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 What are the best sidecars? What's the coolest sidecar you've ever seen? Do you have a sidecar? Does it make driving difficult? Have you ridden in one? Can I ride in yours?     Tell me about sidecars! 
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Nov 13, 2022 18:50
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Delicious and refreshing on a hot day, though I don't often have the ingredients on hand. I normally wind up making mimosas with OJ. What is your favorite sidecar cognac?
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Nov 13, 2022 19:53
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I saw this extremely good boy and his/her owner last September. Unsure if the dogs name is Sahara or if that’s the brand of sidecar 
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Nov 13, 2022 20:00
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I'm guessing that's just the "trim" of the Ural, which are insanely expensive somehow.
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Nov 13, 2022 20:04
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That dog looks embarrassed, I'd check the ural pad
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Nov 13, 2022 20:26
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Toe Rag posted:I'm guessing that's just the "trim" of the Ural, which are insanely expensive somehow. Huh, I assumed ural of all companies wouldn’t be doing trim levels.
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Nov 13, 2022 21:45
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you'd think it'd just be "do you want 2WD or not" but no, there are a ton of different models/trims
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Nov 13, 2022 22:24
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ural special editions that have made me happy: ural x pendleton woolen mills - it came with a blanket and was painted like the blanket ural x atomflot nuclear icebreaker fleet - it came with an oar ural UAV - it came with a video quadcopter and a wind sock ural special editions that made me cringe: james bond horny edition - it came with a ruslish lady name painted on it
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Nov 15, 2022 15:38
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I have a friend who tells me she'll only go for a ride if I get a sidecar, despite my insistence that it makes the bike more unsafe and difficult to ride. But that prompted me to look into it, and I'm really surprised by two things: 1) Almost no major motorcycle manufacturers have a bike with a sidecar 2) There is almost no aftermarket for adding sidecars without doing a bunch of custom work It's really weird. I get that they kinda ruin the motorcycling experience, but it's odd the entire sidecar industry just kinda disappeared.
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Nov 15, 2022 17:27
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Strife posted:I have a friend who tells me she'll only go for a ride if I get a sidecar, despite my insistence that it makes the bike more unsafe and difficult to ride. What if you had two on either side to balance things out?
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Nov 15, 2022 19:44
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Thats just a catamaran at that point
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Nov 15, 2022 23:47
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There are probably pics of my sidecar rig in the bike pics thread, but since we have a dedicated hack thread now I'll put one here. Couple of years back I got it into my head that I wanted a sidecar so I could take my dogs out with me when I ride. I've ridden fixed sidecars and am not a fan, so I special ordered a leaning sidecar from Germany, and actually bought the GS to pull it (dude who made the sidecar wouldn't ship a rig for any other kind of bike). Took two years for the drat thing to show up, and it turns out 1) my dogs aren't really fans of having a motorcycle lean over into them and 2) even though it's a leaning rig it's still a pain in the rear end to ride compared to just a bike. The wife likes it though, and little kids always want to go for a ride (our cousin's daughter threw a poo poo fit until I took her around the block in it). I've never been on it without having people on the street smile and wave and it's good for grocery runs and just hauling stuff around in general. 
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Nov 16, 2022 04:29
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Ever watch sidecar racing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SltqgZrPXt8
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Nov 16, 2022 04:45
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Sidecar racing is bananas, and they have it a lot at Road America so I wind up accidentally watching a lot of sidecar racing. It really is nuts how much trust the sidecar guy puts in the rider, they are just hung way out there.
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Nov 16, 2022 15:01
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Thats just a catamaran at that point Hear me out, Waterworld, but on land. Instead of searching for land they're searching for water. And yet somehow there's gasoline everywhere. Wait poo poo I think I just invented Mad Max.
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Nov 16, 2022 15:20
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Did Max have an extra pair of lungs behind his ears
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Nov 17, 2022 17:12
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Jazzzzz posted:There are probably pics of my sidecar rig in the bike pics thread, but since we have a dedicated hack thread now I'll put one here. Have you yourself ridden in it yet?
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Nov 17, 2022 21:52
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Shadow0 posted:Have you yourself ridden in it yet? not in the sidecar, no. I don't have any family or friends that ride, so no opportunity to see what it's like as a passenger
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Nov 18, 2022 02:46
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Jazzzzz posted:not in the sidecar, no. I don't have any family or friends that ride, so no opportunity to see what it's like as a passenger With a sophisticated system of pullies and levers, I think you can pull it off.
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Nov 18, 2022 17:41
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Just get the bike rolling, hop into the sidecar and you have gas brake and steering all from the right hand bar You’ll have to stall to a stop but some things are worth the effort.
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Nov 18, 2022 17:54
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Jokes aside that's a leaning rig, not fixed, so if I get off the bike I gotta hold it up or it falls over. I tried letting it gently tip over onto the sidecar in the garage - there's a bump stop that catches the right side head to keep the bike from just smashing into the tub- and once it got past 20 or 30 degrees of lean or so I couldn't keep it from going all the way down. Getting it back upright was a real bitch
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Nov 18, 2022 18:32
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Strife posted:I have a friend who tells me she'll only go for a ride if I get a sidecar, despite my insistence that it makes the bike more unsafe and difficult to ride. But that prompted me to look into it, and I'm really surprised by two things: I think they primarily existed because of the way licensing/insurance worked in England - it was way cheaper/easier to have a motorcycle in the period between and after the World War(s), and a side car meant you could carry a bunch more without having to pay the licensing/tax etc. associated with a car. Not to mention they were on rationing into the 60s. As the years went on, though, cars took over and so the sidecar industry dried up. Personally, I've always really wanted a CJ 750 (Chinese copy of the Russian copy of a BMW) with a sidecar, and I looked at one years ago, but as a 6'1", 260lb dude, my knees would be up around my ears and I'd feel like a bear on a circus bike. Captain McAllister fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Nov 19, 2022 |
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Nov 19, 2022 07:19
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Dont let it idle in neutral on an incline while stopping to take a leak. That leads to hilarity with sidecars. My brothers Jawa 350 with a velorex sidecar. Mostly used for winter fun. He had it for about 2 years and sold the bike on but kept the side car to remount to something Japanese some time in the future. Eastern block 2 stroke bikes are interesting, but not really up to modern standards of not having to fix poo poo on it all the time.  Fun for winter camping though, no issue to bring chainsaws and other tools.   I got a smaller velorex that I’m looking to mate with my Kawasaki gt550, but I’ve procrastinated bike wrench time away this year with my tenere being more broken than first thought. Didn’t get it ready for winter and not having a proper heated garage to work in is kinda stopping it now. 
Supradog fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Nov 19, 2022 |
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Nov 19, 2022 13:45
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What timing! https://youtu.be/PNgYW5N95z8 https://twitter.com/zackcourts/status/1593987020149252097 FBS fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Nov 19, 2022 |
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Nov 19, 2022 14:47
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Forgive the double post but this just popped up on my feed and   https://iconicmotorbikeauctions.com/auction/1982-suzuki-katana-with-sidecar/
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Nov 19, 2022 19:37
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FBS posted:Forgive the double post but this just popped up on my feed and This looks really fancy. Now that I think about it, most sidecars don't have lights on them, right?
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Nov 19, 2022 22:40
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He doesn't post a lot anymore but wasn't the Rev. Dr. building some kind of racing sidecar rig at one point?
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Nov 20, 2022 20:00
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Shadow0 posted:This looks really fancy. Now that I think about it, most sidecars don't have lights on them, right? they usually have turn signals/marker lights front and rear and a brake light, putting some sort of headlight/aux lighting on them isn't difficult A lot of Hannigan's "modern" designs have faired headlamps similar to that Katana sidecar
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Nov 20, 2022 21:12
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Also important - sidecar motocross. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH-Cnd88yO4
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