Do we need push starts in Classic sidecars to keep it period

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Eddy Wright
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Do we need push starts in Classic sidecars to keep it period

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Why do we have the modern way of starting (Clutch Starts) When the period we race in had clutch starts ? Should we bring push starts back ?
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Don't suggest that Ed, with my hips they'd have done a lap before i'd even got on the thing. (I'm building a BM')
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Eddy Wright wrote:Should we bring push starts back ?
Only for the fat people, they need the exercise :twisted:
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I'd be more than happy to have push starts... :D

My outfit starts easy enough.

Perhaps we should have a vote and put the suggestion to Ian!
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Absolutely not!
My backs buggered after turning an F1 over in 1994, so it's not an option.
If classics go back to push start, we'll buy an F2.
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must admit i hope it does not change cos i am just not strong en0ugh in me ankle's to push off!!
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So basically............we're a bunch of old cripples! :lol:
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Hi guys you chaps on the imps should be ok when i raced mine in the seventies we got the start off to a t with just my passenger pushing with me on the bike ready to go .was easy. :lol: :lol:
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Slightly off topic possibly but my Kettle used to start like a dream, two steps and gone :P :P :P
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Eddy, wait till you get the BM running . . . . then talk to us about push starts :o !!
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