Welsh 2 Day Enduro: Sidecar PHOTO FEST
If you want to take on a genuinely tough challenge, then riding a sidecar in the Welsh 2 Day Enduro could be just the thing for you. For the rider, you have to muscle an enormous three-wheel machine around some of the toughest terrain in the world. For the passenger, it’s a chance to dance around on a platform surrounded by exhausts, batteries and radiators while trying to keep the whole damn thing from tipping over. Add in road sections where the machine is capable of close on 80 miles per hour and this is a sport for the brave – or clinically insane!
But you can’t buy one of these bikes from your local dealers. Every one is a masterpiece of function and design, with everything from hand-crafted frames to CNC milled suspension linkages. For the motors, big KTMs used to be the choice of champions, but now more modern engines like the Yamaha WRF450 are creeping into the picture.
Ride Expeditions took a wander round the Parc Ferme on the day before the Welsh 2 Day Enduro, to gawk at the machinery and be thankful we were riding a solo machine!
CHECK OUT THE IMAGES OF SOME EPIC MACHINES
YAMAHA’S REVERSE CYLINDER 450 GETS THE SIDEY TREATMENT
SLEEK AND UNCLUTTERED- STILL WOULDN’T WANT TO STAND ON HERE FOR A FOREST ENDURO
PURPLE BLING IS BIG IN THE SIDECAR GAME
GREAT DETAILING ON THE MACHINE – CHECK THE AIRBOX AND CHROME SWINGARM -NICE!
SOCKS FOR YOUR SHOCKS? LEADING LINK CHIC
THIS IS SURPRISINGLY SAFE FOR A SIDECAR – NORMALLY IT’S ALL EXPOSED AND READY TO INJURE!
SQUAT AND POWERFUL – BADASS KTM OUTFIT
THIS IS NOT A KMX125 – RUGGED STEEL IS PRETTY ACCURATE!
SOCKS AND PURPLE BLING – GET IN!
GREAT BUILD ON THE BIG YAMAHA
IN 15 MINUTES YOU CAN INJURE FAR MORE THAN 15% OF YOUR BODY – JUST TRY AN ENDURO SIDECAR
RTC OFTEN STANDS FOR ROAD TRAFFIC COLLISION – NOT A GOOD OMEN!
A TAD LONGER IN THE TOOTH, THIS KTM OUTFIT CAN STILL PULL DOWN TREES IN THIRD
