Sidecar Racing

**Fast Eddie** · 9th July 2013, 17:49

Originally Posted by racer40

Have a good weekend guys. I would save your money (TYRES) for the bigger meetings Kai. Who are you riding with Warwick ? hope Dave is back out.

Sweet, will do!

Warwick will be on Gary/Goobers long bike I believe..

**Kickaha** · 9th July 2013, 19:11

Originally Posted by Fast Eddie

Warwick will be on Gary/Goobers long bike I believe..

I will be this weekend, then all going well, Me and Dave will back out for at least the Ruapuna rounds and hopefully the next levels round

**racer40** · 10th July 2013, 10:16

Good to see the Macefeilds bike back out. Is it a one off appearence ? or will we see it when we come down to Nats ? How many S.I rigs will be doing S.I rounds ? hopefully about 6 i guess.

As of last night 3 sidecar entries for Barry Sheene, Mike Alton (Aus) ona very fast 600
John Blaymires on a 600
& me with Jay Dibben on the side. Richie will be with Dags

**Kickaha** · 10th July 2013, 17:34

Originally Posted by racer40

Good to see the Macefeilds bike back out. Is it a one off appearence ? or will we see it when we come down to Nats ? How many S.I rigs will be doing S.I rounds ? hopefully about 6 i guess.

Fuck that Goober is a useless cunt, because he didnt sort his brakes last weekend he is doing it this Saturday so we wont be there

I'm guessing 6 but I cant say for sure, at least 4 definite I would think

I'd like to think we will make the Barry Sheene but wont know for a few weeks yet and I have an offer of a chair to swing on at the Oz one

**Fast Eddie** · 11th July 2013, 17:52

Originally Posted by Kickaha

I'm guessing 6 but I cant say for sure, at least 4 definite I would think

I'd like to think we will make the Barry Sheene but wont know for a few weeks yet and I have an offer of a chair to swing on at the Oz one

Yea, I would be in for the South Island nats rounds - don't think I can make north island rounds but will see closer to the time.. too hard to get time off work around those dates. same with the BSTT

Macdonalds will def be in, I'm sure Harris will be, Warwick n co. There is 4.. not sure bout any others.. pig n goober maaaaybe.

**Kickaha** · 13th July 2013, 19:01

Cant remember if this has been put up before but here's The Helsta TZ500, towards the end of the video a good shot of the sidecar wheel steering mechanism

**Fast Eddie** · 13th July 2013, 20:03

Mint day at Timaru today, had to work til 12.30am last night this morning, slept a couple hours and out the door at 5.30am while trying not to slip on all the ice everywhere.. cruisy drive to Timaru, everyone was frozen at the track, including the track.. brrr.

Got the bike unloaded and gave it a check over, Macdonalds were there sporting brand new matching Bell helmets and some fancy new leathers - getting matchy matchy for their new LCR which is waiting for them at Lyttleton port.

Harris was there with his black Mo Haley built sporting a new R1 hot motor which he was quite proud of.

Kicked off nicely into practice session, Phil and I back on the bike for the first time since Levels nationals round in Jan. Went well, Followed Harris for the first lap and on the second lap as we entered the main straight I watched a steady amount of smoke coming from Harris bike, he clicked the next gear and the smoke got thicker as the bike pulled away. He slotted it into the next gear really hammering it down the straight unaware that the smoke pouring out of the exhaust was getting to epic proportions - Then in a big puff the hands go up and they pull off the track - She was buggered.. Nothing like oil spewing out of it and little bits of metal floating around...

That left just the Macdonalds and us. Freezing temps but we went out for a little Duel, got off the line nicely - Agip bike feeling great, we had a good battle leading majority of the race with AJ having a look on the 2nd to last lap and then again getting us just before the finish line - Still we managed a 1.24.5 lap which is 3 seconds off our previous best of 1.27 so happy with that and happy with the Agip bike. Which is still running standard motor and old tyres and so on.. the new tyres and motor work are in the pipe lines.

Race 2 and 3 were less eventful as there was a couple of niggling things on the agip bike, fairing mount welds that broke (bloody rough swingers) and so on that we couldn't repair at the track so we just pottered around and had a little play for race 2 and 3 and AJ was kind enough to slow down and have a dice with us.. nearly swapping paint a few times - bloody good fun.. just the two of us

Til next time - hope there will be more than 3 bikes...

**racer40** · 15th July 2013, 13:45

Pity only the 3 of you there, why was Harris on the Mo bike, I thought he had the Totalspan one now ?. Was the Harris engine terminal ?

**Kickaha** · 15th July 2013, 14:06

Originally Posted by racer40

Pity only the 3 of you there, why was Harris on the Mo bike, I thought he had the Totalspan one now ?.

Because anything he gets he has to fuck about with no matter how good (or bad) it was going previously

Originally Posted by racer40

Was the Harris engine terminal ?

I haven't seen to many engines that throw rods salvageable

**Fast Eddie** · 15th July 2013, 16:59

Originally Posted by racer40

Pity only the 3 of you there, why was Harris on the Mo bike, I thought he had the Totalspan one now ?. Was the Harris engine terminal ?

Yea, would love more to show up, but oh well.. We try and be there every time.

Not sure what Harris is up to, When the question is put to him he says he needs to sell the black bike before he can ride the total span bike or the total span bike still needs a lot of work done.. or something along those lines.

Will be hard to sell a bike if you keep racing it and breaking it!

I think the harris engine was terminal - an awful lot of metal debris and oil floating around in there - he was quick to say he will build another motor up this week so he wasn't acting too worried.

was a good day anyway