Sidecar Racing

[Weaver]

I straightened and strengthened the bent front arms today, painted them when I got home and wrapped them for the courier to pick up tomorrow morning. Burt has the ali to replace the crumpled front section of the tub, got his mate with the press all jacked up to fold the sections and he tells me the fibre-glassing is under way, so good progress so far. Looks like we'll be there but it,s up to Burt now...done my bit

Fucking good show guys. We've got the fairings in at the shop now and have made us a start on the rest of it. Thankfully it's all steel and piss easy to work with. Although Drew is using this as another opportunity to modify it some more.

[racer40]

Hope all you guys & girls make it back out this weekend, sounds like you are all trying hard to make it. I think a few more nick names in the sidecar teams now, so along with the Farm boys, sponge bob , Danger Dave etc, we have flipper Drew & basher Burt. See you all on Saturday

[Pumba]

Mate of mine was at Hampton on the weekend putting together a promo video thing for Team LP Racing.

Not enough action shots for me (sounds like the weather stopped him doing what he really wanted to do) but worth a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLNj63Dtskk&sns=em

[nzmikey]

Mate of mine was at Hampton on the weekend putting together a promo video thing for Team LP Racing.

Not enough action shots for me (sounds like the Esther stopped him doing what he really wanted to do) but worth a look.

Very cool video , that would be a great promotion for the chairs full stop ...

[scrivy]

Mate of mine was at Hampton on the weekend putting together a promo video thing for Team LP Racing.

Not enough action shots for me (sounds like the Esther stopped him doing what he really wanted to do) but worth a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLNj63Dtskk&sns=em

Great shots......... pity about the music................

[jellywrestler]

Mate of mine was at Hampton on the weekend putting together a promo video thing for Team LP Racing.

Not enough action shots for me (sounds like the weather stopped him doing what he really wanted to do) but worth a look.

well done, actually i thought there was a good mix of on and off track action as you can get endless amounts of mobile footage to a point it becomes same old same old, wouldn't have minded seeing all of 18's spin though...

[Kickaha]

wouldn't have minded seeing all of 18's spin though...

Chances are you'll get to see a few more

[cc rider]

Those vids should go international on YouTube!

They have. Popped up in Aus already. Good to hear not too much people hurt. Hope you're all back out there soon

Best wishes
CC

[wharfy]

Holy feckin shit pants!!!

Thank feck I wasn't there!! Shit, how things happen so fast!! There was absolutely no time to swerve, take evasive action or anything!! Thank feck no one was more seriously hurt!

Yeah !! WOT he Said !!!!

[nodrog:Me]

.....video ...
Not enough action shots for me .....

Its a Modern longbike, that's all the action they have.

P.S. I thought white was supposed to be slimming?

[swarfie]

Race Report Tri-Series Round Two, Manfield 15th December

I took Friday off work and headed out from Hamilton on my newly restored BMW R90S to Taihapi via Rotovegas, where I was staying the night with friends. Carried on to Manfield Saturday morning but only got 200m when I heard a clatter behind me, turned round to retrieve my left hand pannier from the roadside and left it at my mates place after first having stuffed everything into the other one. The die-cast catch had sheared off…it was once the better of the two pannier cases, not anymore …Grrrr! Arrived at the track at 9.30 and waited for Burt to arrive…Rang him at 10.30…still working on the sidecar and about to load up. He arrived about 1pm and we set about adjusting the front end geometry after our big crash at Hampton. We made it out for the last practice but soon ground to halt with the brakes jammed on. The fairing was in a slightly different place and was binding on the cross arm so back to the pits and out with a file to give the fibre-glass more clearance.
Sunday morning we headed out for the qualifying session only to get 2 ½ laps in before we ground to a halt with the fairing coming down on the kill switch…another Grrrr! So fixed that by turning the switch around and firming up the front suspension (was too soft anyway) and headed out to line up for the first race at the back of the grid…bloody frustrating! Got a reasonable start and managed to peg three chairs into turn one but it was a long haul to catch the rest of the field before passing the Farmer Boys and Pinky and managed a creditable 6th by race end. I was turning to jelly by race end and had been willing the chequered out for the last two laps. Aaron and Denny had fried their clutch on the start (leaving them non starters in the second race as well) and as such there were yellow flags out and unfortunately Adam/Stu and Tracy/Tina got pinged for passing under yellow and were relegated back two places each. That left Baz/Shorter in first, Spike/Astrid 2nd, Lawrences 3rd, Adam/Stu 4th, Pirate/Darren 5th, Burt and Me 6th , Farmer Boys 7th, Bruce/Jim 8th, Pinky 9th, Danger Dave 10th and Dowmans 11th, with a few DNS’s and DNF’s. It was however a huge battle up front between Baz/Shorter and Adam/ Stu with the lead changing multiple times each lap and Robbie told me afterwards it was probably the best race he had ever had…he sure was buzzing!
Denny gave me a few tips on how to get the rig to turn in a bit better which worked a treat in the second race. We got a blinding start from the back of the grid and passed 6 or 7 sidecars into turn one and managed to get Pirate under brakes into turn one on lap 5 and pull away. If we’d have got more traction out of Higgins we felt we might have got close enough to Spike/Astrid to have a go but it was just baking up on exit onto the back straight. A new tire for Wangas might help but my 71 kg is a deficit sometimes, have to eat more pies eh Spike (-: So results for race two were: Adam/Stu 1st, Lawrences 2nd, Spike/Astrid 3rd, Burt and I 4th, Pinky 5th, Des/Tim 6th, Farmers 7th, Pirate/Darren 8th, Bruce/Jim 9th, Dowmans 10th, Spungebob/Jason 11th and some DNF’s.
Hope that's all about right, I apologize if it's not.
Back on the Beemer for the ride home and I was feeling elated and rooted at the same time. Made it back to Hamilton from Manfield in exactly 4 hours non-stop so the arse was second hand by the time I got home. No not much speeding involved but just a constant/consistent cruise. Beemer never even hit reserve and ran the entire trip faultlessly apart from a small oil leak from the drive-shaft bellows which I’ll fix before heading to Wangas. Rapt with it and no doubt it will become a long term jigger in the Mickleson household.

Nev, aka Ernie, my new nickname apparently– Thanks Sidecar Bob

P.S. No names mentioned but some of you fellows would be advised to leave the beerzies alone at the meetings in future, it brings the sidecar fraternity into disrepute and pisses people off. Nuf said

[scrivy]

Nev, aka Ernie, my new nickname apparently– Thanks Sidecar Bob

Suits you guys!!

[nodrog:Me]

Race Report Tri-Series Round Two, Manfield 15th December

...... massive story .................

Geez Nev, didn't you go to work today?

[Kickaha]

sign writing is finished, off to the track tomorrow to scrub some new tyres in and get a few more laps up before a good going over and pack it all up ready for Wangas

[nodrog:Me]

sign writing is finished, off to the track tomorrow to scrub some new tyres in and get a few more laps up before a good going over and pack it all up ready for Wangas

choice, giz a turn!