Any one who knows me will know that I have a small soft spot for 1980's Hondas, having a nice 86 model TRX250R already in my possession it seemed like a good idea to add an 86 TRX70 to the list when one this one came up. This quad has some family history, my wife Sairs' family having owned it since the 80's but it hasn't necessarily had the best treatment of late. When I first came across this littlest TRX 12 years ago it was already in decline having no brakes (although no one can ever remember them working to begin with) and needing tubes in all the tyres but other than that it had never skipped a beat and was still running fine.

The poor old TRX 70 was then basically left to moulder in the corner of the carport after Sairs' parents moved until one of my brother in-laws decided he would take the 70 and get it going again for his kids to ride, apparently the project got too hard for him though and after managing to remove half of the vital components he gave up and it ended up at brother in-law number two's house for him to get going for his kids to ride, still no joy and all that resulted  is what you see in the pics (only worse) a 24 year old quad parked in the grass out the back of his shed, missing half of the parts needed for it to run and the rest in a plastic container half covered in water....

The plan now is to bring it back to life for my daughter to learn to ride on so keep an eye out over the coming months as I dig up the parts I need and try to bring this, the littlest of the Honda TRX range back up to what it looked like in 1986, with as many new parts as I can but more than likely with some used parts too. I have found working on some of the 1980's stuff that ebay is often the easiest place to find parts but, sometimes parts turn up in the unlikeliest of places, so I have got hold of some Maier replica genuine guards courtesy of Shane at Hardiman ATV and some other buts and pieces from some other TRX enthusiasts yet there are still plenty more to find.

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