Hello Krip2nite,
Just enjoyed some songs on your website... nice guitar stuff; I stumbled across your bikes on there too! So I added a couple of shots on my profile, of the motorbike and sidecar that is my only personal transport.
It goes out snow or rain to get my girl to and from school, and in the summer if it's lucky it gets to take me to Scotland or Cornwall or Ireland... I even took an old fridge to the municipal refuse tip in it once!
As you can probably tell, I built it all out of my head... never even made as much as a fag-packet sketch to work from.
I suppose it must be something like the inside of my head would look like!
Mark...................
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Hello Sanshouheil,
When I built it I made sure it could carry my bass guitar and bass combo as I was in a Tunbridge Wells recording band in (year 2000) those days.
My six string guitar these days is still fairly big being a converted seven string, but my amp is a Roland Cube around a foot square, so I can almost carry the gear for a whole band these days!
It works well in the winter having a heated sidecar... the bike's radiator is moved across to the sidecar to increase the cooling capacity, but also gives the option of heat!
Mark..............
When I built it I made sure it could carry my bass guitar and bass combo as I was in a Tunbridge Wells recording band in (year 2000) those days.
My six string guitar these days is still fairly big being a converted seven string, but my amp is a Roland Cube around a foot square, so I can almost carry the gear for a whole band these days!
It works well in the winter having a heated sidecar... the bike's radiator is moved across to the sidecar to increase the cooling capacity, but also gives the option of heat!
Mark..............
Mark, the Doctor wants his Who mobile back! I looked at that and nearly spit beer all over my keyboard!
Back on topic (let's count, shall we?):
Flipside
No Romance
The Last Hurrah Band
Pitchblende
Medicine Jones
The Suspicions
Backwater Junction
many, many more flings here and there...
Back on topic (let's count, shall we?):
Flipside
No Romance
The Last Hurrah Band
Pitchblende
Medicine Jones
The Suspicions
Backwater Junction
many, many more flings here and there...
#50385 by Crip2Nite
Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:40 am
Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:40 am
Mark Phillips wrote:Hello Krip2nite,
Just enjoyed some songs on your website... nice guitar stuff; I stumbled across your bikes on there too! So I added a couple of shots on my profile, of the motorbike and sidecar that is my only personal transport.
It goes out snow or rain to get my girl to and from school, and in the summer if it's lucky it gets to take me to Scotland or Cornwall or Ireland... I even took an old fridge to the municipal refuse tip in it once!
As you can probably tell, I built it all out of my head... never even made as much as a fag-packet sketch to work from.
I suppose it must be something like the inside of my head would look like!
Mark...................
Wow! that would work out well in the cold months over here as the price of fuel isn't what it used to be... I think you're on to something there and better put it in for a patent before some else steals your idea! If it's a "one of a kind" you could soon make it a sellable product once you patent it. Bring it to a couple of bike shows and see how the public's reaction is!
always the business man am I...Hello Crip2nite,
One day perhaps I will be riding up to Scotland and will see an identicle combo coming the other way!
Firstly I will just be astounded that there is someone else on this planet with the same mad ideas that I have, but secondly there is nothing else could fill me with more pleasure than to double back and chin-wag with the guy about which bits keep falling off his one most often!
On fuel (gas) it is average really; on long trips like up to Scotland I have twice recorded 46.6mpg... Christ knows how it came to 46.6 twice but there it is! But remember our gallon is around .3 or something bigger than yours... Hey! I just realised we have got one thing bigger than the Yanks: our gallon!
Cheers,
Mark..................
One day perhaps I will be riding up to Scotland and will see an identicle combo coming the other way!
Firstly I will just be astounded that there is someone else on this planet with the same mad ideas that I have, but secondly there is nothing else could fill me with more pleasure than to double back and chin-wag with the guy about which bits keep falling off his one most often!
On fuel (gas) it is average really; on long trips like up to Scotland I have twice recorded 46.6mpg... Christ knows how it came to 46.6 twice but there it is! But remember our gallon is around .3 or something bigger than yours... Hey! I just realised we have got one thing bigger than the Yanks: our gallon!
Cheers,
Mark..................
Mark Phillips wrote:Hello Crip2nite,
One day perhaps I will be riding up to Scotland and will see an identicle combo coming the other way!
Firstly I will just be astounded that there is someone else on this planet with the same mad ideas that I have, but secondly there is nothing else could fill me with more pleasure than to double back and chin-wag with the guy about which bits keep falling off his one most often!
On fuel (gas) it is average really; on long trips like up to Scotland I have twice recorded 46.6mpg... Christ knows how it came to 46.6 twice but there it is! But remember our gallon is around .3 or something bigger than yours... Hey! I just realised we have got one thing bigger than the Yanks: our gallon!
Cheers,
Mark..................
Mark,
True, our motorbikes do tend to be bigger then yours, but that's because so many Yanks like to ride Hogs (translation.... Big Ol' Harley Davidsons)
I myself cut my motorcycle teeth on an 80cc Yamaha ! I soon traded up to a 100 cc Yamaha Twin Jet. That baby was a sweet little machine. Two pistons as big as quarters, twin carbs, dual street pipes, two stroke engine with automatic oil injection into the fuel so you didn't have to mix the gasoline and oil by hand. I love Yamaha! (both Bikes and Keyboards, which they build even better!)
My last bike was a 500 cc Triumph Trophy Cup 500. I Loved that machine as well, but I have to be honest, if my livelihood depended on getting to work on that bike, I would have starved several decades ago!. Lucas electronics suck! British Whitworth threaded nuts and bolts are rarer then 57 Stratocasters Stateside. Amil carburetters ? couldn't keep 'em adjusted. The ol' Triumph was a dog, ...but strangely enough, I still miss it! (had some kind of old English charm.)
Your bike and sidecar combo is awesome! I recall many years ago, there was an ol' boy around my neck of the woods who rode a big ol' BMW with a sidecar, in which he transported his dog! (even had goggles for on the little critter!
Yours is the first enclosed sidecar that I have seen, but I have observed a lot of big motorcycles with attached trunkes big enough to enclose an ample supply of beer. 
As far as things being bigger on this side of the Atlantic, may I point out that the greatest pop band ever came from Liverpool. My personal composers of "serious" music are the Brits; Ralph Vaughn Williams, Gustav Holst, and the great Elgar,(coming in third, in my opinion).
In this area, however, America can lay claim to the likes of Arron Copeland!
Back on topic, (seems we strayed a bit)
I still havent taken the time to tally a truly concise and cronologically accurate list of all the functional groups that I've been in (although Cin and I both concur that its more then 20.). I will say that my favorite configuration have been quartets consiting of bass, drums, guitar and myself on keys, harmonica,and vocals. (It's always good if the other members can do some decent vocals as well).
later,
Howlin'
Hello Howlin J,
I suppose the weather in parts of the states makes open sidecars very viable; here in the UK almost all are roofed or hooded.
Mine was built in the winter when I had a tiny 4' 10" girlfriend and her three small girls, and all four rode inside around the Isle of Wight where they lived.
Myself and my brother shared a Triumph Tigercub that lacked any form of legality or lights except off the dynamo, and we had no licence to ride it, so it seemed a good idea to only go out on it at night... don't ask me why?
I guess old Triumphs are a bit like '57' Stratocasters: you think they are going to be good, but they don't actually work as well as modern copies!
The bike with my sidecar is a 1983 BMW K100; a watercooled, fuel injected, four cylinder, and still done less than 200,000 miles so hardly run in yet.
The only aspect of pre design in my machine was the mental image I had of a German 2nd world war fighter called the ME109; I wanted to copy the general look of the cockpit but did not even have a photo to work from.
On Vaugham Williams: a neighbour of mine Chris King, once stood on his foot at a party... I just thought I'd mention that!
On music: me and my five year old daughter were having a good go on the trapps drums in my workshop studio two hours ago, but the lights and amplification kept going off and plunging us into silent darkness... it was my daft Asian wife putting up Christmas lights round the house and turning our power off now and then!
Mark.......................
I suppose the weather in parts of the states makes open sidecars very viable; here in the UK almost all are roofed or hooded.
Mine was built in the winter when I had a tiny 4' 10" girlfriend and her three small girls, and all four rode inside around the Isle of Wight where they lived.
Myself and my brother shared a Triumph Tigercub that lacked any form of legality or lights except off the dynamo, and we had no licence to ride it, so it seemed a good idea to only go out on it at night... don't ask me why?
I guess old Triumphs are a bit like '57' Stratocasters: you think they are going to be good, but they don't actually work as well as modern copies!
The bike with my sidecar is a 1983 BMW K100; a watercooled, fuel injected, four cylinder, and still done less than 200,000 miles so hardly run in yet.
The only aspect of pre design in my machine was the mental image I had of a German 2nd world war fighter called the ME109; I wanted to copy the general look of the cockpit but did not even have a photo to work from.
On Vaugham Williams: a neighbour of mine Chris King, once stood on his foot at a party... I just thought I'd mention that!
On music: me and my five year old daughter were having a good go on the trapps drums in my workshop studio two hours ago, but the lights and amplification kept going off and plunging us into silent darkness... it was my daft Asian wife putting up Christmas lights round the house and turning our power off now and then!
Mark.......................
Mark,
My wife and I presented our oldest grand daughter with a snare drum for her drum kit yesterday! (We exchanged presents early this year)It looks like she may be an excellent drummer. She and I played "Whiter Shade of Pale, "She's Not there", and then I got her playing a good shuffle beat and we jammed out on the old Paul Butterfield Blues Band tune "Born In Chicago".
You Wouldn't want to be riding in an open sidecar around our place at the moment! I still have snow chains on the ol' pickup truck.
My wife and I presented our oldest grand daughter with a snare drum for her drum kit yesterday! (We exchanged presents early this year)It looks like she may be an excellent drummer. She and I played "Whiter Shade of Pale, "She's Not there", and then I got her playing a good shuffle beat and we jammed out on the old Paul Butterfield Blues Band tune "Born In Chicago".
You Wouldn't want to be riding in an open sidecar around our place at the moment! I still have snow chains on the ol' pickup truck.
Last edited by HowlinJ on Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:16 pm, edited 2 times in total.
#50408 by Crip2Nite
Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:03 pm
Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:03 pm
Mark,
Go on ukbeg.com... It's a bike site in your area.... believe it or not, I'm the only yank on that site.... tell them Crip2Nite sent ya.... they are a fun bunch of bikers. Even though they have a preference to buells (which I used to own) they welcome everybody... You'll meet up with a lot of folks in your area that love to do bike runs! My dad was British so that's what drew me to their site also..
Go on ukbeg.com... It's a bike site in your area.... believe it or not, I'm the only yank on that site.... tell them Crip2Nite sent ya.... they are a fun bunch of bikers. Even though they have a preference to buells (which I used to own) they welcome everybody... You'll meet up with a lot of folks in your area that love to do bike runs! My dad was British so that's what drew me to their site also..
Hello Crip2nite,
They sound like the bunch of bikers I see sometimes at a pub called the 'Six Bells' near here in Chiddinglye, Sussex, that has live bands a few nights each week.
Quite a few have Buells, and might be the same lot that roar past my house here most Sundays... the Buell looks to me like it needs a slightly longer wheel-base, but I guess they must work okay.
It sometimes reminds me of a silent film from long ago where Buster Keaton was riding a mule, he sat up on it like a Buell!
They make joyous music coming past my house on a Sunday morning!
Where was your dad from Crip2nite?
Mark...............
They sound like the bunch of bikers I see sometimes at a pub called the 'Six Bells' near here in Chiddinglye, Sussex, that has live bands a few nights each week.
Quite a few have Buells, and might be the same lot that roar past my house here most Sundays... the Buell looks to me like it needs a slightly longer wheel-base, but I guess they must work okay.
It sometimes reminds me of a silent film from long ago where Buster Keaton was riding a mule, he sat up on it like a Buell!
They make joyous music coming past my house on a Sunday morning!
Where was your dad from Crip2nite?
Mark...............
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