Trail 125 sidecar

[Ruger007]

A few months back I noticed a listing on Google for a side car.

Well we just happened to be in Japan and we made a side trip to the Soga area of Chiba on the outskirts of Tokyo.

The owner was a super nice guy. He has a real neat fab shop. Does lots of custom work. He said he wouldn't ship one to Canada as he said it probably wouldn't pass a govt inspection if I needed one here. Plus he has to custom fit each one.

He was honored that someone would come from half away around the world to see his work.









http s://www.as-suehiro.jp/

 

[dmonkey]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
Young Machine did a feature on that rig:

 

[BaldRider]

There's a few outfits in Asian countries doing some great small-displacement sidecars. Maybe if I were 100lbs lighter, it would be an option. As it is, my Ural is slow enough

 

[bryanchurch06]

I will freely admit to being an idiot and doing a lot of dumb crap in my life, but you gotta draw the line somewhere and getting in a sidecar on a motorcycle sober or drunk is on the list for me, I don't like to ride passenger in a car with someone else driving

 

[oldskool]

I will freely admit to being an idiot and doing a lot of dumb crap in my life, but you gotta draw the line somewhere and getting in a sidecar on a motorcycle sober or drunk is on the list for me, I don't like to ride passenger in a car with someone else driving

The passenger in the sidecar is called a monkey

 

[BaldRider]

Being monkey in a sidecar is less scary than piloting one.

 

[oldskool]

Being monkey in a sidecar is less scary than piloting one.

That's not what my wife tells me.......

 

[BaldRider]

That's not what my wife tells me.......

Well there was that one time I nearly whiskey-throttled us off the cliff next to Ortega highway

 

[bryanchurch06]

Well there was that one time I nearly whiskey-throttled us off the cliff next to Ortega highway

Brother you're making my argument for me

 

[m in sc]

ive seen some bad, and hilarious wrecks with people flying a sidecar, and they were always fkd up.

ive driven 2, one was in the snow on an OLD bmw, that was ok but we didnt go over 25 mph.., the other was a ural, and i realized.. nope. not for me. .

 

[BaldRider]

They look like they belong together though.

 

[oldskool]

ive seen some bad, and hilarious wrecks with people flying a sidecar, and they were always fkd up.

ive driven 2, one was in the snow on an OLD bmw, that was ok but we didnt go over 25 mph.., the other was a ural, and i realized.. nope. not for me. .

There's only one thing more dangerous than someone who has never ridden motorcycles riding a side car.......someone with a lot of miles on motorcycles riding a sidecar. What you know on a two wheeler will put you in the ditch quickly on a sidecar.

 

[Cpd419]

I can’t imagine pulling my hills or driveway with someone in a sidecar.

 

[BaldRider]

I can’t imagine pulling my hills or driveway with someone in a sidecar.

As you can see in my picture, my driveway has a handrail. Every road has a cliff on one side and a wall of some sort on the other. I don't go quickly.

 

[Shoot870p]

I can not imagine pulling much of a load with our small engines. Even if the rig was made of unobtanium and no load it looks like it would be a terrific drag on the power.

 

[Farmer Mike]

I want one for my dog, just around the property, and down to road to the mailbox maybe a short hop into our one red-light town every now and again... certainly not for the open road.

 

[Farmer Mike]

There's only one thing more dangerous than someone who has never ridden motorcycles riding a side car.......someone with a lot of miles on motorcycles riding a sidecar. What you know on a two wheeler will put you in the ditch quickly on a sidecar.

If a bunch of drunk Germans can do it (WWII) we can to. Yes I'm sure a bunch of them died on them... we should have the same opportunity!