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The_Veg
02-08-2006, 12:00 PM
This belongs to a guy over on the Boxerworks forum. That y'all would get a kick from it.

Flash Gordon (http://home.earthlink.net/~rgrauer/)
Stuff2C
02-08-2006, 01:42 PM
Baaaadasss!!
BubbaZanetti
02-08-2006, 01:50 PM
amazing, the sidecar is on the wrong side though :D

and wtf is this:

http://home.earthlink.net/~rgrauer/ming_main1.jpg
Mika
02-08-2006, 02:32 PM
Bubba you child, it is Ming the Mercyless. This was Flash Gordon's hack.

http://flashgordon.ws/
BubbaZanetti
02-08-2006, 02:41 PM
duh, don't think i've ever seen anything other than that late 70s/early 80s movie
Mika
02-08-2006, 02:42 PM
I assume Dr. Flash Gordon of San Fransico fame.

If Flash had a hack in the movies this is what it would have looked like.
pmdave
02-08-2006, 08:21 PM
VERY interesting. Love the rivets.

I suspect this is not the doctor flash gordon of San Francisco, but I'll ask him anyway.

pmdave
Boxerkuh
02-08-2006, 09:28 PM
Awesome!!! :heart
barryg
02-11-2006, 10:39 AM
I wish I had the talent and skill to do work like that.
vanzen
02-11-2006, 03:14 PM
duh, don't think i've ever seen anything other than that late 70s/early 80s movie


HHHHHHHHMMMMMM... wasn't that "FLESH Gordon"?
The_Veg
02-11-2006, 10:55 PM
Flesh Gordon was released in 1974; Flesh Gordon Meets The Cosmic Cheerleaders was released in 1989. I think Derek's talking about the 1980 Flash Gordon film that was a huge flop but sort of a cult classic. It had nobodys as Flash and Dale, but starred Max Von Sydow (who played BrewMaster Smith in Strange Brew) as Ming, Topol (who played Milos Columbo in For Your Eyes Only) as Dr. Zarkov, Timothy Dalton (thw worst-ever James Bond) as Prince Barin, Brian Blessed (King Richard IV in The Blackadder) as Prince Vultan, and Richard "Ritz" O'brien (Riff Raff in Rocky Horror Picture Show) as Fico. Oh yeah, and Queen did the main title song. It wasn't a great film but visually it was pretty cool.
HankPfister
02-16-2006, 07:17 PM
This belongs to a guy over on the Boxerworks forum. That y'all would get a kick from it.

Flash Gordon (http://home.earthlink.net/~rgrauer/)

:thumb WOW, that is one cool Hack! I'd love to take a spin on it.
flash412
02-17-2006, 11:35 AM
WOW, that is one cool Hack! I'd love to take a spin on it.Actually, taking it for a ride if you've never piloted a chair would be quite challenging in that the chair is on the wrong side for the USA. (The tag sez it is a California bike.)
pmdave
02-17-2006, 07:22 PM
"Actually, taking it for a ride if you've never piloted a chair would be quite challenging in that the chair is on the wrong side for the USA. (The tag sez it is a California bike.)"

Actually, taking any hack for a drive would be challenging if you have no experience or training (as the CA Governator has recently discovered). OK, perhaps hopping on a three-wheeler for the first time is no worse than taking a Hyabusa for a spin with no actual motorcycle training or experience. But, actually, taking the FG rig for a spin with only right side hack experience would be a challenge. It would be an actual brain flip, eh?

Which brings up another actual question: why isn't there an actual sidecar section on the MOA forum?

pmdave
pmdave
02-17-2006, 07:26 PM
1980 R100/Ural with almost no rivets showing.
riderR1150GSAdv
02-17-2006, 08:04 PM
Now that is a cool hack :D and the link to Flash Gordon kept me reading up on that for a while :lurk
HankPfister
02-18-2006, 05:12 AM
".....
Which brings up another actual question: why isn't there an actual sidecar section on the MOA forum?
pmdave
I guess because we (sidecarist) are the "lunatic fringe" of the motorcycle world. :nyah
Here is my R75/5/Dnepr. I'm building another rig now with a Motovation sidecar on a R100RS.
http://pfestus1.smugmug.com/photos/43760268-S.jpg
pmdave
02-19-2006, 04:57 PM
Doctor flash gordon (San Francisco area MD, MCN columnist, BMW rider) reports that he isn't the owner of the rig, although he "thinks it's nice".

"In theory, there's no difference between
theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
(see http://www.docflash.com/quotes.html for more quotes)

pmdave
Mika
02-20-2006, 07:52 PM
Point taken, I had a quick judgement theory and in practice it was different. Thank you for solving part of the mystery Dave.
flash412
02-21-2006, 07:52 AM
Actually, taking any hack for a drive would be challenging if you have no experience or training (as the CA Governator has recently discovered).Point taken. Here's an excerpt on learning to pilot a rig from my Tale, Thumper (http://www.deathstar.org/~flash/thumper.html)...

On the inaugural run, I managed to discover a LOT about sidecars and sidecar handling... Sidecar outfits are NOT motorcycles. About 1/2 mile from home I went into a right hand sweeper at about 40 mph that's good for 60mph solo. SURPRISE! The sidecar came off the ground. This caused a major pucker and in an effort to put it back on the ground I went so wide that I nearly ran off the LEFT side of the road. It was a good thing that no one was oncoming. Moments after putting away the pucker hammer, I dispatched myself to a LARGE vacant parking lot for a "training session." I discovered some wonderful things... By wrenching the handlebars I could either initiate a broadslide which was controllable with the brakes and bars OR I could lift the chair into the air at will. Once the chair was airborne, I had a two wheeled vehicle again. Although cornering clearance was significantly limited on the righthand side because of the sidecar, and on the left side the exhaust pipe would drag. It was pretty bizarre to lean WAY over to the left and get the sidecar WAY high in the air and go around a left turn that way. With some more practice, I got fairly adept at both flying the chair and broadsliding. I also found that I could fly the chair with a passenger because it didn't take horsepower to do that, it took leverage.
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That spring, I had THE FINEST machine in which to cruise the "fun zone." My favorite trick was to park on the opposite side of the street directly in front of "my" watering hole. What made this a trick was that I would execute a sliding U-turn at full speed and end up stopped, next to the curb, neatly parked, having slid backwards and sidewards for the last several feet. (OK OK, I was young and stupid.) "Hey, Baby, wanna go for a ride in my sidecar?" was a new and different "line" to most of the denizettes of the "Rock Block." The little 250 motor could pull me, the sidecar, and a babe... but barely. A little white bike with black pinstripes pulling a little white sidecar with a black seat and trim was the cutest thing on "The Block." Parking next to Rip's big bad Vincent Black Shadow set the two of them in the ultimate contrast. What a jewel.