{"id":12783,"date":"2017-07-21T08:23:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T08:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/?p=12783"},"modified":"2017-07-21T08:23:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T08:23:44","slug":"side-by-side-by-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/07\/21\/side-by-side-by-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"SIDE BY SIDE BY BIKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12793\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/news_sidebike_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/news_sidebike_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Side-Bike Zeus!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/news_sidebike_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/news_sidebike_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There we were on the French Autoroute near Nancy last Saturday morning cruising at about 130kph when my attention was grabbed by a rapidly approaching object in my rear-view mirror.<\/p>\n<p>Now, my \u2018antenna\u2019 for specialist vehicles is pretty fine-tuned as you can imagine but I really couldn\u2019t make out what it was, even though I knew it was very different. A car? A bike? No, a bit of research at the service station down the road, revealed it to be a German product called a Zeus Side Bike\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In essence a motorcycle powered by a 1.6-litre engine from a Peugeot 206 delivering about 135bhp with a sidecar section designed into it. Rather than a crude scaffold pole lash-up like Arfur\u2019s on \u2018On The Buses\u2019 (that\u2019s showing my age!) the Zeus has been properly designed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/news_sidebike_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/news_sidebike_3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carol managed to snap a few hasty shots on her phone as it bulleted past us and even though the styling raised a few eyebrows it appeared to be beautifully made and as I said seemed to be pretty swift\u2026<\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.side-bike.de\">www.side-bike.de<\/a> <strong>ENDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>There we were on the French Autoroute near Nancy last Saturday morning cruising at about 130kph when my attention was grabbed by a rapidly approaching <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/07\/21\/side-by-side-by-bike\/\" title=\"SIDE BY SIDE BY BIKE\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}