Scrivy tries his hand at Motard racing

**roadracingoldfart** · 15th March 2010, 20:34

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

as far as Scrivy is concerned, everything is saveable up until its a smoking wreckage.

Now thats a possitive attitude

**scrivy** · 16th March 2010, 08:52

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

The mind of an ex airline pilot at work, (yes, he actually is) as far as Scrivy is concerned, everything is saveable up until its a smoking wreckage.

Heh heh heh.......... (got you screwed......... that's the line I tell ya.......)

**jellywrestler** · 16th March 2010, 11:47

Originally Posted by scrivy

The one Satherly owns.

We were told we had to fit a handlebar kill switch to it prior to racing. His swinger Blue fell off, and Steve went over the bars with the impact of hitting me rolling on the ground. His sidecar went right down to the flower beds and hit a car!! They subsequently brought in the wrist kill switch for sidecars after this.

yeah Blue copped a broken collar bone.
why would they insist on a kill switch when it wasn't the rules then? also youre right about wells bike hitting a car. Tony Hughes a wanganui club official was sitting watching from his car opposite the flower garden with his son in teh front seat. on seeing the crewless outfit coming down the road he fired up his car and drove it out in front of it to stop it!!!
not a bad deed at the time really when you think about it

**scrivy** · 16th March 2010, 12:33

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

why would they insist on a kill switch when it wasn't the rules then?

You had to have a handlebar kill switch. Mine came from Aus with only a lanyard on the left leg. Still had the same effect.

NZ has to be different.

**gixerracer** · 16th March 2010, 18:45

keys in the bowl again

Originally Posted by scrivy

Yip!!

It was actually synchronised swinging - not racing........

**scrivy** · 17th March 2010, 10:19

Originally Posted by gixerracer

keys in the bowl again

You get that with passengers.................

**rat** · 25th March 2010, 11:58

Tony Hughes a wanganui club official was sitting watching from his car opposite the flower garden with his son in teh front seat. on seeing the crewless outfit coming down the road he fired up his car and drove it out in front of it to stop it!!!
not a bad deed at the time really when you think about it[/QUOTE]

This story has been told for many years to new sidecar racers, and is etched in sidecar folklore.
But what gets me ,as the story has been told. Is why did Tony put his car between the sidecar a a long line of Compressors on wheels(Harleys), he shold have let them get run over.

**jellywrestler** · 25th March 2010, 19:38

Originally Posted by rat

Tony Hughes a wanganui club official was sitting watching from his car opposite the flower garden with his son in teh front seat. on seeing the crewless outfit coming down the road he fired up his car and drove it out in front of it to stop it!!!
not a bad deed at the time really when you think about it

my old man caught that incident on video, showed me that night as (i was racing in that race) and next day i asked where it was and he'd deleted it, said i'd already seen it!!!

**jellywrestler** · 25th March 2010, 19:40

Originally Posted by rat

This story has been told for many years to new sidecar racers, and is etched in sidecar folklore.
But what gets me ,as the story has been told. Is why did Tony put his car between the sidecar a a long line of Compressors on wheels(Harleys), he shold have let them get run over.

yeah that would've been funny all the bogans looking for the riders of the bike that ran them over when it dropped its crew off 150metres down the road.
would've been frenzy, like two blind lesbians in a fish and chip shop!!