ADV sidecar build

[pete-blen]

Well its all but ready...
A few bolts/nuts and final set up...
A days work...
Had a hickcup with the bin...
Was intending to weld it..but for
some dam reason my tig has lost its
Hi fequancey pulse... so had to fold
some new ends up with lips for pop rivits..
now not enough alloy for the lid...
Better give a mudguard some thought to...

So next week end I hope first ride/crash
what ever comes first...

SO if anyones got any ideas what maybe
wrong with my tig.... don't be shy with the info...

[DR650gary]

You are the original "mad scientist"

Good luck with the test ride.

Sorry, mate who knows all about welders is away on a holiday.

[NordieBoy]

SO if anyones got any ideas what maybe
wrong with my tig.... don't be shy with the info...

Overwork ?

[gav24]

Hi, she looks good!
By the way, what tyre is that on the chair?
Maybe I've understood the whole thread wrong but is the plan that when you lean to the right the chair drops and keeps the "extra" wheel in contact with the ground? With that box on I can see an obvious problem when you lean to the left....
Probably got this whole thread wrong - please enlighten me!

[pete-blen]

Hi, she looks good!
By the way, what tyre is that on the chair?
Maybe I've understood the whole thread wrong but is the plan that when you lean to the right the chair drops and keeps the "extra" wheel in contact with the ground? With that box on I can see an obvious problem when you lean to the left....
Probably got this whole thread wrong - please enlighten me!

Yes you are sort of right...
theres only 15* lean to left
The prob in gaining more was the
rear pivot.. i would have had to put
the pivot lower to give more angle
passed the chain & side stand...
And that would decreassed the
ground clearance at the rear mount arm...
now a right side car , there would have been
no probs at all...

in that pic... the car is not been leveled yet, Its
high at the wheel side so that makes the lean
angle look less than it is...

I wanted a narrow track and high off the ground so
a few limiting factors came into play...

http://www.csttires.com/Motorcycle/Moto-Street.aspx
The tyre is a CST 110/80/17

[NordieBoy]

That would have been useful up Patriarch. You could have carried the cooker for the coffee and all the food.

[pete-blen]

That would have been useful up Patriarch. You could have carried the cooker for the coffee and all the food.

but most importantly.... I wouldn't have been picking
up the bike so often...

[NordieBoy]

but most importantly.... I wouldn't have been picking
up the bike so often...

More important than hot coffee?

[pete-blen]

A few good ADV sidecar vids....
The KLR seems to go pretty good
with a car..

[Underground]

now a right side car , there would have been
no probs at all...

This left v right thing, is there some kind of rule or regulation?
Or is it like earrings, if you fuck up and put it on the wrong side you're gay

[NordieBoy]

This left v right thing, is there some kind of rule or regulation?
Or is it like earrings, if you fuck up and put it on the wrong side you're gay

Then you have to quickly build a 2nd car for the other side and pretend that was your idea all along.

[pete-blen]

now a right side car , there would have been
no probs at all...

This left v right thing, is there some kind of rule or regulation?
Or is it like earrings, if you fuck up and put it on the wrong side you're gay

No..You can put it on either side...
but imagine trying to see around a large vehicle
in front of you... You would have to stick a right side car out in
to the on comeing traffics lane..and if theres a passanger
in the car...

PS..you seem to have quite a handle on this gay thing...

[pete-blen]

Then you have to quickly build a 2nd car for the other side and pretend that was your idea all along.

[Underground]

No..You can put it on either side...
but imagine trying to see around a large vehicle
in front of you... You would have to stick a right side car out in
to the on comeing traffics lane..and if theres a passanger
in the car...

PS..you seem to have quite a handle on this gay thing...

Oh... I see how that works now come to think of it
I was just a bit confused seing the urals imported with the car on the right.
(dont think I'd like to be riding in one of those in traffic now you mention that )
and the gayness.... well I never got the earings so it must just be a Honda thing

[pete-blen]

Took it for its first ride... NOT GOOD
The scrub channel of the side car
wheel is to wide "way to wide"
scrub channel is the amount the bike
wants to push/pull the car wheel
across the road when turning...
so the side car wheel has to be
moved rearwards about 90mm..

I took it up the Taylor pass when it
got on to the gravel it got so much better
as the car wheel could move sideways so much
easyer on the lose gravel...

I think the easyest way to sort it is to
lengthen the swing arm..

well I leant 2 things 2day...I fucked up
and build more adjustabilty in..