Favorite Motorized Toys

[Walt Longmire]

Enginized actually, but I digress.  I have owned and thrashed dirt bikes, (many)  road bikes, 3 wheelers, 4 wheelers, 6 wheelers, snow machines, (I know somebody from the lower 48 is going to come along and call them snow mobiles) boats, 4x4's, Jet skis, and as a kid we even had McCulloch go carts with twin engines. My favorite has always been the snow machines. I have owned a few dozen of them and rode the heck out of them. 

Edited August 13, 2018 by Walt Longmire

[Walt Longmire]

What about you? What is your favorite?

[Oneshotonepill]

I might be getting a little too big for it but I love a good Superman ride.

[Oneshotonepill]

I've got a suzuki dr350, in pieces, in the garage.  Some day I'll get her put back together and running.  Other than that, I gave up (sold) my sport bike collection (2) when I settled down and became a family man.  For now, it's just unicorns, Barbie, and... coin operated rides. ?

[Walt Longmire]

Pony rides for some of you whimps.

[willie-pete]

One of my favorites was a battery operated 4 wheel drive RC truck. A buddy and I would tie balloons to it, set it out 300 yards and try to pop the balloons with rifles while it was moving.  We never dinged the truck.

 

Great fun.

[PNWguy]

My 2018 Honda Pioneer has been providing me with lots of smiles and uncontrollable giggling when riding on the ATV trails around here...

 

 

[crockett]

 

 

[PNWguy]

But the most fun I've ever had was when I was in high school and me and two of my buddies bought a 1972 Pinto that was a former college security vehicle with 200k miles on it in 1986.  Paid $75 for it.  We painted it camouflage, mounted some KC lights on the roof, a pair of studded snow tires on the back, and took it up into the mountains and pretended we were baja racers.

So many memories of ripping around logging roads in that thing and taking turns being either the driver, navigator, or mechanic.

The fun lasted for about a month until we discovered that the Pinto had a horrible front-heavy weight distribution when we took it off a sweet jump and it landed nose first into the dirt.  Drove the radiator right into the fan.  It was either drive it back to town leaking coolant, or hike out the 20 miles in the deep woods in the dark.  We all agreed it was worth our investment to not walk.  It amazingly got us back to town before the motor was toast.

 

[XSIV4S]

I never had one but I would love to join the club.

 

[johnbt]

I have a boat, but I really, really like zipping around on my 50" Toro zero turn. It's only 24 hp, but the yard is too bumpy to go any faster. 

Snow machines...

[Borg warner]

When I lived in southern California friends of mine used to travel in their motor home to areas where they had large sand dunes and ride 4 wheel ATC's. One spot was Dumont Dunes between Death Valley and Baker, CA and the other was Glamis Dunes Southeast of the Salton Sea North of the Mexican Border. Following the contours of the sand dunes was kind if like skiing except that you could ski uphill!

On a thanksgiving weekend there were thousands of people at Glamis and everyone would get together at night at Competition Hill where sand rails would make timed runs to the top of the hill. Some of the sand rails had lights on them but there were also bonfires everywhere and every once in a while someone would throw powdered magnesium in the fire and light up the sky. It was one big party and the whole event was somehow very tribal but at the same time futuristic or like something out of a road warrior movie.

 

[Walt Longmire]

11 minutes ago, Borg warner said:

When I lived in southern California friends of mine used to travel in their motor home to areas where they had large sand dunes and ride 4 wheel ATC's. One spot was Dumont Dunes between Death Valley and Baker, CA and the other was Glamis Dunes Southeast of the Salton Sea North of the Mexican Border. Following the contours of the sand dunes was kind if like skiing except that you could ski uphill!

On a thanksgiving weekend there were thousands of people at Glamis and everyone would get together at night at Competition Hill where sand rails would make timed runs to the top of the hill. Some of the sand rails had lights on them but there were also bonfires everywhere and every once in a while someone would throw powdered magnesium in the fire and light up the sky. It was one big party and the whole event was somehow very tribal but at the same time futuristic or like something out of a road warrior movie.

 

I always wanted to try the dunes in a buggy or sand rail.

[Walt Longmire]

I passed on an opportunity to try out a 3 wheel vehicle with a sail on Red Lake in Az. It looked like fun. I didn't want to tip the guys toy over though.

[jack_pine]

We have ATV's, snow mobile (2-up), boat, RV couple of tractors and a UTV.

I like the Honda Pinoneer. It's fast and does work as well. The Deere 1025R is pretty much fun as well.............................  The RV is gaining ground as the most total fun.

Edited August 14, 2018 by jack_pine

[Chris]

9 minutes ago, Walt Longmire said:

I always wanted to try the dunes in a buggy or sand rail.

Glamis is fun, but do not go on the crowded weekends like Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc. Way too many people and I have seen someone get pretty messed up (regardless of the vehicle they are using) every time I have been there on a busy weekend.

[Eric]

And yes, that is snow. About twenty minutes after I took this picture, I came around a curve in the road at about 65mph and found myself on fresh, unbroken snow covering the whole road. I was on the snow for four miles or so. 200hp bikes with performance street tires were not intended for such things. It was a tense few minutes. Beautiful ride though.

[Lazy R]

Had a lot of fun rigs of different sorts, but the most pure riotous fun was probably the sand rail. Built a hot rod 2.3 Ford engine for it, and it was fast. Turning brakes, big power and paddle tires, you can do anything you want.

 

Edited August 14, 2018 by Lazy R

[Borg warner]

4 hours ago, Chris said:

Glamis is fun, but do not go on the crowded weekends like Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc. Way too many people and I have seen someone get pretty messed up (regardless of the vehicle they are using) every time I have been there on a busy weekend.

Have you ever been to Dumont Dunes? Less crowded, bigger dunes.

[Cougar_ml]

4 hours ago, Eric said:

And yes, that is snow. About twenty minutes after I took this picture, I came around a curve in the road at about 65mph and found myself on fresh, unbroken snow covering the whole road. I was on the snow for four miles or so. 200hp bikes with performance street tires were not intended for such things. It was a tense few minutes. Beautiful ride though.

One night back when motorcycles were my only vehicles, I hung out in town after work until evening.  I probably should have headed home sooner, as by the time I left there was about 5 or so inches of snow, and still falling pretty good.

Turns out 98 ninja zx6r air rams and snow don't get along very well (bike dyno'd to 108 RWHP on a dyno without the air rams).  20 miles later the air filter was iced over, and anything less than 5000 rpms the motor would try to stall out.  The only saving grace was nobody else seemed to be out so the snow was almost pristine.

After that I went back to the 250 ninja for a while as it had no air rams to get plugged up with snow.

[Chris]

16 minutes ago, Borg warner said:

Have you ever been to Dumont Dunes? Less crowded, bigger dunes.

Nope. I'm in Phoenix and it was either Glamis if traveling through Blythe, or Gordon's Well if we took the southern route through Yuma.

[astepup]

Got a Honda Ranger 4x4 almost two years ago. Fun to ride but I usually just use it to check crops. The new JD zero turn mower is ginormously fun....for now, but I know eventually it will become work. The two bestest toys I have that don't require ammo are the vette and the '56 Chevy. 

 

[Silentpoet]

The disturbed mind I have thought of this first when I saw the topic.

[Swampfox762]

Well.........................I'll have to go with this one.  The Fastest Battery operated Truck I ever had.  It was so fast, the Rims sepperated from the tires and I had to super glue the tires to the Rims!!!  Bought it in 1996, and it's STILL BAD ASS!!!  I'd put the rechargeable battries in the Freezer, THEN Charge em.  This Truck has seen some ****....

Otherwise, it would have to be my 1998 Honda Valkyrie,  but I sold that puppy back in 09.  Damnit. 

 

 

[Silentpoet]

9 hours ago, XSIV4S said:

I never had one but I would love to join the club.

 

The mini gun is nice too.