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Coaltrain
12-23-2008, 06:23 PM
Here She is in all her splendor!
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p274/bossofthemoss/IMG_1274.jpg
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p274/bossofthemoss/IMG_1276.jpg
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p274/bossofthemoss/IMG_1279.jpg

83ATC185S
12-23-2008, 06:46 PM
looks decent, maybe you can fix that front fender with some shoegoo (i did it with a crack about a 8 inches long on my rear fender and it has held through snow,mud,rain,and sand.)

Coaltrain
12-23-2008, 07:04 PM
It's not a looker but it is reliable, or so it used to be the first time I owned it. I've got new parts on order to get her running again (carb,throttle cable,sprocket and chain set, and rear bearings and seals). I am trying to talk a guy (whome owes me some money) out of a 250es Big Red. If I get the Big Red I'll restore it and keep it real nice (but I still plan on riding the piss out of it) and i'll use the 185s ragging out and mud bogging. If I don't get the Big Red I'll think hard about semi-restoring the 185s, new plastic and aftermarket tank, sticker set, freshen up motor and paint the frame. The tank that is on it is for another model, It doesn't look like the aftermarket Clarks I see for the 185s and the triple tree hits it at full lock, but it was on there when I got it years ago and works out ok.

rugabugadouglas
12-23-2008, 08:22 PM
i like the tires looks like it will throw the mud

ATC-Eric
12-23-2008, 08:25 PM
Was gonna say, I like that front tire.

Love the hardtails!

Blown 331
12-23-2008, 08:35 PM
Very nice. My first 3-wheeler or atv period was a 1982 ATC200. Rebuilt the engine myself when I was 17. I still have it and it still runs great. My cousin had one too and we did some unbelievable stuff on them.
That looks like some interesting exhaust, I'm not sure I have ever seen anything like that.

Coaltrain
12-23-2008, 08:46 PM
the exhaust is all DG. I don't think it is for thes paticular model because the pipe had to be dented slightly to fit around the frame drop tube ( maybe for a 250sx or big red???). It throws a lot of mud. I put those swampers on there over 8 years ago and they still look like new, it has a lot of street miles on it but they wear like iron. The old rear tires were wooly boogers and after I put the swampers on I could pop wheelies in the same mud holes I used to get stuck in.

oscarmayer
12-23-2008, 09:02 PM
sweet! i also like them tires. i'm taking notes on the tires.

Coaltrain
12-23-2008, 09:42 PM
I've run a lot of different mud tires on my various atv's-atc's. Feel free to ask questions because I have experience with a lot of them.

RapidRick
12-23-2008, 11:37 PM
they don't make them like that anymore........ pun intended along with the truth:D

Shawn72
12-24-2008, 12:22 AM
Man those are deep lugs

daniel_250r
12-24-2008, 11:25 PM
nice trike i have an 86, i believe 200s it runs like a a top previous owner ran the rear bearings to the axle and it threw a chain and put a small hole in the casing, jb welded her and have another motor being redone to drop into my relialbe mudhog

daniel_250r
12-24-2008, 11:26 PM
my parts 200 came with a dg exhaust that was wired onto the bike.

snakemaster
12-25-2008, 02:37 PM
looks like you have had lots of fun on that trike , i got one the same grate for mud boging http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/snakemaster1/102_3997.jpg