I am on the look for a sidecar outfit, prefer Honda but anything considered. I would like L/links, car tyres and a towbar and have around £4000 to play with.

things looking up?



I only have a cb250 with open pod, no l/l, and bike tyres to offer I'm afraid

If you haven't found anything before, maybe you should go along to this event at Popham Airfield near Basingstoke...



And of course if you have, you should go anyway!

Might be a good plan, could also pick up a few southern LM's

I reckon I`ll be there with or without an outfit.

Now there's a picture! I was planning on jeans n a tee-shirt for the weekend, then it should only cost me £5

Have been busy today, have fitted a set of R1 Blue Spot calipers & master cylinder to the FJ, am waiting for the kit to arrive to finish the rebuild of the back caliper.

Might go along myself, I 'have an interest in sidecars'. I just don't think I'd be safe riding one, but I'd love to have a go.

If I have a beast by then Bobbi you can have a go. They say theres plenty of room to play and its all on grass.

Not too different from trikes, so you're half way there.

Oh yes it is ! you should know

Have you looked on here

http://www.sidecars.org.uk/forum/view_forum.php?id=4

for an outfit recently?

Yes, I`m an ex fed member.

I opted for a trike as the handling is VERY different! I didn't want to end in a ditch first time out!

I must have ridden the wrong sidecars and trikes then

Most people I know who have had problems with either sidecars or trikes have them in corners as both have their own "issues" with cornering...

On a trike, you have 2 driven wheels symmetrically placed - cornering is more 'interesting' than on a bike but quite easy if you don't try to do it too fast!

On an outfit (apart from rare ones) you have one driven wheel and the geometry is asymmetric, so you have to accelerate to go one way and brake to go the other (I'm reliably told) and most of the people I know who've tried them have ended in a ditch the first time!

As I was still recovering from a badly broken leg at the time, I didn't fancy the second option!

I appreciate that, and the cornering you describe on the sidecar is if you want to ride quicker, you do not have to do it.

So you have solo bikes at one end of the scale, cars at the other end of the scale, and trikes and sidecars somewhere in the middle.

I was'nt trying to say that because you ride a trike you could ride a sidecar, but because you have ridden a trike and not put it in a ditch, the chances are you would be able to ride a sidecar without putting that in a ditch as you would ride sensibly and explore the boundries of the handling.

Just did'nt want to write all of this at the time

Ok, thanks for that - have to say tho, I know loads of peeps who ride trikes and have never put them in a ditch! Maybe you have madder friends than I do? (Unlikely!)