You know you'll be everyones friend on a camping trip, youll still get wet and youll get stuck in traffic. On the plus side carrying beer is easier and you often end up giving lifts to girlee's if you have one with seats too. Mine had 4 , it could be fun
I have a watsonian oxford double adult stashed away that was factory fitted to a new gt750 kawasaki by the previous owner who was a little old man that never went over 25mph in years of use, and while it was great fun and did donuts going anticlockwise and managed a 14 second quarter at the bulldog bash one year, I have no real desire to re hook it back on and revist the world of back pain on long journeys from fighting the bars in long sweeping fast bends. And you probally dont want me to mention the incident that involved testing with three bags of cement in the chair so it didnt lift and mental corner speeds only to discover that instead of lifting it skids! Destroying a armco barrier in the centre of the roundabout and pinning me to the remains by the burning hot exaust requiring me to run over my own leg to get free.
However, even the double adult doesnt really weigh much and its like a small greenhouse on the side of your bike (we got 7 people in/on the combo one day looning round going to a pub), its mostly fibreglass with a small peripheral tube frame, and I can manhandle it around on my own off the bike easy, and Ive been told big ones are so much more manageable. Your probally better off and safer having one on a thumper mind. All the time I really got in trouble excess speed or throttle had significant parts to play in...
The warning about being unsuited for sidecar use refers to the frame, not many modern bikes have a frame suitable for the attachment for the swan necks etc, but if the chair manufacturer is offering one for that bike, theyve already made and tested one or two you can be sure. Some of the statements are just avoiding product liability ("I bought a R1, attached a double adult sidecar and the frame cracked and I killed 3 of my passengers, lets sue yamaha!!!").
No my chair isnt for sale, besides my xt and sp's I also own a couple of kawasaki turbo's and they share exactly the same frame layout as the gt750 did, making my factory attachment kit a bolt on. Now that could really be fun
Ive got to add, that if its snowing or icy, Id much rather be on my sp than on a outfit, at least I can pull that out of a ditch when it goes wrong and I stand more chance of staying in control in general. Maybe if I had a wasp for bad weather things would be different...
