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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....

Grand Prix Sidecar Racing, France, 22nd June 1913

Flexi-sidecar outfits racing on American dirt-tracks in the 1920s

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?

Harold Jackson and J.W.Hackett at a Beach Race, Ernse Bay,Barrow-In-Furness, circa 1928.

Sidecar Scrambles in the 1940s

Grass Track racing from Warton Crags, Lancashire, 16th Sept 1956:
l-r: Jim & Millie Baybutt, Tom Parkinson & Eric Croft, Roy Cunliffe & P.Spencer.

How low can you go? Sidecar Grand Prix action - 1950s?

Sidecar Ice Speedway - Germany 1971.

Sidecar Trials

Paul Bickley & Paul Silvera on a 1000cc Grass Track Sidecar outfit - Southfields Farm, Appleby. October 2000.
(Photo by - MotoFreakoFoto)

500cc sidecar racing - Appleby-In-Westmorland, October 2000
(Photo by - MotoFreakoFoto)

This is Sidecar Ice Racing Canadian style Looks like a skateboard rather than a sidecar! 

Sidecar Ice Speedway in Germany

Sidecar MotoX - survival of the fittest!

Sidecar Speedway from the Sidecar Supercup, Workington 2002.
(Photo by - MotoFreakoFoto)

Grass Track Bikes

Sorting through my boxes of photographs I found these "almost forgotten" images taken at a Grass Track meeting organised by the lamented Lakes Grass Track Racing Club back in October 2000. If I remember correctly, the venue was Southfields Farm, near Appelby and Jason Handley was on fire, winning just about everything in the solos. I loved the intimacy of these grass track meets - wandering round the pits, having the craic with the riders and sticking my nose into the bikes.



Eddie Rouse's Pre-75 Jawa 500.

Antig/Jawa
Hans Zierk tuned by the look of the markings on the head

Pre-75 Jawa #2

RMS/Jawa

Photographs all Copyright - MotoFreakoFoto