Hi Tony Sadly, your choice of leaners is limited - you'll see various options on this site, but I don't know that many would go well with a smaller bike. ...
Hi Paul Luckily, you don't need to "re-egineer" anything - the Flexit has three different lengths of H-arms, depending upon which bike it's going on, and the...
Paul wrote "(snip) I'm in the UK, my Flexit is actually badged as a Squire (snip)". Anyone else in the UK attending this function? Watsonian-Squire and Royal...
Hello all. As i`m a sidecar *virgin* I have read and absorbed as much information as possible about *rigid* sidecars. Still reading all the messages on this...
Hello all. Steve wrote "Sadly, your choice of leaners is limited - you'll see various options on this site, but I don't know that many would go well with a...
Hello all. Thought this might be of interest? http://dnepr.ural.free.fr/Video_Dnepr.wmv Kindly forwarded by REjean on the Bullet-Mania group. Tony UK...
Tony With respect, you might be better off getting a Sidewinder and adapting it to your needs, or at the very least, finding a Flexit and studying it very,...
Tony Yup - all this is true - a rigid sidecar is a pain to build, a pain to set up and a pain to ride. In contrast, a Flexit requires that you: Bolt it on, ...
Sorry to be contrary, but I rode a conventional sidecar for many years, and they are not a pain to ride. They are a lot of fun. I'm sure that bendy sidecars...
... Tony, Go here:<http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/SCT/?yguid=24020116> sign up, just like this yahoo "club". There's tons of info in the database, about...
... Will be building a one-off. This is why i`ll be posting lots of questions once i`ve finished reading all the *messages* :-) I have some experience of...
Hi Tim I guess "200 too many" means you're counting every link in the chain - apart from that, I count two Heim (ball)joints and two sprockets - plus two...
Steve wrote "you might be better off getting a Sidewinder and adapting it to your needs". Unfortunately they were not designed to carry sufficient weight :-( ...
I have ridden and driven both, and both are fun none better none worse just different Ron in Co ... From: Steven Green To: flexitsidecarclub@yahoogroups.com ...
In the world of sidecarists, the number of leaners to rigids is likely 1000 to 1 of rigids to leaners. It is truly amazing the lengths that sidecarists will...
Young Steven (I can say this, because I'm a month or two older). That's just the point - you spent years riding them - Tony is, in his own words "a sidecar...
Hi Fred You've hit the nail on the head: to make a "good" rigid sidecar, you have to modufy the bike (hub-centre/leading link steering) so much that it ceases...
I have both and must say that a European build Gespann is a lot of fun to ride. It is very fast, faster than a regular bike in curve roads, and extremely...
Tim wrote "Go here:<http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/SCT/?yguid=24020116" Just joined. Phew! Lots of info. Is there a picture of your leaning sidecar on...
Steve wrote "seen the Cosy sidecar from India - probably a good fit for an Indian-built Enfield?" The *Rocket* Cozy was originally built to fit an Enfield. ...
Lots of good info on sidecars in the magazine "Rider" available by subscription or at your newstand - get the May 2006 isue. Included a photo of a 1930 Flexi...
Fred wrote "Bad toe-in eats tyres more than it affects steering". Okay. Fred then wrote "30% sidecar weight is not optimum it's minimum; less than 30% gets...
Hi Steve, many thanks for the extra bit of info on "H" bars and brackets, I'll chase it up. Cheers Paul ... sixth ... and ... drawings ... underway. ... know. ...
Hi Tony, You could take a look at my Flexit if you wish as it's not hooked up to my bike at present, though hopefully it will be the end of spring (if spring...
Hi Tony, I have interspaced my annotations <<thus>> ... << Duh? You were quoting rules for rigids so in context so was I >> ... << Looking at my India Enfield...
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