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Side car wheel in the air!? Crediton to Exeter road? Yeah, that all sounds familiar. I have great memories from twenty years back of runs out to Hartland Quay hillclimb from Ottery St. Mary. We'd take the Crediton-Hatherleigh-Holsworthy road out to Bude and then up the A39. Sunday morning, west Devon=no traffic. Great stuff on a Trumpet with m8's on big Ducati's, Zed thousands, that sort of stuff.

I have seen Oil-in-frame outfits so it can be done. Infact I think you could buy a Bonny and Watsonian chair, new, from Watsonian in the late seventies. I have only had two experiences of sidecars in my entire life. 1) Friends Beamish/Suzuki Trials Outfit. Slow, great fun, especially as he lived in mid-Wales at the time, though only the owner - after a great deal of practise - could steer it. 2) Friends Yamaha XS850 with "Sports" chair. Bought on a whim. One of two or three moments of absolute, unalloyed terror in my life was experienced in the chair of this vehicle. You were basically sitting in a one-hundred and ten miles an hour Canoe with ones backside hovering a mere four inches off the tarmac! The impression of speed from this eye-level overwhelms the senses. I accepted a lift home from a country pub in it one night. Oh Lordy!!!! Cornering technique seemed to be go-as-fast-as-possible-and-don't-brake-at-all-whilst-your-passenger-fills-his-pants. I had to be helped out of the bloody thing at journeys end and then lie on my driveway willing my legs to work. I know my limits so sidecars; we'll you're a better man than me, buddy. S!

Spring of 1986 and I haven't had a haircut for nearly a year because a; I don't have to and b; I'm a student! To celebrate I buy a 1973 750cc Bonneville with a proper right-foot gear change and a rear drum brake. "Wotcha buy that heap of shit for? It'll only go bang" says my Kawasaki owning brother as he took these pictures. He was right. Pretty soon it did go bang. Luckily my sensible option, an 850 Suzuki just kept on going and going and going, etc., etc. I pulled it apart in me mums shed and decided it required major engineering The first thing to do was save some money. Well, quite a lot of money really. I started buying bits; a main bearing here, a gasket set there and sent the frame off for blasting and powder coating. Eventually I had enough bits to put the engine back together and install it in the frame. Wow! it started to look like a bike again. This spurred me on to shell out even more cash. The only problem now being I was living and working in London and the bike was at Mum's house in Devon - a distance of some 150 miles. I spent more and more weekends in Devon. Seeing old friends, chasing women and fixing my bike up. About this time I realised that even though I'm a born and bred Norffffff Londoner somewhere deep inside has always been a country boy trying to get out. I met a charming young lady who I realised was "The One". Soon I was living in Devon again with my charming young lady and soon she announced she was up the stick!! Bloody hell!!!!! In the midst of all this I finished Bonny. Soon my charming young lady announced she was going to produce another!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My beautiful Bonny had to go in the name of domestic bliss and financial penury. However, I did aquire another one - same model, same year - in bits and with my newly found know how and contacts I set to with some gusto and a big, big box of aerosol spray paint. Golly, how I wish I could turn the clock back sometimes and frollick with my little boys around daddy's bike once again.

Pinched from over on the Banana forum

Snigger!!!!

Happy birthday guys! Hope you have a great day.

Luvverley job, Jabo. This is the one at Yeovilton;

+1

I could think of worse things..........not many, mind.

Eh? Let me get this straight. You're sitting there in your mobile disco as it rapes the countryside and you can play pocket billiards too? Astonishing. What a long way we've come from spending all day staring up a gert big 'orses arse ploughing eight square feet of field.

Fantastic but why send 'em to be non-flyers at Hendon? Surely if they're flyable they should be kept flying otherwise it's an awful lot of money tied up in static exhibits.

Well just wandering, if your gamin' rig is evolving.....wots going to 'appen to those bits that er...in a Darwinian sense...die out...as it were guv'? Fail to compete and become extinct? (try reading this in an Eric Idle stylee)

Oooh..ah...hmmm........

750 Bonny? Sob If you do everything in this book; You get this; A genuine 130 mph. You also get vibration white finger, loose fillings, halitosis and a bent main shaft!

Mirror, signal, manoeuvre! @Blubear; if you like gliding check out this guys youtube channel

Being an ex sport-billy I've been really enjoying it so far. Auntie BBC has done us proud in that if it's not on TV they are streaming everything on their web site. The only thing that annoys me is our press's expectations of our own vastly under-funded athletes. Forget beach volley ball. I'm currently watching the women's hockey. Holland v. Japan. The Dutch team seem to consist entirely of six foot tall supermodels. Cor!!

So how does it work? Has it got a gas cannister? Would be a great thing for camping/evening barbies with Seb Coe, etc? @Painless; very relevent observation! Does beg the question, who has the best legs in the DangerDogz?

Hello Stryker. I was on t/s with you this evening. Good to see you here. Oh look, I've just been shot down-as usual!!

"Hello Crumpp" at 15mins!! ROFLMAO Absolutely brilliant video Bongo.

Cor! Mahogany Spitfire, very nice. Wait a minute! Mahogany? This isn't one of these Burmese spitty's is it?

Lol lots!!! It is just a tiny bit.......wanky... isn't it? Ford Fiesta? Shouldn't he have a teenage girlfriend chewing gum and texting with him too?

Kermit Weeks takes his latest acquisition for a spin. [media=] [/media]Curtiss Pusher replica with what looks like a Rotax engine. Interesting comments at the end about it's flight characteristics!

With all this glorious weather we're having, just can't decide between a sports car; Or a family saloon Or a nice modern people carrier? Whaddya think?

Have a great Fourth of July guys!! Look at our bloody weather again I think we should have France back personally!