Sidecar Racing

[jellywrestler]

Does Tracey know you call her Santa Claus?



Did you forget about turn 12 at Taupo?

no, it's one eight of the length of the straight and there's the same amount of run of past the corner as there is at Wanganui...

[scrivy]

liked it and thought about one, but having no friends only leaves me with the choice of riding a solo!

Is that where the term 'Solo poofters' comes from???.......

[jellywrestler]

through a scrivy on the fire.....

Fuck that would've smelt worse than an Anchovies Fanny!

[Tony.OK]

Is that where the term 'Solo poofters' comes from???.......

Nah poofters generally have many friends...............Solo riders don't need/have a mate to sit behind them and tell them ya bum don't look big in those leathers

I think I'll hush now, Drew's promised me a ride on his rig and the more I say the faster my "off" will be hahaa..........

[jellywrestler]

Nah poofters generally have many friends...............

True that, they have so many friends you could almost say they've got mates coming out of their arse

[scrivy]

Then it opened properly....yes, some sort of travel limiter for the balance bar wouldn't be hard to do - leave enough movement to operate both brakes normally but if one fails that side would go on the limiter and you'd still have the other.

That should be do-able.
But in essence, if the pedal or its components (lever/rodends/bias bars/reservours) were to bend/snap/break or leak empty, then we'd still have no brakes.
I still think an independent lever/pedal system is the best course to take, as well as an updated brake pedal box design.

[Fast Eddie]

To be honest, right now my left leg is still too sore to kneel in a sidecar.... Probably will be by next weekend too....

Thanks for the offer of your chair, but that's not how I operate. As you know, I'm a giver, not a taker. There's no chance I'd take a toy off someone else so I could have fun at their expense. I'd rather watch you going round. (I was gunna say 'going hard' - but flagged that thought - 'cause I knew Kick would come back with a gaybo comment....)

naw.. well the offer is there if you change your mind, I can't see myself being able to afford north island round, I didn't realise they were even dearer than south. Will give Paeroa a crack tho! so Agip bike will be up here if you want it gwaarn.. would be good to see it n the hands of a good rider.

Kai - didn't you say somewhere that the line for that brake was too close to the headers ? if the fliud is being heated it will expand and the brake wil drag, heating it more etc - vicious circle.....

yip, brake lines run right over/infront of the headers.. thought it was a very strange place to have them go but I think there is no other place for them.. will look at it in chch

To avoid getting his clothes dirty, Ella said she'd do the video and pics

haha..
yip well get nekkid and look at the brakes, prob chuck a new kit through all master cyls and calipers and fresh fluid again. can't hurt!

[Fast Eddie]

Onboard Team Agip

[nodrog:Me]

.....I think you'll find most other rigs are the same too.....

Mine is similar but different.

no, it's one eight of the length of the straight and there's the same amount of run of past the corner as there is at Wanganui...

potato potatoe

Onboard Team Agip

lol, good plan, complain about sticking brakes early in thread before posting up your vid. You are smart.

[Drew]

Nah poofters generally have many friends...............Solo riders don't need/have a mate to sit behind them and tell them ya bum don't look big in those leathers

I think I'll hush now, Drew's promised me a ride on his rig and the more I say the faster my "off" will be hahaa..........

Come to the hillclimb then. You can have a hoon up there with us. Bring the thou!

[Fast Eddie]

lol, good plan, complain about sticking brakes early in thread before posting up your vid. You are smart.

ah! you're onto me..

one of the wheels fell off too but it doesn't show on the video.. that slowed me down a bit.

na.. I just got tired n dropped the pace as the laps went by. I really need to get on a mountain bike or back in the gym or something..

the bike aint perfect tho! try using that throttle for more than a lap.. arm pump thats wassup. broken finger added to the work the right arm had to do. I was fucked after a lap and sweating like a whore in gordys basement.

really wanna change my seating position too.. couple of braking points the bike would weave and i thought i would pop out of the seat!

heaps of fun tho!!

[Drew]

Fucken hell that's a lot of bloody excuses!

[Kickaha]

Fucken hell that's a lot of bloody excuses!

Scrivy has been training him, if me and Gordy put a bit more effort in we could beat him on the BMW, it'd probably only take 1 less missed gear change a lap by Gordy to do it

[Drew]

Gordy and I

Fixed that for ya.

[Weaver]

some sort of travel limiter for the balance bar wouldn't be hard to do - leave enough movement to operate both brakes normally but if one fails that side would go on the limiter and you'd still have the other.

The Tilton master cylinders that we have has a full stroke (when they bottom out) of 25mm. At 25mm of lonesome travel, the balance bar will be on quite the piss, which it should be designed to not allow. Regardless of this, when one bottoms out, it should then pivot off that and operate the other one provided you have enough lever travel no? Looking at our outfit, that's going to be heaps of required travel, but not impossible.