After the arrival of our daughter Emily we had to come up with a plan to keep on biking, neither wanted to stay at home while the other went out so it had to be all three of us. Trikes and sidecars were considerd but first and foremost it had to be safe. I wanted to buy an outfit complete with bike, you cant have enough bikes after all, but money dictated that we would have to buy a sidecar and connect it to my bandit

After looking on ebay we saw not one but two squire qm1 sidecars, the thing with them is their hardtop sidecars where most seem to be soft top, thinking about the safety side of things, stones been thrown up etc, we decieded that a qm1 was the sidecar for us One of them had a 'buy it now' option, so after much ear ache from Ruth that was what we did .... and so our adventure began .... it ticked all the boxes safety wise, hardtop, perimeter frame and some extras, car type vents, sunroof and towbar hitch. It had been connected to a goldwing so the first job was to phone squires and get the proper mounting brackets for the bandit

The sidecar was located in Hemel Hemstead and Squires were located ???? well it didnt really matter I had a post code and a sat nav i'd borrowed, so we would pick up the mounting brackets from squires then drive our rented Luton van with eleccy tail lift, didnt want to drop the damed thing after we'd paid for it, to Hemel Hempstead to pick up the sidecar then home for tea. All went well except it was more supper than tea by the time we arrived home.

A couple of mentions: firstly Chris from Squires, the info and time he gave us was brilliant, if you need to know anything sidecar he's your man .... next is Terry who we bought the sidecar off, Terry his wife and Junior made us welcome and helped us secure the sidecar in the van.