Trailer trash - towing behind a Fazer

[ChristoT]

well what can I say   but up till that point quite a good topic good luck with your trip 

I presume you refer to the US one (sans trailer and towbar)? On the way home, I had to chop out 80% of the route, and had to rely on... alternative measures to get the trailer home...



Yes, that's a bicycle. With a towbar welded to it.

What was that like to ride? Could you have done any distance on it, or just way too much work? I would guess that once you got it moving you'd be ok, but sod pulling away on it!

It was surprising how light it was - although I did a violent wheelie when I tried accelerating hard once. "Fast " wasn't a word I'd use, but once it was moving, it went!!

Distance could have been done - but by a fitter man than me, along a short route with a few pubs on the way! 

Pulling away was a slow affair in first gear and puffing like a steam train - but it moved!!

Squirrel head - foc off. 

[Exupnut]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UnjOM5LMkO0&feature=related

[simonm]

I couldn't help but notice that you stayed a healthy distance from the bike when it was by the roadside, you didn't join the main LoFo group into Stratford, you were quiet as a mouse at the lunch table, and you buggered off bloody quick afterwards. If that was subconcious guilt, your subconcious is a better person than you are.

Did you ask any of the other lofo's about this?

Did you forget me putting your bits in a box, helping to move the bike multiple times, sweeping sand over the oil or trying to help calm you down?

Did you forget I sat in the middle of the group and talked to everyone whilst you sat at the edge?

Did you forget I went back with Chris.Biker as he was heading back up north?

Why should I provide insurance details when I wasn't involved in the accident and it wasn't my fault. I'm happy to provide a witness statement and comply with any insurance request.

This was not my fault. I was 3 cars and 40m away when I saw you come off.   The Mercedes applied his brakes when I was long gone. He took his eyes from the road, looked behind and when he looked forward the situation had changed. He had no clue the Volvo was stationary or even that I rode past the Volvo whilst it was stationary on the inside.   Something which is not dangerous at all.  I see vehicles do it every day.  If a car is stationary and indicating right, if there is space and it is safe to pass it on the inside you do.

Please stop this harassment.  I will comply with your insurers requests as and when they make them.

I've answered your questions now please back off.

[Skippernick]

I remember you doing all of the above.
I also agree even if it was or wash't your fault you don't need to do anything you didn't crash.
We all should ride defensively for all eventualities, however unlikely.

[Aegis Bearing Mel]

Ok Gents, can we keep this thread for the trailer chat please?

I appreciate feelings can run high, especially when concerning a RTA, but as I've moved the previous thread to avoid public discussion of a thorny issue that could potentially lead to litigation, can we not necessitate the same again?

Cheers.
Aegis

[Exupnut]

[Hedgetrimmer]

 
I think that's the appropriate response?

[ChristoT]

I think that's the appropriate response?

Don't you know it.

[dBfazer600]

You could always upgrade but what you would get in it I do not know

Details 1229952 201641690008365 1432000976 n

1229952 201641690008365 1432000976 n

Daz

[ChristoT]

You could always upgrade but what you would get in it I do not know

Details 1229952 201641690008365 1432000976 n

1229952 201641690008365 1432000976 n

Daz

I still have the trailer! Just not the towbar. Parents, insurance etc will probably be keeping me off bikes for a while - and I have a friend very keen to sell me a Hillman Imp-derived Singer Chamois Coupé in need of a lot of TLC (fitting a new engine for starters). I suppose I'll have to fit a towbar to that in a year's time, if funds allow. 

[Aegis Bearing Mel]

Ooh, mibbes fit the engine from your six to it?
Could go for flappy paddles too.

[ChristoT]

Ooh, mibbes fit the engine from your six to it?
Could go for flappy paddles too.
 

Flappy paddles - to THAT?!? 



John's isn't as rusty - but isn't far off either. The 875cc engine only kicks out about 37hp - but is extremely tuneable - to about 80 / 100 hp so I'm told!  Apparently, they run really well at 60hp, and have very light engines too.

Believe it or not, I'm not sure the Fazer engine would fit in the engine bay - the engine's too big! (It's Hillman Imp derived, so the engine is at the back)

On another note of interest, apparently many old Reliants (the four wheelers, such as the Kitten or the Rebel) are now being retrofitted with Fiat 1100cc engines, like the one they put in the new Fiat Panda! Crazy, man...

[Aegis Bearing Mel]

Flappy paddles, NoS kit, supercharger.
Sorted.

[ChristoT]

Flappy paddles, NoS kit, supercharger.
Sorted.

 

When I was thinking of buying it last year (before I got the Fazer), a Uni friend asked if I was going to put a decent stereo in. I said no, as I didn't want a speaker to cause the bonnet to fly off at 60 up the motorway! 

That says a lot for that car's condition.

[dBfazer600]

Ooh, mibbes fit the engine from your six to it?
Could go for flappy paddles too.
 

Flappy paddles - to THAT?!? 



John's isn't as rusty - but isn't far off either. The 875cc engine only kicks out about 37hp - but is extremely tuneable - to about 80 / 100 hp so I'm told!  Apparently, they run really well at 60hp, and have very light engines too.

Believe it or not, I'm not sure the Fazer engine would fit in the engine bay - the engine's too big! (It's Hillman Imp derived, so the engine is at the back)

On another note of interest, apparently many old Reliants (the four wheelers, such as the Kitten or the Rebel) are now being retrofitted with Fiat 1100cc engines, like the one they put in the new Fiat Panda! Crazy, man...

  Had a car like this in my youth and adjusting the wing mirror was a bitch. Its the typical 70's rust bucket we use to see on the road all the time. They never held water for obvious reasons and forget about in car heating. Then there was the laminate seats passing themselves of as leather that took your skin off in the summer of 1976 heat wave when in shorts. Hand winding windows was the only air con available. If you were truly hip you had furry dice hanging from the rear mirror. 

Daz

[Exupnut]

The only car i ever owned.


I didnt have a licence @ 16 when my pa bought it for me as it was to encourage me to pass. After my dad saw me tryin to replace the fuel guage senser without drainin the tank ( i kid u not) and gettin short shrift and a bollokin i thought a couple of days later i'd take it fer a spin with no licence/tax/mot/ins when pa was down't pub't.  We lived nr countryside so of i tootles feelin really .......... ADULT hehe.  I ended up christo'ing it on a wee corner carryin too much speed and rolled it into a ditch. I WOZ LUKKY. needles to say i just fucked off thankful i wasn't injured ( i did clunk clik). Told me dad i flogged it. He still dont know so foccin shushh.

[bigbluebear]

The only car i ever owned.


I didnt have a licence @ 16 when my pa bought it for me as it was to encourage me to pass. After my dad saw me tryin to replace the fuel guage senser without drainin the tank ( i kid u not) and gettin short shrift and a bollokin i thought a couple of days later i'd take it fer a spin with no licence/tax/mot/ins when pa was down't pub't.  We lived nr countryside so of i tootles feelin really .......... ADULT hehe.  I ended up christo'ing it on a wee corner carryin too much speed and rolled it into a ditch. I WOZ LUKKY. needles to say i just fucked off thankful i wasn't injured ( i did clunk clik). Told me dad i flogged it. He still dont know so foccin shushh.

 
Now that made me laugh, reminds of me taking my dads car out when I was 16

[noggythenog]

The only car i ever owned.


I didnt have a licence @ 16 when my pa bought it for me as it was to encourage me to pass. After my dad saw me tryin to replace the fuel guage senser without drainin the tank ( i kid u not) and gettin short shrift and a bollokin i thought a couple of days later i'd take it fer a spin with no licence/tax/mot/ins when pa was down't pub't.  We lived nr countryside so of i tootles feelin really .......... ADULT hehe.  I ended up christo'ing it on a wee corner carryin too much speed and rolled it into a ditch. I WOZ LUKKY. needles to say i just fucked off thankful i wasn't injured ( i did clunk clik). Told me dad i flogged it. He still dont know so foccin shushh.

He he Exup...Classic tale!!!...& you still havent told him....im no different....i got airborne off a humpback bridge in my Nova with all my mates crammed in it after we seen the 5'0 & their brake lights come on as though to turn & make after us..carried too much speed into the tight corner & went sideways round it...almost controlled it but ended up in the ditch & just dinged the wing, stalled of course ...anyways after hiding it in a back street & going to the pub til the coast was clear i tootles back home...after picking out weeds & mud from the wing...what did i tell my old man...some twat bashed into it when i was in Safeway car park


He still goes on about his 6 man tent being missing....still havent told him it went up in smoke at T in the Park festival 10 years ago!!!

[midden]

this has to be the way to go


http://www.britishpathe.com/video/motorcycle-caravan-issue-title-is-one-for-the-road

[ChristoT]

this has to be the way to go


http://www.britishpathe.com/video/motorcycle-caravan-issue-title-is-one-for-the-road

Do it.

Did I mention I have a towbar for sale?

[midden]

Oh so many times 

[Hedgetrimmer]

this has to be the way to go


http://www.britishpathe.com/video/motorcycle-caravan-issue-title-is-one-for-the-road

Do it.

Did I mention I have a towbar for sale?

 
Nooooo, I don't believe you did - how much, been looking for one for ages.