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Hi T.C.,
sometime when you are wearing your editor hat, you could slip this post into my sidecar string?
Sidecars didn't have their own brakes until about the 1950s.
They don't need them even today as a modern bike's brakes can cope by themselves.
But they are nice to have, if even just to play sillybuggers with to amuse the grandchildren.
If it's a factory brake it's most likely a hydraulic disk. If it's a homebuilt add-on brake it's whatever you found that'll work.
For instance, my S of A sidecar uses the hydraulic drum brake from a Honda Civic car. My buddy Rick's Dneipr sidecar rolls on the front wheel from a Suzuki, complete with it's 2LS mechanical drum brake.
There's 3 ways to operate a sidecar brake.
Linked to the front brake hydraulics.
Linked to the rear brake hydraulics.
Independent.
Any of them will work and all have their enthusiasts. The linked systems may or may not need a different master cylinder to optimize performance.
I went independent on mine rather than modify either of the XS11's brakes and besides, I already had the extra m/c available at no cost.
You can see the backwards-mounted ex-XS650 rear master cylinder & torch-modified pedal that work the sidecar's hydraulic drum brake. In normal use both the rear and s/c brake pedals are depressed together. Or the s/c brake can be operated by itself by turning the toe out so as to not depress the rear brake.
As the s/c brake came off a car's rear axle it had the internal linkage for a mechanical e-brake. This allowed the addition of the Toyota e-brake ratcheting lever & cable that works as a parking brake.
The big black box? Has a car battery in it. 1/2 the cost of a bike battery and way more cranking Amps.
sometime when you are wearing your editor hat, you could slip this post into my sidecar string?
Sidecars didn't have their own brakes until about the 1950s.
They don't need them even today as a modern bike's brakes can cope by themselves.
But they are nice to have, if even just to play sillybuggers with to amuse the grandchildren.
If it's a factory brake it's most likely a hydraulic disk. If it's a homebuilt add-on brake it's whatever you found that'll work.
For instance, my S of A sidecar uses the hydraulic drum brake from a Honda Civic car. My buddy Rick's Dneipr sidecar rolls on the front wheel from a Suzuki, complete with it's 2LS mechanical drum brake.
There's 3 ways to operate a sidecar brake.
Linked to the front brake hydraulics.
Linked to the rear brake hydraulics.
Independent.
Any of them will work and all have their enthusiasts. The linked systems may or may not need a different master cylinder to optimize performance.
I went independent on mine rather than modify either of the XS11's brakes and besides, I already had the extra m/c available at no cost.
You can see the backwards-mounted ex-XS650 rear master cylinder & torch-modified pedal that work the sidecar's hydraulic drum brake. In normal use both the rear and s/c brake pedals are depressed together. Or the s/c brake can be operated by itself by turning the toe out so as to not depress the rear brake.
As the s/c brake came off a car's rear axle it had the internal linkage for a mechanical e-brake. This allowed the addition of the Toyota e-brake ratcheting lever & cable that works as a parking brake.
The big black box? Has a car battery in it. 1/2 the cost of a bike battery and way more cranking Amps.
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