Aye Ian,
When the XT500 first came over, I was working in the IoM and the first example on the Island was purchased by a workmate. Pete loved the bike, but was into his green lanes and as he was also attending college across in Cumbria on a block release he decided to attach a trials type sidecar to the XT. I am racking my brain as to who it was that made up the chair and fittings for him and then set the outfit up! I think it was a Jeffries? The chair used their "standard" trials chair frame, with an additional cavernous box beneath the seat, a sidelight on the mudguard and and additional headlight mounted on the traditional loop hand rail, in front of the seat. With lowered gearing, it was a grand bit of kit and coped with the run from Heysham to Penrith, up the A6, no bother. The following year when I was back at college full time and Pete came over for his block release, the outfit was taken green laning in the Lakes and went over the Wrynose and Honister passes when they were ice and snow. I too managed the passes at the same time, on a borrowed Honda 500/4, the Duke 450 having been high sided at the Redhills roundabout on the road to Keswick a few weeks earlier!
I must have been mad!!!!
We then played around the square outside the Gloucester Arms in Penrith, doing figure of 8's and doughnuts in about 4" of snow, after a big fish supper from the chippy on the hill.
This website might also prove rather tempting!
"Used and new motorcycles for sale" website:
KTM-Wasp-motocross-or-trials-sidecar-outfitGood health, Bill
