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Sidecar on a Spyder?
Hi all,
I am not asking about the legalities of this idea, but has anyone put a sidecar on a Spyder? Yes, I do have my reasoning behind the question so don't beat me up too badly
Cheers,
Julia
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no one will beat up on you here...hee hee
but it might help it you explain your reasoning.
How about symmetrical sidecars ? Then we could have
a five wheel monstrosity.
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Hi,
Your reason is not my business. My concern would be the overall width with a sidecar - depending on your model.
I believe that someone brought this up last year.
Good luck if you try it,
Tip
Last edited by Peter Aawen; 04-15-2024 at 01:43 PM.
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how about outrigger's. Keeping them not much wider than the front wheels you could hang one on each side like big saddlebags....
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My motivations are that I have a standard poodle, and I can't take her with me. I camp. My Angel < the bike > can even tow my popup camper, but I can't take my girl with me. I'd love to find a small sidecar I can make a harness for and take the pup along...
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Originally Posted by Nytemagik
My motivations are I have a standard poodle, and can't take her with me she. I camp. My Angel < the bike > can even tow my popup camper but cant take my girl with me. I'd love to find a small sidecar I can make a harness for and take the pup along...
Did you notice that the last poster ME answered this .....* years ago .... and did you read the other 23 posts ???? .... I hope someone can give you a satisfactory solution to your problem. I look forward to what the answer will be ....Mike
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SIDECAR ???? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT ?? On a Spyder? Definetly like to hear the reasons behind that thought.
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Side car ?
that would give you 4 tires
then you would be a car
seatbelt airbags etc.
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Just thinking about it, it might be a bit of a gnarly problem!!
Regardless of the why, if you tried to set a chair up as an outrigger to a Spyder, you'd hafta be bloody careful where you tried to mount it & hafta think a bit about where the wheel on the chair was with respect to the front steer wheels & rear drive wheel on the Spyder, as well as where to aim it or it'd scrub to buggry whenever you tried to turn towards it.....that is IF turning the Spyder steer wheels but still having another 'load carrying' wheel trying to run straight ahead on the inside of the turn would even let you turn!! Turning the other way, ie, with the chair wheel on the outside of the turn, the chair wheel would only need to turn faster than the driven & steer wheels on the Spyder, & a normal 'ground driven' wheel aimed straight ahead should manage that OK, albeit with some (orright, probably a lot!!) scrubbing as it got dragged around the curve.
Normal suspension should be able to handle any up/down loads during cornering, but that 'inside of the turn' thing would be an interesting problem from a positioning, aiming, and an alignment point of view too!! Going slow enough &/or turning tight enough towards it, you might even force the chair wheel to turn backwards, but if the chair wheel was in the wrong spot &/or it's aiming angles with the steer & drive wheel weren't exactly right, it could inhibit the inside turn a lot, while dragging & slowing an outside turn!!
Add to that the issues that having an outrigger wheel might cause re 'drag' while trying to ride straight &/or braking, plus the difficulties of setting up/aligning the Spyder 2-wheel steering & suspension geometry to run straight with the addition of an outrigger wheel, let alone doing any of that stuff while turning.... It'd be a bit of a nightmare problem. I certainly doubt it'd be anywhere near as easy as it is to hook up a chair on the side of a 2-wheel motorbike - in fact, that's probably why BRP went down the trailer route in the beginning!
Still, it's food for thought!
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Originally Posted by griffontamer
Hi all,
I am not asking about the legalities of this idea, but has anyone put a sidecar on a Spyder? Yes, I do have my reasoning behind the question so don't beat me up too badly
Cheers,
Julia
Some one asked this exact same question several months ago in almost those exact same words. I don't think it has ever been done,but if you're willing to throw enough money at anything you can make it happen. If you need more passenger carrying capacity then I would suggest a motorcycle/sidecar outfit. There are several that will carry 2 or 3 people. That gives you 3 to 4 people on the bike.You may have to go overseas to find one big enough,though Hannigan does make a 2 passenger model.Gold Wings make good chair haulers. if you have someone else to drive maybe a 2nd Spyder would be a solution? That would give space for 4. Good luck
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I forgot there are also custom trike builders,usually on a VW platform that can be built to carry any number people. I have even seen one built around a bus body that would carry 8 people.
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There are carriers out there that you can mount either on you passenger seat or on your trailer that IMNSHO are a much better idea.
https://theridersmarket.com/motorcycle-dog-carrier/
There is no external frame to mount a sidecar to. The Spyder frame is a central backbone. This would be a nightmare to construct and to ride. Sure death for both of you
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Originally Posted by Nytemagik
My motivations are that I have a standard poodle, and I can't take her with me. I camp. My Angel < the bike > can even tow my popup camper, but I can't take my girl with me. I'd love to find a small sidecar I can make a harness for and take the pup along...
Originally Posted by pegasus1300
There are carriers out there that you can mount either on you passenger seat or on your trailer that IMNSHO are a much better idea.
https://theridersmarket.com/motorcycle-dog-carrier/
There is no external frame to mount a sidecar to. The Spyder frame is a central backbone. This would be a nightmare to construct and to ride. Sure death for both of you
Nytemagik has a "Standard" size poodle .... they are almost the size of a German Shepard .... and he camps and has a Pop-up camper; I doubt he wants to attach a Dog carrier to the top of the camper ..... JMHI ... Mike
Last edited by Peter Aawen; 04-15-2024 at 02:00 PM.
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Steering geometry would keep a sane man awake at night. The ?rig? would handle completely differently when turning right or left.
The DOT people would go flipsoied when they saw it. You'd hear their laughs blocks away. First turn into the sidecar would be an education in understeer.
If you really haven't been dissuaded by all our comments - build a two-foot RC model and see what happens.
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