My 550 sidecar thingy

[Tomb]

MatthewMosse asked about my sidecar outfit, here ya go matey, it ain't fancy, I built it for £150 for me and the kids to muck about in/on, it has a CB750K7 tank (I think), CD175 seat held on with a bungy, superdream headlight brackets and CD185 headlight (again, I think), forks are lowered dropped through the yokes, and a 2CV rear wheel bolted to a comstar hub.









On the 2CV wheel I left the welded on brackets unpainted so stress cracks would show up, none appeared and I ragged hell out of the thing. Just about every bit of the frame has broken at some time, the swing arm snapped in half once, I've welded it all back together each time it broke and braced at the same time to stop it doing it again, I got sick of replacing spokes in the back wheel which was cured by the 2CV wheel, the fronts still break but riding with the chair in the air to the sound of squealing kids doesn't help them.


Just my little lad interested now as the older kids have their own cars, and me and him bomb around on my Old Yamahaha, not the one in my avatar, I have a 1.1 Sport with two seats as well so the outfit is sat in me garage.

[Ewan 500 K1]

brilliant, this is what its all about 

[kifer]

Fair play Tomb, I think that's cracking and I take my hat off to you, Did it just evolve or did you plan it,  The skill in putting that together is underrated keep up the good work.

[matthewmosse]

You must be giving it some stick to break spokes, I have a 500/4 that's stock appart from preload spacers in the forks by PO, it's done about 180,000 miles , engine grief only crept in in the last 30,000. when the original started jumping out of 1st. the replacement k3 motors were known to be not so hot and weren't much cop, I will go back to 500/4 trim this summer. I only broke spokes on one rear wheel, and that was a rusty example. I wasn't exactly kind to it either, Cardiff, Birmingham and home in 1 trip, with agood chunck of the milage carrying most of a bmw aircooled twin in the chair, and Leeds and back to collect a complete 500/4 were the worst examples of abuse. I also liked power sliding it round every corner - I'd geuss the 500 cluch slip saved the rear end from a lot of stress.
Thanks for the pictures, that's  quite a bit of work that you've done on that machine, I like it.

[Tomb]

Haha .....Spokes were the least of my problems regarding breaking parts.

The front two frame down tubes snapped in half, all tubes around the steering head cracked, and the swing arm snapped in half leaving me stuck on Birker Fell on the way to Hardknott Pass, our favourite playground, I burnt to clutch out up there once too. yep I'm a rough-arse

[Tomb]

Did it just evolve or did you plan it.

Sorry didn't answer this did I. It was planned after seeing expensive sidecar outfits using car type rims and tyres on the back of the bikes, only me being a tight git thought I'd do it myself. I first looked at spoking a wider smaller diameter rim to my hub, that then led to boring out the middle of a 2CV or Beetle 15" wheel and bolting it onto my hub by drilling some of the spoke holes out bigger. 550/500 rear hubs without cracks being rare as hens gold teeth I decided against ruining a perfectly good rear wheel, thats when the comstar rear hub occured to me, the rest you know