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Clubroom => Vintage Track => Topic started by: Andrew L on April 05, 2013, 08:46:45 am

Title: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: Andrew L on April 05, 2013, 08:46:45 am

Ive always wondered but never got an answer why do the solos go one way and the sidecars go the other direction on the track. Was great to see them both at HBBB going around been a while since Ive seen them the no brake thing still intrigues me as well.

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: Tim754 on April 05, 2013, 08:57:48 am

Placement of sidecar dictates direction of a speedway unit. Could go the other direction on tracks straights.....

friend asking questions to satisfy or intensify your mind does not make you a dill, Cheers :)

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: Andrew L on April 05, 2013, 09:01:59 am

Thanks Tim sort of worked that bit out but why/how did they start up/end up in the opposite configurations in the first place.

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: John Orchard on April 05, 2013, 09:04:06 am

You'd be a "dill" if you didn't ask questions.

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: Tim754 on April 05, 2013, 09:08:05 am

Speedway sidecars could rightly be blamed on Australia, the careful little cobbers we are.... my thoughts, back in the early years they would have all come from road going machines , which side of the road do we drive and place our sidecars on. Yep we are mongrels....

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: pancho on April 05, 2013, 04:34:21 pm

 Makes me ask, which way do speedway outfits  go on the continent ???
cheers

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: Curly3 on April 05, 2013, 04:49:22 pm

Opposite direction in the northern hemisphere Wally, like water down the drain. ;)

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: Purple Dave on April 05, 2013, 05:52:08 pm

My turn to be the dill...........what do all the different letters mean on the mx and dirt track racing number plates ? ??? ???

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: EML on April 05, 2013, 05:59:44 pm

'sposed to signify the class or year (era)
X= pre75
Y= pre85
etc....check your manual.

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: Purple Dave on April 05, 2013, 06:06:52 pm

Quote from: EML on April 05, 2013, 05:59:44 pm

'sposed to signify the class or year (era)
X= pre75
Y= pre85
etc....check your manual.

MANUAL..........WHAT MANUAL !!........I've been away too long, haven't I ? I gather this will be in the MANUAL I must receive when I resume my Open racing licence.........I will be doing this soon..... :P

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: Tim754 on April 05, 2013, 07:55:53 pm

Here it be Mr Purple and anyone else that may wish to be informed

http://www.ma.org.au/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/MOMS/2013_MoMS_Files/2013_MOMS_VERSION_2/2013_MOMS_29JAN_WEB.pdf

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: Curly3 on April 05, 2013, 08:10:56 pm

Heaps of reading there Dave if you can't get to sleep.
A necessary evil.

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: Purple Dave on April 06, 2013, 02:16:38 pm

Quote from: Tim754 on April 05, 2013, 07:55:53 pm

Here it be Mr Purple and anyone else that may wish to be informed

http://www.ma.org.au/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/MOMS/2013_MoMS_Files/2013_MOMS_VERSION_2/2013_MOMS_29JAN_WEB.pdf

Thanks for that Tim...........I have everything covered, except the back protector........any suggestions, which would be the best to wear under a leather suit ? ???
(http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp45/triumph51/004_zps5cd0e1f2.jpg)

after going to Nepean a couple of weeks ago, I will probably be one of the FEW riders still wearing leathers. I will say here and now, I have never liked KEVLAR........after Jason Crump copped a bad injury the year before he retired, he saw THE LIGHT and went back to wearing leathers....Smart move... ;D

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: GMC on April 06, 2013, 06:04:05 pm

Left V right
Golden State series, USA, 85

(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a393/gmcloa/Hangtown/Sidecars-2.jpg)

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: Slider29 on April 06, 2013, 07:08:40 pm

 Regarding the sidecars,... in England they have lefthanders and right handers on grasstrack.
 Regarding Dave's leathers,...Yeehaa!! Go Dave ,it's all starting to come together.
                     Sorry I mean ALVIN ;D

Title: Re: Probably a simple answer and ill look like a dill but I have to know
Post by: EML on April 06, 2013, 07:16:40 pm

Euro sidecarcross has always had lefts and rights, makes for great racing as different lines make it very interesting though same circuits suit each outfit one way or the other(The Brits can't win at Langrish for that very reason).
Wally and I had some great tussles with local teams in France as they would have the line in one part and we would swap over on the next bit, like I say GREAT racing!
I always thought the speedway chairs went the other way to wind the crowd up :D :D ;)