Sidecars in Motion - What's the Attraction?

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4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Riding a sidecar outfit is completely different from riding on two wheels, you could say like riding a horse of a different color. And some riders either love riding with a sidecar or simply find that it just suits their needs. Perhaps age,...

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0:00.0	Telling someone you ride a motorcycle only gives a sliver of the story.
0:04.0	It kind of like if you were a painter telling them,
0:06.0	I'm a painter, painter of what?
0:08.0	Pictures, houses, cars, bridges, because we all know that motorcycles come in all shape, sizes, and thrills.
0:14.1	From a Takati monster to a Suzuki Bergman, to a K-Tm 450, a KLR 650,
0:20.3	onto a Gas Gas-Gas-T trials bike, or maybe even a Harley-Davidson Roadglide unlimited.
0:25.0	All motorcycles, all totally different experiences
0:28.0	with one common thread.
0:30.0	Two wheels.
0:31.0	But wait, you can throw a third wheel into the mix, mounted off to the side,
0:35.1	and the side car is a horse of a different color, because unlike all the bikes that have already
0:39.8	mentioned, the addition of that extra wheel off to the side changes the game completely
0:44.6	pushing the motorcycle into new areas of use and excitement. The side car has been
0:49.8	around for more than a century. It's been used to get groceries, deliver ice cream, drive families around.
0:55.2	It's been used as a mobile gun platform during the war, and it's been raced at the Isle of Man to speeds of up to
1:00.8	just under 120 mile an hour, hundred and twenty mile an hour.
1:03.0	That's a hundred and ninety kilometers an hour.
1:05.0	It's also been ridden around the world by Adventures.
1:08.0	This is one versatile machine.
1:10.0	I'm Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you.
1:15.0	I'm Sam Manic.
1:20.0	Simon.
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