General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I had one when I was a youngster, still fresh from school, in fact, at that time, it had many advantages over an ordinary motorbike. With an ordinary motorbike with "L" plates on, you could only carry a licenced motorbike driver as a passenger, and were limited by the size of the engine.

With the addition of a sidecar, there was no limit placed on engine size, even with "L" plates, also you were allowed to carry ordinary passengers. As it's many years since I was on one them, I'm still trying to remember the gear change, I think, it was "up one" for first, and down three for the rest of them.

Turning left, you had to be careful there, take it to fast and you'd lurch to the right, that is unless you had some overweight passenger in the sidecar.

My peers thought it was highly amusing to watch a young kid (me) drive what was thought as a grandads bike.