URS Racing Sidecar

One of the greatest sidecar racers of all time was the German Helmut Fath. And this machine carried him to the sweetest victory of all. It’s called a URS, and it was sold by the Bonhams auction house last weekend for an extraordinary £102,700—a cool US$160,000. The price was high because there’s an action-packed story behind this bike (if you can call it a ‘bike’). In 1961, while heading for his second consecutive World Championship, Fath crashed his BMW heavily at the Nürburgring. His passenger Alfred Wohlgemuth died in the accident, and Fath himself spent a year in hospital recovering....