Hi all, Sorry if this is in wrong forum but I was not sure where it should go ?? Well I am from Australia and I didn't want to post it in that thread its bloody long LOL. so just blame me a stupid aussie.

This my new 2006 sidehack I finish on Friday night. I raced one in the early 80. Black and white pic is my brother racing our old one. I have made this out of 1" chromoly, alloy checker plate and a lot of burns. It is bolted to my jump bike. A few mods from first one but I haven't seen many hacks that are the same as the next one.
Hope you like it, I do and will be trying to get sidehacks racing in Australia again !!!

Mattblack -

That is one sweet hack!!!

Keep the faith

Very cool, how about a break down on the parts!!

nice!

That is sweeet!
Looks like your own design there, MattB.
Is it?
Did you have anything to go by?
From the profile shot it looks like a 24" wheel on the hack, but from the other shots it looks like a 20".

Nice job
-ferg

Nice job! I am also digging the diamond plate pattern!

Very cool Hack !! You Aussie guys got some skills.

Sweet hack...

Thanks,
OK it's my jump/trails bike.
Standard 250s (2003)
volume mids forks
180 profiles, profile sproket (don't remember what gear ratio hack use) will have to try some
weldgo flats (not sure to put clip pedals yet)
slambars
DK street stem
Demolition-clamp, post,
Odd- seat
Demolition 36 hole rims on bike- 48 hole on side (was hopeing this will stop flexing and less spoke tightening at the track)

It is easy to make the hack look good if you have a nice jump bike to start with. It takes about 5 mins to remove it from the bike and the same to install.

I am 36 years old this year (fitter and turner -welder) I have built a few race cars and stuff. Love to build things from steel. Want to build a chooper next.

The design is close to what I could remember and found some plans from BITD. (not very good but helped me start and get the picture in my head)
I tried to make it simple and light. I have some pics of the build and some tips I can post later.

The bad thing about this story is I finished it at 5:00 pm Friday and rode it for about 2 hours with a big grin ear to ear. Then jumped on my race bike with DC's shoes on with clip pedals turned around and did a quick sprint slipped off the front of the pedal and broke my ankle
Thats why the pics are from that angle siting down ??

Awesome hack!

Great job MB - your a craftsman no doubt. I was just flicking thru Pancake #11 last night - lol.

nice one R. it looks much better painted. good work.

ps. you need to adjust your handlebars forward to give that authentic look.

MattBlack awesome !! well done! if i ever get mine rolling we'll have two!
sorry to hear about your ankle, nasty !

nice looking hack you got there, great design with some killer lines!

Sorry to hear about your ankle, but that's one nice hack. Great work! Hope you recover quicky.

Awesome Job indeed!! You can ship it to my home address which is.............

Sweet ride,

JD

bump for MarkConley

Thanks again!

Wow nice hack man! Awesome! I always wanted to try one but have never had the opportunity.

Sidehack racing looks cool! I hope there's more variety getting added to BMX racing... more pit bikes, scooters etc. Makes race days more fun to watch!

here's a recent pic.... not just a garage queen!

So the ankles all healed. Very nice Hack. Any others racing them down under nowadays?

bump...

I love it! Nice job mate!

That is a nice piece of work right there....

gotta love the hack! cool to see you racing it too.....maybe we'll get to race together sometime soon. here's us at the national a couple weeks ago here in los angeles.

the revolution of the hack is back!!!!!!!!

Thats cool stuff right there !! That hack looks big and strong enough to hold me,,,,well,, almost, LOL !

Very nice Rohan! Mine is at the powder coaters and almost ready for building, I'll post pics when shes done.

I gotta ask, why are most sidehacks always built on the drive side? Mine is too but I wonder if there was a particular reason?

Now this is a topic I can get in on!!! I never saw this thread last year when I got re-acquainted with the sport. Good job bumping it up.
Now that we have Pat and Andy doing thier thing here in So Cal. with thier hack.

First of all, nice build! Second, unless you own and race/ride your hack you would not (and nobody did) notice the "pivot" mount where the hack mounts to the rear of the bike.

At first glance I thought you made a design error by using a simple single bolt mount to the rear axle. My first thought is, "you are going to tear that axle nut right off!" Then on a closer look I see the drop down plate with the tube welded to that, and the hack is "U" bolted to that. BRILLIANT!!!

The rear of the hack can pivot instead of flex.

I was fortunate BITD to have friend, a parent of a young racer, who had a brilliant engineering mind. We would re-work and weld up my hack after every race.

Not to take anything away from todays flat tracks, but Corona, Yarnell, Rancho and Randal Ranch were brutal on our old school hacks.

I hope you guys are enjoying that thing as much as we did back then. I sure like seeing these come back.

Good on ya!

Dennis Dain

bump.

Hey Matt, are you still around?

Would you care to elaborate on the hack you built?

What type of cromo tubing, How you bent it, dimensions, etc?

Thank you in advance.

Wassat Red Baron ? Corona , Sidehacks & Brutal , I don't believe you.




Bridge , it may have been a co incidence but I remember that a few months B4 the finished sidehack got posted here , Matt dropped by & asked me for a few stock lengths of 20mm PVC conduit , a conduit bending spring , 20mm conduit joiners etc & some PVC glue.
Matt's as handy with the Tools as I am with Electricity , but I reminded him not to cut the conduit with the bending spring inside , especially if he was using a hacksaw rather than the conduit cutters I tried to convince him to take & use.
He also borrowed my collection of BMX Pancake Magazines , saying something about an old article in an issue that he wanted to look at.

Then a few months later the sidehack turned up , a refined hybrid with the old school look of the one we used to race bitd , like I said probably all just co incidence



That's Fox on the the pedals & me monkeying around leading @ Blacktown in the very early 1980's


JB


I'll try & squeeze Matt for some more explicit materials , technical , construction information/methods etc on the art of sidehack building , especially for you Bridge
Matt's a very quiet achiever in his way, all the time , unlike his older big brother , who operates from stealth to obnoxiously loud mode in a random manner.

I love it...beautiful piece of work.

Tony

Well heck, if I knew it only took some pvc glue and pancake mix I'd have whipped one of these out a long time ago. shoot, maybe I can email Reilley and get one already completed.

Actually a friend has always wanted a hack (sprinter) and he's starting to talk.....which gets me thinkin.....and in moments of clarity, that is a dangerous thing.

If Matt will give up some details I'd love to hear it.
thanks Jet!

Great job! Love the hacks! I would love to see a race again!

http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/pjc...¤t=100_8496.flv

Heres our main from last weekends Greatnorthwest Nationals in Oregon-hacks seem to be alive and well on the west coast.

http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/pjc...nt=100_8496.flv

Thats better I hope

LOL

I 'll get your email address off my brother and send you some stuff

I'm thinking of making a Lefty ATM

Perhaps a left handed narrow gauge hack from bitd might be worth looking at & re engineering to suit the new school track design , plenty of inertia to pump & jump on something like this.




Yeah they were making hacks like this in Oz back in 1981.


JB

Awesome. Thanks for the pics.
Man, you have set the standard high on that build (yuck, yuck) but seriously it's a work of art.

check this out!

http://www.os-bmx.com/forums/index.php?sho...mp;hl=interview