WOW does that ever bring back memories. I've owned 4 back in the 90s. I had an 81, 82, 83, and 84. Super fast and so much fun. They are without a doubt the hardest thing to ride hard but once you've mastered the technique needed they are the most fun to ride. The 4 I spoke of were all air cooled 5 speeds. In 85 and 86 the last year they were made they were 6 speed water cooled. I'm 56 now and after watching this commercial it reminded me of how much I enjoyed riding them im going to find an 86 in good condition and recapture my youth lol
Were same vintage... I had two 84 200Xs and a 86 250R... Alot of fun and wish I'd of kept them, but they took up so much garage space and I was a MC guy 1st. Always imagined what a bummer it had to of been to of bought a 1984 250R and see the 85 model come out... Id of been bummed, so a leap forward from 84 to 85.
i had one but it was a 175r racer, and yes it would fuck your shit up if you didnt respect it lmao LOTS of power in a little machine, find one today scraped so you can get the motor and make a gocart holy jesus! lol
A friend of mine rebuilt one, bored .080 over. Grabbing gears, 2nd would throw you off the back. He sold it, because in the mountains it was virtually impossible to ride. These machines are awesome. Respect them, have fun, and be prepared to be schooled! 😂
If you've never had this much fun, you need to get out of the house more... I've done this exact same activity on the exact same bikes, & still do it on the 4 wheeled versions...yes, plenty of people have had, & continue to have this kind of fun...
I remember seeing the early ATC's spinning brodies on a frozen lake back in the early 80's. The concept that you could go from snow to dirt to sand to riding through water was mind blowing to me!
Hey we are already talking about the fat kid that is riding a 3 wheeler when all his buddies got cr and xr 80's, or even 125's. This is his chance to show them. Now he's laughing at them and enjoying be dry. This totally is not anything like my childhood.
I lived this. We made trails that are in use 40 yrs later. I also had a Honda oddesy. We were the generation that had it all. We lived through the peak of Western civilization
To be fair the generation that had it the best is also the generation that began this horrendous fixation with regulating safety at the expense of freedom. They have now raised a generation who genuinely believe that freedom is evil. They view those of us who believe that individuals have the capability to evaluate risk without government mandates as extremists and terrorists trying to destroy the little safety bubble they've demanded the government create. After the three wheel federal can you can see how the advocacy groups turned to four wheelers and demanded those be banned. They didn't succeed...yet.
Grew up riding three wheelers. Climbing gravel pits, riding muddy trails, and playing in the sand dunes out at the local dump. Man I had a blast as a kid growing up!
I would give anything to go back one day in the eighties to watch my brother ride is 1985 250R. he could ride wheelies for miles .. still yet today I never seen anybody ride a three-wheeler like him. cops neighbors all try to catch him they never did..
Marco Ceccarelli i have yet to really tap the potential of my 84 R with wheelies. 2 strokes are a but more touchy. But, and a buddy have been practicing on a ytm200 and a big red 250es. We got a straight stretch where we live about 6 miles and my buddy can do the whole thing, and i can get about half that. Theres lots of hills you have to compensate for and also, we dont have rear brakes. So if we go over we cant save em unlike a lot of these kids you see today that milk the brakes. We've been taking videos of it, waiting for the perfect day to get out there and record the whole thing, traffic and wind conditions prevent us a lot of the times.
dosbox907 that's awesome keep on riding. my brother did this in the eighties. now it's all over RUclips. not only can ride wheelies he jumped that thing and handle it like I never seen. use had to live it to see it the eighties were unbelievable
"Give your reconstructive surgeon the most challenging jigsaw puzzle ever made...... Your skull, in pieces!!!" - The Honda 250R, Making head trauma fun since 1981!!! 🤕
"A whopping 6.7 inches of travel". Yeah, that's what she said.... The ATC that started it all right here. We wouldn't have stroker Banshee's, turbo'd 450's, or 4x4 quad's w/ snow plows if it weren't for these. Take a moment to reflect.
@@brockhaffner447 I've owned a couple of Tecates, including a white 4 that was built by L.A. Sleeve and ported by Tony Kelner then done by Cory Sprock that would top 100. My jam is the KXT250b when it comes to trikes.
@Krazy WhiteBoy None of my 350X's ever let me down as long as I kept up on them, even though in my area we trail ride to hill climbs and pound on them hard. They keep the local trails from getting rutted out as well. The latest 450 I had got about 10 rides before it needed a rebuild treating it the same way, even less so with my age. The 350X is king.
@Krazy WhiteBoy If you haven't ever ridden a trike with good power, trust me. My first request from my friends like you were to ""Bicycle" it to get the feeling of what it will do on the trail. You'll find yourself timing inclines and obstacles better. It will 100% make you a better 2 and 4 wheel rider.
@Krazy WhiteBoy One thing I will ALWAYS describe myself as is a BMX rider. Even if you never got into what most call 'powersports', you probably know how to wrench because you can take care of your own vehicle due to fixing flat tires or making a brake cable work on a bicycle. I was the asshole that did double stair gaps and built jumps in the woods to over rotate a backflip on because I had RAD on VHS. All of my friends went to the hospital, so don't listen to me.
I prefer trikes. Ive had bikes 4 wheelers nice ones junk ones but i always have some honda trikes around. Just got my boy a 185s to learn how to ride on. He has been ripping bikes and quads for years now he is ready to ride a real machine
I almost died pinned under one of these in a snowbank when I was a teen. They don't corner very well at all. Good thing they came back to check on me. Good times.
I had two 185s's, a 200SX & a 250R back in 1984. (We had a placer claim in Alaska) They were among the best days of my life; & I regret every moment I wished to grow older & have those years behind me.
love these old coms....Took ATV safety in Middle school in 86 ( first thing you learn is...ATV are rider active some have/learn the skill, some dont) put on by Honda and our local Honda dealership, that I work at now.... I also own a 86 200X..
Great promo video. I had one of the original ATC 90's with no suspension and never crashed it or got hurt. But you definitely did NOT want to let your legs get caught up between the backside of the foot pegs and the rear wheels. Eventually, Honda smartly installed guards in that area to keep it from happening.
I love how this entire commercial is just about how cool you can be when you own an ATC. There's nothing about saving the earth or self driving whatever.
The snowmobile in that section of the video was a Yamaha SRV. the V is the Roman numeral 5, because they were a 540cc sled. they pretty good sled's for back in their day. and the motorcycle from what I could tell was a Husqvarna 250cc enduro. that was a very good motorcycle for it's day.
+Disloyal Dashie Id take a 250r over a 200x any day. But yeah they probably did sell more of the 200x considering it had a much broader market. It's kind of like the Lt 230 quad sport. A novice or a pro could hop on one and have fun with a little bit of know how.
I was working at a honda shop when these atc250r's first came out .stock out of the crate they would do an honest 85mph top end ..a guy brought me a new stock one and wanted it modified ...i had a cylinder for a CR250R ..so i copied the ports the same for the jug on the atc250r ..we got a 6 peddle reed kit.. went from a stock 28mm carb to a 36 mm carb .i modified a cr250fr expansion chamber to fit And dropped 10 teeth smaller on the rear ... I had a 550 four cylinder dirt bike at that time that would do 115mph on the old haul road of the amax coal mine in stauton indiana , shaun the owner of the 1981 atc250r that i modified using parts he bought and parts of my own , caught up to me and passed by pretty fast while i was topped out ...his stock tires were swelled up at the centers and scrapping on the fenders ..scared me half to death
Did you know a stock 1973 CR250M - 1976 CR250R will bolt on to a stock 1977 - 84 honda odyssey engine cases and about double the odyssey's horsepower ...watched a video of one done at honda r&d school. From a dead stop and then nail the throttle, it stood straight up and rested on the rear roll cage
ATC's were HUGE when they came out. Everyone had one or wanted one. Unfortunately because they had three wheels very inexperienced riders assumed they were safe. This lead to multiple accidents, injuries and subsequent regulations. Honestly, If they brought back the ATC 250R back... I would be the first in line. They were genius.
I got one for my bday in 82, I was 14. Wasn't long before I had cut routes through every greenbelt in the county. Id show up at school on it and chain it to the bike rack then ride it across the county to the skateing rink on fridays, keggers on Saturdays.....gotta feel sorry for kids today.... they have no idea of how fun life used to be.😂
We got an 85 250r off the showroom floor. We already had an 82 200s I remember my Dad was blown away by the difference! They were worried we'd kill ourselves! Nobody did though! But that trike was a beast! My brother got into racing it for a while but what a machine!
This commercial led to many wrecks.. i love 3 wheelers grew up riding them.. i can just see a young kid watch this back then and try to do what they did.
I grew up on these when I was a kid. Great fun. Had a honda big red 250 and a Suzuki(or kawasaki) 185 for the gals. I had the 185 when I was 7. It was a blast.
I bought a brand new Honda 250SX back in 1986, I rode that thing for 20 years, always had a blast....had my share of accidents on it but nothing serious, miss having it to ride.
A friend of mine had 2 of em. It was cool riding behind him watching him ride the trails in NW Washington in the hills. He could blip the throttle and make a sharp trail corner on 1 rear wheel... left or right. Later he flat tracked em and kicked butt.
I LOVE these manufacture showroom promotion vids that played in dealer showrooms, back in the day. As for the trike vs snowmobile in this video, the snowmobiler won out -- he got the cute chick. I love Honda bikes but that chick is very fine. I'd rather have her than head off into snowy mountains.
The Yamaha and the Kawasaki brands were pretty damn versatile as well. Most Japanese Brands were elite. They’re high compression engines. My father God rest his soul swore by Japanese engines Especially Toyota.
The widow maker. I parked one in by buddy’s grandmothers shed, without using the door first time I rode it. I thought it would turn just by turning the bars, it kept going straight. My dad was pissed when he had to fix the hole in the shed.
Had these growing up in the 90’s. We lost both our Big Reds to a fire when we packed them on a flat bed trailer and put luggage all around them strapped down. We never knew how the fire started.
ATC 250R we raced the baja 1000 in 1982 and if you see the start of the commercial was DEVILS SLIDE in back of Santa Maria . it was very steep and had three sides to it going up the top was near vertical and the back were monsterious sand bowls. not many made it to the top and the bottom was close to the ocean. that first was closed in in ‘88 then Osoflako was closed in ‘90 then oceano dunes finally closed after it was heavily fenced due to saving the monarch butterfly in 2022. peace to team honda its people competitors and many years i had fun on my 250R. i still have mine not running but in the garage.as a memory.
On my 3rd birthday in ‘81 I got my first motorized machine ,Suzuki LT Trailbuddy 50 👌😝🥰. By age 6 I was too big for it and was riding my dads utility Honda 200 ATC . He wouldn’t let me rip the 250R until I was 13 😩🤣😂. Man those were the last of the great times with no sissy ass rules 🤙😎
True story: my brother and I race motocross for eight years, my brother was actually a professional sponsored by Kawasaki team green. There was a big family reunion and we were at a farm, we didn’t really know that part of the family, but they had a kid that was rich on a three wheeler. He thought he was hot stuff. My brother thought that it would be easier to show him up on his own three wheeler. My brother was wrong. There was a big jump and my brother jumped and made a huge mistake and stuck both feet down. Landed on both ankles with both back tires, look like he tried to rip his legs off. It was terrifying and hilarious. We never tried to ride a three wheeler again after that.
Broke my back on a two wheel vehicle 1987… I met a lot of peeps in physical rehabilitation (phys rehab)…that rode these 3 wheelers. One guy said that one came from 15 ft above him (big sand dune jump) and landing on top of him…while he was on his 3 wheeler.
These were fun as hell to ride, until my dad saw me put my foot down and the back tire ran over my leg pulled me off the bike, I ended up breaking my arm and dad ended up getting rid of them.
three wheelers are awesome. if your not an idiot its literally exactly like you see in the video. riding them radical feels so natural once you figure it out.
Every time I see or hear about these bikes, I get a flashback image of watching my sisters friend turn on this thing at 20 mph without a single drip of lean. The way these bikes dumped you is quite unique and kind of funny to see.
My dad told me how he and his buddies had these until he seen the new liquid cooled one coming out. He ordered one without telling them and showed up to the track with it when it came in. They all thought it a spaceship in comparison. It weren't long before they all rode liquid cooled 250r's.
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WOW does that ever bring back memories. I've owned 4 back in the 90s. I had an 81, 82, 83, and 84. Super fast and so much fun. They are without a doubt the hardest thing to ride hard but once you've mastered the technique needed they are the most fun to ride. The 4 I spoke of were all air cooled 5 speeds. In 85 and 86 the last year they were made they were 6 speed water cooled. I'm 56 now and after watching this commercial it reminded me of how much I enjoyed riding them im going to find an 86 in good condition and recapture my youth lol
I’m 58 and I bought an 83 model.
Were same vintage... I had two 84 200Xs and a 86 250R... Alot of fun and wish I'd of kept them, but they took up so much garage space and I was a MC guy 1st.
Always imagined what a bummer it had to of been to of bought a 1984 250R and see the 85 model come out... Id of been bummed, so a leap forward from 84 to 85.
I had the 84 Yamaha 225 DX shaft drive. My buddy had an 84 250R.
We had so much fun on those things!
First time I rode one even though I was told not put my foot down I still did lol got me good😮
The 2 strokes our soo bad ass!
This is better than most adds today
Jo Ski not just most but every one of them even super bowl commercials cant compare
Fax
True
Better then most bikes today also
I don't see what mathematics has to do with this.
These guys are absolutely rippin, I remember learning how to ride one when I was a kid, you even look at it wrong it will flip on you 😂
i had one but it was a 175r racer, and yes it would fuck your shit up if you didnt respect it lmao LOTS of power in a little machine, find one today scraped so you can get the motor and make a gocart holy jesus! lol
Don't stare directly at it and definitely don't taunt it.
Still safer and easier than a dirt bike in my opinion
As a kid I managed to run over my own foot trying to take a corner like a dirt bike. Didnt care for those things, LoL.
A friend of mine rebuilt one, bored .080 over. Grabbing gears, 2nd would throw you off the back. He sold it, because in the mountains it was virtually impossible to ride.
These machines are awesome.
Respect them, have fun, and be prepared to be schooled! 😂
No one on earth has had as much fun as these test riders had since this commercial was shot.
Imagine getting paid to rip a 3 wheeler
If you've never had this much fun, you need to get out of the house more... I've done this exact same activity on the exact same bikes, & still do it on the 4 wheeled versions...yes, plenty of people have had, & continue to have this kind of fun...
I wanna see the out takes 😂
This guy is a badass he just left his buddy in the water and wheelies away.
its a three wheeler add not a two home boy gotta catch up now
He's been watching too much Top Gear
same vibes as me and my friend in the winter
And went AROUND the log.
Yeah, dirt biker plowed right into it! lol@@MOAX777
Ahhh Nice blue, deliscious smoke, the way it should be....long live 2 strokes baby!!!
@Ricky Mislick fuck yes bro
Ohhhh ya brrrrrrrrrraaaaaaah buuuppppppp burrp braaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh burrrh burh burrrp
@@christophchamberlain8025 wing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing WING ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing
I remember seeing the early ATC's spinning brodies on a frozen lake back in the early 80's. The concept that you could go from snow to dirt to sand to riding through water was mind blowing to me!
I love how he leaves his boy in the river and doesn't even look back got a love the 80s
and yet in the end he still did not get the girl
richie rich
Haha
Hey we are already talking about the fat kid that is riding a 3 wheeler when all his buddies got cr and xr 80's, or even 125's. This is his chance to show them. Now he's laughing at them and enjoying be dry. This totally is not anything like my childhood.
@@Richierich1285 that’s because he probly already had her lol
Ironic it was a Husky instead of a Honda! 😂
I lived this. We made trails that are in use 40 yrs later. I also had a Honda oddesy. We were the generation that had it all. We lived through the peak of Western civilization
Man we used to go down to Oregon dunes from BC and rip Odyssey's. So freaking amazing
Indeed
To be fair the generation that had it the best is also the generation that began this horrendous fixation with regulating safety at the expense of freedom. They have now raised a generation who genuinely believe that freedom is evil. They view those of us who believe that individuals have the capability to evaluate risk without government mandates as extremists and terrorists trying to destroy the little safety bubble they've demanded the government create.
After the three wheel federal can you can see how the advocacy groups turned to four wheelers and demanded those be banned. They didn't succeed...yet.
Same here. But I was a dirt bike kid. Now all the trails I rode on are gone, because today’s generation of suck asses are too afraid to go outside.
I wish they still made 3 wheelers!
i thought they still did. well i got luck i got three of them
EBAY has three wheelers for sale just about every day. in 2018 go for it.
We all do 👍🏻😂
They do
Cayden Bechtel I’m 14 and I ride a Honda 350 1985 obviously I don’t drive it like a idiot but I drive medium, not slow not fast but medium
Grew up riding three wheelers. Climbing gravel pits, riding muddy trails, and playing in the sand dunes out at the local dump. Man I had a blast as a kid growing up!
Even the best riders are still fighting it from flipping if you look close, gotta love it❤
I would give anything to go back one day in the eighties to watch my brother ride is 1985 250R. he could ride wheelies for miles .. still yet today I never seen anybody ride a three-wheeler like him. cops neighbors all try to catch him they never did..
Marco Ceccarelli i have yet to really tap the potential of my 84 R with wheelies. 2 strokes are a but more touchy. But, and a buddy have been practicing on a ytm200 and a big red 250es.
We got a straight stretch where we live about 6 miles and my buddy can do the whole thing, and i can get about half that. Theres lots of hills you have to compensate for and also, we dont have rear brakes. So if we go over we cant save em unlike a lot of these kids you see today that milk the brakes.
We've been taking videos of it, waiting for the perfect day to get out there and record the whole thing, traffic and wind conditions prevent us a lot of the times.
dosbox907 that's awesome keep on riding. my brother did this in the eighties. now it's all over RUclips. not only can ride wheelies he jumped that thing and handle it like I never seen. use had to live it to see it the eighties were unbelievable
Marco Ceccarelli Hell yeah man!!! Sounds like some good memories.
I could ride a wheelie for miles on my yamaha 225dx, it's like it was made for it.
@@CriticalThinker08 I still have my atc 250r
I had a 79 ATC70, 82 ATC185s and an 86 ATC250R. Rode the heck out of all of them. What a great time.
Are you my brother?!
"Give your reconstructive surgeon the most challenging jigsaw puzzle ever made...... Your skull, in pieces!!!" - The Honda 250R, Making head trauma fun since 1981!!! 🤕
Made me lmfao!!!
😂
"A whopping 6.7 inches of travel". Yeah, that's what she said.... The ATC that started it all right here. We wouldn't have stroker Banshee's, turbo'd 450's, or 4x4 quad's w/ snow plows if it weren't for these. Take a moment to reflect.
True statement. Then Kawasaki perfected it.
@@brockhaffner447 I've owned a couple of Tecates, including a white 4 that was built by L.A. Sleeve and ported by Tony Kelner then done by Cory Sprock that would top 100. My jam is the KXT250b when it comes to trikes.
@Krazy WhiteBoy None of my 350X's ever let me down as long as I kept up on them, even though in my area we trail ride to hill climbs and pound on them hard. They keep the local trails from getting rutted out as well. The latest 450 I had got about 10 rides before it needed a rebuild treating it the same way, even less so with my age. The 350X is king.
@Krazy WhiteBoy If you haven't ever ridden a trike with good power, trust me. My first request from my friends like you were to ""Bicycle" it to get the feeling of what it will do on the trail. You'll find yourself timing inclines and obstacles better. It will 100% make you a better 2 and 4 wheel rider.
@Krazy WhiteBoy One thing I will ALWAYS describe myself as is a BMX rider. Even if you never got into what most call 'powersports', you probably know how to wrench because you can take care of your own vehicle due to fixing flat tires or making a brake cable work on a bicycle. I was the asshole that did double stair gaps and built jumps in the woods to over rotate a backflip on because I had RAD on VHS. All of my friends went to the hospital, so don't listen to me.
it's all bout the rider, since I was a young buck I grew up on these. still have two 250r's and a 350x. Badass machines!
Montana Van Dyke don't sell em ever!
I prefer trikes. Ive had bikes 4 wheelers nice ones junk ones but i always have some honda trikes around. Just got my boy a 185s to learn how to ride on. He has been ripping bikes and quads for years now he is ready to ride a real machine
I almost died pinned under one of these in a snowbank when I was a teen. They don't corner very well at all. Good thing they came back to check on me. Good times.
I had one back in the eighties. I lived in Coos Bay Oregon,so we had lots of sand dunes to play on. Some of the best days of my life! Ride On!
I had an 82 250R. It took a beating and kept running. Excellent machine!
I was lucky to grow up gen X with "toys" like this. Life was better back then...
On a serious note: now I wanna go riding
I had two 185s's, a 200SX & a 250R back in 1984. (We had a placer claim in Alaska)
They were among the best days of my life; & I regret every moment I wished to grow older & have those years behind me.
Love it! Those exact awesome machines are still ridden today!
As a kid, one of these was the first time I ever experienced what a 2 stroke was...such an epic summer!
I just spent the past five minutes reliving my childhood, and i want to go back!! Those things are so much fun, literally how i learned to drift!!
We had the original 1970 ATC 90. Had a blast on that thing for years. Noone ever got hurt.
WOW! That was my hubby & me for 4 years when we lived in Alaska (everything but the beach 😂) the 80’s were AWESOME 💥💥💥
Don Draper must have wrote this advertisement... Its just that good.
I had countless hours (3 years) of ecstatic fun on mine! What memories!!! Thanks!
I saw a magazine ad and went to the local atv showroom when i was a kid and i freaked out. I wanted one so bad.
I remember those. They were insane fast. I want one now after watching this commercial. 😀
love these old coms....Took ATV safety in Middle school in 86 ( first thing you learn is...ATV are rider active some have/learn the skill, some dont) put on by Honda and our local Honda dealership, that I work at now.... I also own a 86 200X..
Great promo video. I had one of the original ATC 90's with no suspension and never crashed it or got hurt. But you definitely did NOT want to let your legs get caught up between the backside of the foot pegs and the rear wheels. Eventually, Honda smartly installed guards in that area to keep it from happening.
The trick is to always lean into the turn. Always follow that rule and you won't roll. I had one for many years.
i know how to my grandmother taught me
And use the rear end and throttle to steer
Don't want to put too lean to much into the bend, put too much weight on one side
Back when even the advertisements were kick ass!
I love how this entire commercial is just about how cool you can be when you own an ATC. There's nothing about saving the earth or self driving whatever.
idk why but i love this commercial so much this is probably my 100th time watching it
The snowmobile in that section of the video was a Yamaha SRV. the V is the Roman numeral 5, because they were a 540cc sled. they pretty good sled's for back in their day. and the motorcycle from what I could tell was a Husqvarna 250cc enduro. that was a very good motorcycle for it's day.
Still got 2 of these and they've been rode to hell and still run great.
I see quite a few of the 200 models for around $1,000 around me. I may not be able to resist forever.
I owned the 1985 Honda 250r, it totally rocked!!! Il always remember that Machine...
Fuck yes this is awesome... Anyone else notice Tyre pressures
I learned how to ride on an ACR250r lol. Looking back that was insane.
The 250r is truly a Legend to us all. But no other sport model sold like the 200x though.
+Disloyal Dashie Id take a 250r over a 200x any day. But yeah they probably did sell more of the 200x considering it had a much broader market. It's kind of like the Lt 230 quad sport. A novice or a pro could hop on one and have fun with a little bit of know how.
Korey Smith
Yeah i would rather a 250r too I wish i had an 86 250r. but i do have an 85 200x,
the thing is 250rs are never for sale and when they are they are a million dollars
I was working at a honda shop when these atc250r's first came out
.stock out of the crate they would do an honest 85mph top end ..a guy brought me a new stock one and wanted it modified ...i had a cylinder for a CR250R ..so i copied the ports the same for the jug on the atc250r ..we got a 6 peddle reed kit.. went from a stock 28mm carb to a 36 mm carb .i modified a cr250fr expansion chamber to fit
And dropped 10 teeth smaller on the rear ... I had a 550 four cylinder dirt bike at that time that would do 115mph on the old haul road of the amax coal mine in stauton indiana , shaun the owner of the 1981 atc250r that i modified using parts he bought and parts of my own , caught up to me and passed by pretty fast while i was topped out ...his stock tires were swelled up at the centers and scrapping on the fenders ..scared me half to death
Did you know a stock 1973 CR250M - 1976 CR250R will bolt on to a stock 1977 - 84 honda odyssey engine cases and about double the odyssey's horsepower ...watched a video of one done at honda r&d school. From a dead stop and then nail the throttle, it stood straight up and rested on the rear roll cage
Oh Man! Awesome! I had one liquid cooled 86' maybe, twist throttle and killer power 3 wheeler! CR 250!
It was awesome 👊🤘🏻🏁💨💨
ATC's were HUGE when they came out. Everyone had one or wanted one. Unfortunately because they had three wheels very inexperienced riders assumed they were safe. This lead to multiple accidents, injuries and subsequent regulations. Honestly, If they brought back the ATC 250R back... I would be the first in line. They were genius.
Morons and the weak usually muck up fun stuff.
I got one for my bday in 82, I was 14. Wasn't long before I had cut routes through every greenbelt in the county. Id show up at school on it and chain it to the bike rack then ride it across the county to the skateing rink on fridays, keggers on Saturdays.....gotta feel sorry for kids today.... they have no idea of how fun life used to be.😂
I still remember the rubber burn on my leg after riding it the first time. Even though i was warned not to put my feet down. 😂
he went around the log not over it
We got an 85 250r off the showroom floor. We already had an 82 200s I remember my Dad was blown away by the difference! They were worried we'd kill ourselves! Nobody did though! But that trike was a beast! My brother got into racing it for a while but what a machine!
This commercial led to many wrecks.. i love 3 wheelers grew up riding them.. i can just see a young kid watch this back then and try to do what they did.
"The ATC takes to the snow like it was born there" this add is priceless, they dont make anything like the used to not even ads
I grew up on these when I was a kid. Great fun. Had a honda big red 250 and a Suzuki(or kawasaki) 185 for the gals. I had the 185 when I was 7. It was a blast.
Very cool! I was like 6 years old when this came out and I probably wanted one as soon as I seen it. I have one now lol!
I bought a brand new Honda 250SX back in 1986, I rode that thing for 20 years, always had a blast....had my share of accidents on it but nothing serious, miss having it to ride.
Used to rip around on one of these as a kid. Looking back, I'm surprised I'm still here...
They banned em cause it took skill to ride properly! Everthing gets bannedif it aint moron proof, im suprised they still motorcycles!
Curt G
That’s the best comment I’ve seen so far and it’s fact
It’s because people died on it
@@jakerockandhismom3501 people die in cars every day
@@jakerockandhismom3501 they died because they are morons who don’t know how to ride hence OP’s comment.
Had a 350x when younger ,it was a beast ,whole lot of fun wish I still had it
A friend of mine had 2 of em. It was cool riding behind him watching him ride the trails in NW Washington in the hills. He could blip the throttle and make a sharp trail corner on 1 rear wheel... left or right. Later he flat tracked em and kicked butt.
I remember this commercial as an 80’s baby, 😂we all wanted one
"yes sir, there really is 250 fun in them thar' hills" hahaha good god I wish they still made these.
I LOVE these manufacture showroom promotion vids that played in dealer showrooms, back in the day. As for the trike vs snowmobile in this video, the snowmobiler won out -- he got the cute chick. I love Honda bikes but that chick is very fine. I'd rather have her than head off into snowy mountains.
CR250R40 yeah they wouldn't dare make promo vids of guys riding like that nowadays.
Spent my youth being pulled behind one of those on a bobsled with three other friends… those were the days!!!
Awesome add!!! See ya going for a ride on my 200m👍🤟
Damn Good memories, Thank you very much Honda since it's the Only brand I ever stuck with !! 👍👍😎
40yrs later, we are patiently waiting for a NEW ATC! Fingers crossed 🤞
4:06 the dirt bike falls over on the log and the guy on the ATC just takes off like "peace out bro" 😂 ✌️
The Yamaha and the Kawasaki brands were pretty damn versatile as well. Most Japanese
Brands were elite.
They’re high compression engines. My father
God rest his soul swore by Japanese engines
Especially Toyota.
The widow maker. I parked one in by buddy’s grandmothers shed, without using the door first time I rode it. I thought it would turn just by turning the bars, it kept going straight. My dad was pissed when he had to fix the hole in the shed.
That was absolutely awesome I had an 84 250R it is so cold to see that what a bunch of nuts
I remember riding these, do a wheelie so easy it was insane.
Had these growing up in the 90’s. We lost both our Big Reds to a fire when we packed them on a flat bed trailer and put luggage all around them strapped down. We never knew how the fire started.
ATC 250R we raced the baja 1000 in 1982 and if you see the start of the commercial was DEVILS SLIDE in back of Santa Maria . it was very steep and had three sides to it going up the top was near vertical and the back were monsterious sand bowls. not many made it to the top and the bottom was close to the ocean.
that first was closed in in ‘88 then Osoflako was closed in ‘90 then oceano dunes finally closed after it was heavily fenced due to saving the monarch butterfly in 2022.
peace to team honda its people competitors and many years i had fun on my 250R.
i still have mine not running but in the garage.as a memory.
I wish I could go back to the 80s and stay the hell there.
Bring them back had one they were great had several in the eighty
One of the most athletic people I ever knew literally destroyed himself physically with one of these. Incredibly fast!
What happened?
@@mxr6652these flip over… banned now.
Ah yes. The early days of ATV's. I had a 83 Yamaha 225DX. Not as kick ass as the 250R, but i could crack 50 on a dirt road.
I had one when I was 12, parents bought for me when it first came out. In the winter it was turned into to a ice drag wheeler.
They must have wanted you to die.
On my 3rd birthday in ‘81 I got my first motorized machine ,Suzuki LT Trailbuddy 50 👌😝🥰. By age 6 I was too big for it and was riding my dads utility Honda 200 ATC . He wouldn’t let me rip the 250R until I was 13 😩🤣😂. Man those were the last of the great times with no sissy ass rules 🤙😎
True story: my brother and I race motocross for eight years, my brother was actually a professional sponsored by Kawasaki team green. There was a big family reunion and we were at a farm, we didn’t really know that part of the family, but they had a kid that was rich on a three wheeler. He thought he was hot stuff. My brother thought that it would be easier to show him up on his own three wheeler. My brother was wrong. There was a big jump and my brother jumped and made a huge mistake and stuck both feet down. Landed on both ankles with both back tires, look like he tried to rip his legs off. It was terrifying and hilarious. We never tried to ride a three wheeler again after that.
😂😂😂😂
Daaaaaaamn
Broke my back on a two wheel vehicle 1987… I met a lot of peeps in physical rehabilitation (phys rehab)…that rode these 3 wheelers.
One guy said that one came from 15 ft above him (big sand dune jump) and landing on top of him…while he was on his 3 wheeler.
I still Have my 250r 1984 and a IT200 2 LT500's a banshee 2 Polaris 400's and many more 2 strokes..
All terrain cycle follow the leader i cant get enough of this video must have came across it 20 times dam those were the days.
Wow , the memories!!!
I swear i can smell the exhaust coming from the dirtbike in the trail riding scene
The 1983 was my fave 250R with the Ohtsu pro vector rear tires. Could wheeeeeelie down a hill like nothing.
I had the 4 Trax and that thing was crazy fast , couldn't imagine riding one of these...
imagine being the people in this vid.....getting to test ride them for a commercial.....damn
People who need warning labels ruined this for all of us.
These were fun as hell to ride, until my dad saw me put my foot down and the back tire ran over my leg pulled me off the bike, I ended up breaking my arm and dad ended up getting rid of them.
I lost track of the number of times I ran over my own leg with these things.
Pismo Beach for awhile was the best and we had all the Honda's!!🏁🇺🇸
You still see them out there on nice and awhile.
The most unstable fun death machines ever :)
Still have my 86 Santa brought me. Dad said that was it l walked outside and smiled.
FYI I'm older now it sits in garage
three wheelers are awesome. if your not an idiot its literally exactly like you see in the video. riding them radical feels so natural once you figure it out.
Every time I see or hear about these bikes, I get a flashback image of watching my sisters friend turn on this thing at 20 mph without a single drip of lean. The way these bikes dumped you is quite unique and kind of funny to see.
My dad told me how he and his buddies had these until he seen the new liquid cooled one coming out. He ordered one without telling them and showed up to the track with it when it came in. They all thought it a spaceship in comparison. It weren't long before they all rode liquid cooled 250r's.
my buddy had the 110 back in the 80's. we'd rip school and go do donuts in peoples gravel driveways when they were at work!
It sounds like CHIPS background music !!! Hahahaa. 7 Mary 3 officer Baker here
These should still be around.
I have a shop full of them