hang&rattle
07-25-2010, 02:07 PM
This is not much and may be a bit lengthy, but if ya don't like it don't read it huh? I got an e-mail from the fella that sold me my 85' Tecate. I shot him an e-mail with some pictures of the trike I promised to do justice when I bought (he thanked me for doin' it right and was impressed), and asking him of the spare motor he gave me with the trike (the motor is good :w00t:). His name is Jon Rogers. He raced Tecate's in CA from 1985-1988. I can't remember where, but there is a picture of Jon on one of these sites of him racing in San Jose with orange handlebars I believe in 85' (in a pack of trikes, anyone have this picture?), when I went to pick up this Tecate I asked him, because of the orange paint I seen he started on (hence my paint scheme), and he said he painted his handle bars and other stuff orange because no one else did, to be different. I asked him if he raced in San Jose (I seen the picture)? Jon said in his first year in 1985. I told him there is a picture of him on the internet racing. I asked him in the e-mail where to get a tecate motor built (think I wrecked one of mine:rolleyes:), Jon said his racing motors were built by Harry Badokian and Sanders Motorcycles in Visalia CA, which is Eddie Sanders Racing (ESR). They were still there 7 or 8 years ago, but Jon said he heard they no longer work on 2-strokes. I'm not a talker or an interviewer, but I kept pluggin' questions because I was somewhat excited. Jon liked the Tecates and said everyone raced the much faster Tecate's. Said mostly TT and flat track, spoke of the fat front tire being ideal for it and handled so much better (I don't know what TT is). Said they did o.k. at MX. This is somewhat true from my inclination as I thought it was a sea of red, but looking at old you-tube clips there was alot of Tecate's in CA in the 80's (thanks to airfoolers). I only got one picture out of him that will load, but is kinda cool. I'll keep on pumping him for more history and pictures. Any old school racers rumbling through some old times with any of this? Did I get some decent info for some cool memories any of you can share? Can you add to any of this because it's really interesting to trike owners, fun to learn history from the past. Chime in folks because I want to learn and hear more now on this little slice I fell upon.