Interesting sidecar

[Orion]

Bottom right picture is my bike back in the 90's. No leading links required.

Great bit of kit.

Reminds me of the Sidewinder ‘Licence Preserver’ that was attached to many a Yammy LC250 before the novelty wore off! Luckily I’d earned my spurs many years before on a Suzuki T250J (and have the knee scars and arthritis to prove it!).

 

[Orion]

I can see where your coming from
I still have an xs650 but not standard I also sold off all of my standard ones some nicely restored as well.
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Yo! Flat Trackers Rule!

 

[raysalaugh]

Luvverly.

As an aside, best mate had an original XS650 back in ‘73 and spent most of the time trying to kickstart it into life, while smuggins here simply thumbed the electric start on my Honda 750 Four. I’ve ended up not being too smug though as, unbeknownst to me at the time, it was an original 1979 CB750KO model - it was in fact the road bike that was featured in MCN (or the other rag, I forget which) as timed through the IOM Highlander speed trap at 142mph (secret cylinder head skimming, porting, plus baffle removal and flat bars helped!) - so given the current market price of those sandcast models, smuggins here has too admit to being buggins at the end of the day!

Do you mean a 1969 750 Four the one that kept breaking the spokes in the back wheel.

 

[Orion]

Do you mean a 1969 750 Four the one that kept breaking the spokes in the back wheel.

Not my one because the wheels had been replaced with Borrani alloy rims and shod with Dunlop TT100 tyres. Coincidentally after later boring it out to 900cc and fitting a Yoshi cam I fitted it with a pair of early era alloys I bought from Eric Offenstadt (previously on his Kwaka racer) and it was the rear hub that gave problems. Tony Foale machined it to take (IIRC) hard rubber ‘biscuits’ but the torque pulled all the inserts out in short order and left the sprocket flapping around. Final and lasting solution was to use a Mini (or maybe Imp?) ‘drive ‘doughnut’ twixt hub and sprocket. Rev/gear calculator indicated a top speed of 172mph, which wasn’t bad for a mid 1970s road bike

 

[raysalaugh]

Yep, TT100's they used to stick like sh*t to a blanket, also put Koni's on to stiffen up the back end. Changed the headlight to a Cibie biode
which were brilliant.

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[tribalbrit]

Were you a member of Trent Wings? I recall seeing one when we went to Windings etc.

I was yes. Was the rep there too for a few years. Great times and great friends.
Went to few Yorkshire wing dings at Wakefield too.

 

[tribalbrit]

Great bit of kit.

Reminds me of the Sidewinder ‘Licence Preserver’ that was attached to many a Yammy LC250 before the novelty wore off! Luckily I’d earned my spurs many years before on a Suzuki T250J (and have the knee scars and arthritis to prove it!).

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Yes I remember the sidewinder and the Lc's fast as **** in their day.
The flexit was a bit pricier than the sidewinder.

 

[TheTwoOfUs]

I was yes. Was the rep there too for a few years. Great times and great friends.
Went to few Yorkshire wing dings at Wakefield too.

e must have met at some time then.

 

[tribalbrit]

e must have met at some time then.

Probably, we were active from about 88 up to 99. wing dings most weekends and The Belgian and British Treffens every year that we were members.