My friend Erik Green and his wife Heather can be seen in the lead of this classic sidecar race that took place this past 10/10/10 at the Barber Vintage Celebration. They are in the red rig our front for all of the race.
Erik Green is an accomplished racer with a past filled with triumphs, most of them with Team Obsolete, but I was most impressed with seeing his wife Heather here literally laid out on the track, in perfect alignment with Erik's riding.
Check them both out from a helmet camera from a following bike at:
1:10-1:59
2:00-2:45 Here you can see Heather get herself to the other side at both the start and end of this section. Amazing. Watch Erik lean into the curves here too.
3:08-4:10 They go through a tight turn at 3:11and the following bike is really close so you can see how they work together.
You can see their competition at 7:56-8:07 as their sidecar person is literally dragging their kevlar suit on the track as the dust coming from ahead attests. Intense......
Now these sidecars are really just platforms where the rider can brace his or her body to really lean into the force of the turn. Erik of course won this race and answered my questions about what kind of bike this is:
"Its a BMW R75/5 base racer built in the early 90's. The quality of the
original video is even better. I want to get one of those cameras.
Average speed for the lap is around 70 mph so straightaway speed is
somewhere in the 90's."
Wow. If you want to see a photo of the bike they were racing you can go to Erik's company, Works Engineering. I love hearing the sound of the bikes too.
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