Skip to content
SidehackRalf
@SidehackRalf
Estimable Member
Joined: October 10, 2004 3:25 pm
Last seen: January 11, 2025 2:44 pm
Topics: 3 / Replies: 124
Reply
RE: Tire advice needed

papasmurf - I just bought a wheel conversion from Dauntless for the GL1500 Honda with a Cooper Metric Sportmaster GLT size 165R15 tire. I haven't moun...

18 years ago
Reply
RE: 155/80/13 tire on sidecar how does it work??

Hi I could only find a 155x13 last summer and to compensate I lowered the suspension with tilt and not realizing it, the inside of the tire was ru...

18 years ago
Reply
RE: Honda GW 1800.Which sidecar?

We love the Champion Escort on our 1500 and Champion has been very good on service. Some others on here may not agree with this. Ralph

18 years ago
Reply
RE: Enclosed Trailer width to transport a sidecar rig?

It's called Cargo Mate. Trail Blazer model. Ralph

18 years ago
Reply
RE: Enclosed Trailer width to transport a sidecar rig?

I just bought a 8.5 x 12 ft. enclosed trailer last summer. My sidecar rig is a GL1500/Champion Escort. The inside fender wells are 81" wide and the do...

18 years ago
Reply
RE: Rear shock on a gl 1500?

Yes, that's the one. I don't recall how much it was but seems about right. Ralph

18 years ago
Reply
RE: Rear shock on a gl 1500?

I run the standard air bag on the right and a Progressive on the left. The Progressive has no air. Seems to work really good. I also have the Progress...

18 years ago
Reply
RE: Where and how did you get started???

1955 I had been drooling over motorcycles and came across a 1947 EL Harley Dividson. Went everywhere on that thing including the ranch pastures roundi...

18 years ago
Reply
RE: Help me decide...

Greg, if your forks are modified 3 degrees or 4 and a half you might get by riding it as a solo. Truth be known I wish I had the 3 degree myself and t...

18 years ago
Reply
RE: Help me decide...

I have the Gold Wing 1500 w/Escort and the first two years I dismounted and mounted it (about 15 minutes off and 25 minutes back on) split about half ...

18 years ago
Reply
RE: Tire size HELP,mumbel roar snort 🙁

I found the grooved tire on a Saturday night at 6:30 (Labor Day weekend). Got to eye-balling my Roll-a-Home camper spare, 4.50 x 12 and the bolt patte...

18 years ago
Reply
RE: Tire size HELP,mumbel roar snort 🙁

I have the Escort the same as Ken. I went to Schwab and could only get the 155R13 and thought everything would be fine until about 500 miles into a 24...

18 years ago
Reply
RE: some kind of a body?

I know of one a fellow took a Ski-Boose snowmobile tow-behind sled for the bottom and a Polaris snowmobile hood that works real well. He tugs it with ...

18 years ago
Reply
RE: Where is everyone

I met a couple in Salmon, Idaho who were from Oregon I think and interested in getting a sidecar. I gave him a card and told him to get on the compute...

18 years ago
Reply
RE: Where is everyone

2,400 miles, 3 states and I don't recall talking to anybody along the way riding a rig. Now on the other hand we had to make extra time at rest areas,...

18 years ago
Page 6 / 9