After 6 years with a Ural Tourist (and a few years with a Sportster/Velorex combo in my youth) I have decided to permanently join the 3-wheeled ranks by installing a Texas Sidecars "Ranger" model on my '07 Road Glide. The decision was made easier by the fact that a) I work in a shop that installs sidecars and b) we just became an authourised Texas Sidecars dealer to complement our existing Cozy Sidecars lineup.
The installation will take place over the winter months, in between the restoration of an '05 Ural Patrol (to be used as a shop bike) and whatever other installations we have booked during the slow season. I'm considering going to the "darkside" and installing a car tire on the pusher wheel, which is actually the reason why I'm here - a Google search on the subject led me to this forum and I'm currently wading through all the posts about it, trying to find a clear answer and recommendation as to which tire size is best. I was also surprised to discover I had already joined this site a few years ago... must have forgotten all about it. My bad, it won't happen again.
Gummiente - 8/27/2012 7:18 AM
... I'm considering going to the "darkside" and installing a car tire on the pusher wheel .... wading through all the posts about it, trying to find a clear answer and recommendation as to which tire size is best. I was also surprised to discover I had already joined this site a few years ago... must have forgotten all about it.....
Welcome back Gummiente. Here are a couple of prior discussions re: rear tires for a 3-1/2x16 wheel:
Please keep us posted on your progress .... with pics if you can.
(Looks like you'll need to "cut & paste" the links.)
Lee
MB5+TW200+CRF250L+GTV300+INT650
XL883R w/Texas Ranger Sidecar
Zuma 50F + Burgman w/Texas Sidecar<Mrs. SwampFox
Thanks, Lee, that made for some interesting reading. I just put a fresh Dunlop on the rear, so it'll be a while before I'll need to replace it... whether or not it'll be with a CT or an MC tire remains to be seen.
After all the discussion, a couple of months ago I installed an Elite 3 bias touring tire on the pusher on my Sportster rig, but it's too early for an opinion or mileage observations.
Lee
MB5+TW200+CRF250L+GTV300+INT650
XL883R w/Texas Ranger Sidecar
Zuma 50F + Burgman w/Texas Sidecar<Mrs. SwampFox
Wellcome Quietsche-entchen....
Gummiente, You must have been here before I started to spend quite a bit of my working hours and free time here.
You state: "Motorcycles, beer, ribs 'n wings. Is there anything else needed in life?"
I'd add only: A reasonable health and attitude, attitude, attitude!
Have fun wrenching, and do You remember how to recognize a happy biker?
When the flies in between the teeth are smiling.
Sven from Costa Rica
Thanks for the welcome, Sven. 🙂
Each time I hear your nick name I remember with great giggle this.
have fun on the road
stay safe
Peter Pan - 8/27/2012 7:44 PM
Each time I hear your nick name I remember with great giggle this.
have fun on the road
stay safe
Actually, the story behind my nickname is a bit more intense than the lead character in an old trucking movie... it involves military service in a foreign country, copious amounts of beer and a plastic duck decoy. And that's all I have to say about that. 😉
I handed back my uniform in 1984 after 15 month of national service (appearantly in that same foreighn country You mention) and am lucky that I never had to go back as reserve. (only a long pair of undertrousers is still left for those cold Passat-wind nights in November)
My nickname from college time too is still actual and indicates more my way of leading my life and character then ever before when it was forged in 82.
Also Gummiente, Gummikuh (beziehungsweise Nachbau) und Beiwagenboot das passt doch alles ausgezeichnet zusammen. Findest Du nicht auch? So schwimmt es sich doch viel leichter.
Mein Hornecker-trecker (MZ-s/c) wurde vom Kumpel im Fluss versenkt, waehrend mein Tchechen-Leucoplastbomber mich im Fluss vom Bock schmeissen wollte, weil er aufschwamm.
Rubber-duck, rubber-cow and sidecarboat fit perfectly together. Ain't it so? That way its much easier to swim.
My east german MZ rig got sunk in a river in Harz mountains by a buddy (fried my radio/tape recoder), while my Tcheck Jawa-plastic bomber tried to trow me off the bike, because the boat floated up...So far to Jolly Roger I and II. #2 needs a heart transplant since the Cordillera caused a fatal engine destruction 5 weeks ago heading for a fishing trip.
So God will, next year a Ivan Ivanowitsch might become Jolly Roger III for a trip up to Alaska with my son.
Sven
🙂
Peter Pan - 8/28/2012 1:06 AM
Also Gummiente, Gummikuh (beziehungsweise Nachbau) und Beiwagenboot das passt doch alles ausgezeichnet zusammen. Findest Du nicht auch?
Stimmt, aber das Gummikuh ist der Spitzname für Bmw, nicht Harley. 🙂
Your Avatar seems to be a Ural, which is nothing else but a copy/clone of the R750/Steib. Ain't it? Throttle open lift up, throttle closed dive in. Only thing it rattles and schnattert like a screw box when you look for a certain nut.
By the way we drivers weren't allowed to salute. at least in our a nowadays dissolved pioneer company right at the iron fence border. My last flat was 800m away and I grew up only 2 1/2km inside the British zone.
We always were joking the day the Russian would come, we would wake up to the time they would have already over run Bremen 250 km west.
Enjoy riding during the coming Indian summer and autumn. And have fun wrenching in winter.
Today my fun will be with a climate control PLC of the good German ones.
