I’m not enthusiast of classic British motorcycles but I thought this interesting. Popped over to Tardebigge fair, which is a bit of fun, and the local Tardebigge cider went down well. I give you a 2wheel drive Military Norton WD Big 4 (Norton Big 4 & sidecar)..

[url=https://flic.kr/p/p68Y17]Tardebigge fair – Norton Big 4 and sidecar[/url] by z1ppy2, on Flickr

Sidecar dog clutch and drive shaft:
[url=https://flic.kr/p/pnANKC]Tardebigge fair[/url] by z1ppy2, on Flickr

Notice the Bren gun slung between the bike and sidecar?
[url=https://flic.kr/p/pkAenw]Tardebigge fair[/url] by z1ppy2, on Flickr

Passenger get suspension, unlike the motorcyclist (ok he’s got springs on the seat)
[url=https://flic.kr/p/p68fia]Tardebigge fair[/url] by z1ppy2, on Flickr

Loving the fully kitted up version.. though no 3 inch mortar

Wiki info page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Big_4

Cool! I used to ride one of these with my bro when I was in my teens. A bit more civilised, but not much!

Untitled by T*inbred, on Flickr

Ooh. Like a Ural, but with the possibility that it might actually go somewhere.

My mum’s uncle (my great uncle??) was a despatch rider in WW2 and somehow managed to steal a BMW from the Germans. Apparently, his CO said he was okay to keep it, so long as he understood it might be boobytrapped and it’s his own fault if he blew up.

He didn’t blow up and used it as his despatch bike, it saving his life one day when he accidentally rode into a German camp. Apparently, he just calmly turned around an left, no-one suspecting anything about the clearly German bike. Quite how the opposite didn’t happen when arriving in Allied camps, I’ll never know…

Anyway – it got me looking and now I really, really want this: http://www.milweb.net/classifieds/large_image.php?ad=73489&cat=5

Would sit nice next to my 2014 BMW F800GSA…

Rachel

That’s really quite nice & like the story, class

I have always wanted a Wasp but had to make do with a 520 Maico EML.
I remember watching, I think, Goode and Withers on their Wasp engined outfit at Weston in the good old days when everything ran together. It sounded so sweet at 100mph. Same race that Dave Bickers rode a CB110R engines trike. 110 apparently on the straight and the howl!

Husquvana Hagon outfit for me…