I kicked off the new year with something I wanted absolutely nothing to do with… which is exactly why it made a perfect video. This is a 1,000cc three-wheeler built out of a Kawasaki KZ motor (yeah, the motorcycle engine that’ll do 135 mph) stuffed into a hacked-together trike setup with what looks like a Honda 200X front end and rear swingarm. It’s heavy, it’s sketchy, it has blinkers and an Iowa title, and from the first glance I was already terrified—because 200cc three-wheelers have a reputation, and this thing has five times the bad ideas. Ezra and I start by figuring out why it won’t crank (spoiler: it’s not always the scary stuff—sometimes it’s a clutch switch making you feel real dumb). Then we face the music: four carburetors. We pull the rack, clean everything the right way (not the “spray it and pray” method), and use a couple greasy tech tips to get needles and seats sealing again. After that, we tackle the bigger survival problem: brakes. The front bleeder was totally plugged, the rear master cylinder was full of goo, and we had to tear it down and clean it out just to get pedal back. By the end, it runs, it idles better, and our odds of not dying go up… slightly.