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Sidecar build
dsquire:
Powder Keg
Looks like the start of a nice side car. As a kid living in the country there was an older gentelman that used to come around driving an Indian with a side car always looking for scrap metal. I alway liked when he came as he would always talk to us kids and answer any of our questions and let us sit on his motorcycle. He would never give us a ride as the sidecar was always full of scrap metal. I always thought of it as a beautiful motorcycle. This would have been in the late 1940's.
In my browsing yesterday I came upon another 3 wheeler so will post a link here so you can check it out. Maybe this will be your next build!
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1735797252/bctid1729330625
hope this isn't too for :offtopic:
cheers
Don
Brass_Machine:
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hope this isn't too for :offtopic:
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Don
It is the natural flow of conversation. I personally do not feel it is :offtopic: as it concerns a motorcycle, a sidecar and your experience. Now if you had been talking about a parrot who rides a surfboard that you saw on the news last night... that would be :offtopic:
:thumbup:
Eric
bogstandard:
In my younger days in the last century, a lot of us motorcyclists used to swap over to a different form of wheels for the winter. They used to have a heater (of a sorts), and were grossly unstable over 70mph. But they did allow you to carry the kids in comparative comfort (rearranging internal organs was the order of the day on B class roads).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Reliant_Regal_3-30.jpg
You were allowed to drive one if you had a full motorcycle licence because it weighed under 8 hundredweight (896 lbs) and was classed as a tricycle (bike with a sidecar).
I still see a few knocking about, even though they stopped production a fair few years back.
They were affectionally known as 'Plastic Pigs' because of the fibreglass body.
The all aluminium four cylinder, water cooled inline engines started off as 600cc and over the different ranges finished up at 850cc. The engines were used in a class of motor racing, the Formula 700 (the engine converters in the mid 70's were based in Market Drayton, Shropshire, just down the road from where I used to live, and I had mine tuned there, coupled with a higher ratio back axle, I could cruise at 90 if I felt brave enough). I was pulled over by the fuzz a few times, who couldn't believe that a 'pig' could go that fast, I never let on and blamed it on a tailwind or going downhill, they never noticed the large forwards facing Stromberg carb with a big bellmouth (you could only see part of the engine thru the top hatch, and if you wanted to do a lot of engine work, it was easier to drop the engine onto the floor, and lift the body over the top).
I also worked for a while making 'Mountain Range' fire engines (the smaller ones were based on a special six wheeled 'in house' conversion of the Range Rover, one of those would please Crew Cab), and the same basic engines were used on the portable pumps carried on board, two men could carry them easily, because of the light weight.
Getting away from the post slightly, just reminiscing, as we all do.
John
dsquire:
John
As long as we are talking about 3 wheelers we're not too far off track.
If they ever outlaw reminiscing as we all do then they will have a fight on their hands.
Cheers
Don
Powder Keg:
I'm pretty excieted about this project to;o) I got a couple more pieced glued on. Here is the brace infront of where the seat will be. Lots of angles in those little support pieces.
Here I am fitting a couple more braces to the trunk area. They are just sitting on the clamps for now.
I am going to try and get some more done today.
Wes
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