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Check Out This 1919 British Army Motorcycle, Complete with a Machine Gun Sidecar

I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm a sucker for the weird and wild ways that motorcycles, UTVs, and other powersport machines are used in conflicts around the world. Not because of their lethality or the damage they do, but because of the engineering used to just make the damn things work. 

I mean, there's a lot of recoil in anti-aircraft weapons, and you wouldn't think that a good gun platform would be an off-brand Chinese motorcycle. Yet, where there's a will, there's a way, and there's no better example of such backyard, Red Green-esque engineering than the technicals that folks without the US' military-industrial complex can come up with. 

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