Sidecars?
- Thread starter mick29
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Interesting side car. It would be a fun build for sure. I'm finding myself drawn to building another sidecar body but just the body while the tri car drags on. The garage isn't overly warm this time of year and the wood working shop is.
Maybe next January.
Maybe next January.
My little sidehack as it was at the last Grange race:
Articulated, the wheel leans with the bike. Fully adjustable for camber & toe, it handles well for a sidecar.
I wish I had the woodworking skills some of you here have. It really needs a nice body now.
Articulated, the wheel leans with the bike. Fully adjustable for camber & toe, it handles well for a sidecar.
I wish I had the woodworking skills some of you here have. It really needs a nice body now.
Your sidecar frame is articulated, - wow that is so cool. The two outifts I built up in my thirty somethings (Jawa and Honda) were successful and did a lot of miles, but I always wanted to experiment with an articulated outfit.
That's a lovely outfit you've built, - (sigh) makes me feel all nostalgic for my own sidecar days.
That's a lovely outfit you've built, - (sigh) makes me feel all nostalgic for my own sidecar days.
My Jawa had a 1960's all alloy twin port scrambles engine fitted with a road gear cluster to better manage the sidecar. My word it could gooooooooo .......... (sigh)
It was quite a unique sound Ludwig. Those old 250cc single banger two stroke Jawa engines had a long stroke as compared with modern engines and with the twin exhaust ports as well they sounded nothing like a modern two stroke.
My word they were good engines and easy to work on too. The gearbox was a bit truck-like, but completely solid. It was the only bike I ever owned that needed to be double-de-clutched to shift down through the gears
My word they were good engines and easy to work on too. The gearbox was a bit truck-like, but completely solid. It was the only bike I ever owned that needed to be double-de-clutched to shift down through the gears
FFV8,
I think you sidecar is the cats whiskers. Your metal working skills are at the top so I wouldn't be worried about building a sidecar body.
The only advise I would have is keep it as light as possible. A heavy body tends to pull the bike into the sidecar and is hard to work against while leaning the bike. This is from personal experience. I don't know if you saw the sidecar I built but it's on the thread and there are a whole lot of photos on photobucket of how I built the frame of the body and covered the frame with 1/4" luan plywood, 1/8" will work as well if you can find it.
I covered the luan with strips of mahogany but it could just as easily be covered with very thin body metal or aluminum glued on with good contact cement. A canvas painters drop cloth could be glued on it as well with slightly thinned out white glue and then painted like it was a canvas covered wooden canoe.
Steve.
I think you sidecar is the cats whiskers. Your metal working skills are at the top so I wouldn't be worried about building a sidecar body.
The only advise I would have is keep it as light as possible. A heavy body tends to pull the bike into the sidecar and is hard to work against while leaning the bike. This is from personal experience. I don't know if you saw the sidecar I built but it's on the thread and there are a whole lot of photos on photobucket of how I built the frame of the body and covered the frame with 1/4" luan plywood, 1/8" will work as well if you can find it.
I covered the luan with strips of mahogany but it could just as easily be covered with very thin body metal or aluminum glued on with good contact cement. A canvas painters drop cloth could be glued on it as well with slightly thinned out white glue and then painted like it was a canvas covered wooden canoe.
Steve.
The gear change lever folded back to become the kickstarter which I always thought was a really good idea.
Thanks for the kind words folks. I started with one of Silver State's frame & tank sets. I built the balance of it.
The bike is no lightweight, with the starter / generator, battery & the steel in the sidehack. That is why I went with a hydraulic disc front brake.
Currently I have a 150 quart ice chest mounted on it. Not a proper "car" but it fills the void.
The bike is no lightweight, with the starter / generator, battery & the steel in the sidehack. That is why I went with a hydraulic disc front brake.
Currently I have a 150 quart ice chest mounted on it. Not a proper "car" but it fills the void.
Ice cream!
Seriously though I'm sure you could find a skilled woodworker and do a deal where you build him a sidecar chassis and he builds you a sidecar body.
http://www.cyclesidecar.com/photos/griffith_park_rally.html#
I'm thinking this would be a worthy challenge in the new year.
Steve.
I'm thinking this would be a worthy challenge in the new year.
Steve.
This is what I was trying to get to show up. Sidecar would be a fun challenge.
Steve
http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=...a=X&ei=fmuJUpj-JerB2QWY3oGQAw&ved=0CD8Q9QEwAA
Steve
http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=...a=X&ei=fmuJUpj-JerB2QWY3oGQAw&ved=0CD8Q9QEwAA
Did you see the boat sidecar body with the vintage outboard motor?
Are you considering going to the sidecar rally Steve? After being stuck in hospital and being plumbed for antibiotics something like that would be just so good to be involved in.
