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Peter Pan
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Joined: June 2, 2007 12:59 pm
Last seen: May 15, 2025 11:59 am
Topics: 91 / Replies: 1951
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RE: Rear MC tire front

example: the arrow type like tractor tires for larger enduros:(I have in mind one that the BMW GS models use.) The back tire has the tire oriented ...

18 years ago
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RE: Few More Newbie Questions

Well Billy and Lonie, My willies braught me to sidecaring when it threw off its right front wheel just 3km before the autobahn to Hamburg Sven

18 years ago
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RE: Few More Newbie Questions

The thing Mike tells was a frequent thing that even didn't bother me much on my Austin Mini: There was a long S-curve in Breitenfelde, Northgermany we...

18 years ago
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RE: 1948 Indian Chief - Champion Legend Sidecar

You will roll it out of the door liked like a lamb... very beautiful. My 1960 Willies passed 1995 and 1996 like this...until a 1974 Willies without ...

18 years ago
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RE: safe way to get rid of tank slap???

A stearing shock attached to the direction or as simple as 2 or more kork or rubber disks between sheetmetal disks (as I have on my Jawa) below the lo...

18 years ago
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RE: friendship 1 suspension disassembly

I don't know about your sidecar. my MZ Superelastic had a bar and there was a lot of preload on it! The torsion bar itself normally will not have an...

18 years ago
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RE: tempted to take your rights as a motorcyclist for granted

Mark says: Who can say that a motorcycle is safer than a car? I would: On the bike I have just 5mm clothes as protection, in a car 1 to 1,5m shee...

18 years ago
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RE: Wish me luck!

Last week in only 3 days poured down the July average. Yesterday just behind me when I came back from the low lands there went down some pretty heav...

18 years ago
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RE: Metal Fatigue-connector bolts-Bimmer sidecar

I don't want to start to yearn and flame, just remember a photo of the father of your actual boss in Washington where he promotes US production in fro...

18 years ago
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RE: Wish me luck!

30 year old electrics... Had my time with it. With at the end only one option. kick out-put new. Sealant sometmes makes things worse. Water gets i...

18 years ago
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RE: Metal Fatigue-connector bolts-Bimmer sidecar

Hacked, possibly worse: When in the eighties the first Chinese Royal Enfield clones came to Germany (Rig for 6 or 7000Mark less then 4000$) 750ccm w...

18 years ago
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RE: Metal Fatigue-connector bolts-Bimmer sidecar

I could see now your photos. first: pretty short bolt not reaching much into the tube. => Use longer overlaping bolt that gives strength. secon...

18 years ago
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RE: Spoke wheels vs. cast wheels

>And the occasional leisurely ride in the mountains. That may mean a lot of stress for the bike....at least with me as driver (view the albu...

18 years ago
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RE: Metal Fatigue-connector bolts-Bimmer sidecar

I came to sidecaring by an Austin Mini (Cooper) dropping off his right front wheel just in front of the motorway (Germany). Congratulation for you a...

18 years ago
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RE: Front tire cupping

Just a question what is cupping? What I know from front tires with blocks like trial tires is that they wear the blocks uneven so that they look lik...

18 years ago
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