Q's about bikes in Blighty
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From: sweller on 22 Nov 2009 06:30 Sean_Q_ wrote: > > It's right-hand chairs that are banned! > > Well I suppose that rules out bringing my Dnepr to the UK... If it keeps its Canadian reg it should be ok - it's not that they are banned it's you can't register post '81 bikes with right hand sidcars. -- Simon
From: Lozzo on 22 Nov 2009 06:31 Pete Fisher wrote: > Might be now. My 97 Mazda MX5 has it on the other side (right) to my > 08 Mazda 6. Tends to lead to trying to indicate with the windscreen > wipers the first time if I haven't driven the MX5 for a while. My Dad's '97 model Toyota Corrolla has the indicators on the right -- Lozzo Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, SR250 SpazzTrakka, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere) Garage clearout - Yamaha SpazzTrakka 250 for sale, email for details
From: Andy Bonwick on 22 Nov 2009 06:34 On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:37:01 +0100, doetnietcomputeren <doesnotcompute(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On 2009-11-22 07:11:41 +0100, Sean_Q_ <nospam(a)no.spam> said: > snip> >> 6. From pix I've seen on the Net, sidecars in Britain are generally... > >... reserved for the insane. I prefer to think they're reserved for the more adventurous.
From: Andy Bonwick on 22 Nov 2009 06:41 On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:45:56 +0000, Pip Luscher <pluscher(a)live.invalid.co.uk> wrote: >On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:40:32 +0000, totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk >(The Older Gentleman) wrote: > >>Timo Geusch <tnewsSPAMMENOT(a)unixconsult.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> > 6. From pix I've seen on the Net, sidecars in Britain are generally >>> > to the left of the bike. Is this true? My Dnepr's hack is on the right, >>> > and apparently neither KMZ nor IMZ makes a left-hand version. So are >>> > there Dnepr and Ural rigs on UK roads with the sidecar to the right? >>> >>> IIRC they're not legal here. One of the sidecar pervs might be able to >>> comment. >> >>They banned l/h chairs some time in the 1980s, on some spurious 'safety' >>excuse. Despite the fact that they could produce no accident stats for >>them. > >Err, does l/h mean 'for riding on the left' or 'chair mounted on the >left'? If the latter, then something's wrong! > >Are they actually banned outright or can you no longer buy/fit a wrong >side chair but existing ones are OK? You can use a rh mounted chair on bikes registered before a certain cut-off date but not on anything newer Apparently bad people buy newer outfits with a rh chair and then buy an old scrapper and change the frame numbers to suit but I'd never advise anyone to do something like that.
From: Oily on 22 Nov 2009 06:50
"Eiron" wrote......... > Catman wrote: > > Sean_Q_ wrote: > >> ...and other drive-on-the-left countries such as New Zealand. > > >> 2. If the throttle is still on the right, how do you wave at other > >> bikers? > > > > With far more skill than usually seen in NA > > Throttle on the left was so American cops could make progress while waving > a pistol at fleeing felons. > > ISTR an episode of Happy Days that mentioned a Brit bike with a left > hand throttle. Can't remember if it was a real bike though. > > Eiron. American cops used Indian Chiefs AFAIK but I had a 500cc Scout with left hand throttle and foot clutch IIRC |