Will anyone be wiring one of these up to electric?

[Northern Irelander]

A Bicycle Sidecar

 

[flecc]

There are some electrically powered trailers on the market, like this one
.

 

[eddieo]

either way the rider does all the work and passenger just sits there...I dont think it will catch on somehow, probably end up going around in circles! lol . looks bloody awful as welll

 

[flecc]

They can look better! Here's a streamlined one for bikes and trikes, the motor and battery in the bottom half and luggage in the top half:

 

[Pedalo]

A Bicycle Sidecar

I shall suggest to my wife that this should be our mode of transport to the company Christmas party this year.

 

[eddieo]

Just get a tandem. You wont even have to add an electric kit, your partner can power it

 

[Mussels]

I shall suggest to my wife that this should be our mode of transport to the company Christmas party this year.

Then wait for the double bluff when she tell you how much it would cost to buy an outfit suitable to ride in the sidecar and go to a party.

 

[andrewgardner]

I shall suggest to my wife that this should be our mode of transport to the company Christmas party this year.

And she will suggest to you where to but the Christmas Tree .(painfull)

 

[Pedalo]

Well I asked. Forum rules on obsenity prevents me from posting her response! Andrew was pretty close.

Don't know what she was complaining about - I even offered to let her ride in the side car.

 

[Orraman]

Nice Video

This sidecar combination takes up about the same width as my 'widthwise' trailer that I use to keep the cars at a safer passing distance

I have not yet got around to attaching the American Sidekid sidecar to my Gitane, perhaps next year's project.

Dave

SMIKE - two in one bike - Tourenbike mit anhängbarem Seitenwagen

 

[Northern Irelander]

LOL


I know the sidecar link does look a bit 1940's, but there is something appealing about the whole thing, perhaps it is the concept that appeals.

Originally I was just thinking of having a third wheel to act as a stabiliser.

This would be useful in icey conditions, it is likely that I will be commuting in all weather types.
Handy for placing the young-un in the sidecar as well, rather than a kids trailer or trailer bike, where they will get spray from the rear wheel (even with full mud guards)

Flecc - I like the e-powered trailers and recumbent already a stable machine.

 

[Northern Irelander]

This sidecar combination takes up about the same width as my 'widthwise' trailer that I use to keep the cars at a safer passing distance

I have not yet got around to attaching the American Sidekid sidecar to my Gitane, perhaps next year's project.

Dave

SMIKE - two in one bike - Tourenbike mit anhängbarem Seitenwagen

Cool link

Now if she can do all that in stilettoes there is hope for the missus wearing her party frock to the christmas do!!

 

[flecc]

Bicycle Sidecar:

 

[Rab C Nesbitt]

That's a good photo flecc - reminding us that's there's very little new under the sun.

Just had a black & white/sepia moment remembering coming back from local dump triumphantly with 4 old pram wheels whereupon we neighbourhood kids would construct our latest death machine to fly downhill at ridiculous speeds with no brakes (apart from shoe leather)

Here we are 50 odd years later worrying about the 15mph limit . . .

I don't know what it all means . . I'm just wallowing . . .

Rab

 

[Northern Irelander]

Bicycle Sidecar:

View attachment 999

Great pic that captures the moment, do you know what era it is from

 

[flecc]

Great pic that captures the moment, do you know what era it is from

I don't know, but having lived across the likely decades, I'd say 1930s or 1940s. The handlebars and headlamp tell me that the bike is probably from the early '30s, but these were kept going right through WW2 and to the 1950s when British production first became available for the home market again once our war debts were nearly paid off.

The cyclist's shirt and shorts are identical to the styles I wore in the 1940s, but the photo could also have been taken in Ireland.
.