CB750K2 & Sidecar

[Green1]

Maybe not a c90 though

[Nurse Julie]

Nice to see you awake young Mick. Now off to bed now, I'm sure you have an early start tomorrow 

[Green1]

Don't make me think about work I managed to get today off and only woke up a couple of hours ago.

[Nurse Julie]

So your still part time then    As your awake you may as well head off now and get an early start then 

[Green1]

I'm still trying to work out weather to have breakfast or dinner
A fry up may be in order its kind of both

[steff750]

nowt wrong with sidecars they are very different animal
you ride a bike and you drive a sidecar

[Green1]

I wouldn't refuse a go on one if someone offered 
Just don't hold me accountable if I crash on the first bend

[mike the bike]

My mate had an XS650 combo.  Great laugh that was.  I remember taking off at speed, all 3 wheels off the ground, over a level crossing.

[Bryanj]

PDI'd a cossack with posh sidecar once, chair on rh side made it a very interesting(honest) pig to drive!!

[AshimotoK0]

PDI'd a cossack with posh sidecar once, chair on rh side made it a very interesting(honest) pig to drive!!

Most l of those Russian bikes were imported into Hull and sold by Neval motorcycles and my mate dodgy Roger worked there in the 70's prepping the bikes for sale and doing the necessary mods to make them UK legal. It was part owned by a very colourful character called Nev Mason who, at one time, made his money catching eels from the  river where the sewerage from the local maternity hospital was discharged and he used to go down the Billingsgate market and sell them. From what Rog tells me he used an old air raid shelter to store them that was partially sealed up and filled with water with a hose pipe constantly running into it to combat the leaks.

[Tomb]

Nice story Spav

I wasn't a fan of sidecars either...  until kids came along, I bought one of the Dnepr military jobs for £20 and bolted it on a rough CB550F that I'd bought for £120. I ran that for years including camping trips with all the kids, happy times and memories, its still in my garage but I'm going to bolt an XS1100 onto it freeing up the CB550 to break for parts.

[Spav]

A few more pics, also footnote on finally clearing the shed where the bike had been for many years, I was about ready to leave when my wife said le'ts have a last look and she went in and called out I have found a mudguard stuffed in to a hole in the side of the shed, when she pulled it out it was the original front mudguard with its original front number plate, mudguard was to far gone but thanks to Trigger again a new blade supplied and the number plate is back where it should be.

Spav

[matthewmosse]

That is a lovely looking combo. Personally I love sidecar. I used a cb500/4 with a Watsonian Palma chair for years as my only transport. Its still in the shed awaiting finishing off, shamefully stalled for years again. Kids or bikes, not time for both and self employment. They are indeed not at all like a bike to ride. My first trip out on mine I was into hedges and verges every time I brakes, once I had the technique sorted some 40 miles later it was nearly impossible to get me off the thing, another 500 miles and I had enough confidence that every corner was taken sideways and power slides were frequent. Every outfit handles differently, I had a bmw outfit with another Palma chair, it was set up badly so heavy braking caused the geometry to alter - really horrid. Sold the chair after buying a Busmar Asteral double adult chair to take its place, with leading link forks and a twin plugged 1000cc boxer engine it was effortless to pilot, easy to chuck round bends with only 1 hand on the bars at any speed allowable on UK roads, but in my books this made it bland, I perversely prefer the cb500 outfit that handled worse, made it more fun. Took it round the clock a few times, roughly it's done 250, 000 miles give or take and I hope to put a few more on there one day.
Tomb, before you break that bike for parts see if the xs 1100 is as much fun as the cb550. I thought the Btw outfit should have been the bees knees, and on paper it is, ticks every box but somehow it's just a bit bland, I would be great to tour Europe, but for mere 100 mile each way trips I found it was somehow too good at it to be fun. - It was also electrically rubbish which did it no favours.

[Nurse Julie]

She looks lovely with the front numberplate John. Finishes her off a treat.