I Buy another Sidecar..

Apparently I didn't learn with the first two. The Hannigan Comet comes home. This was soon after I bought it.

The Flying Wedge.

The other side of the sidecar. The top window was broken, and covered over with red packaging tape.

Quack..

The front of the sidecar. Some people thought it looked like a fighter airplane with it's bubble. I thought it resembled a duck with it's bill.

SCT pic 'o the day #1

I even made the 'funny pages' at Sidecar Talk at the time. Not bad, for what was to become a very long project.

Mockup Time

I've already dragged it, and the motorcycle into the warehouse at work inside of a bare week of ownership, and was plotting and planning my first steps to make the sidecar and motorcycle work together. Even this early, i could tell i'd bitten off a big m

Wheel Conversion #1

In the Fall of 2003, i had contacted Harry Tarzain and contracted him to fabricate up a hybrid car tire/motorcycle hub rim assembly, using a VW Beetle Centerline wheel blank, machined and welded onto the machined down hub of a Suzuki GSXR600.

Wheel Conversion #2

Another view of the wheel assembly as installed. I knew that tire wear would be rediculously quick and hideously expensive to keep replacing if i kept the motorcycle wheels/tires. Harry's wheel design lasted two years until bearing seat failure due to h

Subframe #1

The other major project of the season to get the sidecar mounted, was to build a subframe to attach to the motorcycle to distribute the load and strain of the sidecar evenly onto the motorcycle frame. There were four bolt-on mount points total, and this w

Subframe #2

Another photo.