Page Transitions Go Away if Target Page has a Side Menu

It pretty simple really, when a user clicks on a link to a page with the following:

<ion-side-menus>
</ion-side-menus>

The page transition no longer works. Is there a reason for this? Is there a work around?

And yes just that single tag on the target page will prevent page transitions. If I change that to an ion-view it works as expected.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.