Sidecars Give Me a Headache

"Kake Bake" (kakebake) 01/19/2015 at 18:46 • Filed to: None

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Why does the driver kneel over the exhaust? Why does the exhaust exit facing forward? Why does it exist?

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > Kake Bake 01/19/2015 at 18:49

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What's this a sidecar to?

EDIT: Holy crap. I did not know about this type of racing before.

TheHondaBro > Kake Bake 01/19/2015 at 18:50

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Why do we exist?

Frank Grimes > Kake Bake 01/19/2015 at 18:56

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the hot exhaust at crotch burning position is to save money on brazillians?

Stephen the Canuck > Kake Bake 01/19/2015 at 21:20

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It's encouragement to move faster to get more airflow so the driver doesn't have their crotch cauterized?

Kake Bake > Stephen the Canuck 01/19/2015 at 22:14

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Practical and elegant.

Kake Bake > Frank Grimes 01/19/2015 at 22:15

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Ha, I guess that helps with aerodynamics as well, then.

Kake Bake > TheHondaBro 01/19/2015 at 22:16

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Do we exist?

Kake Bake > BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. 01/19/2015 at 22:18

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Yeah, I saw a sidecar race from Brands Hatch over the weekend and it got me interested.

To think some are brave enough to take these to the Isle of Man.

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > Kake Bake 01/19/2015 at 23:13

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We exist?

Stephen the Canuck > Kake Bake 01/20/2015 at 02:30

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forward facing to keep enough back pressure?

uofime > Kake Bake 02/11/2015 at 17:00

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works well for packaging and minimizes the number of bends in the exhaust

Destructive Tester > uofime 02/11/2015 at 17:08

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I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it probably interferes less with the monkey (passenger) scampering around the back of the bike as well...

I've only watched sidecar racing once and it was about the craziest form of racing I've ever seen.

uofime > Destructive Tester 02/11/2015 at 17:11

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Yeah, it's nuts. I'd never seen a bare chassis before this, pretty cool.