Okay that’s another piece of the puzzle squared away, and it was a big one….
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Transportation.
Bridget doesn’t fit in the back of my mates van any more, seeing as she’s now 9 inches longer than the 8 foot space he had available, so I’ve been looking on eBay/gumtree for the last few weeks at motorcycle transporter trailers and small car trailers, in the region of 8x4, that I could modify and extend to fit her on top.
I’ve just got back from Andover, having picked up a single axle plus jockey wheel, aluminium checker plate bed 10x5 that I got off gumtree for the bargain price of 140 small gold coloured beer tokens. Result!
The (somewhat rotten) wooden sides are made of ply skinned OSB so they were peeling off in the slipstream on the way back to Sussex, but I’m going to just remove them altogether. The chassis itself is in great condition, and there’s obviously more than enough room for Bridget to perch on top. It’s even got 6 welded on tie down points for ratchet straps fitted already. brilliant! The electrics even mostly work, as long as you only want to indicate stopping and turning left. I came back via B roads and managed to completely avoid being stopped by Hampshire’s finest men in black, so a little bit of rewiring on the rhs lights cluster and we should be good to go.
I am obviously very pleased with my purchase; this was the last major banana skin I could see in my way to joining in with actual racing with the rest of you lot, rather than just pootling round on the farm. Seeya at Brooklands next time for sure…
Wahey!
Rich.