WTF do people do this?

http://www.armec.com/tremola2_tr.html

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Beats the life outa me, its ugly as shit.

Alan

 

I saw quite a lot of sidecars in Brittany recently on all sorts of bikes.

 

Well they're quite popular over here, often with fork replacements
etc., but I still fail to understand why. I mean, they take up as much
space as a small car, and you can't use the performance properly, so
what's the point?

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I've seen a few that didn't make sense, until the passenger wheeled up, and
hoisted themselves into the sidecar whilst the rider folded their wheelchair
and attached it to the back. The make a little more sense then.

But I know what you mean - at Le Mans there were dozens of perfectly good
bikes , with able-bodied riders/passengers, ruined by having great big
chairs and car wheels etc attached.

Does having a sidecar (legally) circumvent the French 106bhp limit?

Dave

 

The ones I saw was used for luggage racks.

 

Sidecars are just a major, major hoot. Seriously. They're incredible
fun to ride, as witnessed by the ukrm-ers who've owned one.

It's like saying: "Why buy a big trailie when you're never going to
take it off-road, and a sports bike handles better and a full-on tourer
tours better?" It just doesn't matter.

Anyway, logic never seems to pay much part in biking.

Then there's the issue of people who have been injured and simply can't
risk coming off a bike again, although in my experience it's a bloody
sight easier to crash an outfit than a solo. Sweller managed to prang
his in a straight line on a motorway, remember......

 

I got my first (CB100N) bike to save on travel costs.
That was the end of the logic in my biking.

 

Ace emerged from their own little world to say

There's a GSXR1100 outfit often seen around S.Wales.

Hideous looking thing in purple/yellow shell suit graphics.

IIRC the rider lost the use of his leg in a crash on the Gixxer bike. Part
of his rehabilitation was getting the bike repaired & converted so that he
could ride with his mates again.

 

No they're not.

 

*Want*

 

What the Bobby Dazzler bloke said.

Why? Many outfits are cheap as chips.

Is this now illegal? Since when?

 

You can't resist the power of the Dark Side...

 

Don't Force it.

 

I got my first bike (BMW R80RT) after calculating how much a "small
bike" costs.

Logic dictates that you ignore logic if you want to go near two wheels.