As in title, I built another hack, now it only lacks a new shock absorber, some wooden floor and painting. Lower struts use 16mm heim joints, upper struts on my handmade eyebolts. Bike is "customed" 1997 Suzuki GN. Photos show how it looked yesterday:
Subframe just after painting and mounted:
And with teacher's chair (without upholstery yet):
Swingarm is hinged like in Russian hacks, with polyamide insert. It's made from heavy "c-shape" profile, that proved to be good and rigid enough as swingarm my brother's hack.Rear mount points are welded on some tube that I added to reinforce the frame. The tube is mounted between passenger's footpeg frame and one place under the seat, where few only tubes meet. In this frame passenger's footpeg frame after some reinforcements is strong enough to outlast 2 winters of experiments and many "cargo rides" in my first own hack (my bike has identical frame). My brother's bike is identical in reae part, and I did identical reinforcement in his machine.
Your 3rd rig?, Respect You go fast. I must be ashamed, because I not even have my new engine back for instalation. But that is Latinamerica. Mañana, mañana será otro día.
Tomorrow will be another day.
Sven
My third built from scratch. In spring I will build my third own, and maybe two sidecars for other people. A passenger one nad a big cargo one attached to some Suzuki based ratbike.
This red Suzuki GN isn't my bike, it belongs to my colleague who has riding school and needs a sidecar to give better lessons to people. Many of young/fresh motorcyclist don't even know about sidecars. And it's very important to show them what they don't know, before someone give/show them a rig and tell "go!".
Sidecars and trailers became my hobby and who knows, maybe my second profession, and with time, my main profession. We'll see. Just now I learn much about iron-working, welding, mechanics etc, I'm taking pictures of every rig (and ride if possible) and I'm becoming a "hobbyist installer". I upgraded my "art" very much with this hack.
Congratulations, watch the posts from Johnny Sweet, there is a LOT to learn from his experience.
Myself I am now in year 23 of being my own boss, because there was no work available for an automation engineer in this country when I arrived in 88.
So the only way to get work was to turn my fathers hobby (restauration of precision machines) into my daily bread source and only until 99 automation started to become a decent income.
Meanwhile my bad back will not allow me to stay much in the shop, and to scrape bedways is not even to think about.
So If You think about to grow your hobby, then please think about your health too. Once damaged there is no way to turn back the clock.
But practically all persons I know who converted their hobby into their profession live a much more fulfiled life then most others!!!!
So ride on and tinker on.
On, on.
Sven
Looks good!
I see the advancements in craftsmanship there. The added gussets at tube welds are something that too many people leave off, or forget, or are not aware of. A critical factor in real strength. Also good to see strong attachments and other reinforcements: SAFETY SAFETY SAFETY!
Some of the stuff I've seen built is downright scary, done by people who cannot even look at other people's examples to copy. To me it seems obvious: if you don't know how to do it then at least look at the work of somebody else who DOES KNOW HOW TO DO IT! No excuse nowadays with the whole world of the internet sitting right in front of us.
