FOR SALE - Drew and Alan's sidecar build

[scrivy]

Do some fucken yoga and ride pinky then.

I'm not good enough to ride her.....
Too slow....

[mr bucketracer]

Progress...

Would it be possible to provide front end geometry.
Current building a "non real" sidecar and trying to sort out front end options.
Cheers

non real , may have to drop you of the team with a comment like that (-;

[Drew]

Progress...

Would it be possible to provide front end geometry.
Current building a "non real" sidecar and trying to sort out front end options.
Cheers

Ours is not an ideal one to scale down mate, but I'll measure it up for ya next session.

Made progress today, but not as much as I wanted. When ya have to fabricate components, it soaks up time something fierce.

The wee tunnel through the chassis is made of a pipe split down the centre, and two bits of plate welded between the halves. Then welded into the hole.

So the master cylinders are in final position, and the just need the mounts welded all the way.
It all lines up and works out well.

Al worked on his seat for the day. Chopping the deck down and getting the new deck support well underway.

Here's where we're at so far.

[sidecar bob]

I'm not good enough to ride her.....
Too slow....

The problem is that between us we weigh as much as Tina, Tracey & Tracey. Apparently that's a disadvantage, but two Tracey's should get the vacuuming done pretty bloody quickly though.
Here's a pic of what I've been working on this arvo, the ex Bill Biber K100rs racer.
Prefer not to start a thread about it.

[Kickaha]

Here's a pic of what I've been working on this arvo, the ex Bill Biber K100rs racer..

Back in the day, about 87-88 at Manfield



BEARs race on whatever year and weekend they ran the last Castrol 6 hour

[sidecar bob]

BEARs race on whatever year and weekend they ran the last Castrol 6 hour

Well I will truly be fucked. I was trying to make the wheel spacers work with the front Marvic in the direction they all rotate in (spokes sweeping backwards) as you can see in my photo, & gave up in disgust when nothing seemed to fit? Now I see that it spins the "wrong" way. That makes it all better.
I'm doing second incarnation, with full RS fairings & bike clinic on the fork legs & sidecovers as it was before it was parked up for years.
But hang on, it's a FZR front wheel in your pic. As you were.

[Shaun Harris]

The problem is that between us we weigh as much as Tina, Tracey & Tracey. Apparently that's a disadvantage, but two Tracey's should get the vacuuming done pretty bloody quickly though.
Here's a pic of what I've been working on this arvo, the ex Bill Biber K100rs racer.
Prefer not to start a thread about it.

That is the same Yellow that I like for wheels. I reckon they look cool, and kinda make the bike look fast just sitting there

[Kickaha]

Well I will truly be fucked. I was trying to make the wheel spacers work with the front Marvic in the direction they all rotate in (spokes sweeping backwards) as you can see in my photo, & gave up in disgust when nothing seemed to fit? Now I see that it spins the "wrong" way. That makes it all better.

Is the wheel not symmetrical?

Last time I saw that bike I think was early nineties on display in a bike shop in Masterton

[Grumph]

Well I will truly be fucked. I was trying to make the wheel spacers work with the front Marvic in the direction they all rotate in (spokes sweeping backwards) as you can see in my photo, & gave up in disgust when nothing seemed to fit? Now I see that it spins the "wrong" way. That makes it all better.
I'm doing second incarnation, with full RS fairings & bike clinic on the fork legs & sidecovers as it was before it was parked up for years.
But hang on, it's a FZR front wheel in your pic. As you were.

Looks like an FZR wheel in the rear too. How the f do you make it fit a brick ?

And to follow Kicks' question, are both wheels offset to the left of center ?

[sidecar bob]

Looks like an FZR wheel in the rear too. How the f do you make it fit a brick ?

And to follow Kicks' question, are both wheels offset to the left of center ?

Sorry about the hijack drew. I don't know about how you fit a FZR wheel into a brick, it has a rare as rocking horse shit magnesium built for the job PVM in the rear now.
Unsure about the offset, I'm just restoring it, Michael Dobson who built it will be seconded in by BRM to tell the story at the end.
Wheels are the Continental tyres logo colour as the bike was conti sponsored at one point.
The bike was supplied to me with a 20 year old can of Dulux 2k in the correct colour.
My painter used it to match it with the latest hi tech paint system.

[Drew]

All good Steve, hijack away.

It's a shame we have to put all the wiring back on the chair. It looks so good and tidy without it. Way back when I shortened the loom, I remember thinking that I should have made a jig to shape it and get the branches coming out in the exact spot. Fucken glad I didn't, would be impossible to shift stuff round now.

[nodrog:Me]

All good Steve, hijack away.

It's a shame we have to put all the wiring back on the chair. It looks so good and tidy without it. Way back when I shortened the loom, I remember thinking that I should have made a jig to shape it and get the branches coming out in the exact spot. Fucken glad I didn't, would be impossible to shift stuff round now.

Yeah my new sidecar looks pretty good without the wiring on too.

[Drew]

Yeah my new sidecar looks pretty good without the wiring on too.

Want our old swingarm to adapt? That'll take months of your build, and give you something metal to add to your mock up when ya pretend in the shed at night.

[nodrog:Me]

Want our old swingarm to adapt? That'll take months of your build, and give you something metal to add to your mock up when ya pretend in the shed at night.

swingarm should be finished this week. nearly done.

[Drew]

Bathurst was boring. Back to work.