A lady has a bike and sidecar for sale. She says the hack is a JAWA. I know about their motorcycles, but nothing about the sidecars. Who is the dealer? How old must thing be?
I googled JAWA sidecar and got a page of info. Looks like Velorex may have made some for them. Did not appear thst JAWA actually
made the hacks. I could be wrong.Take a look and then see if the rig you are interested in looks any thing like the ones pictured. Even
had a short video of a JAWA rider with a hack.
Jawa's side car house brand is the Velorex.
See in my photo archive
There is a picture now.
You have what apears to be a home made sidecar not at Jawa sidecar
Jay G
DMC sidecars
866-638-1793
jay@dmcsidecars.com
I agree with jaydmac but it apppears to be quite well made. I would go and check it out.
If the price is reasonable and the hack looks to be in good repair you should be good to go.
The tail light and the wheel look like Velorex=Jawa, but all the rest is completely unknown to me.
Often a handmade sidecar when it was made by somebody with comon sence and craftmanship is an excellent choice. As there is no factory sample you are able to improvise as much you want and no cop has the right to give you a ticket for "that is not original!"
If you doubt about the rig, then it would be a good idea to have a long term rig rider or s/c mechanics have a close look to it.
Solo bike mechanics often do not have even a tiny clue about the differents in design demands for s/c's.
This (photo) is a Jawa 350 2 stroker totally underpowered for the roads I use to strawl through in tropical high mountain range.
But for winter riding in northern flat zones it would be excellent. 1-2 strokes without ignition / 1 stroke with ignition. here we go with the long stroker. (most Beemer and Guzzies need to be preheated for >1/2 h with the camping cooker at -10°C = 14°F)
Today I took off the sidecar for to change the electrics to police generator for some more current.
Urgh,.... how strange she feels without the sidecar. What a hop from the solo Kawa KLR 650 to the solo 350 Jawa!
Sven
They are made on Tatooine. 😉
Paul
The original Jawa sidecars were nicely streamlined and quite different from the Velorex. This short YouTube video shows an original Jawa sidecar with a 500cc Jawa motorcycle. I recall the sidecars from the time that I owned a Jawa 250 and visited the dealer in Chicago. They had a real Jawa sidecar in their showroom at one time.
Now the rest of the story has been told!! That is a far advanced side car, design wise, from that day and time.
It could hold its own with any thing we have out there today. Thanks, gnm109.
Wolfhound - 2/19/2012 3:53 AM
Now the rest of the story has been told!! That is a far advanced side car, design wise, from that day and time.
It could hold its own with any thing we have out there today. Thanks, gnm109.
Aww, shucks. It ain't nuthin'. 🙂
P.S. That 500 cc Overhead Cam Jawa is probably among the rarest of motorcycles. I don't think that they were ever imported from what was then Czechoslovakia. (Now Czech Republic) They were a single clyinder 500cc bike with a shaft-driven overhead camshaft. I've only seen pictures and videos of them, all from Europe. When I was a kid in Chicago, the little CZ 125cc and Jawa 250cc bikes were fairly common. As I mentioned, there was a dealer for them nearby and they were widely imported after WWII. They were very well made and durable.
The Czechs are excellent machinists and their bikes were always very pretty and well built. They also found a large market for 1/8 mile speedway bikes with their 500cc OHV engines.
