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 Your first ATV?
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09/25/15 02:27 PM
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Mine was a brand new 1986 suzuki 125 4-wheeler. No rear shocks just big ole rear tires. First week having it brakes went out. To expensive to have fixed, so learned to ride it with no brakes. First in the area to have a 4-wheeler. It was great fun. Tough little machine. Drove every evening 10 miles through the backs trails and roads with small yard trailer to school AG farm to feed/walk hog. Loved that journey. Good memories.
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/25/15 03:06 PM
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Circa 1980, I bought the Honda 110 three wheeler. Still to this day, it is the toughest and best I have ever owned. I have bought several ATVs and SXS since then, and the old 110 was as durable and mechanically sound as any of them. Lot of fun was had on that machine.
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/25/15 03:17 PM
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Suzuki 125 with a good ole pull start... then when to a 250 quad runner.. it was fancy and right when electric start was getting big... they had ELECTRIC START stamped on the side lol nice wheeler though... then i got a 600 grizz and  she was a beast
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/25/15 03:27 PM
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Slow Drifter
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My first ATV was a horse. First with a motor was a Honda Trail-90, second was a Honda 90 3-wheeler. I'm not sure where they are now, but I bet wherever they are they're still going.
"I have no idea what WW-III will be fought with, but WW-IV will be fought with sticks and stones." A. Einstein 
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/25/15 09:11 PM
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The first one in our family was Dad's Honda 90 3wheeler. He treated it so bad, but it wouldn't die. After deer season was over, he'd push it under some azaleas in the yard. Next time he needed it, he'd drag it out, wipe the seat off, gas it and go. Amazing.
My first one was a Honda 110 3wheeler. It was also tough, but if you didn't run it regular the carb jets would plug up. Got to where I could pull that carb and clean the jets in fairly short order. Bought it used and I had it for years.
Not my monkeys, not my circus...
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/25/15 10:50 PM
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2005 Honda Rincon, still have it. It just won't die. If it does, I'll go get a brand new one, same model.
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/26/15 02:50 AM
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Honda 250 big red. Best atv ever for hunting in the woods. Dad bought it new in 83 and I still have it today. We call it the one kick wonder. Turn on key and choke, one kick later you gone
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/26/15 04:21 PM
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Honda 250 Recon. 2WD but I never needed to go anywhere that it wouldn't....
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/27/15 06:54 PM
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Big red.....rolled it twice. That thing just kept going
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/27/15 08:02 PM
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Suzuki 125 3 wheeler back in the early 80's Thing even had reverse.
LETS GO BRANDON
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/28/15 01:51 AM
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Mine was a brand new 1986 suzuki 125 4-wheeler. No rear shocks just big ole rear tires. First week having it brakes went out. To expensive to have fixed, so learned to ride it with no brakes. First in the area to have a 4-wheeler. It was great fun. Tough little machine. Drove every evening 10 miles through the backs trails and roads with small yard trailer to school AG farm to feed/walk hog. Loved that journey. Good memories. Yes sir, we had one just like yours except the reverse didn't work either, had to push it backwards. So rough driving on the rocks it would give my rear end some serious chafing!
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/28/15 02:47 AM
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1985-86 (I don't remember), Suzuki LT230 Quadsport. 5 Speed, with clutch and reverse lever by your foot. Kick start (sideways) only. That thing was abused from day one by my brother and I. We had tons of fun and should have been killed several times. NEVER wore a helmet... stupid!!! I don't ever remember changing the oil - just gas and go. Dad traded it for a trailer load of scrap iron in 1997, I think. In the end the swingarm bushings were shot - it would kick the chain if you tried to corner too fast. That is the only thing that ever went wrong with it. It even survived a 100 yard end-over-end roll down the hill behind the house while Dad was chasing a wild ewe. Fired right back up like nothing ever happened. It was like this one... 
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/28/15 04:33 AM
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1985-86 (I don't remember), Suzuki LT230 Quadsport. 5 Speed, with clutch and reverse lever by your foot. Kick start (sideways) only. That thing was abused from day one by my brother and I. We had tons of fun and should have been killed several times. NEVER wore a helmet... stupid!!! I don't ever remember changing the oil - just gas and go. Dad traded it for a trailer load of scrap iron in 1997, I think. In the end the swingarm bushings were shot - it would kick the chain if you tried to corner too fast. That is the only thing that ever went wrong with it. It even survived a 100 yard end-over-end roll down the hill behind the house while Dad was chasing a wild ewe. Fired right back up like nothing ever happened. It was like this one... I had a honda 70 and my dad had this exact bike. It was a beast. I still have my grandmothers trail 90 and still has paper tags on it.
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/28/15 10:30 AM
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1980 Honda 70 three wheeler. Then an 83 185S
Haven't had it in years but never spit any out. I am a sucker for happy endings and strapped cowboys.
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/30/15 03:53 AM
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JustWingem
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1983 Honda 3 wheeler with Balloon tires!
DON'T GET CONFUSED BETWEEN MY PERSONALITY AND MY ATTITUDE. MY PERSONALITY IS WHO I AM...MY ATTITUDE DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ARE 
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Re: Your first ATV?
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09/30/15 03:39 PM
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I had a 2005 Suzuki Ozark (250cc). Considering all the stuff that I put it through, it really surprised me that it took it and kept coming back for more.  It's under there. I drove into this hole, and drove back out of it with it running the entire time. I even had a small shot of nitrous on it to keep the mud tires spinning when I got into peanut butter mud. 
God has a plan and something special in mind for all of us. Do you know the direction that God wants to send you?
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Re: Your first ATV?
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10/08/15 08:29 PM
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'84 Honda 125 3-wheeler. A couple years later we inherited an '86 Honda 125 4 wheeler. Loved those bikes, especially the 3-wheeler. Wish they had odometers.
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Re: Your first ATV?
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10/08/15 11:36 PM
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Just to make sure that it is done thoroughly, I go both ways.
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Re: Your first ATV?
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10/12/15 03:11 AM
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1986 Honda Fourtrax 200SX. Still starts and idles better than any machine I have ever owned. I love that I can also do a complete tune up, carb rebuild, ignition module, air cleaners, petcock valve all for like $80.
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Re: Your first ATV?
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10/13/15 07:59 PM
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My first atv was a Sport 65 Honda motorcycle, circa 1965.
The Federal Government cannot give anything to anyone, that it has not first taken from someone else.
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Re: Your first ATV?
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10/16/15 06:13 PM
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Just bought a 1995 Polaris Magnum 425 4x4...It's my first and hopefully it'll last me a while. Hell, it lasted this long.
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Re: Your first ATV?
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10/17/15 12:35 PM
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My first was a late 80's Honda 3-wheeler. After that I bought a 2004 Honda Foreman S and ran it for over 17,xxx miles, just sold it for $2,000. Now have a Kawasaki Teryx4, it's fun and dang comfy, but I miss my ATV's.
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Re: Your first ATV?
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10/18/15 03:34 PM
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'03 Polaris Trail Boss 325. Still my one and only (blue and white one). She just keeps on running. 
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Re: Your first ATV?
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10/20/15 01:55 PM
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My first was a Polaris sportsman 90. I got it 8 years a go and I stil use it. If the area is to small for our big 6x6 Polaris I can slip that 90 in there easy loaded a bunch of corn on it and a bunch of deer on it.
TSmith
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