Darren, the 3x6 decal refers to three wheels and six gears (5 forward/1reverse). They were great bikes in their day. 1987 was the last year the Big Four made 3-wheelers, but there was never a government ban on them, contrary to the popular myth.
In Québec, there is a ban on these. It's now illegal to sell them, even between private parties. For damn good reasons. The later models had front suspensions to alleviate somewhat the bad concept of them all.
@@Cartier_specialist Exactly. I bet if there was a law stating that attorneys had to suffer the same fate as those they were representing, there would be a helluva lot less frivolous lawsuits, and lawyers for that matter. Either way, it's a win-win.
@@marcryvon Marc, c'est parce qu'il y a trop de connards dans ce monde qui se blessent, et puis nous, les consommateurs, en subissons les conséquences.
A couple years back, my daughter and I were out hittin' yard sales on a Saturday morning. It's our fun weekend hobby together. I had just mentioned to her that I was looking for one of those lighted magnifying glasses on an articulated arm. The very next sale had one new in the box for five bucks! Serendipity I suppose. I use that thing daily, along with reading glasses and a healthy dose of humility. Sucks not being able to see things up close anymore.
I can't imagine the fun you guys had in the 70s in an area like that. I had no such toys or space like that to get in trouble. Mustie's love for all things with wheels comes from his past enjoying these toys.
I can still remember the crazy shit we did on 3 wheelers as teenagers. Unfortunately, some our age died or got maimed and the law suits started. In my opinion it wasn’t a bad design but but letting teenagers drunk and stoned use them like we did.
@@williamwallace7299 I had my fun on these…..rolled them over……nearly killed myself….but If I had a nickel for every time I courted death I could pay for my own funeral…..would not change a minute of my youth.
I grew up with the 4 wheeler variant, great memories! I also picked one up a couple years ago from the original owner. These things are a rough ride but bullet proof. It will probably out last the next few generations.
We had 3 wheelers at our farm and I can credit my dad with keeping us kids safe with good training. He told us to ride slowly and carefully around the area we wanted to ride in and to take note of dangers before ever thinking about getting on the throttle. I knew every rock, chuckhole, ditch, muddy spot and fallen tree trunk on that farm. These machines are capable at traveling at high speeds and if you're going over rough terrain too fast it's a recipe for trouble. Situational awarenness, care and common sense are all called for. This is all still true for the ATV's of today. We rode a LOT and nobody ever got hurt.
@@alan6832 takes the fun out of them 😂 but seriously these things injured killed many in racing. Heck even we have a honda 3 wheeler and nobody likes to ride it, you really gota wrestle that thing around, with no shocks your teeth fillings fall out 😂😂
Seeing the three wheeler on the ice reminds me of the time I was riding my younger brother's Heath Kit MiniBike around in the winter - I was about 19 or 20 so it would have been in about 1972 or '73. He loved that thing. It was lots of fun. We lived on Great South Pond in Plymouth, MA. After a couple hours zipping around in the woods, around the bogs and along the beach, it was getting dark. I decided it was a good idea to head directly across the pond back to the house... Halfway back, at the deepest spot in the pond, the ice had just frozen a few days earlier - the ice was dark and clear. I'm looking ahead, going about 6 or 8 miles an hour - and see cracks forming ahead of me... as you saw, you can't do any abrupt turns on ice, only very gradual turns. Brakes won't stop you, throttle just spins the wheel. Nobody else around. The front wheel breaks through, the minibike plunges through - I get dunked up to my chest in the 38 foot deep water... all I could think of to do was reach to the side of the hole as the minibike sunk. My wet gloves stuck to the ice adjacent to the hole - it was a very cold afternoon. I'm in the water up to my neck now. Gloves stuck to the ice a foot from the hole - it was beyond gosh-darn cold - I knew I had a few minutes left in this world - what now - plop one glove 8 inches forward, away from the hole... it stuck - okay - plop the other glove another foot from the hole - it stuck. Ice was no more than an inch thick there, cracking as I went but I kept at it, eventually got my upper chest onto the ice - scurried ahead one plop at a time until I could get my stomach onto the ice. After creeping and crawling, legs and arms spread out for about 25 feet, I got to thicker ice and could eventually crawl and then get onto my feet. The minibike is still in the pond - we tried to grapple for it but could never snag it. I had to give my brother my sweet Schwinn Super Sport 10 speed bike plus a $100 to pay him off. I only go on thin ice now when wearing a full body Stearns Mustang suit.
Darren when he was 10. 'When I grow up, I wan't to be a kid!' That was great. As always, thanks!! I'm 63, I don't think I'll be climbing on a three wheeler, but I am going to go work on my cross-kart.
You, sir, are the soundtrack of my weekends in the garage. I keep your videos playing all day long while I wrench on my own projects. Thank you for making them.
I love watching this!! No matter how hard I try I can't stop smiling!! The only thing that could be better is if I could get a turn, I would even buy the gas!!
That was great, you guys were 2 kids out there.. also did a good job illustrating why those things were pulled from the market for those of us who didn't grow up with them
There was a lot of people hoping the ice was going to crack 🤣I enjoy watching you fix stuff you are never boring, we dont get winters in the UK like you do unless you live in Scotland, so its fun to watch other daft buggers 😀
Had the earlier version in the '70s as a kid, with electric start. Was great once you got the hang of it, all the weight shifting/balancing. These 'trikes' were deadly, 200 people a year in Australia were dying on these things.
These are the first thing I remember working on with my dad! I love it! He still has his somewhere, think my uncle might have em now, yellow 125s! They were so fun, and light, and the float! Oh and don't forget they have reverse! You go into neutral and pull that red lever!
I was going through an old photo album the other day & grinned when I came across the pic of me pulling a wheelie on my '86 Honda 185S in the driveway - I was about 14 at the time. That machine had about a 1" front shock and no rear suspension - it finally died after destroying the rear wheel bearings because we would jump the crap out of it! Thanks for bringing back the memories of playing on the ice, Mustie1!
We had a similar Suzuki rig at the deer camp, I seem to recall it having a compression release lever/knob though. Pain in the rear to cold start it no matter what you did, it would either go on two pulls or not go on 20. It was the only trike out of a few quads we had up there, mostly Honda Fourtrax and Kawasaki's. Real fun to ride on it. Spent a lot of time down in the bottoms getting into and out of trouble, mud, and water.
we used to have the honda 125 trike on a farm in wales when I was a kid and it was incredibly useful and so much fun to ride, my dad put a large plastic bread tray on the rack and our sheepdog rode around on that all day.at a local show the farmers used to have horse races around the perimeter of the field and when hat was done they raced the farm bikes on the same circuit! thanks for the blast from the past mate, didn't realize how much I missed them.
Got one of these for X-mas in 83. Only difference was mine was yellow. Awesome 3-wheeler, never had any issues with it. Basically lived on that thing until I got my license in 85. Must of put 1000's of miles on it and still ran strong when I sold it. Really wish I had kept it.
They were so much much fun back then but many people injured riding them. It’s in great condition. Nice work ice drifting. Another Mustie success story. 🇦🇺🇦🇺
I had this same Trike when I was 13 and my Dad had a Honda 200m. Balloon tires and zero suspension was never so much fun 😊 You really had to read the trail and throw your weight around constantly 👍
Past neighbour at the farm used his "Big Red" 200 around his yard and hamlet almost 8 months out of the year for 20+ years. Was the only guy in the entire RM to use a trike. Have to say I love the sound of these engines
I've had many cases of tinkeritis in my youth, sometimes resulting in making a problem worse, but it's how I learned what not to do! Another great video, I hope we aren't too much in the way while you work on stuff, and don't feel too weird about having fun, I'm almost 52 and I love a good donut too :-)
Hey man if we would be in the way he would not make video's... know what i mean.... Hell we making him really really good $$$$... prob 6 figgs if not 7......
Mustie. That vent pipe you're trying to work out where it goes is an fuel overflow breather. When you ditch the bike upside down fuel runs out of it so it kills the engine by fuel starvation. On some road bikes the pipe goes up the left side, kinks over the carb (sometimes you see a little brass eyelet on the opposite top side of the carb to feed it through), or just directly downwards. Either way, it ends up down and rear of the carb, somewhere near rear engine case and swingarm pivot area.
loved this video ..brought back the years of fun we had one the farm in the UK on these trikes back in the 80's ... we got hurt soooo many times but it was just soo much fun we kept getting back on them... brought a big smile to my face watching you have fun ..very envious .
My uncle had a Honda 3-wheeler on the farm in the late 70's. I rode that thing all over the place as a young teen growing up. If you weren't careful you could flip it over. Then the 4-wheelers came out to add more stability, but I still like the look.of the original ATC's.
Long ago, at the cycle shop, we did some “test rides” if we had a slow day going on. The three wheelers were unique. Lean out of the turn and you could do a rapid “about face”. Combine that with wide open throttle and a hefty pull on the bars, and you could do a one wheel “wheelie”. I miss those days.
I had that exact bike in the late 1980s. Had a lot of fun with it but they are super tippey and and your instinct is to put your leg down to keep it from rolling over which is a bad idea! Long live the 80s!
That brought back memories...I had the same one back in 1983. I remember the front had a fancy molded fender with the head light. Real fun, but extremely unstable...
If iddle jet is clogged, you can get it run with manual enrichener or if it is, using acceleration pump. The main jet work only when engine is running.
Love how you investigate… like hmmm what’s this… the same stuff we all do when wrenching…just you are better at it. Keep it up Brother, you are the best!
When they first came out with the Suzuki 4 wheelers they still had the big balloon tires on them, and if you had them aired up good. We could ride them across ponds if you sit straight up, if you leaned over too far to one side you got a bath before you could sit back up straight enough to save yourself. Typically if water wasn't too deep you could actually flip them back right side up before they stalled out. Then you could at least walk beside it until water was shallow enough to let the tires touch bottom without flipping back over as you put your weight on it.. Needless to say you took a couple baths before you learned not to make any undue movements while crossing any deep water, and I doubt they'd be very good at crossing anything that had flowing water that had any downstream speed, because they weren't real fast on the forward speed, and turning took a little distance, so you planned ahead otherwise you would have to slowly circle around until you found another place to get out of the water. The Honda 2 strokes were the fastest of the three wheelers, and I don't know how many people flipped them over are ran over their own legs that I seen, but it was good number of them.. Some never got it down to lean the opposite direction than if you were on two wheels, and that's what I think signed the death warrant for them. All n all they were a blast once you trained your brain to do opposite of what muscle memory told you to do.
I was familiar with Honda and Yamaha back in the 70s and 80s so the Suzuki ATC seem like a class experiment with Suzuki, they were more into their RMS, GS models but as the decades went by I understand now Suzuki makes a very reliable product especially the 4-wheel drive ATVs, very robust.
My father used one of those on the farm in the 80's. Fortunately, he always drove it slow and didn't try climbing over large obstacles. They were notorious for rolling, especially when going fast over uneven ground. A lot of people were injured or worse. That's why most of the ones you find are busted up.
We had one at our campsite. My dad bought it from a guy with a cast on his leg for cheap. After trail riding it a few times , he got rid of it. Death on three wheels. Not a matter of if it will get you, but when.
I put thousands of hours on several of these with no issue, mostly Hondas. Just lucky I guess. Lots of memories associated with that single piston purr.
Looks. like the operation was a success. I'm a little leary about three wheelers, because I watched a friend of my dad crash one of these, and he tore his shoulder up. I think he had a torn rotator cuff, and a dislocation. I like old 4 wheelers without all the digicals lol. God bless y'all.
Looks like fun. I have ridden a 3 wheeler only a couple of times. I did the obligatory running over of the foot, of course. I am sort of surprised that you didn't at least check the valve clearances though.
When I'm carb cleaning, I use a fine strand copper wire. You can pull a single out to run through the jet without scratching it's bore. Or you can strip a short section and use it like a little wire brush.
Great job, great video. I look forward to my Sunday morning video. The three wheeler looks like a lot of fun!! I did notice when it was up on the lift that the axle on the left side(pull starter side) looked like it was bent. When you had it up on the jack to check the transmission the left wheel looked like it was bent but when you showed the back of the trike you could see the axle wobble.
Growing up my brother and I had a Honda 125M and a Yamaha 225DX Tri-Moto - great times running the powerlines, state forest/trails and railroad tracks. Hours and hours of endless fun and learning how to fix these things. We rolled them, crashed them, flipped backwards etc - luckily we never got hurt.
Grew up on those things. Way back , scored an 84 Kawasaki klt200-c for $100. Needed a battery and a muffler. Manual transmission. That thing would move. Also had a locking differential that you could unlock when the extra traction was not needed. The ones with the centrifugal clutches, you have to watch. They wear quickly when lugged around in too high of a gear.
Love 3 wheelers! You are right 100% on keeping your feet up, I learned the hard way in my younger days at a pretty good clip, stopped instantly by my leg getting wrapped up in the back wheel. Never happened again!!!!! LOL
Looks great fun, but I think they can be quite tricky on 3 wheels. Once you get the hang of it you get quite brave as well and they flip quite easily. Lovely video though with the problem solved came a little lucky :D
Yeah - one reason they went out of style was because of the number of people who spent time in the hospital with broken/twisted/yanked legs and ankles. They're notoriously tippy, and the back tire often grabbed you when you put a leg down in a corner. Four-wheelers came along not long after as a result. I had a lot of fun playing on 3-wheelers but knew several people whose legs were seriously damaged by them. I've never missed 3-wheelers - my transition to 4-wheelers was quick and remains to this day!
I got so excited watching this. My brother bought me a 125 atc Honda when I was a kid. So much fun. I need to find my kids a 3 wheeler. Once you learn how to hurt your self on it you can drive anything. Thanks so much for this video. Brought back so many fun memories. Thanks
I worked at Adventure Motorcycle (North Hampton) in the mid 80s. I may have even serviced that machine when it was new.. LOL... Thanks again for a great video...
If the worst comes to the worst, you can always take the ethanol out of the fuel. Put 4.5 gallon petrol and half gallon of water into a 5 gallon container. Agitate for ages and then allow to settle. siphon out the water (and ethanol) - what you have left is pure, ethanol-free petrol!
These were the best little buggers to have fun on !!! I had an '86 Suzuki 185cc 4-wheeler and my cousin had an '85 Suzuki 185cc three-wheeler and we rode countless hours on those 2 things back in the mid-80's.... was so much fun !!! Tough as nails too and on an open road those darn things went up to 50mph... total madness !!!
My first bike was a Honda 185S at the age of 15. No injuries, thankfully. I recently bought a 1984 Kawasaki KLT110. I got it running last week. Put a few videos up on tiktok. People still love these things. Great little rippers.
I had both the 3 and 4 wheeler the biggest thing with riding the 3 wheeler is that you lean the opposite direction you want to turn, it throws you off when go from 1 to the other but they were fun! However I couldn't get mine to run as well as that one
I had the same unit, except in a 4 wheeler. Lt125 quadrunner. We put 3,500 miles on those. It was time well spent with my Dad. We even took them to the dunes (way under powered) but we had fun. Each of us had ropes so that we could pull one another out. Good memories.
These things are only as dangerous as the idiots on them. Back around 1986, a work friend had a Honda Big Red. I was attempting to jump it down a a hill. It didn't, I didn't, left knee was mashed between the handlebars and tank. The thing was up until that point, I wore an open faced helmet, and this time I wore a full helmet. Saved my face. The damage to the Honda was a dent in the tank, bent handlebars, bent lever, and all the switches on that side. I paid for all the repairs and he had a custom painted tank. Took about a year for my knee to recover.
Had a buddy of mine when we were 13 that had a late 80s version of this. Never wore a helmet. One day he decided to put one on. I was following behind him on a trail through an area where they were going to add houses. New concrete sewer junctions and property stakes all over. He hit one of those steel stakes that turned him right into the sewer junction partially exposed and sloped like a ramp. I was following about 30ft behind so I can still see it clearly. He hit the sewer, the 3 wheeler went ass over head in a back flip and he hit the back of his head on the manhole cover and ring. I remember it landed up right and just idled while he lay on the ground. Then he sat up, reached behind his head with both hands and removed that helmet through the crack in the back. He threw it off in the woods and we kept going. Never saw him with a helmet again. Lucky bastard, like a cat, somehow he’s still alive after nearly 50 years of living this way.
Love these Sundays at Mustieville.Grown men having fun like kids again.Keeping you young.It doesn't get any better than that.Greetings from Rays" That's close enough garage"...
The 1st number had nothing to do with "wheel drive", but in how many wheels were on the machine. The second number had to do with the gear count(5-forward + reverse).
Lol... Awesome video. That brings back some very good memories of my own Honda 110. Man that thing was fun and it was so weird to get used to turning it. And it would go like a tank.
I was 15 when they banned three wheelers. I had a Yamaha 225 4 stroke that was indestructible and a torque wheelie monster. I wanted a 2 stroke racing model from the big 4 at the time. My Stepfather showed up with a brand new Yamaha Warrior one day and said it was for him but he never rode it so I dominated with it. Much more powerful 350 6 speed manual opposed to my auto shaft trans 225. Rider skill is why they were dangerous. Too many noobs would ride and ride drunk and paralyze themselves because of stupidity. I love trikes and would love to own an off road racing trike like ATC 250R now but quads are way more stable than the 3 wheels design. Also I own and ride a Can Am Spyder now that I am 50 yr old man so my love of motorsports has never waned. 2 wheels in front, 1 in rear is also way more stable than single steering wheel in front
i remember when these came out, seemed like lots of fun but at the same time very scary. Definitely didn't take long to learn what the limits were on those. 😁 but didn't they only make em for a couple years maybe 5? then discontinued them because of how dangerously unstable they were? seemed like there were lots of injuries and quite a few death's on those. If ya duck duck go it there are many articles about why the production of the 3 wheeler ATV ended. Also some talk about the birth of the ATV 4 wheeler. Nice job on the troubleshooting mustie1 , it seems to purr pretty good even after all these years 👍
4 wheel ATVs are only slightly better really. All of it makes me want to tell my kids they should stick to dirt bikes. It’s still possible to hurt yourself with those but the machine itself isn’t going to crush you.
One thing i can tell , if Mustie1 can't bring it to life whatever that has an engine on it no one in planet will 😂 i love this guy and his videos ... U were born for it , totally a pro and a genius 👌👌 U guys had a lot of fun with that thing , for sure well deserved 😂💯👌
Mustie 1 you're having so much fun you make the rest of us oldies get sent to retirement homes, but seeing how much fun your having should be looking for one of them instead.
Wow! Almost killed myself on one like that in '89! Pretty sure it was a Yamaha 175 though. Every station around me sells Ethanol free gas at at least one pump.
Darren, the 3x6 decal refers to three wheels and six gears (5 forward/1reverse). They were great bikes in their day. 1987 was the last year the Big Four made 3-wheelers, but there was never a government ban on them, contrary to the popular myth.
Yeah, they didn't ban them, the attorneys just made selling them cost prohibitive.
In Québec, there is a ban on these. It's now illegal to sell them, even between private parties. For damn good reasons. The later models had front suspensions to alleviate somewhat the bad concept of them all.
@@Cartier_specialist Exactly. I bet if there was a law stating that attorneys had to suffer the same fate as those they were representing, there would be a helluva lot less frivolous lawsuits, and lawyers for that matter. Either way, it's a win-win.
@@marcryvon Marc, c'est parce qu'il y a trop de connards dans ce monde qui se blessent, et puis nous, les consommateurs, en subissons les conséquences.
@@American_Jeeper Yep.. 99% of lawyers give all the others a bad name...
A couple years back, my daughter and I were out hittin' yard sales on a Saturday morning. It's our fun weekend hobby together. I had just mentioned to her that I was looking for one of those lighted magnifying glasses on an articulated arm. The very next sale had one new in the box for five bucks! Serendipity I suppose. I use that thing daily, along with reading glasses and a healthy dose of humility. Sucks not being able to see things up close anymore.
I can't imagine the fun you guys had in the 70s in an area like that. I had no such toys or space like that to get in trouble. Mustie's love for all things with wheels comes from his past enjoying these toys.
I can still remember the crazy shit we did on 3 wheelers as teenagers. Unfortunately, some our age died or got maimed and the law suits started. In my opinion it wasn’t a bad design but but letting teenagers drunk and stoned use them like we did.
@@williamwallace7299 I had my fun on these…..rolled them over……nearly killed myself….but If I had a nickel for every time
I courted death I could pay for my own funeral…..would not change a minute of my youth.
a friend had access to one of these growing up under the age of 13 and came in the house crying with a tire track on his back one day...
Too bad newer generations will never get to experience that.
I grew up with the 4 wheeler variant, great memories! I also picked one up a couple years ago from the original owner. These things are a rough ride but bullet proof. It will probably out last the next few generations.
We had 3 wheelers at our farm and I can credit my dad with keeping us kids safe with good training. He told us to ride slowly and carefully around the area we wanted to ride in and to take note of dangers before ever thinking about getting on the throttle. I knew every rock, chuckhole, ditch, muddy spot and fallen tree trunk on that farm. These machines are capable at traveling at high speeds and if you're going over rough terrain too fast it's a recipe for trouble. Situational awarenness, care and common sense are all called for. This is all still true for the ATV's of today. We rode a LOT and nobody ever got hurt.
Commensense is now a skill set, I say let them fools with no helmets and no business owning or operating "toys" like these. We need to thin the heard!
You have to turn by balancing on the outside wheels?!? No wonder they banned them! they could have just required differentials though.
@@alan6832 takes the fun out of them 😂 but seriously these things injured killed many in racing. Heck even we have a honda 3 wheeler and nobody likes to ride it, you really gota wrestle that thing around, with no shocks your teeth fillings fall out 😂😂
Seeing the three wheeler on the ice reminds me of the time I was riding my younger brother's Heath Kit MiniBike around in the winter - I was about 19 or 20 so it would have been in about 1972 or '73. He loved that thing. It was lots of fun. We lived on Great South Pond in Plymouth, MA. After a couple hours zipping around in the woods, around the bogs and along the beach, it was getting dark. I decided it was a good idea to head directly across the pond back to the house... Halfway back, at the deepest spot in the pond, the ice had just frozen a few days earlier - the ice was dark and clear. I'm looking ahead, going about 6 or 8 miles an hour - and see cracks forming ahead of me... as you saw, you can't do any abrupt turns on ice, only very gradual turns. Brakes won't stop you, throttle just spins the wheel. Nobody else around. The front wheel breaks through, the minibike plunges through - I get dunked up to my chest in the 38 foot deep water... all I could think of to do was reach to the side of the hole as the minibike sunk. My wet gloves stuck to the ice adjacent to the hole - it was a very cold afternoon. I'm in the water up to my neck now. Gloves stuck to the ice a foot from the hole - it was beyond gosh-darn cold - I knew I had a few minutes left in this world - what now - plop one glove 8 inches forward, away from the hole... it stuck - okay - plop the other glove another foot from the hole - it stuck. Ice was no more than an inch thick there, cracking as I went but I kept at it, eventually got my upper chest onto the ice - scurried ahead one plop at a time until I could get my stomach onto the ice. After creeping and crawling, legs and arms spread out for about 25 feet, I got to thicker ice and could eventually crawl and then get onto my feet. The minibike is still in the pond - we tried to grapple for it but could never snag it. I had to give my brother my sweet Schwinn Super Sport 10 speed bike plus a $100 to pay him off. I only go on thin ice now when wearing a full body Stearns Mustang suit.
Darren when he was 10. 'When I grow up, I wan't to be a kid!' That was great. As always, thanks!! I'm 63, I don't think I'll be climbing on a three wheeler, but I am going to go work on my cross-kart.
That thing is more fun than two old guys should be having. I knew you'd get it running right. Another Mustie1 success story for the books.
Those 3 wheelers are really good at running over your legs when you put your foot down. Ask me how I know :|
I learned that riding my plastic big wheel down a paved hill barefoot.
try a recumbent tricycle without clip-in pedals. i can hear the ambulance coming already.
Been there lol
@@Boemel lol
I'm guessing a broken ankle- am I right? Broke mine that way, now I've got two screws and two pins in my ankle to hold it together!
Not to derail the video,but can we acknowledge the VW bug camper? Beautiful!
You, sir, are the soundtrack of my weekends in the garage. I keep your videos playing all day long while I wrench on my own projects. Thank you for making them.
That little three-wheeler looks fun as hell and runs great!
Mustie1’s driver’s license says he’s middle aged, but his actions are a 14 year old. Great stuff as usual my man! Oh to be a teenager again.
He's young at heart for sure.👍👍👍
Im super lucky to have non-E 91oct literally 200yrs from my house in the sticks. I am blessed 🤗
I love watching this!! No matter how hard I try I can't stop smiling!! The only thing that could be better is if I could get a turn, I would even buy the gas!!
This was a HOOT to watch two grown men/boys playing with this toy. Thing runs great, and is slightly sketch, so, thats where the fun comes in. Cheers
That was great, you guys were 2 kids out there.. also did a good job illustrating why those things were pulled from the market for those of us who didn't grow up with them
the two of you were having sooo much fun on the ice great to watch keep up the good work
Great fix 👍 I love how the Ambulance kept driving by just waiting for you guys to crash it😂
That was fun watching you having such a great time at the end with your buddy. 🙂
There was a lot of people hoping the ice was going to crack 🤣I enjoy watching you fix stuff you are never boring, we dont get winters in the UK like you do unless you live in Scotland, so its fun to watch other daft buggers 😀
Man! I was 14 years old again! I was smiling ear to ear. ... what a great time machine! Thanks a million!
Had the earlier version in the '70s as a kid, with electric start. Was great once you got the hang of it, all the weight shifting/balancing. These 'trikes' were deadly, 200 people a year in Australia were dying on these things.
Darwinism at work
One like it nearly killed me. Keep the kids off.
I know a handful of folks dead or with bad leg damage.
We have had
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These are the first thing I remember working on with my dad! I love it! He still has his somewhere, think my uncle might have em now, yellow 125s! They were so fun, and light, and the float! Oh and don't forget they have reverse! You go into neutral and pull that red lever!
I was going through an old photo album the other day & grinned when I came across the pic of me pulling a wheelie on my '86 Honda 185S in the driveway - I was about 14 at the time. That machine had about a 1" front shock and no rear suspension - it finally died after destroying the rear wheel bearings because we would jump the crap out of it! Thanks for bringing back the memories of playing on the ice, Mustie1!
Awesome adventure bud thanks for having me aboard for the ride.
Never ceases to impress. Mustie is a genius
He is a very intelligent man.
the amount of knowledge gained from watching your vids is invaluable! thank you
We had a similar Suzuki rig at the deer camp, I seem to recall it having a compression release lever/knob though. Pain in the rear to cold start it no matter what you did, it would either go on two pulls or not go on 20. It was the only trike out of a few quads we had up there, mostly Honda Fourtrax and Kawasaki's. Real fun to ride on it. Spent a lot of time down in the bottoms getting into and out of trouble, mud, and water.
we used to have the honda 125 trike on a farm in wales when I was a kid and it was incredibly useful and so much fun to ride, my dad put a large plastic bread tray on the rack and our sheepdog rode around on that all day.at a local show the farmers used to have horse races around the perimeter of the field and when hat was done they raced the farm bikes on the same circuit! thanks for the blast from the past mate, didn't realize how much I missed them.
Got one of these for X-mas in 83. Only difference was mine was yellow. Awesome 3-wheeler, never had any issues with it. Basically lived on that thing until I got my license in 85. Must of put 1000's of miles on it and still ran strong when I sold it. Really wish I had kept it.
They were so much much fun back then but many people injured riding them. It’s in great condition. Nice work ice drifting. Another Mustie success story. 🇦🇺🇦🇺
That things a gem! Cool trike. Although the Hondas were the best
Brings back memories of doing donuts on the lakes with our snowmobiles in the 70's.
from what I could find out, 3x6 = 3 wheels x 6 speeds (5+1)
Really dig that t- shirt. I remember those and still remember the tv commercial. Oh my! That had to be late 60’s.
I had this same Trike when I was 13 and my Dad had a Honda 200m. Balloon tires and zero suspension was never so much fun 😊 You really had to read the trail and throw your weight around constantly 👍
Past neighbour at the farm used his "Big Red" 200 around his yard and hamlet almost 8 months out of the year for 20+ years.
Was the only guy in the entire RM to use a trike. Have to say I love the sound of these engines
Wow, great repair and amazing knowledge of how the different systems are working together.
Mustie that was really great loved it thank you for sharing and your time was really great loved it back to your childhood great job got it done.
I've had many cases of tinkeritis in my youth, sometimes resulting in making a problem worse, but it's how I learned what not to do! Another great video, I hope we aren't too much in the way while you work on stuff, and don't feel too weird about having fun, I'm almost 52 and I love a good donut too :-)
My grandfather was always the same way. His favorite saying was, "I fixed it till it broke!"
Hey man if we would be in the way he would not make video's... know what i mean....
Hell we making him really really good $$$$... prob 6 figgs if not 7......
I had the 1986 yellow version. loved it!! Great little bike.
The man can fix ANYTHING...well done
Mustie. That vent pipe you're trying to work out where it goes is an fuel overflow breather. When you ditch the bike upside down fuel runs out of it so it kills the engine by fuel starvation. On some road bikes the pipe goes up the left side, kinks over the carb (sometimes you see a little brass eyelet on the opposite top side of the carb to feed it through), or just directly downwards. Either way, it ends up down and rear of the carb, somewhere near rear engine case and swingarm pivot area.
loved this video ..brought back the years of fun we had one the farm in the UK on these trikes back in the 80's ... we got hurt soooo many times but it was just soo much fun we kept getting back on them... brought a big smile to my face watching you have fun ..very envious .
My uncle had a Honda 3-wheeler on the farm in the late 70's. I rode that thing all over the place as a young teen growing up. If you weren't careful you could flip it over. Then the 4-wheelers came out to add more stability, but I still like the look.of the original ATC's.
Long ago, at the cycle shop, we did some “test rides” if we had a slow day going on. The three wheelers were unique. Lean out of the turn and you could do a rapid “about face”. Combine that with wide open throttle and a hefty pull on the bars, and you could do a one wheel “wheelie”. I miss those days.
These vids brought to us by alot of Years and Hard won Experience.Thank You Mustie for sharing it all with us.
Love the content today. Fellow three wheeler owner. Driving a 3 wheeler is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
I had that exact bike in the late 1980s. Had a lot of fun with it but they are super tippey and and your instinct is to put your leg down to keep it from rolling over which is a bad idea! Long live the 80s!
That brought back memories...I had the same one back in 1983. I remember the front had a fancy molded fender with the head light. Real fun, but extremely unstable...
Darren you can fix anything , love your videos and sometimes it like I am watching home movies you crack me up…..
The knob on the carb is called the enrichener. For use below 40 degrees
If iddle jet is clogged, you can get it run with manual enrichener or if it is, using acceleration pump. The main jet work only when engine is running.
Love how you investigate… like hmmm what’s this… the same stuff we all do when wrenching…just you are better at it. Keep it up Brother, you are the best!
When they first came out with the Suzuki 4 wheelers they still had the big balloon tires on them, and if you had them aired up good.
We could ride them across ponds if you sit straight up, if you leaned over too far to one side you got a bath before you could sit back up straight enough to save yourself.
Typically if water wasn't too deep you could actually flip them back right side up before they stalled out.
Then you could at least walk beside it until water was shallow enough to let the tires touch bottom without flipping back over as you put your weight on it..
Needless to say you took a couple baths before you learned not to make any undue movements while crossing any deep water, and I doubt they'd be very good at crossing anything that had flowing water that had any downstream speed, because they weren't real fast on the forward speed, and turning took a little distance, so you planned ahead otherwise you would have to slowly circle around until you found another place to get out of the water.
The Honda 2 strokes were the fastest of the three wheelers, and I don't know how many people flipped them over are ran over their own legs that I seen, but it was good number of them..
Some never got it down to lean the opposite direction than if you were on two wheels, and that's what I think signed the death warrant for them.
All n all they were a blast once you trained your brain to do opposite of what muscle memory told you to do.
I was familiar with Honda and Yamaha back in the 70s and 80s so the Suzuki ATC seem like a class experiment with Suzuki, they were more into their RMS, GS models but as the decades went by I understand now Suzuki makes a very reliable product especially the 4-wheel drive ATVs, very robust.
We as repair men and women can never let the "Good Ol Days" die! Thanks for the video and keep them coming.
Thank you very much Mustie, I had never seen a system with a vacuum fuel pump. I have learned something today!
My father used one of those on the farm in the 80's. Fortunately, he always drove it slow and didn't try climbing over large obstacles. They were notorious for rolling, especially when going fast over uneven ground. A lot of people were injured or worse. That's why most of the ones you find are busted up.
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A kid I knew in little league broke his neck and died in a 3-wheeler accident 😕
We had one at our campsite. My dad bought it from a guy with a cast on his leg for cheap. After trail riding it a few times , he got rid of it. Death on three wheels. Not a matter of if it will get you, but when.
I put thousands of hours on several of these with no issue, mostly Hondas. Just lucky I guess. Lots of memories associated with that single piston purr.
@@briansorensen1104 not luck... All skill!
You guys were having so much fun. Thanks Darren for bringing us along for the ride.
Looks. like the operation was a success. I'm a little leary about three wheelers, because I watched a friend of my dad crash one of these, and he tore his shoulder up. I think he had a torn rotator cuff, and a dislocation. I like old 4 wheelers without all the digicals lol. God bless y'all.
I love all of musties videos They're always brilliant to watch
Looks like fun. I have ridden a 3 wheeler only a couple of times. I did the obligatory running over of the foot, of course.
I am sort of surprised that you didn't at least check the valve clearances though.
When I'm carb cleaning, I use a fine strand copper wire. You can pull a single out to run through the jet without scratching it's bore. Or you can strip a short section and use it like a little wire brush.
Great job, great video. I look forward to my Sunday morning video. The three wheeler looks like a lot of fun!! I did notice when it was up on the lift that the axle on the left side(pull starter side) looked like it was bent. When you had it up on the jack to check the transmission the left wheel looked like it was bent but when you showed the back of the trike you could see the axle wobble.
Growing up my brother and I had a Honda 125M and a Yamaha 225DX Tri-Moto - great times running the powerlines, state forest/trails and railroad tracks. Hours and hours of endless fun and learning how to fix these things. We rolled them, crashed them, flipped backwards etc - luckily we never got hurt.
Grew up on those things. Way back , scored an 84 Kawasaki klt200-c for $100. Needed a battery and a muffler. Manual transmission. That thing would move. Also had a locking differential that you could unlock when the extra traction was not needed. The ones with the centrifugal clutches, you have to watch. They wear quickly when lugged around in too high of a gear.
OHH I remember riding a Kawasaki DKX or KX 80 I forget but man oh man did that things fly when the power ban kicked in. lol
Love 3 wheelers! You are right 100% on keeping your feet up, I learned the hard way in my younger days at a pretty good clip, stopped instantly by my leg getting wrapped up in the back wheel. Never happened again!!!!! LOL
1983, nine year old me ripping through the woods on one. Looking back, no idea how we didn't die on these 3-wheelers hahaha
epic skillz
That brought back memories! Haha. But I REALLY love that beetle camper! Todd the retired trucker.
Looks great fun, but I think they can be quite tricky on 3 wheels. Once you get the hang of it you get quite brave as well and they flip quite easily. Lovely video though with the problem solved came a little lucky :D
Yeah - one reason they went out of style was because of the number of people who spent time in the hospital with broken/twisted/yanked legs and ankles. They're notoriously tippy, and the back tire often grabbed you when you put a leg down in a corner. Four-wheelers came along not long after as a result. I had a lot of fun playing on 3-wheelers but knew several people whose legs were seriously damaged by them. I've never missed 3-wheelers - my transition to 4-wheelers was quick and remains to this day!
Work hard, play hard, whats not to like.That was brilliant.
3×6= 3 wheels...6 ER visits.
I got so excited watching this. My brother bought me a 125 atc Honda when I was a kid. So much fun. I need to find my kids a 3 wheeler. Once you learn how to hurt your self on it you can drive anything. Thanks so much for this video. Brought back so many fun memories. Thanks
As a result of mounting injuries and deaths, a stop-sale order meant 3-wheeled ATVs were pulled from the market in 1988
Hello Mustie. Great stuff as always. Thank you for your videos. Peace.
The sticker on the right side rear fender by it should explain it better than I can lol
Nobody reads those stickers!
Your right lol they should though lol
I worked at Adventure Motorcycle (North Hampton) in the mid 80s. I may have even serviced that machine when it was new.. LOL...
Thanks again for a great video...
If the worst comes to the worst, you can always take the ethanol out of the fuel. Put 4.5 gallon petrol and half gallon of water into a 5 gallon container. Agitate for ages and then allow to settle. siphon out the water (and ethanol) - what you have left is pure, ethanol-free petrol!
I believe you need to boost the octane level as well.
This video brings back memories of riding my cousins 3 and 4 wheelers.
Mustie! Thanks for being consistent!
These were the best little buggers to have fun on !!! I had an '86 Suzuki 185cc 4-wheeler and my cousin had an '85 Suzuki 185cc three-wheeler and we rode countless hours on those 2 things back in the mid-80's.... was so much fun !!! Tough as nails too and on an open road those darn things went up to 50mph... total madness !!!
Honey those damn kids are riding their 4 wheelers on the frozen lake again, go call the cops🤣
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My first bike was a Honda 185S at the age of 15. No injuries, thankfully. I recently bought a 1984 Kawasaki KLT110. I got it running last week. Put a few videos up on tiktok. People still love these things. Great little rippers.
I had both the 3 and 4 wheeler the biggest thing with riding the 3 wheeler is that you lean the opposite direction you want to turn, it throws you off when go from 1 to the other but they were fun! However I couldn't get mine to run as well as that one
Had one just like it. They are prone for hard starting, but fun machines.
I had this exact model and year. Somehow I never hurt myself but a few friends got thrown off or a leg under a tire!
I had the same unit, except in a 4 wheeler. Lt125 quadrunner. We put 3,500 miles on those. It was time well spent with my Dad. We even took them to the dunes (way under powered) but we had fun. Each of us had ropes so that we could pull one another out. Good memories.
These things are only as dangerous as the idiots on them. Back around 1986, a work friend had a Honda Big Red. I was attempting to jump it down a a hill. It didn't, I didn't, left knee was mashed between the handlebars and tank. The thing was up until that point, I wore an open faced helmet, and this time I wore a full helmet. Saved my face. The damage to the Honda was a dent in the tank, bent handlebars, bent lever, and all the switches on that side. I paid for all the repairs and he had a custom painted tank. Took about a year for my knee to recover.
Same here, I hit a tree, jumping a small hill in the dunes....
Had a buddy of mine when we were 13 that had a late 80s version of this. Never wore a helmet. One day he decided to put one on. I was following behind him on a trail through an area where they were going to add houses. New concrete sewer junctions and property stakes all over. He hit one of those steel stakes that turned him right into the sewer junction partially exposed and sloped like a ramp. I was following about 30ft behind so I can still see it clearly. He hit the sewer, the 3 wheeler went ass over head in a back flip and he hit the back of his head on the manhole cover and ring. I remember it landed up right and just idled while he lay on the ground. Then he sat up, reached behind his head with both hands and removed that helmet through the crack in the back. He threw it off in the woods and we kept going. Never saw him with a helmet again. Lucky bastard, like a cat, somehow he’s still alive after nearly 50 years of living this way.
Love these Sundays at Mustieville.Grown men having fun like kids again.Keeping you young.It doesn't get any better than that.Greetings from Rays" That's close enough garage"...
The 1st number had nothing to do with "wheel drive", but in how many wheels were on the machine. The second number had to do with the gear count(5-forward + reverse).
Oh. I thought most suzukis had 6 forward but I never had one of these.
@@paulwalsh2458 Yea if you look, you can see the reverse pull lever, it's the red lever on the shift side.
@@OscarOliu It could still be 6 froward and 1 reverse.
@@paulwalsh2458 not 100% on reverse but assuming as most 4wheelers had reverse I am use to snowmobiles where many had no reverse.
Lol... Awesome video. That brings back some very good memories of my own Honda 110. Man that thing was fun and it was so weird to get used to turning it. And it would go like a tank.
I was 15 when they banned three wheelers. I had a Yamaha 225 4 stroke that was indestructible and a torque wheelie monster. I wanted a 2 stroke racing model from the big 4 at the time. My Stepfather showed up with a brand new Yamaha Warrior one day and said it was for him but he never rode it so I dominated with it. Much more powerful 350 6 speed manual opposed to my auto shaft trans 225. Rider skill is why they were dangerous. Too many noobs would ride and ride drunk and paralyze themselves because of stupidity. I love trikes and would love to own an off road racing trike like ATC 250R now but quads are way more stable than the 3 wheels design. Also I own and ride a Can Am Spyder now that I am 50 yr old man so my love of motorsports has never waned. 2 wheels in front, 1 in rear is also way more stable than single steering wheel in front
"This is where we hurt ourselves" Love that line. Looks like you got her dialed in nicely.
i remember when these came out, seemed like lots of fun but at the same time very scary. Definitely didn't take long to learn what the limits were on those. 😁
but didn't they only make em for a couple years maybe 5? then discontinued them because of how dangerously unstable they were? seemed like there were lots of injuries and quite a few death's on those. If ya duck duck go it there are many articles about why the production of the 3 wheeler ATV ended. Also some talk about the birth of the ATV 4 wheeler.
Nice job on the troubleshooting mustie1 , it seems to purr pretty good even after all these years 👍
I knew someone in college who had a life-altering accident on one of those. Use with caution.
4 wheel ATVs are only slightly better really. All of it makes me want to tell my kids they should stick to dirt bikes. It’s still possible to hurt yourself with those but the machine itself isn’t going to crush you.
One thing i can tell , if Mustie1 can't bring it to life whatever that has an engine on it no one in planet will 😂 i love this guy and his videos ... U were born for it , totally a pro and a genius 👌👌
U guys had a lot of fun with that thing , for sure well deserved 😂💯👌
With a shop like this guy’s,you would think he could have figured this one out . Maybe using mustie for some channel views ?
Totally agree seems like a wanna be Bro. =)
Mustie 1 you're having so much fun you make the rest of us oldies get sent to retirement homes, but seeing how much fun your having should be looking for one of them instead.
Wow! Almost killed myself on one like that in '89! Pretty sure it was a Yamaha 175 though.
Every station around me sells Ethanol free gas at at least one pump.
Here it’s around $5 a gallon and the last three times I went they were completely out
@@shakeme3290 wow! $3.50 here in East Tennessee, always available.
you 2 are so much FUN watching love all your videos thank you for sharing!!!!