Sidecar Transport - Feilding to anywhere further north

**worm13** · 12th August 2012, 09:52

Originally Posted by 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??

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** · 12th August 2012, 10:16

Originally Posted by 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??

something like that happen with a speedway sidecar here in palmy north once

**crazy man** · 12th August 2012, 10:18

Originally Posted by worm13

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** · 12th August 2012, 11:00

Originally Posted by crazy man

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** · 12th August 2012, 21:53

Originally Posted by worm13

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** · 12th August 2012, 22:05

Originally Posted by wildman

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** · 12th August 2012, 22:07

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

**wildman** · 12th August 2012, 22:18

Originally Posted by 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

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

**worm13** · 12th August 2012, 22:53

Originally Posted by wildman

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

which one is speed pros chair?

**wildman** · 13th August 2012, 19:04

Originally Posted by worm13

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.