Just started back up at the gym two weeks ago after 11 months of chemo. Inactivity has added 35# of lard.
Lonnie
Glad they dropped the outrageous price jump for a more reasonable figure.
Lonnie, get well and keep Your attitude high up.
I say to the people that I ware a filled belly...Others pay a gymn, I get some fuel and take of with the rig into the mountains...
My aunt Hannelore had the following recipe for to overcome cancer:
Every 15 minutes she told herself_ "I want to live, I want to live, I want to live."
Worked well for many others like my 88 year old mother in law too.
Best wishes and go for it.
Sven
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Great looking rig you found! Congrats and enjoy it.
Thanks took it out for the first time today. It seemed to track very well. Nothin but smiles so far
Great to hear. We always say miles of smiles.
Ya know I was getting a little nervous after doing some research and reading posts about it being harder to drive than a trike but I found it lighter in the steering and harder to get some air than I thought. Longer ride tomorrow should tell me more
Driving a hack is not the physical ordeal some would have you think, it is all about the condition of both driver and outfit. Some are lucky and have robust health and condition,,,,and their hacks are properly rigged and aligned,,,,and do just fine with stock geometry. Others need help,,,,but sometimes the front end help is to overcome trouble in the outfit that should be addressed,,,first.
So I got in a 60 mile ride today. I added 40lbs to the sidecar ( just to try it out) and it seemed to pronounce any movement in the sidecar to the handlebars. Now bare with me I am new to this and may be exaggerating any movement I am feeling after riding on two wheels for so many years. Also haven't had the hack air born in any right turns yet it seems to just hug the road.
I never ran any extra blast in my hack as I have gotten use to it with out it unless I have someone or some gear in it. I have gotten to the point the chair coming off the ground is not a problem. I even like to bring it up and go throw all the gears only problem is when you set the chair down since the hack wheel is not rotating as fast as the other wheels you have to be prepared for the tug to the right.
I am running stock trees do to my situation but do to health problems I plain on trying some racked tress one day. I have talked to many about raked trees and I have found as many that do not like them as that do.
I recommend checking the set up on yours to make sure it is close. Now when you set one up it is a starting point and you have to fine tune it by riding and making adjustments. The set up is just a base line. I all so recommend running as little toe you can get away with as more toe wears rear tries quicker. I am running 5/8 to 3/4 toe with about 1 to 1 1/2 lean out.
I am no expert but I do have at least 8,000 miles on mine and do all my set up and adjusting. Set up and adjusting is not as hard as it seems. One other thing the HD manual will say to put 1 degree lean in and I think most will agree you want lean out. If I where to lean mine in I would have to have a lot more toe.
I have set up two other rigs for others both on Harley s with none Harley hacks.
Great looking rig! Maybe I'll run into you on the Blue Ridge turnpike or somewhere else in the spooky smokies!
Congrat's on your great find! I also run some ballast in the sidecar when Brenda isn't along (which isn't very often) but I usually run about 80 pounds. Our Harley Davidson book says that three degrees of angle towards the left (outside) is where to start. Butch in Bartlett helped me do the initial setup and it has worked great for a few years. Good luck to you and hope to see you down the road.
notanlines - 3/18/2014 4:36 PM
Congrat's on your great find! I also run some ballast in the sidecar when Brenda isn't along (which isn't very often) but I usually run about 80 pounds. Our Harley Davidson book says that three degrees of angle towards the left (outside) is where to start. Butch in Bartlett helped me do the initial setup and it has worked great for a few years. Good luck to you and hope to see you down the road.
My Harley sidecar manual says 1 degree lean in but I have it 1 to 1 1/2 lean out. 3 degrees seems a lot to me. How much toe do you have? If in leans away from the sidecar that is lean out leans towards the hack lean in. A old hack drive told my if you get use to no ballast you will not need it so I got use to not running any.
