Help - anyone recognise this?
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Help - anyone recognise this?
70's, believed French. ANy info welcome. There is a suggestion that the driver may be Rolf Biland but I'm not so sure.
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Re: Help - anyone recognise this?
Didn't Rolf always have curly hair?
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I don't think the scroots would be keen on the race numbers 

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Re: Help - anyone recognise this?
Maybe a silly observation but driver looks too tall for Rolf.
Re: Help - anyone recognise this?
Looks like something out of Thunderbirds!!!!!!!
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Re: Help - anyone recognise this?
More info courtesy of a number of kind folk from the French sidecar site
Bike is called a 'Delga', built circa 1975 and ridden by Pierre Gachelin featuring a number of innovative ideas, quite what I am not privy to yet, powered by a 750 Honda, principally used for hill climb events.

Bike is called a 'Delga', built circa 1975 and ridden by Pierre Gachelin featuring a number of innovative ideas, quite what I am not privy to yet, powered by a 750 Honda, principally used for hill climb events.
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Re: Help - anyone recognise this?
Couple more pics from my French friend Charliegrouniache
Reminds me a bit of Geoff Baldock's shed, for those of you old enough to remember

Reminds me a bit of Geoff Baldock's shed, for those of you old enough to remember

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Re: Help - anyone recognise this?
Yet another, by jove these French lads are good
Tank is a tad large for hillclimbs methinks
Could be a labour saving device that only needs filling once every meeting ...

Tank is a tad large for hillclimbs methinks

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Re: Help - anyone recognise this?
A little more - Pierre also contested the French road race championships on this bike thus the big tank. It seems as though it was a little temperamental as it overheated readily when running and did not like sitting stationary for too long on the grid.
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