Or, anybody know of one around here CHEEP? I****ume with gas prices, they will be getting popular, thats what spurred this... Got a buddy who is starting to talk about running one of these... (he's driving a goddamned scooter around at this point, so we're still in the*********ting while drinking phase... ) I figure, how difficult could they be to make? Curious about learning the proper way they are attached to the bike, where the wheel is in relation to the bike wheels, how far the bike is leaning over while on a level surface... the physics and*****, you know? Thanks.
I gave Disastron all my old US Sidecar****ociation stuff. I'll let him know about this thread. there's a million little bits of info that are very good to know on the subject. almost as many diff't maufacturers too, like Bender, Stoye, Steib, Ural, Nimbus, Watsonian, Felber, Kali, Jawa, Globe.
Try HACK'D magazine...........great read and all the info you need. Built my own hack twenty years ago and still have one on one of my bikes....
i knew a guy who built a sidecar from scratch once.he attached a triumph front wheel to a peugot water pump,which he then welded to a hunk of bed frame,some angle iron,half a girl's bicycle,and whatever else he had laying around that would work.i saw the thing while it was under construction,and said "i hope you don't plan on hauling people in that contraption!" he told me he was gonna use it to haul his kayak,all 12 feet of it.which he did.the urge for company was too much though,so he folded over a peugot hood for a body and dropped in a TR-3 seat and bolted a hunk of plexi on top for a windscreen.all this was hooked up to a '66 BSA thunderbolt.
Damn! I think the most fear-inspiring aspect of that thing is the waterpump-wheelbearing... so, no end of the story? no going out with a lot of sparks and a fireball?
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