Local shafty club has had a couple trike conversions and sidecar rigs. Ford Pinto rear axle solid mount with a adapter rear Ujoint fitted to a 750/6 BMW did some of rallies. Harley Sportster with a GMC rear axle cut open for chain drive- bearings: fitted Hyatt sealed units good for 50,000 miles replaced the splash lubed open bearings, crown gear replaced by sprocket. Urals sidecar unit last couple breakfast meetings- good for 50/60 mph cruise but not happy trying for 75mph. Little lady had a R1000 engine in a /2 frame and a large Strieb copy sidecar to handle 2 kids to rallies. One guy had for awhile a BMW R71 military with sidecar painted in 15th light colors- Afrika Korps. His next sidecar rig had a motorboat on it- one of 3 made. Enclosed Watsonian 2 seat sidecar on R69/2 was another rig. CZ/Jawa sidecars made to fit the 350 Jawa will bolt right to /2 frames- used to be available for 1/2 the price of Striebs with roughly same mounting tubes. The Jawa frame mount location supposed to have been copied from he earlier prewar sidecar BMW civilian rigs/light Strieb. Another maker is in India- can"t remember name- and makes clones of Watsonian and Striebs, some disputes on import as didn"t pay license fees after 1990 Indian government change from socialist to free market capitalist- bunch of products that were supposed to be domestic production with no license fee per unit made became export also. Old trick for harleys was get a Glide frame and servicar frame- cut servicar front of frame in front of seat post, flop rear end for chain on left and take off swingarm of big twin, line up seat post and test clamp with Ubolts for chain alignment, hammer tap a bit for final adjustment then spot weld, final check and see how tracked, then final welds and remove clamps. servicars that topped out at 50 then could cruise easy at 65/75, top a 100. Sportsters didn"t need to flop axle but needed a bit more bracketing to align back half before welding. Problem was Sportster didn"t have a sidecar tranny available with reverse like the big twins had, still made a good cruiser on highway, just watch how you parked. Fun can be had- but might need strong arms to turn without leaning. RN.
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