Everywhere that motorcycles are raced, you can be sure someone will have a go with a sidecar... just look at some of these excellent images from the past hundred years....
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Grand Prix Sidecar Racing, France, 22nd June 1913 |
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Flexi-sidecar outfits racing on American dirt-tracks in the 1920s |
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Programme for a beach race at Silloth, Cumbria in 1928. The Sprint Sidecars featured on the cover have the passenger looking backwards - Is that so the passenger can let the driver know when someone is catching them up? |
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Harold Jackson and J.W.Hackett at a Beach Race, Ernse Bay,Barrow-In-Furness, circa 1928. |
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Sidecar Scrambles in the 1940s |
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Grass Track racing from Warton Crags, Lancashire, 16th Sept 1956: l-r: Jim & Millie Baybutt, Tom Parkinson & Eric Croft, Roy Cunliffe & P.Spencer. |
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How low can you go? Sidecar Grand Prix action - 1950s? |
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Sidecar Ice Speedway - Germany 1971. |
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Sidecar Trials |
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Paul Bickley & Paul Silvera on a 1000cc Grass Track Sidecar outfit - Southfields Farm, Appleby. October 2000. (Photo by - MotoFreakoFoto) |
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500cc sidecar racing - Appleby-In-Westmorland, October 2000 (Photo by - MotoFreakoFoto) |
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This is Sidecar Ice Racing Canadian style Looks like a skateboard rather than a sidecar! |
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Sidecar Ice Speedway in Germany |
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Sidecar MotoX - survival of the fittest! |
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Sidecar Speedway from the Sidecar Supercup, Workington 2002. (Photo by - MotoFreakoFoto) |
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