Vintage sidecar racing video

 

From Mosport Ontario last weekend.  The heat race on Sat. my rig quit
on the start and would not fire, so I got to start the final from the
back.  Here is the heat from another rig.



The final was 8 laps and the gas tank on my rig held just enough for
that, not including the warm up lap ;(

They wouldn't let me top off on the grid after the warm up, so I had
to top off on pit lane and be started from there.  The last rig was
between T1 and T2 when they let me go.

It doesn't show very well in the video but it started raining lightly
about 10 minutes before the start of the race.  There are cement
patches in some of the turns that gave decent traction when dry, but
became slick when wet.  A rig gets sideways on one at 2:48 and almost
flips.  It doesn't show but the passenger got tossed off and
remounted.  As it got wetter everything got slicker by the lap.  The
rig with the camera pitted before I had a chance to pass him.

I ended up finishing 3rd with a Canadian passenger that I met for the
first time that weekend.  Here's the final.



Here is a race at my home track of Loudon NH.  The camera is on the
same bike as before and Loudon is his home track as well.  You don't
get to see much back and forth in this one.  Only one rig ever passes
him and it stays ahead for about a lap.  Again I finished 3rd.



I led the first lap and finished 2nd in July but haven't found any
video of that race.

The last video is a bunch of snippets from different tracks put to
music.  At the end you get to see things go wrong big time.  The dust
was settling as I went by.



My next race is at Loudon Sept 6th.

Bruce

 


I usually lurk here but I've got to say that looked really fun.
Karl

 

On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:40:45 -0700 (PDT), Bruce Richmond


Terrific videos Bruce. I've never seen sidecar racing before. Very
exciting stuff.  The guy in the hack sure gets a workout.

Thanks for sharing!

 



That's a lot of fun. You missed a gear at around 1.20, didn't you? ;-))
What 650 engine are you using? Yamaha XS?

That's fun, too. Amazingly close call at 2.47 :-)



Nowhere near as good quailty as the others. Made up for it by the outfit
nearly losing it at 3.38 :-)  And the epic prang at 4.10!

I've got scads of sidecar and other classic racing shots - all stills -
from Chimay in Belgium. I really ought to stick them up on a site one of
these days.

How do you find a sidecar passenger? Just wait until Day Release time at
the local asylum?

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The Older Gentleman wrote:


I was thinking the same, when Bruce said he got a monkey to
ride with him that he had just met that weekend, it confirms
your guess.

Excellent videos, thanks for sharing.  Looks like a hoot.