Bye Bye Snubby

“Snubby” the silver sidecar has been a part of our life for over twenty years.  We picked up the bike on Mick’s birthday back in 2002.  It was one of the first shipment of the model into Australia.  We enjoyed riding her as a solo, towing a little trailer with our camping gear and even shipped her to the UK to travel around for two months over there.

We crashed in outback NSW in 2008, fortunately with no real damage to either of us or the bike, but it cured me of riding on dirt.  Mick had always liked the idea of a sidecar, so took this opportunity to add one.  He really enjoyed the process, as it was quite an engineering challenge.

We continued to have lots of fun holidays travelling this way, even upgrading to towing a camper trailer.

You can see more photo of her over here.

Gradually, he made improvements, the most recent being the leading link front suspension.  Snubby has won several awards for “Best Engineered”.

Snubby has 115,000kms on the clock and all of those were for having fun.  She was never a commuter bike.  

However, times change.  

We thought we would be out and about on the bikes more now that we aren’t working, but to date that hasn’t happened.  We now do our travelling with our caravan, rather than with the bike.  She has done less than 1,000kms in the last four years.

After much consideration, Mick decided that it was time to pass her on to a new owner and on Friday she headed off to her new home in Victoria.  

Maybe, a tear was shed, but it was the right thing to do.

However, we still have “Olga” the old girl BMW sidecar and some other bikes to enjoy.