sidecars

[barryboru]

I'm thinking of buying a sidecar for my xs1100 but it's second hand and I don't know anything about them. how will it adapt is it really that hard to get it track properly etc..
the cost of the rig is 700.00 dollars
can anyone give me advise

[Jerry]

At the top right of your screen there is a Search tab. Use it to look for keyword sidecar; there have been several threads on this in the past, and a few members run sidecar rigs on their XS 1100s. At Bozeman, last year, we had 2 sidecar rigs, one on an XS and 1 on a Goldwing.

[sundowner]

sidecar

hey barryboru if you are not dead set about hooking up a side car how about a trike kit that you can take on and off. go to mtcvoyager.com and check them out. i saw one at the east coast sturgis rally in maryland two weeks ago. it looked pretty nice but it was on a virago. oh at least it is an option. sundowner

[btdtdan]

I have a Vetter Terraplane on my 81 special. I like it a lot. You have to decide if you want it to be a full time thing or not. If you do then you need to swap out the triple trees to rake it more so it will steer easier. Fred in toon has swap triple trees on his as I have. Sure helps on the feed back to the bars. Mounting can be tricky. You need to make sure the mounts will be solid and imoveable or you'll never get the thing in track or to track properly. You'll need to add a steering dampner to stop the head shake at low speed. Other than that and a few hours of cussin/fussin and messin with it you'll have a hack on your tug.
If I knew how to post I would put up some photos of mine.
Holler if you need / have questions.
Dan

[fredintoon]

Fit chair not trike

Hi Barryboru,
no matter how nicely they are done a trike has no more carrying capacity than a solo and they inescapably have 3 tracks.
On a solo you can swerve round a pothole, with a sidecar rig you can bridge it but a trike is more or less bound to hit the thing with one wheel or another.
You don't say, is your XS11 a Standard or a Special? The alteration methodology differs between the two but in each case
you mix'n'match Standard & Special triple tree & fork parts to reduce steering trail and use the Special's 16" rear wheel to lower the gearing.
Modern bikes (the ones with rear suspension) usually don't have sidecar attachment points. It'll cost you nearly as much as the price of the $700 sidecar to buy bolt-on attachment kits from the few specialists who make them or you can weld up your own.
e-mail me at fred650@sasktel.net and I'll send you drawings of what I did.
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Fred Hill, S'toon.