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jaydmc
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Joined: June 14, 2011 6:09 am
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RE: Hacks In The Innauguration

Yes the DC parks department runs sidecars in the winter and they do the presidential escort duty. They put them out to bid but pretty much had chosen ...

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RE: Hack in the snow

Photo taken on MT Rainer many years ago at the annual snow camp. The bike is a Triumph Tiger that I owed long before we were building sidecars. Jay ...

9 years ago
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RE: I think it's time for a sidecar!

We have done many KLR sidecars and offer 100% bolt on bike specific mounts that work on all years of KLR's and have built many KLR sidecar bikes, I ow...

9 years ago
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RE: Noob Question

The Escort should have a 145 13, on the rear of the bike I would go with what ever is the least expensive, lower priced tires are often harder rubber....

9 years ago
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RE: Noob Question

Why not take sidecar trike class, there are several offered in the Seattle area. If you do not have your three wheel endorsement this class should you...

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RE: Tags and Registration

As sidecars do not have VIN numbers (many do have serial numbers) there is no way to track them so as such no state can charge to register them. So no...

9 years ago
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RE: Long term retirement planning questions / HD with a Hack…

The triple tree's come with spacers for the forks to keep the ride height the same, The Tomahawk sidecars are quite a bit larger then one would think,...

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RE: Newbie Wanting to add to the Stable

One very popular bike for sidecars is the Kawasaki KLR 650, the KLR does not do any thing at all really well, what it does do is every thing you ask o...

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RE: What do y'all consider "good tire mileage?"

Your front tire wear will be about the same as it is with out a sidecar. Rear tire wear will be about twice as fast as it was as a solo bike unless yo...

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RE: Long term retirement planning questions / HD with a Hack…

HI Rob, as triple tree's are made of the Harley I would go with the tree's. Your Guzzi more then likely as you were not able to find tree's for the Gu...

9 years ago
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RE: forward, Forward.....then... Reverse !!

As a bike with a sidecar is so much easier to back up then a bike with out a sidecar as you no longer have to worry about it falling down, backing up ...

9 years ago
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RE: Origin of the name "Hack"...?

I heard it was as in the early days sidecars were often used as taxi's Jay G DMC sidecars 866-638-1793

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RE: Brakes

What we do is make our own brake rotors and use Brembo calipers. The same calipers that are used on your Escort, our brake rotors are the same diamete...

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RE: Brakes

We use to do a separate brake pedal on many bikes and it worked well however over time I have come to a different opinion on this, people tend to do w...

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