It's in French but you get the idea.

Tilting sidecars....

hmmm, not sure why anyone would want a sidecar in the 1st place, but....








didnt we have a basic version of these years ago-a scorpion or stinger or something?

They used to be called sidewinders, although we called em teatrolleys.
They were originallt intended as a get around for riders who were pissed off when the learner legal limit was reduced from 250 to 125 cc's

Eeeeeeeee, when I were a lad ..............


You could ride any size bike on L plates if it had a sidecar attached. And the definition of sidecar was basically another wheel stuck out on one side. The craze round our way was for big Brit twins - Matchless/AJS 650's, BSA Gold Flashes, Enfield Connies etc, the ones at the lower end of the desirability spectrum.

Then you stuck a sidecar chassis on the side. No bodywork, just a flat piece of plywood about 3/4" thick with a bit of foam padding and a vinyl cover. This was known as 'the board'.

Then you took the 19" bike wheel off and fitted a scooter wheel.

Now you could play at being Chris Vincent, the top British sidecar racer of the 60's. We take it in turns 'driving' or being 'on the board'.
The passenger would lean across the back seat of the bike on right-handers ...



and lean off the side of the board round left handers, to try and keep the chair wheel on the deck....




This didn't always work, and a mate of mine could get the chair wheel about a foot off the deck on a bend on Derby ringroad while the passenger (usually me) was hanging out into space. We passed a Panda car one day (Moggy 1000) like this and the cop never batted an eyelid. And this was in jeans, bumpers (cos they gripped well while you were moving about on the board) and no helmets.



Frankly, I'm amazed any of us made it into the 70's at all

I wouldn't fancy your changes, if you tried the same thing today.


Some of the things that people used to do on bikes were mad... My mate took a bike through a pub lounge, trying to escape from the police.

The police bloke was on foot. Now that's something that you don't see very often today..

A friend had a '75 Triumph Tiger with virtually straight through pipes he rode it through a subway for some reason. I wish I'd heard the noise it must have made.