I'm a sidecarist since...almost 30 years.
I started with a bitza made of a R60/2 frame, a mix of R60/5 short engine with R80 cylinder & heads, and a Jewell side car.
![Visordown Article About Chairs, Combinations, Sidehacks, & Etc. Side_b10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f69/13/49/48/64/side_b10.jpg)
![Visordown Article About Chairs, Combinations, Sidehacks, & Etc. Traver16](https://i.servimg.com/u/f19/13/49/48/64/traver16.jpg)
It was my only daily vehicle when I was a student. Easy to park for free in town, good carrying capacity, excellent on snowy roads, and wonderful to seduce girls...
I still own it today and it's a real pleasure each time I start it. The sidecar, I mean.
Then I restored a Kawaski Z 1100 with a Watsonian Oxford
![Visordown Article About Chairs, Combinations, Sidehacks, & Etc. Side_k11](https://i.servimg.com/u/f69/13/49/48/64/side_k11.jpg)
Huge. Very! But without a front leading link, it was not very easy to drive and the road handling was special. Too bad as the engine was excellent for a sidecar use.
As I had started my sidecar experience off road, with a Fantic trial and with friends racing in side car cross, I then purchased my Graal at the time: a 650XS Wasp...road legal.
![Visordown Article About Chairs, Combinations, Sidehacks, & Etc. Side_w11](https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/13/49/48/64/side_w11.jpg)
![Visordown Article About Chairs, Combinations, Sidehacks, & Etc. Side_w10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/13/49/48/64/side_w10.jpg)
Wonderful off road, but was abolutely needing skilled and resistant passengers. Impossible to use alone.
Then, I tried the weirdest thing I ever rode: a 750 XTZ Super Tenere with a Side-Bike Toro, a swinging sidecar:
![Visordown Article About Chairs, Combinations, Sidehacks, & Etc. Super_12](https://i.servimg.com/u/f78/13/49/48/64/super_12.jpg)
Well, it took me a long time before I understand how to drive it. But once I figured out how to, it was to realise that this thing is completely stupid. You never know where the sidecar wheel is touching the road, and the behavior of the motorcycles sometimes is a motorcycle behavior, sometimes a sidecar behavior, depending of the speed. Awful, but I admit that it has real good off road abilities, because I always could get by myself out of the ditches where this terrible roadholding had thrown me.
I then changed this combination for another with a 600 XTZ Ténéré,
![Visordown Article About Chairs, Combinations, Sidehacks, & Etc. Toro_t10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/13/49/48/64/toro_t10.jpg)
. I was expecting to convert it to a rigid sidecar but sold it before I could use it to buy this ugly thing:
![Visordown Article About Chairs, Combinations, Sidehacks, & Etc. Side_k10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/13/49/48/64/side_k10.jpg)
A K1 with a Panda sidecar, with a BCS front end.
Dirty, rusty (the previous owner used it only for winter meetings), 230 000 kms, but the best road holding I ever experimented on a side car. It would deserve a big block engine.
I tried to wash it once a it made plenty of colorful and shiny stains.
![Visordown Article About Chairs, Combinations, Sidehacks, & Etc. Img_2143](https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/13/49/48/64/img_2143.jpg)
I still have it and my dog loves to jump in the sidecar for a ride! (and I don't care about the dirt it leaves on the seat, it gives me an excuse to delay the restoration).
Then, I bought this side car, a K100 with a Side Bike Comanche
![Visordown Article About Chairs, Combinations, Sidehacks, & Etc. K100_c17](https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/13/49/48/64/k100_c17.jpg)
![Visordown Article About Chairs, Combinations, Sidehacks, & Etc. K100_c16](https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/13/49/48/64/k100_c16.jpg)
![Visordown Article About Chairs, Combinations, Sidehacks, & Etc. K100_c15](https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/13/49/48/64/k100_c15.jpg)
Unique combination made by a enthusiast, qualified welder in nuclear industry. 2 wheel steering, very iow and light, you can actually drive it with 2 fingers. But the engine is not in a good condition and I'm facing heating issues impossible to solve. I suspect a blown head gasket. And the passenger seat is not very confortable...
Last year, I bought this R1100RT and attached it to an EZS sidecar, with an unknown chassis.
Good family sidecar, stable, comfortable, and the engine has a lot of low rpm torque once tuned to the GS specs.
So 4 sidecars today...and the 5th is on the way, with a R100GS Paris Dakar.
I'm prefering to ride sidecars rather than solo motorcycles now.
I like the more complex process of driving, the sensations, the ability to drift, to approach the limit (Ahhh, the feeling of tight cornering at right with the sidecar wheel lifted a few centimeters above the ditch...).
And it's the only vehicle I know that has the ability to systematically switch on smiles on all the passer-by faces!