What Did You Do With Your Sidecar Today?

Murphy took his first 30 mile circuit before the Midwest got socked in. Like a natural. At 65 mph just Duck and Cover.

I planned to ride mine to our GWRRA Chapter breakfast meeting on Saturday morning. On Friday evening I started it and let it run for a while to get the battery charged up and to check for leaks. I had pretty bad gas leak somewhere between the tank and carbs, but it seemed to quit. Saturday morning I checked the thermometer. 32 degrees. Oh, well, it is only about 1 hour 15 minutes to the meeting, I won't freeze solid in that time. I started the bike and pushed it out of the garage and then took off for Storm Lake. I planned to stop at Mallard for gas. I got 2.75 miles before I ran out of gas. Jane came and towed me home and I took the pickup truck to the meeting. :^(

Mounted a 175/55-17 car tire on the BMW R1150RT tug's stock wheel.

Do you have any clearance problems between the tire and the fender?

I took my girlfriends grand kids for a spin on Easter, they loved it! Weather here in MA is supposed to be up near 60 this wknd, I can't wait!

Tax Man - 4/10/2015 12:02 AM

Do you have any clearance problems between the tire and the fender?

No clearance problems yet. Only about 3/16" between swing arm and tire but so far no indication it was hitting. I did tight turns and hard braking but still no issues. Have not tried it with the rig loaded down yet.

Saturday was an uncommon day here in Northwest Louisiana, sunny with low of 50* and high of 75*. Unfortunately we didn't have a chance to ride as we spent the better part of the day ferreting out a pesky coolant leak on Mrs. SswampFox's Burgman tug. After removing the water pump, it appears there's a faulty o-ring between the pump and the engine block. We'll know for sure after we put it all back together upon receipt of a few more small parts.

Went for a 310 mile spin to the Loveless Cafe on the Natchez Trace

Visit to the mother in law was short but it took pretty long for to enjoy the twistees through the mountains!
A kind of Red Riding Hood trip. 😉

The summer gives its first break with a few clouds and seldom rains after 4 month of draught.

Rode with friends on our rigs to dinner in the next county. Beautiful day and lots of fun.

Beautiful fall day, went out for what turned into a 2=1/2 hour putt yesterday.

It was the kick-off day for a holiday week here (Flag Day, celebrating 115 years as part of the US), so a lot of people, and all of the police, were at the opening ceremonies, opening up the possibility of (ahem) 'spirited' riding on mostly empty road. (Most of the road here is twistys, max speed limit is 25mph), and actually managed to get the back end to drift a bit for the first time, even with wife and son in the s/c.

Had a blast. Wish the cops were off the road more often! 🙂 🙂 🙂

On Apr 6, 2015, my adventure started in Kennewick, WA and went to Spokane Valley, WA to New Meadows, ID to Burley, ID to Green River, WY to Ogallala, NE to home at Gowrie, IA on 11 Apr 15. If I figured correctly, I traveled 1923 miles of rain, hail, lightning, and wind, wind, wind! My 06 Kawasaki Nomad attached to a Motorvation Formula never missed a beat even at an occasional 75 MPH. All well and good but my shoulders and upper back have about given out from steering the beast. My tires were questionable when I left Washington State, but I need new ones on the bike now. The sidecar tire has minimal tire wear. I think my bike and sidecar faired better that the old guy that drove it!

I finally have one! I arrived in Phoenix about noon, put my hands on it for the first to me a n the three months I've owned it. I went over it carefully, tightening bolts and checking things. Then rode it about a hunderd miles.

tinboatcapt - 4/14/2015 11:05 PM
I finally have one! I arrived in Phoenix about noon, put my hands on it for the first to me a n the three months I've owned it. I went over it carefully, tightening bolts and checking things. Then rode it about a hunderd miles.

Congratulations on the new-to-you rig. If you swing thru Houston on your way home, stop in for a cup of coffee.

CCjon

How about some pix?