I am new to this forum and I have a used sidecar I intend to mount to a SR500 yamaha single. Does anyone have such a combination and can suggest mounting points and methods on the motorcycle? Pictures?
Thanks
RT
You will have a challenge to provide a strong mount and provide clearance for the kick starter. Those Yammies need to be kicked with authority. It was a challenge on my Triumph 650 that was kicker only, but it was an easy start compared to the SR500. I don't think the universal mounts are going to give you what you need. You will have to look at some custom fabrication.
What kind of chair are you mounting? Velo?
Older california sidecar.
RT
I have two SR500 rigs. One with a Jawa Velorex 560 (black) and another with a Bingham Mark I (white). I am not sure which one you have seen pictures of. The sidecar frame is mounted to the bike in five places: 1. The frame downtube above the headpipe and below the gas tank 2. The right frame tube at the bottom front of the engine 3. The frame tube between the right sidecover and the rear fender 4. The right passenger footpeg mount and 5. the left frame tube underneath the engine. I think it is mounted as well as any rig could be. The only thing that you could do differently would be to mount to the passenger footpeg a bit farther aft with some sort of subframe. It would give you a bit more clearence for the kickstarter.
The California sidecar should mate up well with the SR500. The SR is a great tug. I would suggest that you take it to an experienced rigger, particularly if your not super mechanical. There are lots of things to be concerned with: lean-in, toe-in, etc,... There is some reading material available in the forum to help if you are going to give it a try one your own. At the very least, you are going to have find a good place to get brackets that will fit the frame.
Contrary to belief, the SR500 is not hard to kickstart. I can kickstart mine with my hand (it's really hard to kickstart with my hand when the chair is attached). It's all technique: Find TDC. Pull in decomp lever. 1/8th kick past TDC. Return to top. Kick ALL THE WAY through to bottom. Of course, the carb has to be tuned right. Mine starts best with the choke off.
Good luck with your project. I love both of my SR500 rigs.
I have no trouble starting the SR. I have had it and a TT500 for many years. Both have the comp release removed and no trouble. I just thought it would be a fun sidecar rig and even with it being a bit of a challenge to mount to it will make a better tug than my Buell.
RT
Hello
Although in the UK (chair on wrong side) a special fitment was made up to take the place of the nut on the swinging arm axle as one of the mounts.
Regards
Barry
My knee was always happy to have motocross protectors on the Norton Comando solo and specially the MZ rig. Nowerdays on the Jawa no trouble and no kick backs. Just keep enough clearance and keep the handle bar out of the way when the SR lifts you into the air. (a Kawa single in Las vegas once finished the fracture in my right foot my Norton produced a week earlier in Death Valley )
A SR500 needs a light sidecar and a beefy subframe, but can be a lot of fun on back roads.
First thing I'd get off is the windshield. (CW factor of a parachute)
Have fun
Sven Peter
