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.
Now, my ‘antenna’ for specialist vehicles is pretty fine-tuned as you can imagine but I really couldn’t 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…
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’s on ‘On The Buses’ (that’s showing my age!) the Zeus has been properly designed.
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…
More from www.side-bike.de ENDS.