Sidecar Trials

Greetings from sunny Brisbane! My son in law and I have a number of TY175's in various stages of build and a single TY250 that we are planning to put a chair on. He is a competitive solo rider (B grade from memory) whilst I'm a complete trials novice but been riding solo and outfits all my life. We have been searching for ages around the net for info on building your own chair from scratch and have come up mostly blank. Apart from telling us we're crazy, can anyone point us at some decent information - either online or printed. There's very few chairs active here in Aus and not a lot of info. Cheers Nigel.

O.K., Maybe not absolutely Trials related, but sidecars just the same. Hoping to spark a little interest in posts in this area of the forum from a site I subscribe to..... http://www.oddee.com/item_96715.aspx Jon

Hi guys Got rl250 with a bolt on chair, just wondering what people use for a passenger foot peg on the swing arm and where I can get the grab handles from. Rope type or whatever is used. It's not going to be competitive, just for a bit of fun. Cheers

See Yeadon Guiseley Website for details

Finally got my Beamish outfit up and running (too many bikes to look after!). We now need to find some Trials to ride. SE England would be good an something that complete beginners can cope with! Any help / advice much appreciated.

I have a 2003 rev3 270 spare and would like to add a chair to it any advice welcome. Is it suitable and if so what chair and suggested price? Thanks

On 28th June we held the annual Peter Sparkes Sidecar Trophy Day. We had 11 Sidecars which would have been the largest gathering of sidecars in 20 years in Australia. There a number of Video's uploaded on You Tube.

The South Birmingham team have created 12 sections to be completerd 3 times at their new venue at Hopton Wafers Shropshire. The event will start at 10.00 am. There are 13 riders already entered but if you haven,t already entered and fancy your chances at collecting some prize money contact either John Wells email johnwells.sbmc@virgin.net or Tim Fairbrother on 01562754827 to enter

I have taken the brave/foolish/mad (delete where applicable)decision to purchase a sidecar off of ebay to pair with a Montesa 348. Having ridden schoolboy twinshocks in the 80's, mono more recently and then moving back to twin shocks I suddenly had the urge to give sidecars a go.... I am wondering if the sidecar enthusiast's can help with the following: 1) What are the common mounting points for the chair to the bike and how should I approach a Montesa 348 2) For a newbie what are the basics and how would you build up the practice ? any help appreciated Rob

Just got back from a very dry DK Mansell. Round 3 of British Sidecar Championship. The event was back in the area it used to be run in over 10 years ago near Church Stretton and I thought it was a good move. Sections were sensible and hard enough to sort out the winners but nothing stupid or dangerous Experts Jon Tuck / Matt Sparkes Beta 15 Robin / Gill Morewood MRS Sherco 16 Robin / Sam Luscombe Montesa 28? Masters Seemond Stephens / ? Gas Gas 46? Kev Morley / Les Ashby Beta 54 Clubmen Phil Sparkes / Roger Tuck Beta 10 David Tuck / ? Montesa ? Chris Dakin / John Stanley Sherco 24?

hi guys just out of hospital with a rebuilt leg ,with a late greeves anglian and a chair ready to fit ,i fancy a last fling before i get to old ,so what i need to know is what events are running next year ,championship or others ,something like the original series that deryk ran a few years ago ,i have spoken to a coupe of the riders i am still in contact with and at least three crews are coming out of retirement so it is going to happen , and we are not just going to make up the numbers , will

Typically what sort of percentage stiffer rear shock spring do you boys fit ??

Hi , im looking buy a sidecar for Yamaha TY80 , or anyone who,s built one ?

Sidecar entries for this years trial MUST be sent in ASAP so the committee can continue to plan the event. Everything is in place, the routes have been decided and all that is needed now is for you guys to lick that stamp and stick the entry form in the post. Alternatively, visit our website www.manx2day.co.uk and go to the entries page. Here you can enter online via the ACU online entries page. Without the riders and passengers the event wont be the same. REMEMBER, book you travel and accommodation ASAP. Any queries, do not hesitate to contact us on manx2daytrial@hotmail.com

http://www.yorksclassictrials.co.uk/Plea%20For%20Help.pdf

Have seen a few outfits around using 09 gas gas. How easy is it to fit the chair to the new small diameter frame of the bike, and is the frame up to the job. the bikes seem excellent but do feel a bit dubious of the bike frame for a sidecar.

The final round of the A.C.U. Luscombe SAAB Leeds British Sidecar Trials Championship was organised by Thames Valley Trials Combine at Hook Woods Trials Centre. Results and pictures on the TVTC website http://www.thamesvalleytrials.co.uk/

Hi im looking for someone to passenger me based in Surrey want to ride locally plus the British Championship sidecar Nationals clubman class.

Results and some cracking photos (courtesy of Gary Attfield) can be found on the Normandy website http://www.normandymcc.co.uk Mick

Does anybody know any news or results from the trial held in Newquay yesterday? Obviously I'm writing this as we didn't go. Now we are just riding for fun we didn't really want to travel 300+ miles each way! I do know that Lee Granby didn't go as he was ill.