Not quite a sidecar racer,
I have always been heavilly involved on the spanner side, from the early 70's with BSA twins, and then one of the first Imp powered specials and then a very successfull purpose built (Tony Batup chassis, bevan engine)Imp,which was aSotheren 100 winner, then I did some road raceing myself (Montjuic in '79,'80 and'81) then concentrated on spannerrs again, this time with Gary Golder , TZ750's (snd in british championship)and then in the early years of F11 (partly started by Gary) with TZ350's and then a long struggle with a Norton Rotary, again Gary G, which started life as a front runner in nationals and slowly declined until I lost patience, Brian Rust (junior) now has the motor back in a conventional chassis, coincidentally it was Brian Rust (senior) who first attempted this with a Windle carbon fibre chassis (not one of Terrys best ideas).Along thw ay I just loved those TZ's so much I bought piles of parts and built a TZ500 for myself, never raced it though, nor the 350TZ that I restored to fund the 500.In the 70's I was so smitten with sidecars that i built a kneeler with a BSA engine (ex C Vincent) complete with 45DCOE Webber for the road,I am still involved, friends neer Reding have (with a bit of input from me) put a lWB Windle worm on the road, day light MOT etc, much fun, and people wonder why I dont live in palace and drive a masserati, I squandered most of it.
CLEM