Some update after 1000 miles. My rig works perfectly, although with this small displacement engine it can reach about 40 mph in really good conditio...

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What charging diode? Such solutions perforce are idiot-proof and therefore not the best you can give to your beloved bike 🙂 Charging diode(s) is(are)...

I have just returned form workshop. Did some reinforcemens and painted everything wih 2 plies of anti-corrosion paint. Since last year I use asphalt-s...

Sven, thanks for reply, especially for the drawing. I see that we treat motorcycles similarily :)Without anti-sway bar whole rig tries to eject me to ...

Sven, I'm not a friend of styling a bike to make it "ratty". Ratbike is a bike that lives and changes with its owner, taking minimal effort to keep it...

SwampFox - 11/3/2011 2:02 PM (well, hauling "junk" anyway) Well, it's made partially from junk. And with third wheel it's still my ratbike, so it...

It took long time but I had to do many things more important than building a sidecar. Finally I did my own sidecar 😀 It runs, can carry some loads an...

C64club rides his fresh and completely unfinished sidecar. Without lights, unpainted, ad-hoc ballasted with few motorcycle wheels. Wears workshop clot...

Since friday I have a source for 0.2" thick steel ropes 😀 Some company in my neighbourhood produces and services thunder grounding systems. They alwa...

I have thought about making both rear drums puled by flexible cable and the latest idea was mixing bar pull and cable pull using kind of "balancer". I...

Bricks... That's what I needed 😀 Especially for sidecar's wheel (I used a wooden board to get the right angle). My father has such angle gauge. Goo...

UPDATE. Frame reinforcing almost ready:

Lonnie Thanks for reply. Yes, it looked like it had big toe-out but it's optical illusion. We were very confused with first look at these long tubes. ...

Build a kind of small flat horizontal "trunk", eg. 20"x20"x3". Fill it with steel/copper/brass/lead(plumbum) junk when not using a chair. And when you...