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Original answer: No
Has anyone "highsided" an articulating sidecar? That would make for an interesting video. --RG
I can foresee one big problem with an articulated rig: When in a tight right turn, if the point of equilibrium is ever overreached, the rig would suddenly and disastrously swing into a left lean.
Rooskyrider,Would you please explain it ... a little better?Piero Bassi
I'll try to articulate better what I was trying to say. There is a limit designed into the articulated sidecar past which it cannot lean. Once you reach that limit and keep increasing the G's, you will reach a point at which it will flop over the other way unlrss you have the strength to keep it from doing so. Compared to a hack racer, the Ural is a heavy bike, and limited by the driven sidecar wheel from being articulated more thn about 15 degrees. A hard right turn could flop the bike back over to the left with certain loss of control and probably flip it.
John,
This is on eof th ereasons for trying to get as much lean angle built into the design as possible Yes, 15 degrees may be good for many situations but you will be maxed out sooner than you may want to be. Low, light and plenty of room to lean are good parameters for articulating sidecars.
I have spoken to some who have put their flexits 'on the stops' when cornering. Thye said is was not a positve experience for their fun meter.
At that point there is no futher allowance for leaning and the machine. It would tend to go wide in the turn and .yes, depending on speed for that turn, would tend to lift the sidecar.. If kept there, it would act like a rigid rig. This is good theory but to be able to ride it this way would be a trick in itself.
Claude
All considered, it AIN'T gonna happen. I'll keep it rigid. May have to recruit a gravitationally challenged sidecar pilot.
Just curious if you ever went to the motorcycle races years back at the golden eagles m/c near tampa. I raced scrambles and short track there in the sixties being from florida originally .
No; just moved to Florida in 79. Took us over twenty years to escape south Florida and get to Mt. Dora. I lived in Alabama before that and was serving Sam while you were racing!
I know, way off subject, but Mt. Dora?? Are there mountains in Florida.I flew to Miami once, I know there aren't mountains there.
There is a T-shirt available that says "I climbed Mt. Dora". It is a high point in Flroida - well over 100 feet.
