Well I have been addicted to trikes for about 43 years and have done a lot of play and racing and on the street and off road and I love the speed and the handling of a great running trike.
My first trike race was out in the Mohave Desert and their were about 50 trikes there I was riding a little 5 HP Briggs engine trike that was built by the man who I bought my store from Bud Berry. This was about the time when Honda brought out the first trike. I tried it once and didn't like it at all and one that caught my eye was an 8 HP Dune Gote it was well built and had a bigger engine
that first race was fun but it just set the hooks into me to find something better and so I ended up being a Tri-Sport dealer and they had the goods. Al Sport the parent company of Tri Sport did some experimental project to build up their reputation and one project was to build a bit trike to race in the Baja 1000 down in Mexico. So the built up a heavy duty fully suspended trike with a huge 600CC Herth snow mobile engine and it would just fly at over 130 MPH so the hired a professional off road driver and went out to pre-run the course and this big trike went off the top of a hill and it came down out of control and a 2 point landing and did many flips, rolls and totally destroyed that trike and some how the driver was not hurt too bad but that was enough for them to go back to the drawing board and gave up that idea.
I raced three times in the Barstow To Vegas off Road race that was about 175 miles long and I never even came close to finishing but still had lots of fun in the efforts. Spent lots of time and money and I have had a Tri-Sport on top of me and so the nick name of Killer was earned. I have been right around 100 on the open power line roads on that trike and it is very thrilling but your butt is so tight you can't even fart. So remember this not all landing are perfect, But enjoy your rides.
I will say I love telling the stories of the fun and adventures of being a triker and I have a lot of them.
Steve
My first trike race was out in the Mohave Desert and their were about 50 trikes there I was riding a little 5 HP Briggs engine trike that was built by the man who I bought my store from Bud Berry. This was about the time when Honda brought out the first trike. I tried it once and didn't like it at all and one that caught my eye was an 8 HP Dune Gote it was well built and had a bigger engine
that first race was fun but it just set the hooks into me to find something better and so I ended up being a Tri-Sport dealer and they had the goods. Al Sport the parent company of Tri Sport did some experimental project to build up their reputation and one project was to build a bit trike to race in the Baja 1000 down in Mexico. So the built up a heavy duty fully suspended trike with a huge 600CC Herth snow mobile engine and it would just fly at over 130 MPH so the hired a professional off road driver and went out to pre-run the course and this big trike went off the top of a hill and it came down out of control and a 2 point landing and did many flips, rolls and totally destroyed that trike and some how the driver was not hurt too bad but that was enough for them to go back to the drawing board and gave up that idea.
I raced three times in the Barstow To Vegas off Road race that was about 175 miles long and I never even came close to finishing but still had lots of fun in the efforts. Spent lots of time and money and I have had a Tri-Sport on top of me and so the nick name of Killer was earned. I have been right around 100 on the open power line roads on that trike and it is very thrilling but your butt is so tight you can't even fart. So remember this not all landing are perfect, But enjoy your rides.
I will say I love telling the stories of the fun and adventures of being a triker and I have a lot of them.
Steve