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Title: 1400 with a new sidecar-- tow from Seattle to Sacramento?
Post by: Cruzerdog on April 17, 2019, 09:30:07 PM
Looking for a enclosed tow from DMC side cars in Buckley WA (Seattle ) to Sacramento CA in sometime in early June?
2015 Moto Guzzi with a Tomahawk sidecar freshly installed .. thought I'd take a chance before I hire a trucker ....maybe someone is coming south with an empty enclosed trailer ?
Title: Re: 1400 with a new sidecar-- tow from Seattle to Sacramento?
Post by: groundhog105 on April 17, 2019, 09:33:22 PM
Got any pictures ?
Title: Re: 1400 with a new sidecar-- tow from Seattle to Sacramento?
Post by: pete roper on April 17, 2019, 09:33:56 PM
Make sure the swingarm bearings are greased properly prior to fitting the chair. The side loadings will kill them in no time if they are dry, and most of them are.

Pete
Title: Re: 1400 with a new sidecar-- tow from Seattle to Sacramento?
Post by: Cruzerdog on April 17, 2019, 09:40:15 PM
Quote from: pete roper on April 17, 2019, 09:33:56 PM
Make sure the swingarm bearings are greased properly prior to fitting the chair. The side loadings will kill them in no time if they are dry, and most of them are.

Pete

thanks Pete  ... Jay at DMC is pretty good installer ..    but I will remind him..   
Title: Re: 1400 with a new sidecar-- tow from Seattle to Sacramento?
Post by: Cruzerdog on April 17, 2019, 09:48:44 PM
Quote from: groundhog105 on April 17, 2019, 09:33:22 PM
Got any pictures ?

not yet Jay  still has to paint the side car .. he has  the frame mounted ..--- (and  yes it is expensive ..  but a quality install and cool side car just north of 10 large .. we are not here for a long time we are here for GOOD GUZZI Time!   
(https://i.ibb.co/VJYCqCz/Screen-Shot-2019-04-17-at-7-44-35-PM.png) (https://ibb.co/VJYCqCz)
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heres a pic of the side car mounted to an Indian ...   pics forth with  when my sidecar is painted   
Title: Re: 1400 with a new sidecar-- tow from Seattle to Sacramento?
Post by: Daleroso on April 17, 2019, 11:38:08 PM
I'm curious, why aren't you riding it?
Title: Re: 1400 with a new sidecar-- tow from Seattle to Sacramento?
Post by: Cruzerdog on April 18, 2019, 12:19:36 AM
Quote from: Daleroso on April 17, 2019, 11:38:08 PM
I'm curious, why aren't you riding it?


 I hate all that I-5 traffic  in Seattle and Portland - :evil:- and it rains a lot ....  and plus I am kinda old  & cheap --....if I haul it out of the DMC shop I avoid the Washington state sales tax ..

and I need my dog to help me  in the turns..   :thumb:
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(https://i.ibb.co/vD6KncQ/27867024-10208492672033707-8447388471076111233-n.jpg) (https://ibb.co/vD6KncQ)
   
Title: Re: 1400 with a new sidecar-- tow from Seattle to Sacramento?
Post by: Cruzerdog on April 18, 2019, 12:29:50 AM
and if anyone needs a Hog with  "baby buggy"  side car ...   my Harley Road King is s going up for sale soon      might consider vintage Guzzi part trade?? 
(https://i.ibb.co/1sRrJZ0/P1050012.jpg) (https://ibb.co/1sRrJZ0)
   
(https://i.ibb.co/T0wg9mL/beldo-4046.jpg) (https://ibb.co/T0wg9mL)
Title: Re: 1400 with a new sidecar-- tow from Seattle to Sacramento?
Post by: pete roper on April 18, 2019, 07:33:38 AM
That's a very nice looking chair. What, if anything, are you doing about the steering geometry! The Cali 14 is such a huge, slow steering, long trail monster of a thing I'd think it will be a pig to drive if the forks aren't fixed. They'll twist up like limp spaghetti if you run stock trail. You might make it bearable with silly toe-in but it'll cost in fuel and tyres and will still feel like wrestling a polar bear unless things are 'Perfect'.

Believe me, I'm no chair expert, that's why I'm paying someone who knows what they are doing for assistance with setting up mine! He's a bit further away than your bloke. Mine's in Townsville in Queensland. Three days away! My maiden voyage will be from there to Bungendore. Although I've got some history with sidecars my last 'Ownership' was nearly 40 years ago! No, I've suggested Jude NOT hop in the chair for the ride home! :D

Pete
Title: Re: 1400 with a new sidecar-- tow from Seattle to Sacramento?
Post by: Roebling3 on April 18, 2019, 10:16:49 AM
Lovely! I would need a full scale picture of an Evinrude, or similar, mounted on 1/2" foam board and hung like a rudder. Be sure it can tip up, out of the water.
    Who knows? If sturdy enough - linked to the fork - - - -  Good fortune,  R3~