Lancashire HOT POT

We don’t get many sidecar outfits in RealClassic. On the one hand that’s not surprising, as within the classic niche they form a small niche all of their own. On the other hand, you’d think there’d be loads, since almost without exception sidecar outfits tend to be Rather Interesting...

Rather Interesting is certainly a suitable epithet for Dave Sykes’ Harley-engined, BSAframed (Harbsa? Beesley?) example of three-wheeled ingenuity. As you might expect, the story is a joy (and I’m indebted to one of the co-builders, Tony Banister, for the notes he supplied before I went to photograph the bike, which turned out to be a well-written story in themselves so in many respects I’ve just added in the details). But first, a word from our sponsor...

OK, I know, no sponsors here, but everyone involved with the bike was at pains to say they wanted to help promote classic sidecar racing, and we’re nothing if not helpful at RC. The BHR (British Historic Racing) is a section of the all-pervading VMCC, and the sidecar bunch are, well, the Sidecar Bunch. Classes range from Pre-59, through