Indacouch
Well-Known Member
Dude people give 3 wheelers a bad wrap for flipping. Imo it's way easier to flip a quad. I've rolled quads way more than 3 wheelers. A 3 wheeler is a lot lighter and nimble. Very easy to control when it does bicycle. Further more a quick stab of the gas wil set the ass end into a slide setting in back down even in the sharpest of high speed turns. Unlike a quad to where one minute your having fun ripping a donut and the next you've got a 400 pound steaming hot machine on top of you. I use to put flat track tires on the back wheels and a balloon in the front of my three wheelers. I've had several 185r's a 250 and my cleanest I bought out of Oregon was a 125. I will say they are very dangerous for flipping over backward going up any remotely steep inclines. Gotta damn near tank ride em if your hill climbing to keep the front end down. My brother had to have reconstructive surgery on his face and teeth from taking the handle bar to the face when we were kids. We would ride a steep hill with a complete vertical face at the top four feet. The transition was very smooth but you have to commit fully. One pussy thought going up and you'd be eating handle bar for dinner((like my brother)) Basically if you gave it the beans it would fly up over the lip and set the back wheels down first and then tap the brake upon landing and you'd be fine. If you didn't go as fast as possible, it would launch you straight up and the back wheels would land back in the lip up top. Then it would literally just shit whip the bike backwards into a backwards roll. My brother was seriously fucked up. He's a big dude and one of the toughest SOBS I know. He didn't go to the doc until the next day. Only reason he went is because he was missing teeth and figured he'd have a hard time getting pussy like that. So they X-ray his face and he had fractures as well as serious dental issues. I had a badass quad at one point. It was an older bike but had tons of after market suspension work done. I'd always laugh because it looked dated as far as the plastics go. But that thing had so much travel and such good suspension, it would soak up even the most terrible landings like nothing. Probably the most air I've ever gotten was on that quad. Like a pillow when it landed. We had a jump that would launch us down an irrigation check over a row of grapes in the neighbors vinyard. Lots of fun on that quad. I have pictures of taking some knarly gaps we built as youngsters at the ranch. I'll see if I can find em. Well I'm sitting in the last green house killing time inbetween waterings. I think I'll go finish watering and kick on the coolers. Suppose to be a hot one here.
