but not both!

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beermaker@reddit

We put thousands of miles on ours over three years near the Canadian border. We'd float across swampland watching moose feed, and run trails through the Smoky Bear state forest noting where beavers had dams & lodges. Before my older brother got his license with both parents working, it was the only realistic way to socialize with other kids we knew along our country road in the summer.

Neighbor kids had Yamahas, two 125's and a 175... we had a 110, other neighbors had a 90, newer 110, a 185s, and a 200s.

The only person we knew who got hurt on one of these was a young teenager who popped out of a ditch onto a road & got broadsided by a grain truck a day before school started.

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Think_Position5532@reddit

I know a kid’s whose cousin died on one of them. It’s crazy how fragile life is when you think about it.

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GemGuy56@reddit

When I was a teenager, I had the ATC 70 with the skinny tank. I rode it every day.

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Crafty-Recognition40@reddit

I've got two of these restored machines, a 185s and a big red. They mostly just sit in my pole barn but I'll fire them up every once in awhile and take a stroll. I've had so many different ones as a kid so it's fun to just have them around as a 50y/o adult.

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midwest-distrest@reddit

Where was this picture taken? Is this Heaven?

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Sawyer2025@reddit

Yes, best friends dad had "Big Red" and he and my friend (around 15 years old) were riding up steep hills and it rolled back on his dad taking his eye out. Dangerous toys compared to the 4 wheeler of today.

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baycenters@reddit

All the time. A 90 and a 110.

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ugh0017@reddit

My neighbor did, cost them the index finger on their right hand

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dennishoppersballs@reddit

Ah my first scar.

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Mobile_Aioli_6252@reddit

I remember when the outlawed them in the early 80's, my grandpa just bought a Big Red ( with the dumper ) for his farm and got me and my brother both m125's to tool around on when we visited. He kept the three wheeler, but traded the smaller ones for Susuki quad fours for us

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Majestic-Standard-67@reddit

185s? When I was 13, I nearly bled out due to a crash on one of those. Left arm open fracture.

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RealisticSherbet6740@reddit

I ran over my cousin’s leg and constantly burned my ankles on those bad boys.

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BoD80@reddit

Pulled my cousin off the back when he’s leg got caught in the tire and ran over he’s leg. Didn’t break it but man I thought we’d never be able to ride it again.

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RealisticSherbet6740@reddit

Glad I wasn’t the only one. I was so worried my cousin was going to rat me out to my Daddy. He told me if I run over anyone, that was an ass whoopin’. I still can’t believe it didn’t break her leg either.

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ObjectivePrice5865@reddit

Yep and I have scar on my neck to prove it

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HondaRS125R@reddit

Have a fake front tooth from my ATC 90.

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Klutzy-Ad-8422@reddit

…and you inevitably ran over your own legs when you popped a wheelie.

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Acceptable_Reality10@reddit

Had a ‘85 Kawasaki Tecate 250r that was so much fun! I miss it everyday and my knees elbows and right wrist click and clack and hurt everyday from the hellacious crashes I had riding it. I’d never let my kids ride that thing but man was it a blast. My irrigation job every summer we rode the old Honda Big Red put tons of miles on them.

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Scary-Ask-6236@reddit

Yes I did. Luckily never got hurt but I have seen some serious accidents with them

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Upstairs_Figure_6836@reddit

Into the back of the house.

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LDawnBurges@reddit

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And my brother still has 2 of them!

We loved our Big Reds, unless we flipped them over and had to walk back home to get my Dad…. those things were heavy. Good times though!

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AmericanAssKicker@reddit

Still have one, a big red.

I used to race three-wheelers starting from 10yo to 14. I raced a Honda 110, then a Suzuki 185, then briefly a Honda 250R before the ban came down.

I tried quads but I didn't like them as much. I have a Honda TRX 250 that I bought primarily for my kids and wife and it still doesn't have as much of an appeal for me. I enjoy it, but I love the death trap three-wheelers!

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Warning_Track_P0wer@reddit

My grandparents had TWO of them for us. It's a miracle we never got much more than some scrapes whe falling after jumping sandpiles or something.

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Key_Refrigerator67@reddit

I just sold a 84 200s for $800. Fun times

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freddy315@reddit

weren't they filling up emergency rooms?

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Nazz1968@reddit

Killed more men than Jesse James. I knew a kid who died on one over 30 years ago, and now he has a community center named after him.

I rode one once and felt much safer on my Honda motor-cross bike.

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Von_Quixote@reddit

The leg-breaker.

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jpattie_g@reddit

I think my dad literally owned that make and model lol

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PilotKnob@reddit

I had a 1985 Big Red. I drove the wheels off the thing. In retrospect, it was the best possible training for my future career I could have hoped for. I have an instinctive knowledge of how a tricycle based machine handles, and it has served me well.

They got bad raps because people overestimated their own abilities. It’s a poor musician who blames his instrument.

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BeerJedi-1269@reddit

Whats your career

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PilotKnob@reddit

Airline pilot.

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VegetableReturn643@reddit

Absolutely. We lived in a small town and a cop called the house after stopping my 14yo sister at the local and only convenience store in town. He lectured me over the phone over how unsafe and illegal it was to use but let me drive down and pick her up and even helped me load the tricycle in the back of the truck.

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A_little_more_left@reddit

Almost every weekend and holiday (Glamis anyone??) when I was a kid and into my teens.

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Complex_Sherbet2@reddit

I rolled one on my mate's farm in 88. Damn near crushed me, I'm pretty certain it was the closest I came to death in my life.

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rico_king@reddit

Ahh the rash on the legs was just great when that sucker flipped and your leg got caught!!

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Dizzy_Tough_4323@reddit

I still have the burn mark from the engine on my calf. Popped a wheelie, squeezed my legs together to hold on and branded myself.

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Disastrous_Heron4558@reddit

Heck yeah! I had a 200.

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Heathen_Crew@reddit

🙋🏻‍♂️

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19BabyDoll75@reddit

No, I learned from the guy that road just before breaking his leg in three places. I was like no thank you.

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SOMEONENEW1999@reddit

I feel like I am going to die just looking at that thing…

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JuggernautFuzzy4125@reddit

I only saw them tumbling down hills while we rode 4 wheelers

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jgnp@reddit

I was at the ball fields with my son during little league practice and we had a session in one of the batting cages that shares a roof with an equipment shed for our towns public works department. What did I spy there? The exact model pictured here. Still used to this day for infield grading and pulling a seeder.

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Reddiculusness@reddit

it rode me as much as I was in the saddle . sharp turns on hillsides aren't the best idea, or changing gears while going straight up super steep inclines. I had a blast thought , and crazy enough , never got more than a few bruises riding it 🤣

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Public_Proposal_3567@reddit

All day everyday in the summers of ‘82-‘85.

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kelso-73@reddit

I wrecked one of those 2 times. Would have died once if i didn't have a helmet on. Still have a burn scare on my wrist from the engine. good times.

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c_r_a_s_i_a_n@reddit

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Oh yeah

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Strange-Area9624@reddit

Wrecked two of these. 😂

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Electrical-Risk445@reddit

Halfway to being in a wheelchair. Those things were fucking lethal.

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kentuckywildcats1986@reddit

Kid I went to school with flipped off one of these next to a barbed wire fence. Wire cut through his side between two ribs and through his heart. Died almost instantly. He was only 12 years old.

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Lady_of_Shalottt@reddit

Sad. My brother crashed into barbed wire that just missed his jugular. Very lucky.

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digitalpacifier@reddit

Wrecked one, still have the scars.

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Dirtweed79@reddit

Yep, I was 5 when my dad got one for us kids and him honestly. I didn't know what shifting was when he sat me on it alone. Just gas and break so I took off full speed in first gear. He chased me on door but I thought he was just playing so I kept going.

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WileyCoyote7@reddit

No. Best friend was thrown from one and nearly died. Severe cervical fracture, partial paralysis that lasted six months. We were supposed to go riding the next day. It’s why I’m class of ‘93 and he’s ‘94.

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micalakap@reddit

🎵”Living in a big country”🎵

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properwaffles@reddit

Hell yeah. When I was a kid, a lot of people in Corova Beach, NC had them, and groups of kids would use them to go on "Rat Patrol" at sunrise, just jamming up and down the beach and around the general area (no asphalt roads, all sand). Still one of my favorite times in life.

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Total-Mushroom-9614@reddit

Flipped it within the first 5 minutes.

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ailyara@reddit

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and ive crashed it almost immediately

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DoubleExposure@reddit

I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took a Lawn Dart ^^^TM in the knee.

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warningproductunsafe@reddit

A few friends had them in the neighborhood we all took turns riding them! They were considered tricky and a bit dangerous but we also rode dirt bikes and minibikes and even built our own go carts from lawn mower engines!

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WillBrink@reddit

Didn't own one, but riding one as a kid was easily the highlight of my existence at the time. Riding one of those for an afternoon, shooting guns in the woods, exploring empty buildings, etc, was what a good life was all about for me. That's when I would go to visit my grandmother in the summer. Then it was back to Brooklyn for other "adventures" that were usually far less wholesome, but lets say, very in line with NYC circa 70s/80s.

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Wild_Aerie2647@reddit

Loved ours. Used it a ton! Did do some stupid stuff I got in trouble for.

But Mom and Dad didn't really teach me to ride it and ensure I had the strength to turn the bars so my first ride I hit the tractor attached snowblower and popped a tire. Couldn't use it for weeks until we could find a replacement. I think I was 11.

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rhythim313@reddit

Have ridden motorcycles since I got my first Z50 at age 5. The very first time I got on a 3-wheeler (at 12ish years old) I rode it straight into a tree because it wasn't intuitive to shift weight to the OUTSIDE of a turn to keep it from understeering.

My buddy thought it was hi-fucking-larious.

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Syinbaba@reddit

Had a 185. It was great fun.

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BasicTelevision5@reddit

I never had one, but I sure do remember the news reports (particularly 20/20) that covered the rollover hazard. Those left me feeling like I could be killed just by being in the same county as one of them. 😂

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Gator242@reddit

Yes, painful memories

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RocketSlide@reddit

Yup, rolled that thing in the ditch so many times I'm amazed I never was injured.

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Waesrdtfyg0987@reddit

I had one that I bought dirt cheap and it ran for a couple months but I had no idea what to do with it. Ended up selling it but flew over the handlebars twice

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chip11under@reddit

Drove this exact model straight into the center of a Y of trails and flipped it on top of me.

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HearingDue2119@reddit

I had one. Tipped it over a few times, and had it roll onto me while going up a steep hill. My Dad drove it into a pond at Eldora Speedway and I never ride it again.

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mad_dog1985@reddit

I drove my Honda 110 across ponds all the time. If you kept it running everything was fine. I moved up to a 250sx that I still own.

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Ok-Lawfulness-6820@reddit

Wow, yes I had the exact same one. Very fun but not exactly safe - especially the way I used to ride it. Eventually graduated to a Yamaha Banshee / 250cc / 2 stroke. But the sound of the 4 stroke engine on this trike will always be in my memory. Thanks for sharing.

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TheGr8Kazoo2@reddit

Yes. Girl in my high school hit a tree and broke both forearms! Double casts for months

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MzunguMjinga@reddit

My cousin tipped one over when he 12 and a the foot peg gutted him. My uncle had to carry him with his intestines hanging out and drive him to the ER. He lived and is epitome of Mr. Fitness today.

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Vandilbg@reddit

The one on the grandparents farm finally got sold after it had injured 3 different people.

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Chemical_Practice222@reddit

Grew up on a ranch and we used them every day. Hauled calves across the lap on them, smashed into cattle with them, rallied them around the place year around. Got hit by a pickup in snow and knocked off once, driver thought they'd killed me. Never broke any bones.

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Low-Individual2815@reddit

I sure did bud

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Broad-Anxiety-1271@reddit

Friend of mine in high school had one. I was riding it like a crazy person, got thrown off of it, somehow ended in front of it and got run over by one of the rear wheels. The coat I was wearing had tread marks on it for the rest of winter. As someone who has been riding motorcycles for 42 years, that was by far my closest near-death experience. Death machines, especially when ridden by an idiot!

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reallychriskelley@reddit

I got an ATC 125M for my 10th birthday in 1983. Sold it just a few years ago to a teenager down the road. Road the hell out of that thing and only rolled it a few times lol.

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ThePizzaNoid@reddit

Rode one when i was like 10 or 11. Had no idea what i was doing really. Its a miracle i didn't crash.

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thedavebot@reddit

Hahaha I had my first ever vehicle crash on one of these.

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Usual-Firefighter-91@reddit

And my second and third.

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sound_scientist@reddit

Yup

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silverbullionbug@reddit

I had a 200X. I was the king of the neighborhood.

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Odd_Dig4551@reddit

Yes. I have a vivid memory of a friend driving one of these over a campfire....yes, we were stupid.....just glad camera phones were not a thing in 1985. It was probably an 83 - 1985 model too.

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_fidel_castro_@reddit

We treated quads like toys but they were super dangerous, plenty of accidents, specially flipping over. Thank God nobody in my circle got injured, we were really stupid goofing around in the sand dunes, laughing when someone went out flying. Crazy times. And no helmets on sight

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mattbnet@reddit

My friend had one in the 80s when we were in high school. When my parents were out of town we skipped school and went to his place with friends to drop acid and drink tequila. We wound up doing 3 wheeler time trials around his property. When I was taking my run I tried to go between two trees which looked like I'd fit when I'm on the machine facing forward. But I didn't fit and hooked a wheel on a tree which sent me flying, Superman style. I hooked my pinky finger in the dirt on landing and broke my hand and damaged ligaments so that my pinky was 90 degrees off from the rest of my fingers. Everyone was horrified and pretty soon they all left (thanks, friends). I got myself home but had to ask my neighbor (nerdy across the street friend's dad) to take me to the ER since my parents were out of town. He was mad. I was still tripping. The ER was no fun. My pinky still doesn't point the same direction as the rest of my fingers.

SO DON'T DO 3 WHEELERS, KIDS, THEY'RE DANGEROUS! ;)

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Glittering-Milk-510@reddit

Acid, tequila and a trike. What could possibly go wrong?🤣

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mattbnet@reddit

Nobody could have predicted this outcome! It's like the tragic gasoline fight accident in Zoolander.

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Glittering-Milk-510@reddit

Those things were hard enough to ride sober. Tripping balls and riding would be the equivalent of Russian roulette. Chances are someone is getting hurt. Bad. That being said I fucking miss those days!

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

And they are blaming the 3 wheeler for the issues. huh.

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CityBoiNC@reddit

My buddy had one i had a rm80

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Mindbending818@reddit

17 years old right before getting married same day ran myself over than got married

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SanMartianZ@reddit

Oh yeah

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RedditSkippy@reddit

A neighbor had one (four-wheels, though,) and he took us on one ride. I thought my mom was going to rip my head off when she found out.

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ShowLasers@reddit

Yes! Omg is that the 185s?

No rear suspension and you have to lean waaay out when you turned. Man that was good times!

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AgitatedMeatloaf@reddit

I clotheslined myself on a barbed wire fence with one.

I have been passenger-only for ATVs and motorcycles since.

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automator3000@reddit

At my grandparents we had a couple four wheelers and a three wheeler.

The three wheeler was “disappeared” after one of my cousins flipped over the handlebars when he turned too sharply and broke multiple bones by slamming into a tree.

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Papa_jschoeps@reddit

Yep and I have the scars and trauma to prove it

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Migamix@reddit

Pictures to prove it, and the fact that one of these launched me 30 feet, clean broke my collarbone and trashed my hip. It was that day where I learned bicycle kicking does not break any kind of impact when that high in the air. Front wheel hit a deep hole, front wheel went up, back wheels his same hole and became a me launcher. I tipped the bike back up, rode side saddle back to the farm with a gammy arm.

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kramwest1@reddit

My 6th grade class alone tallied 3 broken arms on those.
My family was too poor to have cabin.

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somePig_buckeye@reddit

We had Honda Z50 and Trail 70 mini bikes. My dad thought that 3 wheelers were dangerous and would not buy one. My friend’s younger brother dropped theirs and had to get his spleen removed at 10. He was lucky that he didn’t have more severe injuries.

Then the 4 wheeler came out and he didn’t like them either because they still had the thumb throttle.

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NeilNotArmstrong@reddit

We had a Honda 110 and still have the Big Red

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panicstreak@reddit

Sold with a cervical halo.

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gatoenvestido@reddit

Yup. Good friend had one. Flipped it on top of myself and broke both collarbones. Not a good time.

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intensenerd@reddit

Riding around on Christmas Eve doing jumps. Smacked my face on the handlebars and got a black eye. Mom was so mad I “ruined” pictures that year.

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thelimeisgreen@reddit

These were the dumbest design. But of course we had one, the Honda Big Red. My brother and I were riding it together and rolled it on the dirt road in front of our house. Had a big bump on my head and concussion and a stern lecture from the doctor to my mother about helmets. Which we owned, but who actually put in a brain bucket when just goofing around in the driveway? No stitches or broken bones….

This did not make me start wearing a helmet for most things. That game later when I joined a mountain bike club in college and helmets were required. Of course these days helmets are mandatory and I always made my kids wear them.

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Sigsaw54@reddit

Still have that exact one, kids wore a three track path around our property a foot deep! Three boys and none with broken necks, bent an axle......too much air time and side ways action. It has a pipe and big bore kit.

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dontcallmeEarl@reddit

Yep, rode mine off a (short) cliff and landed in a tree. Good times!

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DogsAreOurFriends@reddit

Oh yeah. I lived a dangerous life as a kid.

Later, I was an ocean lifeguard and I was an instructor for these (and later quads.)

These are dangerous AF.

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MaximumJones@reddit

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viewering@reddit

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Rude-Ad-3406@reddit

My old college roommate had one. Sadly, he let a 10 year old ride it with parental permission. The kid flipped it and was killed in the accident

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qawsedrf12@reddit

was never allowed

at 12yo, a kid on my baseball team was killed when it flipped

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JediMasterKev@reddit

Honda 110. No helmet, no fear.

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markov-271828@reddit

Heck yeah. We had a “home built” three wheeler. Dangerous in retrospect but a lot of fun.

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GansNaval@reddit

Yeah I burned the hell out out of one of my legs on more than one occasion. Being little and riding on the back of one in the woods with my great uncle was always fun but the burns where something.

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flabackyardgarage@reddit

Started with Big Red, moved to a 250R. Still have scars to prove it..lol

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plattner-da@reddit

Started with a 200s, sold it and bout a 1986 200x, sold that and bought an 85 250r. Loved that thing.

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platypus_farmer42@reddit

I had a mini one in the 80’s called. Tri Zinger

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theHollowTarnished@reddit

Same. Had a thumb throttle. I hated it because I was like 6 and my thumb was constantly sore

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platypus_farmer42@reddit

Yep. And I could never keep up with my brothers on their dirt bikes cause it was too slow.

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theHollowTarnished@reddit

Same. Parents and brother had 3 wheelers too, until my brother upgraded to a XR 125. We had a collision and my brother lost a finger so we aild them all. Brother waa crazy with it though. Was yours blue as well?

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PhonyOrlando@reddit

In a Big Country, dreams stay with you...

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Playful_Ad9949@reddit

Most Gen X comment here!

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ThinkingThingsHurts@reddit

Did anyone else play tag on there quads? We had a moto 50 and a quad runner 250. 2 people on the quad one on the 50, the passenger on the quad had to tag the person on the 50. The quad was fast but the 50 could turn on a dime. Im really surprised we made it to adulthood.

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Cuddlehustle@reddit

I had a Honda 200x until I was 15, amd then I traded it plus some weed for a Kawasaki Tecate 250 3 wheeler. Both were fun as he'll and dangerous af.

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jaydrian@reddit

A classmates older brother had one. One day a we took off on it. Had a lot of fun, but we almost killed ourselves. 10/10 would do it again!

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-forest-fairy-@reddit

My dad flipped one on me. Those things were banned for good reason.

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Spare-Good-5372@reddit

Hell yeah, had a Big Red

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Fillmore80@reddit

My buddy's son has a collection of them and most run well!

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JJQuantum@reddit

My wife was on one with her big sister when my wife was I think 8 and her sister was 14. It flipped over and her sister was caught under it. At 8 my wife lifted it off of her. My wife is seriously awesome.

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Fillmore80@reddit

My buddies son has a collection of them! Most run well!

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tommymat@reddit

My dad and I flipped on one when I was a kid. By brother also burned his inner calf on the exhaust. Good times with on the death trap.

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TheHandsOfFate@reddit

My sister was about 8 and burned her inner calf riding behind someone as a passenger.

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mhchewy@reddit

I never rode one but a kid in my school was killed riding one.

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Puzzled_Bus_7505@reddit

My dad had me on the back of one, riding up a steep hill, it flipped back and landed on us. The antifreeze line put hot liquid on my hand, my hand turned white, and my dad was more concerned with the trike than my hand. I pushed him out of the way and ran down to the lake at the bottom of the hill and put my hand in the lake. In case you’re wondering, he turned out to be a pretty shitty parent.

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fm4139@reddit

I had the Yamaha 3-Z and a Kawasaki 125cc. Dangerous Fun times indeed.

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anarchyusa@reddit

Yes, so much fun but you couldn’t ride them like a motorcycle. Instead of leaning into the turn, you put weight on the outside pedal and let the inside wheel slip. Experienced motorcyclists were actually at a disadvantage because they couldn’t adjust.

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ceazzzzz@reddit

Yep, at 10yrs old. My grandfather supplied it, and took it back after I ran it a few times.

Apparently he seen something I wasn’t aware of. I remember it having sand paddle tires, and going up and down the small dunes near us.

Maybe an event occurred that has been blocked from memory, who knows.

Didn’t know what a helmet was btw.

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Bigot-Consequences@reddit

My neighbor broke some bones on his!

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PoisonMind@reddit

I spent my preschool days on my aunt's farmhouse in Michigan, and my older brothers would take me for rides on the back sometimes. Hideously unsafe by today's standards, but it's a fond memory.

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SageObserver@reddit

I wanted one of those or a mini bike real bad but never got one. I envy kids today with their motorized scooters, etc. But I guess we got exercise on our pedal bikes.

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Jwheat71@reddit

I tried to ride one but I couldn't get it to turn, I wasn't heavy/strong enough to counterweight it properly.

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monk13475@reddit

I was riding on one side of the back rack, friend on the other side and a cousin driving. Thankfully, we were in a sand pit when my shoelace was caught by the tire. Flipped forward and the tire i was sitting above ran me over. Sand prevented any major injury, but the lecture we received was worse, lol.

Another of my cousins was racing a friend on his big red, friend had his grandma's Mazda truck. My cousin lost control, ended up in front of the truck. Accident scene showed the truck was braking, then nothing then braking again. RCMP said my cousin went under the truck, hence the missing skid marks. Couain survived, but over 3 years of therapy, surgeries, etc. I cringe when i see people still use these.

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werby@reddit

I had that exact one! Purchased for use on the family golf course but I drove it around the fields behind my house all the time.

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atlasfields@reddit

Rode one of those, twice. Ran into a tree the first time. And almost tumbled down a large dirt mound the second time. Ahhh… the 80’s

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Simple_Finding9309@reddit

My friend’s cousin died on one.

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Playful_Ad9949@reddit

Everyone in rural WI dairyland had one. My neighbor lost a leg crossing the road through a ditch, hit by a car. My other neighbors hit each other head-on and one of them died. Can’t believe parents let their kids ride these… never understood wheelie culture…

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PuddinPacketzofLuv@reddit

My cousin was clotheslined while riding one… by barbwire. No time for an ambulance. Police cars were waiting at each Cty junction to provide an escort as my uncle drove like a bat out of hell while my aunt held his neck together.

Thanks to the doctors in Mauston my cousin is still with us.

My uncle junked it instead of selling the death trap.

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PinkyandElric@reddit

Yeah my cousin and would ride it on a little track off the trailer court. There were a few moments I suppose I was closer to a broken spine than I knew.

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CornmealGravy@reddit

I almost died on one

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Kaffine69@reddit

No one left alive to tell the tales.

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No_Mess_9814@reddit

Broken collarbone and several concussions

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PoppaDaClutch@reddit

250R FTW

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wellpaidscientist@reddit

Yes. Death Trap. I'll take the 'cuda on the right, though.

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IamGypsyStarr@reddit

Husband has one in the garage right now.

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Odditeee@reddit

No, but we had 2 Suzuki Quadrunners in the early ‘80s. A 150 a 250. Didn’t have to shift the 150 so that was great for the kids. Lived on Cape Henry with lots of Dunes and coastal forests to ride through. (Most of where we rode is all developed now.)

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BabyKing5865@reddit

I had the Honda ATC200s in Junior High- built trails with jumps and berms out in the woods. Then they started a housing development and the cops started bringing me home. Had to sell it for an Apple iie.

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Inside-Living2442@reddit

Man, my family was cursed by our three wheeler...all of us had incidents. I slipped into a pond sideways. My brother caught it in a tree after he rode it over a small bridge over the same pond. My sister managed to ride it into a corn field ..

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klippDagga@reddit

Had a 110 as a kid and now own a Honda 350x.

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smokywater50@reddit

Ahh the great 3 wheeler, I loved them, but I never owned 1 before they were made illegal, probably a good thing because I would have killed my self on 1 for sure

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Professor_McWeed@reddit

rode one quickly up a pretty steep dirt hill with my friend on the back. I turned the wheel at the top to catch the trail but there was too much weight in the back and the momentum picked the front up just enough so I had no traction. Straight into a tree. No injuries to us and minimal to the atv. I learned me some basic physics that day.

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coci222@reddit

My neighbor had that three wheeler, we got a 4 wheeler because they were safer

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Catchphrase1228@reddit

I was a dirt bike guy. I remember the exact gravel parking lot I decided to try and ride one of those. I remember putting my foot down to turn, like I would on a dirt bike. Proceeded to have my foot get run over and pull me off the thing. Damn that hurt but I somehow walked away with no injuries other than my 14 year old pride.

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theHollowTarnished@reddit

My mom had that exact model, I had a trizinger, brother had another Honda, dad had a Yamaha. Yes, we rode 3 wheelers.

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ForwardSlash813@reddit

185S and it was fan-freaking-tastic for the times. Took it everywhere.

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Many_Taro_58@reddit

I had one with metal fenders. Called a Sasquatch. Loved that thing but had to push it home quite a bit.

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bemenaker@reddit

Never had one, but had lots of friends with them. It wasn't a matter of if they were going to get hurt, but when. I've ridden on them a few times, but damn those things were dangerous.

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Ahimew@reddit

We had one and it looked exactly like this. I was 7 and my sister was older and would never let me drive, but her favorite thing to do was see how long I could hold on while she drove like a bat outta hell. Good times!

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bryancald@reddit

Don’t forget to put your leg down when turning!

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Mindless-Baker-7757@reddit

The broken one or the good one?

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drunkenfool@reddit

My friend had one and we would both ride it at the same time, usually me on the back. We wrecked after going over a bump, the ATC ended up on top of us, and the exhaust pipe was pressing against my shoe. It quickly melted through the top of my shoe, I believe I had Kmart ‘Traxx’ shoes which had a spongy foam top. I managed to pull my foot out before it reached my skin, there was a big melted hole in the top of my brand new shoe exposing my toes to the world. I can’t remember the excuse I gave my parents, but I’m sure it didn’t fly. I was probably 8 at this time.

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xt0rt@reddit

Hells yeah! I had a Yamaha(I think, it was yellow) but I think it was only 50ccs. We had a large gravel parking lot behind our house and I used to tear it up back there.

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TX_Wanderer_1975@reddit

Somehow I even remember the jingle from the commercial when these came out: "Honda ATC! Takes you where you want to be!"

They were later rebranded to ATVs and they added a 4th wheel...

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mojdojo@reddit

Yup, broke my arm after it dumped and then ran me over.

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napperb@reddit

Had the 200s . Rode all the time. Rolled a few times. But i never died. At least i dont remember dying. Almost got the 250r, but that was the holy grail at the time.

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Specialist_Cellist_8@reddit

How the Honda 125 that my family owned in the 1980s didn't produce any fatalities or even serious injuries is astounding.

I flipped it several times - no helmet, no supervision.

WTF were my parents thinking?

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b-lincoln@reddit

My neighbor had one. He would do one wheeled cat walks down the street. I had a dirt bike.

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mxpower@reddit

I had the holy grail 250r and it was fitted a reed kit, big bore and pipe, it would pull the front wheel at around 80 mph.

Sadly sold it a couple decades ago but man, what a memory. All I can say is they require a real skill to drive, you HAVE to throw it around with throttle, not for the faint of heart.

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vulgrin@reddit

Everyone I knew, knew someone who knew someone who had died riding one.

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elphaba00@reddit

A few years ago, one of my classmates lost her daughter in a four-wheeler accident. She and a friend were riding at the same time and got flung off. The friend got a broken arm. The daughter hit the ground and never woke up.

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largos7289@reddit

You mean death traps? no man i haven't almost lost a leg to that... lol

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Komaisnotsalty@reddit

Totally did and nearly died. There's a reason those suckers got banned.

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StepUpYourLife@reddit

My friend did! Only person I know that broke their collar bone 3 times.

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Maniac1978@reddit

Grandpa had a Big Red in the mid 90s. He showed me how easy it was to get it up on one rear wheel. I used to run that thing at 55 down the highway. No helmet.

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elphaba00@reddit

Not me, but my husband. His parents owned a rural property and he'd go tear-assing around on it. He wasn't even a teenager yet. He also had a go-cart that sat low to the ground and could go really fast. One friend said it was a death trap.

One of my friends said her brother flipped theirs. He walked away fine, but the 3-wheeler was broke enough that it wouldn't go up into the higher gears. Their dad wouldn't fix it. He said that was the price they'd have to pay for driving it like that and breaking it.

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Silver_Daikon6974@reddit

Yep

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karen_boyer@reddit

Had the two-wheeler which was much safer. Survived all wrecks (but RIP favorite 6th grade jeans).

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wandernwade@reddit

A relative bought one when I was in junior high, for me to ride when I came over. It was super fun!! 😄 No helmet, though. 💀

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Sabres00@reddit

Sure did.

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groundhogcow@reddit

Flipped over and landed on top of me cut my tongue open and knocked out a tooth.

Fun times

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MarkTheDuckHunter@reddit

I rode one all the time as a kid. And I do know somebody who died riding one.

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Exciting_Pass_6344@reddit

Got run over by my friend when I was about 11. My brother’s friend almost died when his rolled over on him. Good times…

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Angelas-Merkin@reddit

A family that’s always been friends of my family lost their eldest son when he rolled one of these death traps over.

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secderpsi@reddit

Oh yeah. No helmet, driving 45 mph down the gravel driveway. Used to get it on two wheels and ride for days like that.

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the_drum_doctor@reddit

When I was a kid, my cousins back in Nebraska had these for checking irrigation pipes for growing corn. I thought they were so cool. Then they let me ride one and I promptly put it in the ditch.

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dspip@reddit

A neighbor’s kid died when he flipped his. They look like so much more fun than the quads.

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Stereo_Jungle_Child@reddit

My neighbor had one of these...and we both crashed it multiple times.

This thing just added to my list of vehicles I've crashed or got kicked off in my life: bicycle, roller skates, go-cart, skateboard, horse, motorcycle, 3-wheeler, snowmobile, boat, car.

I have a lot of scars. :)

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thirsty_mcsurly@reddit

Got really good at jumping off one when that back wheel came up off the ground too.

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OldDude1391@reddit

Gotta lean into it and hang on. lol

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Sensitive_Diamond328@reddit

We used to ride those all over the place - the roads, the woods, whatever. So great.

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OldDude1391@reddit

Had a Honda 185s as an early teen. No front suspension and would fly. Helmet? We don’t need no stinking helmet. Good times.

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SenseiCue@reddit

We had one, briefly. It was a death trap.

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dry_sockets@reddit

ha - in a true 80s moment, a neighbor let me and my delinquent friend ride his, on his property, with zero supervision. didn’t call my parents, no helmets. we just walked up on saturday afternoon and said “hey mister, can we ride your atv?”

he only came back outside when we did a wheelie to about 89 degrees to the ground. just told us to take it easy, went back inside. i still remember looking straight up at the sky with my hand on the throttle. i think i was 13.

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