That would be a classic photo no one would believe it, woolen trunk!s whatever next,refurbished in to tea cosies. i think my dad took his hat off once [brown trilby] sat in a deck chair on EASTBOURNE.he would keep his sock suspenders on,and waist coat as well.hoping i did not go near the sea shore ,in case i got swept away,[some hope of that]never let in the sea…we used to have about 2 hours on the beach, then troop back to the train.back to rotherfield…
My gran knitted me a pair of dark blue swimming trunks. I brought the greater part of the Bristol Channel back up the beach with me!
She also knitted my mother a one-piece bathing costume. BIG mistake! 
oiltreader:
Another French outfit, Peterbilt and boudoir.
Oily
Evening all,
Ah the French Circus, a way of life, and I have to admit a quiet passion of mine! Oily, if you look at some of the pictures of US iron, operated by some of the family`s in this industry, then many of them came from me!..(but not that one)… Far to modern!
I had always had a love of the Circus, but my involvement came when I was in Italy, and “we” were looking for a stunt driver to rival the Battaile family, signed by our deadly rivals Fiat/Iveco…and I secured one…a member of the Togni Circus family…and what he could do with a big Berliet was almost beyond comprehension…perhaps the subject of a longer post, at a time in the future…
But doing business with one family, leads to another, and recommendations flow…and they are contacts, and friends that you never loose…and sometimes selling them lorries benefits you in other ways…even at my age I can still ride my Unicycle…a skill that I am proud of…(though my lady wife and daughter recoil when I bring out my chromium plated single wheeler)!
And I too can remember with soggy horror just how those knitted swimming trunks absorbed the water…and slid gracefully, and inexorably down your legs when you least expected it…today it would be classed as “child abuse”…then you just fumbled around until you got them back on…No wonder the Circus High Wire artistes wore silver and gold lame!
Im away for a Bollinger…and if its fine tomorrow…maybe a ride around the yard on my single wheeler!
Cheerio for now.
The few words on the final line of this previous post warrant the “heads up” to all the national newspapers(photographers) or at the very least syndication via the “Dudley Liar” I’m sure the shots would go viral around the world !! Anon 1.
Last month ,east of France.
Evening all,
Well I managed two circuits of the farmyard on the Unicycle without falling off! That was until lady wife saw me from the kitchen window…oh dear…chagrin…she is going to report me to my Eastern European Doctor…
So Ive hidden said device in the back of the Jeep, and I will sneak off tomorrow, and find a level car park to practice on!
Michel, those little Fergies were a true European tractor, so light, so user friendly, and Ive never owned one!
But I always fancied a Someca, with a 4 cylinder 36 hp motor, they always looked and sounded great. Looks like one about 4 up from the last Massey.Somehow tractors are so personal,its you and them against nature,( or working with nature)…depends on the weather I suppose!!
I shall enjoy a Bollinger thinking about that point…(and trying to remember a discreet car park for tomorrow),
Cheerio for now.
ah saviem , trouble follows you like a faithful dog , no doubt your eastern european doctor will add eccentric to the long list of things to be corrected . what better time to be eccentric than now when you have time to be whatever you desire . just don’t fall off and do yourself further damage ! dave
Now then Saviem here is a picture which brought a smile to my face, should not think it is in this country as basically the sidecar is on the wrong side. looks like a milk churn of sorts in the front or maybe it contained something a bit stronger, any one any idea what make that bike is ? Perhaps your good lady would like a model like this to take her friends out on a jolly, had a mate back in the day who owned a 650 Triumph with a steib sport sidecar and he could make it talk but not for me would end up in the ditch ! cheers Buzzer.
I have no idea of the bike make, but definitely a left ■■■■■■ on a A road in eastern europe, the girls have either nicked the milk, or the bike, or both and now going to the local W.I.club for tea.
In Smiths book and paper shops they have 5 magazines ,monthly all for tractors and farm machinery ,it is only this Saviems posts that i have now have a novice intrest in.tks.
My guess is an MZ or a Jawa.
Hiya
Saw a diesel bike a couple of weeks back, dressed in (military camouflage)
couldn’t find a name but I got the impression it was a Russian ex-military
job hung about a little while thinking the rider may turn up but heavy rain
sent me fleeing to my jam-jar who’s parking bay rental had almost expired
everything about the machine gave me the impression it was originally
meant to have a sidecar attached and looked like a slogger and mean’t for
heavy duty use ie’ a portly chap in the sidecar sporting a machine gun.
thanks harry, long retired.
Evening all,
I`d really got the Unicycle bug between my teeth yesterday…so 07.30 hrs this morning saw me pirouetting around the Village Hall car park…lovely morning, you know that sort of dappled sunlight, almost as though summer is about to wane, gentle breeze, and high clouds in a sky that the inhabitants if St Tropez would envy, and a chorus of Bird song…Oh to be in England now that Summers here!!!
As I turned for yet another circuit, (it is a modest, but smooth surfaced car park)…I saw that two cars had stopped, and the occupants were watching me…including our Parish Priest on his way to Mass…which I patently was not!!!..I lost my concentration, strode off the bike…not quite as smoothly as I would have liked…smiled to the “audience”…and packed my steed into the back of my Jeep…appreciating the light ripple of applause that came my way…I wonder , could I Busk on a Unicycle…I must give it some thought…
Do hope that our Priest does not call at home…I will be sunk for sure!
Buzzer, that looks a mean bunch of ladies…far to strong for any Hells Angel gang. I`m with Trev H, Jawa or MZ, though I think that MZ may be the one…if you study the photograph, those old biddies have left just enough room at the front of the sidecar for a “victim”…and a can of Vodka…so he will be pliable in their, (many), hands!!!
Harry, I did not know that Ural did a Diesel version. I remember that at one time the Chinese marketed a direct copy of the German Army outfits, complete with driven sidecar wheel, and reverse gear…what a recipe to get into trouble very quickly! Somewhere in the depth of my mind I recall an American 2x2 motorcycle, for fire fighting duties…just cannot remember who made it!
I was once tempted to try a sidecar outfit…you all know the scenario…lovely young female, whose parents did not approve of motorcycles…so the answer was three wheels…oh dear!
So I find this outfit for sale…BSA Golden Flash, and a Watsonian double adult sidecar…what was I thinking about…(■■■■, that’s what)…and it deprives any young man of his sense! Beautiful outfit, and made a true BSA noise as you blipped the throttle…(like a flatulent Chimpanzee).
“Can not buy, unless I try” says I…"OK " says the respectable owner, looking at my battered leather sleeveless ex Army jerkin, blue jumper, big boots, and white socks…salubrious has nothing to do with it! He gets into the chair, me astride the bike…off we go…first corner, (to the right), we bowl round, I quite liked the feel, then two lefts…on the first, the owner…somewhat pale of complexion, seemed to be rising alongside, and above me…on the second he really was above me, and it seemed about to loop the loop!!..I was amazed that his eyes were so round, as round as his mouth…and that was round!
So loves errand was lost…I decided that sidecar riding was not for me…and carried on with my sprung hub Triumph…and looked for another girlfriend…anyway, what could you really do in a double adult sidecar…well■■?
Cheerio for now.
Well, Saviem, I almost wish you hadn’t asked that last question. I really have no experience of three-wheelers- unlike your good self- unless you count the two Reliant Robins I have owned. And I really didn’t want to admit to that!
However, if this gets past our moderators, I have to admit to some success in a prone position on an Aerial Golden Arrow back in my mis-spent youth. If we’re both being completely truthful, I reckon the scoreline would work out at around
Saviem 0
ROF 4
Happy days!
And nights
Retired Old ■■■■:
Well, Saviem, I almost wish you hadn’t asked that last question. I really have no experience of three-wheelers- unlike your good self- unless you count the two Reliant Robins I have owned. And I really didn’t want to admit to that!
However, if this gets past our moderators, I have to admit to some success in a prone position on an Aerial Golden Arrow back in my mis-spent youth. If we’re both being completely truthful, I reckon the scoreline would work out at around
Saviem 0
ROF 4
Happy days!
And nights
That’s about all an Ariel Golden Arrow was any good for. Anything with a Villiers twin wasn’t a lot of good. I had a Greeves 325 and that wasn’t any good for nowt.
Cheers Dave.
Buzzer’s motorbike combination, well having a photo of a Ural, couldn’t quite make the connection, Ural mostly having a coil spring front forks suspension, tho’ they also have telescopic fork models with the same front brake cable assembly as Buzzer’s pic, but a different shape tank, so did a bit o’ googling it could be an ex army(no tank badge) Ural or I.m thinking more likely a Dnepr(Ukrainian) couple of pointers here youtube.com/watch?v=UaOnuJzXst4
also another pointer towards Dnepr is the front mudguard, lightweight with single bracket fixing to forks frame.
Oily
Three wheelers… now what about this one (posted before on Past and Present) a good mix of tractor and balance(monocycle), tho’ such a degree of counterweight would have to be for work rather than pleasure 
.
Oily
Hiya,
Reference ROF’s Reliants, who remembers their security staff stopping traffic
along the old A5 to allow the rolling chassis to be pushed from one side of the
road to the other to be completed both the three’s and four’s got the same
humiliating treatment,were the four’s badged “Kitten”.■■
thanks harry, long retired.
