I've got an '86 250R now!!

[MO350X]

It's my dream trike for sure.
Now the "stable" includes an '85 350X and the "new" '86 250R.
Ahhh...life is good.

I picked it up from Nickers71.
GREAT guy, true to his word and he gave me a fantastic price!
Thanks, Nick! :beer

I'm so pleased, I can hardly contain myself.
She's a beauty!
It runs as good as it looks and it's about 95% virgin.

[3wheelrkid]

hey where did you get that big asss exhaust for the 350x?
that looks awsome!!!

[MO350X]

Easy to make fit and it sounds awesome.

[OldSchoolin86]

Wow MO350X, that is one sweet trike! That's the style I'd like to get someday.

[Dammit!]

Excellent pair of trikes. I need a 4-stroker to go along with my R too.

[MO350X]

I only rode the R around my yard but it's a throttle-happy beast! :)
The 350X is as rideable as my riding mower but still has a solid punch....just not the same as an R, though!
I'm hoping to get some seat time on the R this weekend to "learn" it.

Thanks for the compliments, folks.

[smokinp]

wow!what a great deal!!

[Troll 2]

Congrat's on the R!! Your trikes look killer :beer
You'll love your R the more you ride it!!
I wrote this once;
350x vs 250r impressions...........

Well after working our way up threw a ATC 70, 110, 185, 200s, 2 x 200X's, 250sx, 2 x 350X's and a 85' 250r, I thought I'd give a genral impession of our current ones.
They are the 350x and 85' R..........
Being a diehard four stroke guy my whole life, this is very hard to write. I've been working on four stokes for twenty-five years. The two-stoke stuff about two years.
After riding hard-tail honda's for a while, I started to love the way they ran. Always started great, never died, could trust them to run to the moon and back. there a ride that would only leave you stranded if you forgot to add fuel. The problem was they wore thin on the backside quickly. Non or limited suspended trikes are great for cirtain things. Just going to the other side of the ranch to grab stuff, hunting for kids, joy riding, hauling yard debie, ectt... Then they reall shine when doing trials type riding like rock jumping, mounds of dirt piled high, climing extreme rutted hillsides and so on. Auto clutches were the nut's.
Then I seen my first 200x, WOW, man that thing had great looking forks, adjustible rear suspension, kick starter, and egos that fit like a dream!! The first long trail ride was like night and day. Trails that were standard before, were now only a part of riding. Just take a turn of the bars and theres a whole new world avalible. Flying threw areas that werent a great idea before, became a breaze. Man I never seen so much more country before on the old trike. The 200x was great ride. But trying things the auto-clutch did was much harder. Its a little dificult to slip the cluch when your hanging over the bars so far that your arms go backwards. Then If it stalled out on a super knarly incline, good luck. Before, just stand aside, thottle, push and let go at the top. Try that with a clutch.
Getting a 250sx seemed like a good step up. Here a report on that;
http://www.3wheeler.org/vb/showthre...highlight=250sx
After the sx the final step would be a 350X. My ultamite goal. After begging my wife, see said fine. I traded four trikes for a great custom 350X.
Oh baby, it was very worth it. The 350x was everything I could ever ask. It had twice the power than anything before. Instant wheelies in third gear while churning both rear tires. The 350x at times is flat hard to hold on to and better be damn carfull appling power on hill's. Where tracsion is good its amaising. It will pull your arms off and gets there in a hurrie. The suspension is killer and cruises fine. On longer trips, its just super fun powering up hills. Getting a grip on the avalible tourqe is a rush. Nothing better.....................Right?
Well, having two 350X's was fine, but I had the chance to pull the trigger on a very nice water-cooled R. It was a hard desion, but always enjoy a new type trike. I was 51% for trading the beauty 350x back to it's original custom builder for the R.
I was very leary about a two-stoke. My boy races a 125 moto-X bike and the maintaince is high.
Now this is the hard part for me.
R impressions;
The 250r is a trike riders trike. There is a night and day difference between it and a 350x. I rode the 250r for two weeks straight. You just cant stay off it. The thing is so very well designed its not funny. It's twice the trike a 350x is to me. The R goes crazy fast, it will go threw the six gears in nothing flat. If you want to go from here to there its done. Try a half mile SUPER steep incline where power counts. It will be there before you. Very very awsome. Really thats only a part of it. The front end is very controlable. It will lift the front as high as you want but no further. If you want to flip it tell it to. If you want to do easilly contolable wheelies adjusting height during acelleration just tell it to. The powerband kicks in low and lpulls hard forever.
The suspension, brakes, egos, ride height are as good or better than the engine. It sits perfect, turns where ever you want it percisly, stops on a dime and starts easily.
Anyway it was hard to admitit for me, but I'm a two-stoke guy now. Its a just have to ride one to see type of thing.
I still like all trikes and glad to have a 350x for our mountain trips's, but the R is the ultimite.................for me......... :TrikesOwn

[MO350X]

Thanks for taking the time to type that!
I read every word.
And actually re-read the R section. :)
You echo my sentiments EXACTLY on the 350X, too.
It fits me to a TEE, both in power and size.

I'm so thrilled to have the R, you folks have NO idea.
Just opening the door to my garage is almost a sexual experience...seeing those two trikes there.

The learning curve of that 2 stroke is what I'm looking forward to.
Whew.....MAN, I can't wait!

The weather flat stinks to high heaven around here: Rain, Rain, Rain and chilly.
So the woods are pure pudding right now. :( :(
Not my idea of fun....skating around in the woods...I want to RIDE!

And I'm on vacation.....perfect time for some serious seat time.

I'll sure post my feelings on the R after my first real ride.

Thanks again! :beer