Bultaco sidecar

[whitehillbilly]

Just found this old photo of my bike and sidecar,
I was 18 at the time, did have two Bultacos at the time. Think I have put the 250 motor in the 325 frame in this shot.
It was road registered in Cornwall UK,
I use to ride it everywhere, without a passenger. It was an Art form, I was taught by Jan Ford, ex Cornish sidecar champ.
4 or 5 of us with sidecars, used to go out Sunday morning, before lunch.
It was my first ever Motor restoration.
It was stripped painted, I added new stickers, to the painted Tank. Motor pulled apart and checked.
Don't know where the side covers are, maybe just finished putting in the 250 motor.
Don't know why the 325 motor was taken out, cant remember !!!!!!! Maybe it had stopped, so the spare was put in.
Got the sidecar as a wreck from memory, for nothing. Even had a clip board for those long, Road Trials, around Cornwall.

Just found a pic of the other side !!!!

whitehillbilly

[Twinshock200]

Nice one whitehillbilly.
I'm from the same part of the world and I can remember when I started riding trials in the early 60's we used to get any where up to 30 sidecar outfits in an open to centre event. In those days it was all heavyweight bikes and they used to put them all starting at one minute intervals at the tail of the solo entries and if you were the last solo you had to travel as fast as you could on the roads to keep ahead of the chairs, they were pretty fast when they built up a head of steam.
The other reason to keep ahead of them was because they ripped up the sections so bad, moving rocks and digging holes, you didn't want to get behind them.
Cheers

[whitehillbilly]

Do you remember when the Big Wasp Chairs used to go up a mud lane section, during the road trials.
Plenty of noise, speed and flat out.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wasp-Sid ... 2335487399


Ever do the lands end trial, which always started in Bude carpark ????

whitehillbilly

[Twinshock200]

I was from the Midland Centre and would travel to Wales, Derbyshire or Yorkshire for the bigger events, Lands end and Cornwall were a bit too far to travel in those days. We had Ron Langston, Ray Round and several top charioteers in the centre and it was always great to watch them,,,, but not to get behind them !! We had a section called King Johns Lane in the Cotswolds which always had three continuous, muddy, uphill sections which the four stroke solos would attack in third gear, the chairs would come up flat out weaving from side to side up the banks, good to watch and listen to.