Tomorrow I will be heading 30km down the road to Tarlee to pick up this little beauty;



Yes, it incomplete and has no engine, no electrics, no ancillary equipment and the wrong wheels, but what can I say, I am a gluten for punishment.

Despite the problems with it, it ticks so many boxes;
1st its's a 34L Tenere (a 1984 Model),
2nd its a sidecar,
3rd it has competition history, having been ridden in the 24 Hour Trial and numerous other Reliability Trials back in it's day
4th it has local history having been owned many years ago by a fellow club member,
5th the price was right.

Fortunately the wife is working away at present and I will hopefully be able to hide it in amongst all the other fine motorcycles in my shed.

I have already made a deal with a mate and he has promised to swing for me if I can get it "read to ride" in time for our local club round of the SA reliability Trial Series in late September.

I will try to provide some regular updates on progress of the preparation and if we actually manage to make the event, even write a ride report.

CJ

What`s the frame number?

Want to sell that spare tank?

Mezo.

Frame Number is 39E-004261.

Manufacture date on the Compliance Plate is 4/84.

Unfortunately, I need both tanks. The one on the frame will go onto the Bushpig, the single dent in this tank is a lot better than the eight dents that the Bushpigs current tank has. The spare tank will be used on the outfit, although when I shook it there is of big lump of something inside the tank, and a quick look through the filler neck showed that the internal baffles have been bent out of shape.

I have started sorting out some wheels for it. The leading link forks that I intend to use, which are from my old Honda XL500 sidecar have a SR500 mag wheel, so I have been checking to see if I can fit one of my spare disc brake SR500 rear mag wheels into the swingarm. This way all three wheel will be the same 7 spoke Yamaha mags and I won't have the spoke problems that normally go hand in hand with wire wheels and sidecars.

CJ