Sidecar Transport - Feilding to anywhere further north

[Pumba]

So seems I have managed to track down an old sidecar frame for not to many $, the only catch, the dam thing is in Feilding :weep: making it a logistical nightmare (I made a passing comment about a 12hr road trip and it wasn't all that positively received).

So is there any kind soul (or souls) in the bucket community that is able to help me out? Even if it can be bought further up the island (say Taupo or pretty much anywhere in the Waikato) that would be a great help.

[Henk]

Sidecars are for poofters.

[Pumba]

Sidecars are for poofters.

What if a put a Honda engine in it? What the hell do I become then?

[Henk]

What if a put a Honda engine in it? What the hell do I become then?

A question best left unasked

[Pumba]

Hmmm, very very true:rolleyes:

[Kickaha]

Is it the old Coombes boys one? had a look at that in Fielding one year we were up for nationals

[Pumba]

Is it the old Coombes boys one? had a look at that in Fielding one year we were up for nationals

Not sure. That is not the guys name. I had leads on about 4 down that way and this was the cheapest/only one actually wanting to sell. I think it was re-powered with a DT185 engine after it stopped racing and has been used as a kids play thing.

[Kickaha]

They had a CB125 powered outfit, leading link front and running on mini wheels and slicks, apparently there was 3-4 built by the same guy

[koba]

They had a CB125 powered outfit, leading link front and running on mini wheels and slicks, apparently there was 3-4 built by the same guy
I think I know where at least one of those is, current owner very unlikely to sell.

[crazy man]

both my old sidecars ended up in feilding l wonder if its one of them

[worm13]

both my old sidecars ended up in feilding l wonder if its one of them

either yours or a lusty built :) he had built 4 of them, his one, alvins, shane smith and coombes, Its not alvins as his is hanging from his roof in the garage, and lusty wouldnt part with his in like ever lol.

Dont recall what happened to smiths chair and the coombes chair is now in marton.

hey it could be Doug Shaliers old chair if its fielding do you recall that one scotty?? the hippy from bulls had a semi decent one if he spent more money on instead of buying drugs it would have been rather quick

[Pumba]

...hey it could be Doug Shaliers old chair...

That is the one. It doesn't have an engine anymore, anyone remember what it used to run, one even what it looks like?

Alvin was my contact down there, he knew of 4 chairs, his, Doug's, Terry Lawless, and Shane Vince. He never put a price on his so I suspect he isn't that keen to sell (the engine was sold a while ago so it is only the frame). He asked Terry who flat out said no, I never did speak with Shane.

Seems these older chairs, particularly the better ones, are going to be rather hard (or costly) to extract from the hands of there owners even if the chances of them being used are pretty minor.

So anyone got any ideas for transport north?

[Kickaha]

So anyone got any ideas for transport north?

Take a motor down with you, bolt it in and ride it home, how hard can it be

[worm13]

That is the one. It doesn't have an engine anymore, anyone remember what it used to run, one even what it looks like?

Alvin was my contact down there, he knew of 4 chairs, his, Doug's, Terry Lawless, and Shane Vince. He never put a price on his so I suspect he isn't that keen to sell (the engine was sold a while ago so it is only the frame). He asked Terry who flat out said no, I never did speak with Shane.

Seems these older chairs, particularly the better ones, are going to be rather hard (or costly) to extract from the hands of there owners even if the chances of them being used are pretty minor.

So anyone got any ideas for transport north?

Yep I swung on the chair many moons ago, off the top of my head was the kawa k100 motor in it, was a rather good chair, it really suited Kart tracks only chair I had a go on that didnt spit me off lol, didnt think terry (lusty) or alvin would part with theirs, a bit of histroy with lusty chairs as crazy man mite be able to shine a bit of light on, I started up as it was all starting to wind down around here, Alvins one ran a CG125 then to a MB100, he prefered the 4stroke in better but at the time we were running on manfield back track and the 2 smokes seem to be the engines to run, Terrys and Shanes ran TF100s and were pretty quick, Use to be those 3 and crazy mans chairs were the top chairs at the time, Shane also ran a KX500 (I think) in his and did the odd street meeting with it aswell (and Carried 7ft Andy).... you will remember him scotty, Last time I saw that chair out was the Feilding bucket street race.

[crazy man]

Yep I swung on the chair many moons ago, off the top of my head was the kawa k100 motor in it, was a rather good chair, it really suited Kart tracks only chair I had a go on that didnt spit me off lol, didnt think terry (lusty) or alvin would part with theirs, a bit of histroy with lusty chairs as crazy man mite be able to shine a bit of light on, I started up as it was all starting to wind down around here, Alvins one ran a CG125 then to a MB100, he prefered the 4stroke in better but at the time we were running on manfield back track and the 2 smokes seem to be the engines to run, Terrys and Shanes ran TF100s and were pretty quick, Use to be those 3 and crazy mans chairs were the top chairs at the time, Shane also ran a KX500 (I think) in his and did the odd street meeting with it aswell (and Carried 7ft Andy).... you will remember him scotty, Last time I saw that chair out was the Feilding bucket street race.l remember gave them a nick name dum and dummer lol poor thing had to work hard with andy on it

[worm13]

l remember gave them a nick name dum and dummer lol poor thing had to work hard with andy on it

hell yeah he was a unit alright hahaha, was always a good laugh watching him shoe horn him self on to it

[crazy man]

so when are you getting your self a bucket worm?

[worm13]

when you part with one hahaha :bleh::bleh:

[crazy man]

when you part with one hahaha :bleh::bleh:you never know four stroke or the blue haze?

[worm13]

you never know four stroke or the blue haze?

what evers going hahaha as long as it goes lol

[crazy man]

what evers going hahaha as long as it goes lolthe good thing is there not buggering the class up not like f3

[worm13]

the good thing is there not buggering the class up not like f3

Let it out bro!! haha at least the posties rules are better and well structured

[Pumba]

Take a motor down with you, bolt it in and ride it home, how hard can it be

Sounds like the start of an epic story. Maybe ride the FXR down, drop out the engine, slap it in the sidecar, load the FXR up on the swingers seat and ride home.

Anyone else with any helpful suggestions.

[Henk]

Sounds like the start of an epic story. Maybe ride the FXR down, drop out the engine, slap it in the sidecar, load the FXR up on the swingers seat and ride home.

Anyone else with any helpful suggestions.

Take two chains down. The run may be longer than on a solo.

[worm13]

I wonder what ever happened to Adam Martins chair?? I swung on that a couple of times but he had problems with going around left hand corners due to fueling issues due to the carb running on the side of the engine (gp125) it was the motor that paul brown from blenhim ran in his solo that the Sales built up, He had a lot of big ideas with it but after a few issues he seemed to give up on it pretty quickly, but was a soild chassis

[Bert]

Anyone else with any helpful suggestions.

here's a suggestion for you Pumba.
How about the last Vic round at Taupo?? I know that's a while away (couple of months)...
But maybe it a few of us ask Vic Club nicely we can ride buckets with streetstocks; then someone from down here could bring it up and you could take it home????

Worm: hurry up and get a bucket... If we can get to 10 of us up here; we might actually be able to get it going here in PN again...

[TZ350]

I swung on that a couple of times but he had problems with going around left hand corners due to fueling issues due to the carb running on the side of the engine (gp125)

Fueling issues with a GP100/125 engine, try a Tillotson HL360A pumper carb. They are 24mm in the venturie and being a pumper don't care about cornering issues. Easy to tune once you get the feel for it and I made good power with the one I tried. Riekens Racing is the place to get one if your interested. http://www.out2win.com/catalog/tillotson.html

[worm13]

here's a suggestion for you Pumba.
How about the last Vic round at Taupo?? I know that's a while away (couple of months)...
But maybe it a few of us ask Vic Club nicely we can ride buckets with streetstocks; then someone from down here could bring it up and you could take it home????

Worm: hurry up and get a bucket... If we can get to 10 of us up here; we might actually be able to get it going here in PN again...

hahaha I would have thought between you and the griffiths clan the 10 would have been easy.....oh wait you need 10 riders not 80 bikes lol, may look at it in 6 months time but right now playing on any form of motorcycle just isnt an option :(

[kevie]

on a side issue .... seeing the posters on this thread seem clued up on sidecar racing >>>>> I had a neighbor in Hamilton that had a motorbike/sidecar in his shed, I cant remember his name tho.....he spent years working on modding it and getting it back running again.

Apparently he was in a bad crash on it in a race and lost his leg .. from memory I think his swinger died in the crash or something like that... he was determined to modify the machine and prove he can race it with one leg ..... when we moved away from Hammie in 1995 he said he was almost ready for the test run to see if he can get permissions needed to race again.

Anyone familiar with him or if he got back on the track again??

[Pumba]

here's a suggestion for you Pumba.
How about the last Vic round at Taupo?? I know that's a while away (couple of months)...
But maybe it a few of us ask Vic Club nicely we can ride buckets with streetstocks; then someone from down here could bring it up and you could take it home????

Yea Bert I was thinking something like that would be the go.

[worm13]

on a side issue .... seeing the posters on this thread seem clued up on sidecar racing >>>>> I had a neighbor in Hamilton that had a motorbike/sidecar in his shed, I cant remember his name tho.....he spent years working on modding it and getting it back running again.

Apparently he was in a bad crash on it in a race and lost his leg .. from memory I think his swinger died in the crash or something like that... he was determined to modify the machine and prove he can race it with one leg ..... when we moved away from Hammie in 1995 he said he was almost ready for the test run to see if he can get permissions needed to race again.

Anyone familiar with him or if he got back on the track again??

Know nothing about it nor ever seen him, jelly wrestler would be the man to ask on thoses sorts of things, I only knew people who own bucket side cars and jumped from chair to chair.... only reason being we could fit so many races in a day and some of the swingers cried cramp or were worn out and being the young buck that I was seemed to fit the bill for some people, are couple of times people have turned up with their chairs with out swingers on the hope they could con some of us to help out, has been knowning for someone to have 3 swingers for the day :)

Only bucket chairs from around here that i didnt have a spin on were Alvins and crazy mans chairs.......hint hint lol (from 98 to 01)

[crazy man]

on a side issue .... seeing the posters on this thread seem clued up on sidecar racing >>>>> I had a neighbor in Hamilton that had a motorbike/sidecar in his shed, I cant remember his name tho.....he spent years working on modding it and getting it back running again.

Apparently he was in a bad crash on it in a race and lost his leg .. from memory I think his swinger died in the crash or something like that... he was determined to modify the machine and prove he can race it with one leg ..... when we moved away from Hammie in 1995 he said he was almost ready for the test run to see if he can get permissions needed to race again.

Anyone familiar with him or if he got back on the track again??something like that happen with a speedway sidecar here in palmy north once

[crazy man]

hahaha I would have thought between you and the griffiths clan the 10 would have been easy.....oh wait you need 10 riders not 80 bikes lol, may look at it in 6 months time but right now playing on any form of motorcycle just isnt an option :(well in 6 months you could get one ready looking good in that time

[worm13]

well in 6 months you could get one ready looking good in that time

hahaha funny man, Il try and swing up and see ya during the week and catch up with whats going down :)

[wildman]

either yours or a lusty built :) he had built 4 of them, his one, alvins, shane smith and coombes, Its not alvins as his is hanging from his roof in the garage, and lusty wouldnt part with his in like ever lol.

Dont recall what happened to smiths chair and the coombes chair is now in marton.

hey it could be Doug Shaliers old chair if its fielding do you recall that one scotty?? the hippy from bulls had a semi decent one if he spent more money on instead of buying drugs it would have been rather quick

Hey do you know who has the one in Marton, my mate lives there and am looking at moving there June next year and probably take Speedpros old one down there with me.

[worm13]

Hey do you know who has the one in Marton, my mate lives there and am looking at moving there June next year and probably take Speedpros old one down there with me.

I do, his old man has it there, aagorn is based in aussie these days but he is easy enough to get in contact if you want me to find out more when your here just give me a pm with your details and I can pass them on if you like.

[worm13]

also it has a full fairing on which made it quite cool, 1st attempt on side cars was on that rig and 2nd outing on it off I went :facepalm::facepalm:

[wildman]

also it has a full fairing on which made it quite cool, 1st attempt on side cars was on that rig and 2nd outing on it off I went :facepalm::facepalm:

Speedpros old one had full body when he first got it, made it quite cool but speedpro said they got rid of it after a crash. I remember the first time i had a go on a bucket sidecar about eighteen years ago my girlfriend at the time was riding it and i swung the wrong way ooops:facepalm:

[worm13]

Speedpros old one had full body when he first got it, made it quite cool but speedpro said they got rid of it after a crash. I remember the first time i had a go on a bucket sidecar about eighteen years ago my girlfriend at the time was riding it and i swung the wrong way ooops:facepalm:

which one is speed pros chair?

[wildman]

which one is speed pros chair?

Built over twenty years ago, scaled down LCR. Hub centre steering, fully adjustable front and rear suspension , mini rims and tyres and powered by a watercooled mb100. There's some photos of it on one of the bucket sidecar threads.

[Pumba]

which one is speed pros chair?

the scaled down LCR in question

[worm13]

the scaled down LCR in question

havent seen that one before like the idea behind it tho :)

[crazy man]

the scaled down LCR in questionthat was the one l laped

[worm13]

that was the one l laped

youve lapped me how many times.... you were like the king lapper lol

[Pumba]

that was the one l laped

Wouldn't surprise me. Mike would probably accuse you of running a 250cc engine though.

[worm13]

Wouldn't surprise me. Mike would probably accuse you of running a 250cc engine though.

250.... really thats a bit kind dont ya think.... hes the king of over sizes hahahhahaha :scooter::scooter:

[crazy man]

funny thing was he sayed with us for 2 laps after laping mike so it was fast enough ! maybe was waiting for mine and lustys to go pop

[wildman]

funny thing was he sayed with us for 2 laps after laping mike so it was fast enough ! maybe was waiting for mine and lustys to go pop

Hey crazy man you need to get your sidecar going then we can have a rematch down your way somewhere next year.:banana::banana:

[worm13]

funny thing was he sayed with us for 2 laps after laping mike so it was fast enough ! maybe was waiting for mine and lustys to go pop

everyone was always surprised when ever one of your 2 smokes went on the trailer while it was still a runner hahaha lusty you could nearly say that every 3 meetings it went pop... maybe 4 at a strectch

[crazy man]

Hey crazy man you need to get your sidecar going then we can have a rematch down your way somewhere next year.:banana::banana:l want to .. will start work on it in about a months time when l free myself up

[worm13]

Hey do you know who has the one in Marton, my mate lives there and am looking at moving there June next year and probably take Speedpros old one down there with me.

Ive just got in contact with the guy that had the one in marton, its been moved on but getting him to find out where its gone, may help in trying to find and buy it :)

[wildman]

Ive just got in contact with the guy that had the one in marton, its been moved on but getting him to find out where its gone, may help in trying to find and buy it :)

Hey thanks for that would be good to get more out and running and i would be keen to buy it, especially if we could get the class running again at a couple of tracks

[Pumba]

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