National Motorcycle Museum trip

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Hi Guys just thought I would share a couple of pcs from the NMM that I went to visit recently. I loved the solo machines but they had tucked away all the decent sidecars yet again at the back... I made this point to one of the staff and got the reply of 'well people only really come here for the bikes', can't tell you how dissapointed I was when i discoverd tucked away at the back this...

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I thought exactly that too when I went - such wonderful machines deserve their own section not hidden away at the back
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I to was dissapointed when we visited on our way to the TT. Great collection of bikes but I did expect more racing sidecars.
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Hi Larry,

Amazing coincidence that we bumped in to each other at the museum though wasn't it?

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It was indeed, we were the only two people in the place interested in sidecar, and my friend who was with me as well. As I recall you were with your son and toutering him on a bit of sidecar racing history.
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Did you ask why the sidecars were not clearly visible,? Sometimes the people who display them would change it around if they were told
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Larry & Simon, if I remember correctly from posts on here, I was also there at the same time as you :lol:
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