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    Quote Originally Posted by merv View Post
    Couldn't the sidecars run with the two wheelers too Bob, then there'd only need to be one race class - all in. That would really save time. Bit like a cannonball run on the track.
    I'm fine with that
    "If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."


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    Even BP would shy away from cleaning up a sidecar oil spill.
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    Rob North TZ750
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    note the rear end it was built and raced in the USA but it did appear at the IOM once but the jackshaft broke.
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    There's not much to like about the front end and th rear end takes up a shit ton of space.

    The fuck is with the truck tyres?

    Cool motor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    There's not much to like about the front end and th rear end takes up a shit ton of space.

    Americans...


    The fuck is with the truck tyres?


    Americans again....


    Cool motor.

    Agree........

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumph View Post
    Agree........
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    There's not much to like about the front end and th rear end takes up a shit ton of space.

    The fuck is with the truck tyres?

    Cool motor.
    It looks like it was made in Wanganui.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sidecar bob View Post
    It looks like it was made in Wanganui.
    PETE QUILTER from wanganui had a rob north chassis, he said the geomettry was perfect, ie important points but the way the frame tubes got there was interesting, two tubes, one for each side, bent differently, clearly it was function over form.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jellywrestler View Post
    PETE QUILTER from wanganui had a rob north chassis, he said the geomettry was perfect, ie important points but the way the frame tubes got there was interesting, two tubes, one for each side, bent differently, clearly it was function over form.
    As it should be....

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    Quote Originally Posted by sidecar bob View Post
    It looks like it was made in Wanganui.
    It was built for Reg Pidmore
    Well known BMW racer from the states and 1978 AMA Superbike Champion
    His boy Jason was pretty useful as well.
    Here is the bike with its cloths on at the IOM.
    Rob North (himself a very useful sidecar racer back in the UK) was known for building pretty simple but highly functional designs, so there must be a reason for its layout.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Katman View Post
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    1/ It seemed like a good idea at the time.

    2/ Someone paid him to do it.

    3/ There was a single seater race car laying around which had had an accident wiping the left side off it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumph View Post
    1/ It seemed like a good idea at the time.

    2/ Someone paid him to do it.

    3/ There was a single seater race car laying around which had had an accident wiping the left side off it.
    I'dd plumb for 2, but have you ever seen pics of the fabricated fork yokes he made.
    three sections of steel tube ovalised joined together in a triangle cocered with a stressed sheet metal skin
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    Quote Originally Posted by husaberg View Post
    I'dd plumb for 2, but have you ever seen pics of the fabricated fork yokes he made.
    three sections of steel tube ovalised joined together in a triangle cocered with a stressed sheet metal skin
    No - but there's a genuine ex works North trident lives in ChCh. How to tell it's the real deal ? Widened Triumph triple clamps.
    Bronze welded - and agricultural. Frame's bronze welded too. Current owner wanted to do copies so made up a jig - and it was immediately apparent that as Jelly has remarked above - the two sides weren't the same.
    And I knew the guy who bought it in the UK and brought it home with him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumph View Post
    No - but there's a genuine ex works North trident lives in ChCh. How to tell it's the real deal ? Widened Triumph triple clamps.
    Bronze welded - and agricultural. Frame's bronze welded too. Current owner wanted to do copies so made up a jig - and it was immediately apparent that as Jelly has remarked above - the two sides weren't the same.
    And I knew the guy who bought it in the UK and brought it home with him.
    All the first ones apparently had the head angle wrong as well, they were all the same head angle, just the wrong one.
    from memory the fab yokes were for the disc version.
    there is a pic of them in a classic bike mag i have somewhere.
    Because the bikes were limited run all the parts like tanks were handmade so it didn't mater to Rob if they differed.
    The later disc wheels were made in halves bolted together and the discs were supposed to be from a Triumph dolomite machined down.
    The frame jig was only made from scap bits and bobs as the chassis was to be a one off funded by Percy Tait with Triumph kicking in a few quid.
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    Quote Originally Posted by husaberg View Post
    were supposed to be from a Triumph dolomite machined down.
    must have been a good source for parts, my hesketh has some triumph dolomite used in the engine parts from memory

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    Quote Originally Posted by jellywrestler View Post
    must have been a good source for parts, my hesketh has some triumph dolomite used in the engine parts from memory
    They thought the bastard things were going to sell so pre-ordered a shitload of stuff. One of the things that brought BL down...

    The wide yokes were on drum triples too - that 250mm Fontana is a wide pos.

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