Try a little liquid dish soap.

I forgot to mention that I run 10/30 oil year round. I hadn't noticed any problem with it in the cold. The battery is another story. The motorcycle ba...

I'm not sure what the plow crews use on the road, but I painted my rig to match the color of the deposits (warm grey). I can go a little longer betwee...

Being a former mountaineer, ice climber, and back country skier, I have all the clothing I need to stay warm in the cold and wind. What I was hoping f...

Lonnie, I use a 4 castor dolly with cribing so I can remove(4 bolts) the sidecar and roll it out of the way. I suppose I could put the whole rig on ...

If I'm in my shop, I use my floor jack or a bottle jack. When I'm on the road, I have a scissors jack that is stored on the sidecar shock mount.

Claude wrote; I have run close pattern trials tires in winter and they did pretty good. Thye seem to be hard to find now though. I have to admit t...

ou mean to say that you park your rig in the winter!?!?!? That is when mine gets the most use!!! 😀 I run an Avon Gripster rear tire for ...

I noticed in your profile that you own a GL650 Silverwing. Thats the bike that I have hooked up to a Dneper sidecar. I love my set rig. It came alread...

Lonnie mentioned zinc plating. A non ferrous metal like zinc or copper won't fuse together with steel when they corrode. Plateing will likely scratch ...

I can't speak for Harleys, but I mounted a cast Honda wheel on my Dneper by swithing out the bearings and shiming out the axel nut to hold a non rotat...

Lonnie, I'll try reducing the toe in. Claude, I don't think the mounts are flexing. The original set up did flex on the rear mount. I added a...

Lonnie, There is some rounding over on the sidecar tire to the inside or sidecar side of the lugs. No feathering yet. What exactly do you mean by al...