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Something for the kids

JBSracing

JBSracing

Joined Nov 2004
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Just added to my gallery some images of a Sidecar for the kids. This is actually not as innocent as it looks, the frame is hand brazed from paper thin 4130. All the "plastics" including the structural stuff for leaning out over the back wheel and the floor pans etc are carbon-fibre and the components are the very best BMX racing parts. They weigh absolutely nothing, cost much more than you might think to make, are high on maintenance and fold up in a tangled mess when you crash them like proper race machines should.

Ben
JBS Racing
 
Dear Log & Kelsow nice to hear that you boys like the look of these little toys.

I like the idea of studding it up, we road them once in the snow on new years day I think it was. It was a lot of fun for something with out an engine and it kept us warm. Troble is if we get 1/2 inch of snow in England its a news event and we certainly don't get any hard ice, ah well maybe I'll have to come to Nova Scotia!

BTW - I forgot to say it is not just brazed to the side of a BMX as you might think on first sight the bike frame was designed for sidecar it is about 8 inches longer than the longest BMX on the market.
 
Log - Just glancing at your post again after I wrote the reply above and noticed the link to your webpage. Now I am embarrised to show my poor efforts, your furniture is astounding. You are a craftsman sir and I am just a spanner wielding grease monkey.
 
Cool!!!! Frame looks a bit longer than the normal 20" BMXer, probably a bit more rugged, too!
My oldest daughter raced in the old NBL BMX series in Maine, New Hampster and Massachusetts back in the early '80s, sponsored by Sundance Cycles out of Illinois or Indiana.I built up a bike on a Robinson Racing frame for her. Ivan Tedesco's sister Kathy (sp?) was one of the girls she raced against, and I think Ivan was one of the "little kids" racing in the mini classes. BMX wasn't really big up here, some heats only had 4 or 5 racers. About the only big races were the district finals, usually down in Dunstable or Lunenburg/Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Youngest daughter tried it, crashed in her second race and broke her wrist.....
Check this youtube vid!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exfx0aK3nMs&feature=related
 
JBSracing said:
You are a craftsman sir and I am just a spanner wielding grease monkey.
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Don't make me laugh and thanks for the kind words Ben. I'm really just a wood hack wielding a dull chisel. I make stuff that sits there looking pretty while you make stuff built with incredibly tight tolerances that is put to the extreme test and looks pretty! I have the utmost respect for what you do.

So when are you gonna fit a lightweight JBS motor to the sidecar bicycle? 8)

log
 
FC501EAST said:
Cool!!!! Frame looks a bit longer than the normal 20" BMXer, probably a bit more rugged, too!
My oldest daughter raced in the old NBL BMX series in Maine, New Hampster and Massachusetts back in the early '80s, sponsored by Sundance Cycles out of Illinois or Indiana.I built up a bike on a Robinson Racing frame for her. Ivan Tedesco's sister Kathy (sp?) was one of the girls she raced against, and I think Ivan was one of the "little kids" racing in the mini classes. BMX wasn't really big up here, some heats only had 4 or 5 racers. About the only big races were the district finals, usually down in Dunstable or Lunenburg/Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Youngest daughter tried it, crashed in her second race and broke her wrist.....
Check this youtube vid!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exfx0aK3nMs&feature=related
Click to expand...

That was an awesome vid FC! Thanks.
 

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