B2A & B2B

[andyjackson]

Hi Ian

I don't think we ever went fast enough on it for the height to have affected the handling! What we realised (too late) was that although the outfit was nice and small, that meant that the driver and passenger couldn't really get out of the airstream and always looked oversize. Though it did make it easy to fit the bike into the Transit.
I remember going to the island spectating one year and we were behind Klaus Enders in the queue to the ferry - he had his BMW and all his kit in the back of a Granada estate car, but that didn't seem to affect his turn of speed the way it affected us!

We did the best we could with the chassis in 531 tubing, but it was just at the time that LCR and Seymaz were starting to produce monocoques and it showed us just how behind the times we really were.

[bluemartincbx]

Hey Geoff, you should remember B2A & B2B, we both went to Silverstone in 79 to watch them! That was a great day till the Viva blew up on the motorway on the way home!!!

[LarryC]

At the recent classic sidecar gathering at Hockenheim Bruno Holtzer had his B2A there and there was also an example of a B2B. Very interesting to see the evolution next to renn sport BMW's, Krauser overhead cammers and early TZ outfits.

[LCR1000]

Ian Kirk from up Aberdeen way built one around 1982, It was a work of art
Tried to find out about it but drew a blank. Maybe Alistar Lewis Knows what hapened to it