Pig9r
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I have to admit I lifted this from another site.
Toystoretom
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Wait.... an earlier prototype:
PriorityOne
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Look at the guy in the background laughing!!
Sidecar Flip
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Considering that Thai's don't make squat even building Thai-umphs in Bloor's factory, improvisation is probably rampant. From rice paddy to road.
rusty
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I don't think the guy in the background is laughing, I think he's whincing in pain 'cause the fool ran over his foot & still does not have control of the Rust Rocket.
Pig9r
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Hey Flip it looks like he is running car tires on the front and rear. Maybe we could track him down and see what sizes he his using.
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Pig9r said:
Sure is. So is the other guy in the other picture. Considering what the Metz's cost and the kind of mileage you get from a car tire, I can see the need.......
Besides, you can recap a car tire.
It's an interesting sidecar outfit in the picture too. Looks like an older Velorex but I can't make out the bike other than it's a dual purpose model.
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Jamie
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Sidecar Flip said:
Velorex-inspired but Soviet-made, KGB-exported Ural, I'd submit. Ural short for urinal. Hazardous transportation aside, that was the second purpose colonized, Eastern Europeans ended up using them for
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Sidecar Flip
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Jamie:
I should have looked closer. It is a ural. Can't be a Beemer boxer, way out of their price league.
I'm very well versed in sidecars and the Ural inported to the States has Ural's own sidecar attached and it comes in 2 wheel drive but no horsepower. I have a friend that has one and top speed is around 60 with a tailwind.
That is an old Velo and I'm surprised that it's mounted to a Ural. I enclosed a picture of my baby that you can blow up. Let me know what you think. Lots of work went into it. I finally figured out how to post a picture. Hooray for a computer dork.
I should have looked closer. It is a ural. Can't be a Beemer boxer, way out of their price league.
I'm very well versed in sidecars and the Ural inported to the States has Ural's own sidecar attached and it comes in 2 wheel drive but no horsepower. I have a friend that has one and top speed is around 60 with a tailwind.
That is an old Velo and I'm surprised that it's mounted to a Ural. I enclosed a picture of my baby that you can blow up. Let me know what you think. Lots of work went into it. I finally figured out how to post a picture. Hooray for a computer dork.
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Pig9r
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I have seen recently in US bike publications advertisements for Urals with the sidecar. They state it is a working mans motorcycle and show some guy out on his farm with the sidecar set up.