I wanna build a sidecar!

**Drew** · 6th October 2012, 07:19

OK sidecar dudes, could I make a short chair starting with my RF?

The steel beam frame seems to be quite well suited to the needs, but I don't know fuck all about any of it, so I'm prolly wrong.

**Drew** · 6th October 2012, 07:34

This a theoretical situation. I couldn't chop up my RF for real.

**sidecar bob** · 6th October 2012, 08:02

I suggest you spend less & buy a runner.
Ask Gordy how much work is involved in buying one that "just needs the motor dropping in"
I bought the BMW with just the L/H head off & it took 300 hours of labour & I dont even want to think how much money, to make it a safe reliable runner.
The problem with chairs, is that you dont just rock up to your local bike shop with the year & make & order the parts.
You become very proficent (or in gordys case, top bum chums) at dealing with the local engineer supplies store, & other random tradesmen you never even thought of before.
You need to have a friendly welder & a chum with a lathe that will work for beer.
Not being negative, just real.

**Drew** · 6th October 2012, 08:05

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

I suggest you spend less & buy a runner.
Ask Gordy how much work is involved in buying one that "just needs the motor dropping in"
I bought the BMW with just the L/H head off & it took 300 hours of labour to make it a safe reliable runner.
The problem with chairs, is that you dont just rock up to your local bike shop with the year & make & order the parts.
You become very proficent (or in gordys case, top bum chums) at dealing with the local engineer supplies store, & other random tradesmen you never even thought of before.
You need to have a friendly welder & a chum with a lathe that will work for beer.
Not being negative, just real.

My swinger is an engineer. Does that help?

I need to find a chair on it's way to the scrappy and just build it as we can get parts. Retro fitting a decent wheel attachment method would help.

I also have a close friend who is a bike wrecker.

**sidecar bob** · 6th October 2012, 08:10

Just invite yourself to Gordy's for a weekend, (he's good like that) & have a long look & yarn.
Hes a fairly smart dude, & probably the most recent to go the hard yards on a project chair.

**Drew** · 6th October 2012, 08:26

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

Just invite yourself to Gordy's for a weekend, (he's good like that) & have a long look & yarn.
Hes a fairly smart dude, & probably the most recent to go the hard yards on a project chair.

Better idea. While you cunts are all doing the Barry Sheen, I'll race down to Christchurch, and steal the long chair Warwick hasn't looked at in fuckin years, from his shed.

**Grumph** · 6th October 2012, 08:32

Originally Posted by Drew

My swinger is an engineer. Does that help?

I need to find a chair on it's way to the scrappy and just build it as we can get parts. Retro fitting a decent wheel attachment method would help.

I also have a close friend who is a bike wrecker.

Qualified Engineers heve very litle place in building a chair as very little of their construction can be carried over from anything else...
An experienced fabricator with an eye for stress paths is more useful.

Don't even think about starting a build until you have experience in building at least two solos and possibly a hot rod or race car too.

**Drew** · 6th October 2012, 08:38

Originally Posted by Grumph

Don't even think about starting a build until you have experience in building at least two solos and possibly a hot rod or race car too.

Do buckets count?

I wouldn't try to build one in reality. We'd rebuild one though, I just need to find the cheapest way to get my hands on one.

Who's selling a roller for a grand, I can swing that much.

**Fast Eddie** · 6th October 2012, 08:50

good man! just tick one up! took me bout 6 month to pay mine off

get a cheapy 5k or less. and yea we got 2 lathes and a few welding plants at swingers parents farm so i can vouch they are needed a fair bit haha.

ours, like gordys, needs a full strip down and rebuild from ground up but we didnt have time before n.i. experience.. and wont have time before or during nationals so dunno when we will get time haha.

**Fast Eddie** · 6th October 2012, 08:54

dunno bout 1,000..

Ill post this cause Harris always offers every man and his dog a cheap sidecar if they want it, recons he knows of a few cheap old ones lying around. Thing is he never wants to give you direct info like a name and number.. more he tries to be the middleman.. like he stands to profit from it somehow... mmm

anyway.. get one asap! like i said tick it up!

**Fast Eddie** · 6th October 2012, 08:56

Originally Posted by Drew

Better idea. While you cunts are all doing the Barry Sheen, I'll race down to Christchurch, and steal the long chair Warwick hasn't looked at in fuckin years, from his shed.

his is a short bike anyway in'nit.