St.Antoine Gun Club - ATV Races 1984
I first opened All
Terrain Charley’s in 1984, and before that in 1983 I operated Fast Lane Cycle
Accessories. Fast Lane distributed ATV accessories to most of the larger
motorcycle shops on the east coast and Monster Performance Products was what I
called these parts at the time. I also published a motorcycle magazine for 3
years from 1983 to 1985, it was called ROLLING
THUNDER – Atlantic Canada’s Motorcycle Magazine.
ATV’s were just starting to get real popular and a few die
hard crazies and I would travel just about anywhere to race ATV’s.
One day at 2pm in the afternoon I heard that they were giving away a brand new 1984 Honda ATC200X as first prize in a race in New Brunswick on the following day. At 8pm that night I had two of the best racers in this area ‘Fred and Dan’ and two 1983 ATC 250R’s loaded in a trailer and truck and we were on the road again.
Pictures
were taken behind Metro Motorsports, which has since gone out of business.
They were the local Honda dealer in 1983,
located on Sackville Drive, Lower Sackville.
We drove until 11pm and then tried to find a decent hotel room but they were all booked solid. We ended up at some flea bag motel which was so skuzzy we all slept in our clothes just in case the fleas wanted a momento of our stay. Bright and early the next day we went to race.
Once we had breakfast, got into our race gear and
checked the bikes we were ready to race
You crossed this river and then up a steep slippery muddy hill. The fire dept. let us wash down our ATV’s.
Well we didn’t win the 200X but we did have one heck of a good time. After the race was over we went inside the clubhouse for some grub and liquid refreshments. A local cable company had set up cameras at 4 or 5 spots on the race course, so it was great to sit back and watch the race played back on a big screen TV
Article by Richard (All Terrain Charley) Snowdon.