'busa sidecar outfit

[Brains]

Far rather have a trike if I couldn't do the two wheeled thing anymore.

[zadok]

With a few exceptions (rider lost a leg etc) I look at a road going sidecar and see a waste of a motorcycle.
Watching them race is way cool but the three things i like best on a motorcycle are leaning through corners, splitting lanes and the power to weight. GOOOOOOOONNE

Must agree. It just wouldn't be motorcycling. I do enjoy watching them race, but not for the road.

[Motu]

But you are missing the whole - they are FUN!!! The biggest grins and excitement I've ever had on a bike has been on sidecars - but there are some people who can't cope with them,it's either love or hate,not much middle ground with sidecars.

[Kickaha]

ut 6.

Righthanders were always my favorite - these you enter way faster than you think is a good idea...check out a speedway sidecar race,these guys have the power hard on deep into the corner....you back of the throttle and the weight of the chair will swing around the bike.This is where I get it all wrong,I just let the chair come around in a big slide and nail it for the exit,but sometimes like a speedway outfit I needed a couple or more stabs at it,because you start understeering to the outside,back off and cross up,then nail it for the exit.Road racers don't do this,they are much smoother and seem to ride just on the edge....I could never do this,it was over the edge or nothing for me.

Oh,no...no countersteering,turn right to go right,just like a quad bike.

In right handers it's quite common to steer it on the throttle and step the back end out to get the front pointing where you want it and sometimes the swinger will help by unloading the rear to make it slide, but most of the time you hold it just on the edge of sliding,mostly this is a short outfit technique.

[Motu]

In right handers it's quite common to steer it on the throttle and step the back end out to get the front pointing where you want it and sometimes the swinger will help by unloading the rear to make it slide, but most of the time you hold it just on the edge of sliding,mostly this is a short outfit technique.

I never had that sort of restraint - even with my child/adult and wife and baby inside,righthanders were the full monty,sideways with lots of wheelspin.

[Qkchk:Me]

As long as I wake up tomorrow and find no-one has murdered my 'busa............

How can you do that!!!!! Bad enough makin one into a quad....

[Biff]

Heaps more stylish that this Blackbird effort.

That's bastardisation at its worst. Shame on you for posting that link Zed.

[pete376403]

In right handers it's quite common to steer it on the throttle and step the back end out to get the front pointing where you want it and sometimes the swinger will help by unloading the rear to make it slide, but most of the time you hold it just on the edge of sliding,mostly this is a short outfit technique.

A while ago Two Wheels mag had a feature on an AUssie outfit (Road, not race) which had a steerable sidecar wheel. When the outfit turned, and leaned as the bike (or chair) suspension compressed, it would turn the chair wheel very slightly in the appropriate direction. Apparently it was very neutral handling, with none of the difficulties of a "normal" outfit. Expensive to build with dozens of rose joints on lots of links. I've still got the article but the pics are not detailed enough to see exactly what connects to what. Bike was a CBR1000.

[Motu]

Way back in the dawn of time,the 20s I'd say by the photo's I've seen - they raced sidecars with banking chairs....controlled by the passenger who sat behind a big steering wheel...they were banned.

[pete376403]

Way back in the dawn of time,the 20s I'd say by the photo's I've seen - they raced sidecars with banking chairs....controlled by the passenger who sat behind a big steering wheel...they were banned.

Like this one - Freddie Dixon, 1925