Check out this link - I love these....the Red Bull Can and Jetfighter in particular.....
tinyurl.com/yd74ozt
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MMMMMMMMMM! No picture of my 1964 Panther 650 "Sloper" and Watsonian double adult sidecar! £299 on the road from Claude Rye of South London. Note the sunroof!!!!
tinyurl.com/23aycwp
Last edited by: Perky Penguin on Wed 3 Nov 10 at 14:12
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Might surprise you to find I'm not a great fan of 'em. I enjoy the classic style of the Vincent/Steib outfits, and am lost in admiration at the gymnastics and daring of racing sidecar passengers, but it's not for me; as the late L.J.K. Setright once said, "The art of doing the impossible with the unrideable".
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>> Might surprise you to find I'm not a great fan of 'em. I enjoy the
>> classic style of the Vincent/Steib outfits, and am lost in admiration at the gymnastics and
>> daring of racing sidecar passengers, but it's not for me; as the late L.J.K. Setright
>> once said, "The art of doing the impossible with the unrideable".
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Was he married too?
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>> Was he married too?
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Twice; his first wife committed suicide.
Setright was one of the great motoring writers; I used to enjoy his dissertations in "Bike" magazine in the 1970's, but I suspect many who are used to the modern styles of Clarkson & co. would find him hard going.
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You MAY have missed my point Sir. :-)
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>> You MAY have missed my point Sir. :-)
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No, I got the joke; I'm on my second marriage! ;-)
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Thanks HM. I thought all was lost:-)
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Exactly - who says sidecars aren't cool? They're enormous fun, and the slippier the road the better.
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I've had me moments in them.... a rather eccentric friend in Nottinghamshire had a Silk (modern take on a Scott, watercooled 2-stroke twin) harnessed to a single-seat Squire chair.
We ventured up to the local miners' welfare one icy December night, myself in the chair as ballast, got there intact but I've never been able to go on a fairground waltzer since!
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The ONLY time a sidecar is cool is if it is attached to a 1941 BMW R71, carries an MG13 Light Machine gun, and is ridden by a Obergrenadier.
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A cycling clubmate had a Fanny Barnett combi back in the late sixties, he once gave me a lift home after a race. The floor had gone in the chair so I had to ride pillion with two bikes behind me on a home made rack. The combined weight on the bike made left handers interesting to say the least, and I also got a well lubricated right ankle from the leaking gearbox.
No helmets and both of us in cycling shorts, but that was before safety was invented.
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My wife's aunt and uncle used to have a Honda Goldwing with a sidecar. The sidecar was for their boxer dog and luggage. It was their daily transport until they went off the side of an Alp in in it. They survived but the bike didn't. She's a pensioner now but still dresses like a hippy. Looks a bit like Janet Street-Porter but in an Afghan coat and purple hair. Dog's dead now and the uncle has re-married a much younger woman from Thailand...
Think that's all I know about sidecars.
No, hang on a minute. My Grandfather had one (with a motorbike presumably) before the first world war. He was a teacher at a boy's private school in Edinburgh apparently. Originally came from Aberdeen though and he and my Grandmother used to go from Edinburgh to Aberdeen on the bike. Must have been quite a trek in those days.
That's it now.
Well, except for the time my Grandmother's face got dyed black from the dye from her hat while in the sidecar on the way to a funeral in Aberdeen in the rain. She didn't have a black hat you see and had dyed it.
I'm sure that's everything.
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PICTURES please. This is marvellous.
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>> PICTURES please. This is marvellous.
You aren't really asking Humph to post the treasured family photo of his granny in blackface are you MD?
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>> A cycling clubmate had a Fanny Barnett combi back in the late sixties, he once
>> gave me a lift home after a race.
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No way ! You just made that up. That belongs in a Two Ronnies sketch with Mary Hinge.
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Who says sidecars aren't cool..... - Perky Penguin
