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Does anyone know if the R can be fitted with a sidecar? If so from whom?
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Post by Jax »

EZS also offers a great kit but like Armec, it will be a permanent conversion.

My wife has a R1200C with a Champion sidecar but the mounts had to be custom-made since Champion did not offer them for this bike. We can detach the sidecar and ride the bike as a solo if we wish. You can't do that with the Armec or the EZS.

If you want a sidecar that you can remove and still ride the bike, you should contact Dauntless Motors and see if they already have mounts for the R1150R.
http://www.dauntlessmotors.com/

There are other manufacturers but I haven't seen any pictures of them hooked up to the R1150R.
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There are Armecs with "quick release" mechanisms; the Tremoleano, and the Sidewinder.

Spendy bits of kit too. They look to be of good quality though.
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domekrome wrote:There are Armecs with "quick release" mechanisms; the Tremoleano, and the Sidewinder.
Armec sidecars are high quality but their quick-disconnect models like the Sidewinder are not conventional sidecars: They are "leaners". I've owned sidecars for the last 25 years but you wouldn't get me in a leaning sidecar for any amount of money. They are very dangerous and the total opposite of regular sidecars, which are very safe.
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Hello

This is my Sidecar

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and her more pictures from other R1100/1150R Sidecars

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Cool pictures! I don't have any interest in sidecars for now, although I flirted with the idea when my first child was born. Now they just look like fun and would be great for taking the family riding, if the family was small enough!

But if anything ever happened to prevent me from riding a regular bike, I'd get a sidecar before a trike any day!
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3rad, that's a beautiful rig. Who is the manufacturer?
My wife and I have owned seven rigs over the last 25 years. We presently have a BMW R1200C with a Champion sidecar.
Here's a couple of pictures:
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3rad,

Some more pics and info please on your hack! It is a beauty.
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I'd get a sidecar before a trike any day!
:shock: :shock: :shock:

http://www.exilecycles.com/bikes_trike.shtml
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Post by Doug »

3rad wrote:Hello

This is my Sidecar

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Wow, that thing is insane! Did you mod it yourself, or is that a kit?
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the manufacturer is http://www.mobec.de/ in Germany

Weight 400KG
Topspeed 165 KM/H

The price for the complete Sidecar was 30.000,- EURO :lol:
I have a second gastank with 25 L under the body from the sidecar

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I drive in the summer and in the winter 8) i have no Car

summer pictures
http://3rad.smugmug.com/gallery/711687
http://3rad.smugmug.com/gallery/712274

and the winter
http://3rad.smugmug.com/gallery/1006211
http://3rad.smugmug.com/gallery/1107712

here are still pictures from the biggest Sidecarmeeting in der World,each year meet 1000-1500 sidecars out completely Europe.
http://3rad.smugmug.com/gallery/770504

and here are pictures from a sidecar exhibition in Sinsheim/Germany
http://3rad.smugmug.com/gallery/392551


I want next year in the USA/West for vacation (6 weeks) with my sidecar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Sorry for my bad English :oops: :cry:
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WOW!!!...great pics 3rad... :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: ..nice.

Great looking RR and sidecar... :smt023 :smt023 :smt023 :smt023

My 12 yr old daughter would love a ride in that.....me too.. :D

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3rad - I was cruising the pics of your sidecar, beautiful rig BTW, and almost didn't click your pictures links. Glad I did! Great photos! Thanks for sharing!
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Beautiful! A mechanical work of art.
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Did you say 30,000 Euro? That is like $36000 USD. :shock: Really cool but that costs more than my bike and car together. Maybe when I am a little older and richer I can talk my wife into one. :lol:

It is a beautiful rig and your pictures made me miss Germany. :cry: I have to get back sometime soon.

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houndog
"""It is a beautiful rig and your pictures made me miss Germany. I have to get back sometime soon."""

I want life in the USA/West and want back to Germany :lol: :cry:


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