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marcus

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Re: How's this for a cracking outfit!
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2013, 11:49:20 AM »
Beaut, Ship-shape and Bristol Fashion. A Scott regularly visits the bike shop in our yard, nice looking bikes.
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Re: How's this for a cracking outfit!
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2013, 07:23:33 PM »
For those that think a Scott is a bit fancy, here is the same idea on a Ural/Dniepr, with matching teardrop trailer.


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Re: How's this for a cracking outfit!
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2013, 07:30:49 PM »
Well I like them both BUT they look awfull together !
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Re: How's this for a cracking outfit!
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2013, 08:20:01 PM »
Shame it doesn't have wings.

I am not too sure about how suitable a two stroke Scott is for pulling a side boat?

This is more like it........................A proper sidecar outfit.

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Re: How's this for a cracking outfit!
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2013, 08:30:36 PM »
Very nice Ural/Dneipr combo, but it has to be said that when a bike has so much outboard it occupies almost as much space as a camper van! 2 "Urinals" used to visit our yard, with side cars, reverse gear, and a machine gun mount on the ex-military one!
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Re: How's this for a cracking outfit!
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2013, 08:31:23 PM »
Yes barry but what's your point ? It just looks to be a bog standard grass track sidecar outfit
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Re: How's this for a cracking outfit!
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2013, 09:12:36 PM »
Yes barry but what's your point ? It just looks to be a bog standard grass track sidecar outfit

I think it's just lovely - not at all pretentious or 'perfect' (sea worthy).  Hard as nails engineering to do the job it is supposed to do.  It's all down to personal taste I suppose. 

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Re: How's this for a cracking outfit!
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2013, 10:47:56 PM »
I do worry about you sometime Barry! :D

I also wondered about the suitability of a two stroke for chair pulling but then again we saw how those modern Jawa's  are mated with chairs and are fine by all accounts, ask Jim.
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Re: How's this for a cracking outfit!
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2013, 11:10:17 PM »
You worry about me Bob? I worry about myself.

And here is one for you. An early eco friendly outfit.

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Re: How's this for a cracking outfit!
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2013, 07:25:03 AM »
And a few more sidecars can be found here.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n5xxen00utyg6lz/-1PrG0KIIe

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Re: How's this for a cracking outfit!
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2013, 08:15:28 AM »
I like the KR and VW Splittie van side cars!
My brother used to have a Beeza with a wooden coffin side car!
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Re: How's this for a cracking outfit!
« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2013, 09:21:19 AM »
One of my early experiences was when one of the Skin-heads (1973) had upset the only 'Greaser' girl in the school. and the Skin-head girls (Dorises?) were going to beat her up.
The local greaser gang called the 'Purple Hearts' turned up on mass at the end of school on British bikes, what a roar, with a side car at the front - a coffin just like you have described Marcus.
The Greaser girl calmly walked across the playground and was picked-up by the gang.
A few of the bikers decided to chase the main skin head (Steve 'Noddy' Brown) for a while across the fields.  He soon learned to run fast.
Quite a few years later I became friends with Noddy brown who now looked like a member of ZZ top with leathers and a long beard.
The experience of being chased across the field was always a great tale.   No one troubled the bike girl (as hot as hot can be) ever again.
This was all a bit of a surreal experience that stuck in my mind forever - our school was a very ordinary comprehensive with little or no real trouble.
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Re: How's this for a cracking outfit!
« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2013, 10:03:44 AM »
And don't tell me, her name was Leslie, you married her and lived happily ever after?

Love the photo of the dog in the sidecar doing the leaning out!

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Re: How's this for a cracking outfit!
« Reply #14 on: October 08, 2013, 01:30:45 PM »
When I return home to my laptop I look forward to posting a pic. Of a little grey Fergie tractor . It's not a microcar or indeed rare but following barry's logic - " it's lovely not at all pretentious or "perfect" . Hard as nails engineering to do the job it's supposed to do.it's all down to personal taste I suppose " ;).   a photo of a garden spade will be next after that  ;D
« Last Edit: October 08, 2013, 01:45:52 PM by richard »
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