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Sidecar Racing Has Always Been CRAZY!

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Sidecar Insanity

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Lambretta Microbus

  What’s a Dad to do when he wants to take his son with him while he rides his Lambretta TV175 scooter?  Well, if you were Jason Dyer of Resto-Tec, you build a sidecar styled like a VW Microbus!  His build was featured in the June 2007 issue of Scootering, and while it’s not the usual fare here, I like it!  It’s hard to tell from the pictures, but I think the headlights in the ‘bus actually work!

Source: Rocket Garage

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Sidecars & Snow: A Mountain Ride with Ural Motorcycles from Gear Patrol on Vimeo.
Read the full post: http://gear.gp/LO39i2

Given the chance to ride motorcycles in the winter, a sane rider might politely decline, but what’s life without a few two three-wheeled thrills? On a recent invitation by Ural Motorcycles we did just that, responding “yes, please” (pronto) while simultaneously reaching for our bags, and multiple changes of underwear. Next stop, cold and soggy Seattle.

Wait, “not Russia”, you ask? Ural Motorcycles is steeped in Russian history, war history, but today Ural is actually based in the Pacific Northwest far from the frontlines of any European battlegrounds, but manufacturing continues to happen on the other side of the world in Siberia — territory inhabited by folks that know a thing or two about wretched weather.

Our agent of transportation for the ride: the eminently capable and appropriately named (at least for us) Gear-Up sidecar motorcycle. Our final destination: nowhere specific, but we did know we would be making our way through a speculative snow cloaked road in the Cascades. Here’s how things went.

Score: Look Up by Philip Sheppard http://philipsheppard.bandcamp.com/track/look-up

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