zzdcar
Home
/
Reviews
/
Beyond Cars
/
Sidecar Motocross Is A Real Thing And It Looks Fantastic
Sidecar Motocross Is A Real Thing And It Looks Fantastic-January 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:14:06

Motocross is an intense sport, full of dirt, jumps and the . But there are people in this world who race motocross with a sidecar attached, and the person in that sidecar isn’t just sitting there hoping it’ll be over soon. They’re hanging off the sidecar like... well, it’s hard to describe what this is like.

It’s kind of incredible, though. That’s for sure.

We at Jalopnik got a press release in our inbox this week about MAVTV showing the FIM Sidecarcross (“side car cross,” since Sidecarwordgarble is hard to read) World Championship this year. It’s where motocross bikes race on motocross courses, jumps and all, with a sidecar. It’s so wild that it looks like it can’t be voluntary—as if these riders all accidentally handcuffed themselves to someone else and went, “Well, damn, let’s figure out how we’re going to race now.”

The release said this style of racing is relatively unknown in North America, because Europe has been holding out on us all since they started doing it in the early 1950s. That’s a long time to keep such a good secret.

Just look at this stuff:

The sheer amount of movement from the person “in” the sidecar is almost hard to believe, even if you’re watching it happen:

Put this on primetime. Netflix, even. It’s binge worthy. After all, those of us in North America have a solid seven decades to catch up on here.

Thanks, Europe, for always .

Comments
Welcome to zzdcar comments! Please keep conversations courteous and on-topic. To fosterproductive and respectful conversations, you may see comments from our Community Managers.
Sign up to post
Sort by
Show More Comments
Beyond Cars
Marshmallow Treats Ended Up On The Royal Air Force's No-Fly List
Marshmallow Treats Ended Up On The Royal Air Force's No-Fly List
Over in the United Kingdom, there’s a certain dessert known as a “teacake” — or, as a British friend kindly informed me, it’s more accurately known as a “Tunnock” in Scotland. Basically, the food in question for this particular story are actually a cookie base topped with marshmallow, coated...
Jan 15, 2025
Aircraft Touch Tips During Blizzard At Japanese Airport
Aircraft Touch Tips During Blizzard At Japanese Airport
As at , its port side wing the starboard vertical stabilizer of bound for Hong Kong. This comes at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, and . “Our aircraft, which was stationary at the time with no customers nor crew onboard, was struck by a Korean Air A330 which was taxiing past,”...
Jan 15, 2025
Deadliest Train In America Kills 3 People In 2 Separate Collisions At The Same Crossing
Deadliest Train In America Kills 3 People In 2 Separate Collisions At The Same Crossing
operate between Orlando and Miami and hold the unwelcome distinction of being both the first intra-city high speed rail in the U.S. and the , by far. After three people died at a single grade crossing in two separate incidents last week it seems the feds are finally perking...
Jan 15, 2025
Crystal Chunks Are Bursting Through The Road In China
Crystal Chunks Are Bursting Through The Road In China
A video of what looks like quartz breaking through the surface of a is making the rounds on . I don’t get over there much, being suspicious of the Chinese over concerns of it spying on its users, as the reports. OK, fine. Actually, I just don’t get the humor...
Jan 15, 2025
2023 Zero DSR/X: The Bike Of The Future, But Not Our Future
2023 Zero DSR/X: The Bike Of The Future, But Not Our Future
The world, in 2023, is cyberpunk. We’ve got the , the , and the that keeps the and the . But in cyberpunk media, people are always riding . Why are we stuck with the same bikes we’ve always had? , it seems, wants to address this grievous wrong....
Jan 15, 2025
String Of Boeing Failures Continues With 737-800 Flight Turning Back With Cracked Cockpit Windshield
String Of Boeing Failures Continues With 737-800 Flight Turning Back With Cracked Cockpit Windshield
In the wake of recent major , including , , and the debacle that was , it isn’t a good time for further failures by the company. that would , an unrelated 737-800 with a cracked windshield, became international news this weekend. The flight took off from Sapporo-New Chitose...
Jan 15, 2025
Copyright 2023-2025 - www.zzdcar.com All Rights Reserved