New member from Germany

Moin, moin. Viel Spass, Schau mal in the "Roads you got to try" und Albumseiten, da findest Du so manche nette Inspiration für Deine Werkstatt.

Moin, moin,( is Northern Platt dialect = Good, good. not Morning as many Southern Germans think) Have a look into the "Roads you got to try" and photo album pages, there You will find the one or other inspiration for your workshop.

Hummel, hummel.
Sven

Welcome to the forum, Claus.

Claus - 1/19/2015 12:08 PM

Hi folks,
I found this wonderful forum and just registered. My Name is Claus, I live in Hamburg, Germany. My ride is a homebuilt Suzuki GSX1100G rig .

I work as a motorcycle mechanik, caring about BMW, Harley, Suzuki and Moto Guzzi from the 70ies, 80ies and 90ies

I´m looking foreward to reading all the intresting post here.

Greetings,
Claus

Great looking rig, Claus! That thing looks like it really moves. I wished you'd joined about a year ago, when I was still living in Zurich, would have been cool to do a meet up somewhere in the middle!

Welcome!
Phil

Thanks for the warm welcome!

@ Sven: Yes, I have been looking around here quite a bit and I like it here. And there are, indeed, some inspirations.

@ Phil: Thank you! The rig goes quite well. It´s not a racing bike but it pulls me from zero to 60 mph in 4.3 seconds. And 109 mph maximum speed is fast enough.

Claus - 1/20/2015 2:54 PM
...is fast enough.

Claus, your English is obviously excellent, but I don't understand these three words...

LOL -- just kidding, I fear I just have that condition where fast is fast, but there's no such thing as "enough" (or, at least, I've not yet experienced that -- and I have had the good fortune to do some quite high speeds on your country's famed autobahn!)

Phil and Claus,
What is an Autobahn good for?
To get from point A to point B.
How does behave that steemroller on Serpentines and in the twistees?
That is here the question!
:O

http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=7570039

Claus, I propose a test ride on the long way to visit my mother in law! 🙂
With the Ural Patrol I am riding on the edge at legal speeds...
With the Jawa ballast or a passenger was definitely needed... And pray to the god of saint tire adherence.
I counted on certain stretches 18 to 20 bends per km...with slopes of 25% and more... How would behave your rig there?
Sven 😉

Phil, thank you for recognizing my trying to express myself in English language.

Fast enough is, when your driving skills are too low to cope with the vehicle´s possibilities.
The rig goes like on rails but is not very easy to steer due to the car tyre in the front. I like to ride it in serpentines and twisties and most fun comes up when it starts to slide.
But I built it for a different purpose: Easy and swift highway (Landstrasse) touring. Beside that I wanted to have the opportunity to bridge distance on the autobahn if I want to.
So if my time gets short on the highway I turn to the autobahn and go easy 85 to 90 mph.

Sven, if you ever come by we´ll have some fun with the rig. It´s a bit different to Ural and Jawa... You can cruise it very relaxed and easy. Or you can rev it a bit higher....
What I value most is good brakes. I built the rig with brakes that do their job. Two 4-piston calipers at the front, one 2 piston caliper at the rear and two 2 piston calipers on the sidecar.

Hello Claus,
Your shop shows two things.
Wo gehobelt wird fallen Späne,
You have work in your shop, that is a good thing to have, (I am about to close my shop to public and only do my personal jobs for the farm and house.)

You have good hands for sheet metal work.
Congratulation, few have that gift.
I am useless for sheet metal work, seems I'd have 2 left hands for that kind of work.
A bit jealous on that ability is little. Grandpa Heinz had us more then once playing with plumber fittings (counting inventory) but the bending press and propylene/acetylene torch he considered too dangerous for our small restless hands.

Good you find (take) time to make private projects. Here we have a saying, "Casa de Herero, cuchillo de palo" = " In the house of the blacksmith the knife is made out of a wooden stick."
That wants to say a professional never has time to do nice things for his own use...in deed, the saying fits to my case since 1990 until recently.

Good luck and enjoy the calm winter month before spring fills up the shop again.
(Meister Helmut Paetzel (once upon the time Honda in RZ) used to tinker in those month on his own bikes...composing muffler sounds! His Beemer project was delayed from 1985 to 2012)
Sven

Welcome to our crazy world of 3 wheels. You have a beautiful rig. I have a BMW R1200C(cruiser) with a Hannigan car on it. We look forward to hearing more from you. Also any other sidecar drivers you know. Lots of luck.
J.R.
Sec.
Tex. rep

J.R, thanks for your welcome!
Some years ago I built up a R850C- rig for a customer. The R1200C must be the much better Tug, I reckon. But as a sidecar-combination the cruiser models are phantastic! I enjoyed the testrides very much.

Greetings to Texas,
Claus

Hi Claus, welcome to the forum! That's some mighty fine fabrication work you do! Beautiful rig!

Thanks Bob! Great that you like what I´m doing. I always try to work on the bikes as they were owned by myself. That of course is not bringing in the maximum profit. But as long as I can do it that way I´m fine.

hello Claus welcome aboard,

Vee Gates comrade. Sorry, it's been more than 50 years since I left Germany and I can't book-sta-beer the language anymore.