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claude #3563
@claude-3563
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Joined: March 3, 2003 12:30 pm
Topics: 56 / Replies: 2425
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RE: question of ballast?

Let's get simple...If the sidecar feels light add som eweight. If later on you feel you don't really need it take it out' If you feel better with it i...

20 years ago
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RE: Help

Comparing the 1100 BMW to th eURAL or the Enfield is not really feasable. The 1100 will do anything you want it to and probably more. The other rigs a...

20 years ago
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RE: Rear tires

Norm Wrote: >>Good Day, Specifically a car 15 inch wheel has an actual tire bead seat diameter of 14.968 inches but a motorcycle 15 inch whe...

20 years ago
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RE: Rear tires

Okay wait..let me expalin futher. The 15" motorcycle rim is larger than the 15" car rinm so a car tire does not fit properly. When we go to 16" ...

20 years ago
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RE: Rear tires

You asked about 15" not 16"..what did I miss? Shall we start over ? 🙂

20 years ago
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RE: rig set up

Hal wrote ,concerning Velorex Axle problems: >>Just where did this storey get started? Details, man. Who, when, where, verification by indepen...

20 years ago
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RE: Rear tires

The 15" motorcycle wheels are too large a diameter to mount a 15" car tire on. It should not be attempted. You could do a wheel conversion which may o...

20 years ago
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RE: Laughable Urals...?

Rich was at the RON DEE VOO last year. Great guy , very knowlegeble and quite a good upholsterer to boot! 'scuse my spellin' pleese.

20 years ago
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RE: Harley Handling

Hey no big deal ..If you'd have said 'crap'It may have been more acceptable to some but I think they are really the same thing..LOL. Main thing is ...

20 years ago
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RE: rig set up

Good info Lonnie and appreciated. It is true that ,at least for me, when talking about the Velorex I am speaking of the 154 pound 562 and possibly the...

20 years ago
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RE: Harley Handling

Lonnie wrote: >>Claude, Ever tried sliding the fork tubes up on a late model Electra Glide? How about a little skinny front tire? (Sorry, co...

20 years ago
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RE: Harley Handling

Wider bars, moving the forks up through the triple trees, smaller dismeter front tire and raising the rear of the bike slightly all will make for easi...

20 years ago
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RE: Sidecar Passenger Position

Weight towards the Rear is usually best for weight distribution witin reason. Think in extremes..what it the passenger was sitting on the nose of the ...

20 years ago
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RE: Help

I think there were three guys at th eRON DEE VOO last year who had one leg (each). Tim Smoth was one of them. Heck Tim rode for a couple of years wi...

20 years ago
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RE: Sidecar mounts for Nomad

The URAL sidecar would be a decent match for you. There is a dealer in Florida ,can't remember the name of his buisness right now, who has put Velor...

20 years ago
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