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We’ll be thinking about you 🥶!!!! With the heating cranked up in our holiday cottage 🥵 take care guys and see you next Saturday luv A&B

We have just walked back from our club. Flipping freezing out, will be wearing layers in the morning for sure. Hope the gritters haven’t been out..

4 New 8" X 13" CXR 108pcd Alloys, ET 20 fitted with 224/45 R888R's £800

I think this will be a fraction of the Mk1’s weight. I’ve no estimates yet but the bike will be under 10kg and I expect the sidecar to be not much more. The sidecar will be a lightweight tube chassis the same as in the video and then either aluminium or fibreglass for the body. my concern was it might be too light and prone to bounce unless I introduce a damper.

As I’d already bought the wheels, I’ve decided to stick with a BMX for the bike. a cheep frame was picked up from eBay for £20 and the rest of the components will be robbed from my parts bin of old bike bits. loosely assembled this is what things look like so far. It’ll be getting a respray, fake engine, mudguards and lighting in the future to look like a motorbike. The sidecar will be where most of the time and work will be needed. The easy option would be to have a fixed design but the current plan is to make it pivot so the bike can lean for cornering. the best design I’ve found so far is this which I plan to copy and make something similar. https://scandinaviansidebike.dk/?v=dd65ef9a5579

My MOT guy used to love doing the westy. “Dead easy these… hardly anything to test compared to modern stuff” 😁 If your car is lucky enough to be on a Q (all hail the mighty Q) then check that they understand what that means and sit back as it sails through the emissions test 👍

couple of vids of the car at cadwell from previous owner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2gPW1Zpws&t=17s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAnUmHLslXk