What I've been working on.

"Pickup_man" (zekeh)
06/07/2018 at 10:39 • Filed to: None

I wanted to wait until this was a little more finished before I shared it, but what the heck.

There’s an ATV poker run near me that my buddy and I have been going to for a couple of years that is a lot of fun. It’s in basically the middle of no where South Dakota and is a pretty redneck affair, with mostly farm rigs showing up, some of them still with spray tanks on the back. The route is all gravel and minimum maintenance roads, with every stop at someone’s farm places and there’s more drinking involved that is probably recommended (the vast majority of it done at the end of the ride, most people seem pretty responsible and don’t get hammered on the ride). The last couple years we’ve taken our regular quads, but this year my buddy wanted to go on small 3 wheelers. I knew someone who had one, so I bought it from them and decided to have some fun with it.

The trike is a ‘79 Honda ATC 90. I did a simple top end job, new gaskets all the way around, fresh paint on the engine, and stainless socket head screws to put it all back together. AMF era Sporster tank, cheap Ebay solo seat, old bicycle ape hangers, and a full custom exhaust complete with tall slash cut pipe. I laser cut a front wheel adapter to fit a 200x front wheel, and luckily the rear 200x hubs were a direct bolt on. The original tires for this were crazy heavy, and by switching to the new tires with the aluminum rims it’s probably a 50+ lbs savings. I also built a new wiring harness from scratch and used the fancy weaved nylon wire loom for that extra touch of class. There’s a couple things to finish up yet like hard mounting the seat, tubing the tires, and a little carb tuning, but I cant wait to get this thing finished.

Next year I might do another full tear down and really paint/powdercoat everything nice. Or I’ll just leave it ratty because it matches pretty much everything else I own, I haven’t decided yet.

As purchased

DISCUSSION (13)

benjrblant > Pickup_man
06/07/2018 at 10:43

Potentially deadly three-wheeled ATV automatically earns a star.

CalzoneGolem > Pickup_man
06/07/2018 at 10:43

Oh damn those original tires look heavy.

Hammerdown > Pickup_man
06/07/2018 at 10:52

Looks awesome! When I was in high school a buddy had a fleet of 3 wheelers, including a couple 90s. Fun little rigs. As a native South Dakotan, whereabouts is this poker run?

Pickup_man > CalzoneGolem
06/07/2018 at 11:01

I was shocked how heavy they were, a 50 lb reduction was not an exaggeration, it might even be more.

Pickup_man > Hammerdown
06/07/2018 at 11:02

White Lake, about 45 min to an hour east of Mitchell.

CalzoneGolem > Pickup_man
06/07/2018 at 11:11

You going to re-install the front fender?

MoCamino > Pickup_man
06/07/2018 at 11:18

That looks completely ill-advised and about as OPPO as you can get. Thus absolutely fun and I want one now. Take your star!

Pickup_man > CalzoneGolem
06/07/2018 at 11:19

Haven’t decided yet, I’m leaning towards no because I like the way it looks, even though that means I’ll likely throw rocks all over the engine.

Pickup_man > MoCamino
06/07/2018 at 11:21

My biggest disappointment is that I’ll never be able to title it and ride it on the street. I think my next project is going to be a road legal trike, I’ve wanted one for a while now.

CalzoneGolem > Pickup_man
06/07/2018 at 11:30

I was thinking you’d end up with a face full of mud

Pickup_man > CalzoneGolem
06/07/2018 at 12:28

That too, I’ll probably keep out of the really messy stuff though.

CalzoneGolem > Pickup_man
06/07/2018 at 12:31

That sounds boring.

Pickup_man > CalzoneGolem
06/07/2018 at 12:34

The super deep stuff at least, it’s definitely going to see some mud.