sasen

Hi all XBHPians,

Need help here. I have got a Suzuki Access scooter and I would like to add a sidecar to ferry around my wife and a kid in relative safety. The sidecar should be nicely designed, lightweight, have a comfortable seat with good lumber support. A wind shield with canvas top for some weather protection will be great. A small dicky for carrying some luggage will be a nice addition.

Need help from XBHP friends if there is such a garage and expertise available to custom built a sidecar like this. I am staying in Kolkata but I might try to go and get this built elsewhere if there is a good builder unless the cost is too prohibitive.

Also can anybody also advise what are the changes required at RTO for adding a sidecar.

Aryan

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theslayer

Sidecars and safety do not gel together. Sasen if I saw you on the road, with your sidecar and a kid and the wife in it, I'd get totally freaked, park my bike by the side, wait for you to disappear and then leave. Please give thought to some other option, a cheap car maybe. Apart from saving you the trouble of constructing and fine tuning an attachment to your scooter, it'll also provide you some relief to know that there's loads of steel/aliminium around your family for protection to an extent! Please.

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hitanshu

Sarkar, welcome back.

Do PM Nisarg86/kunal_thefuhrer. These contraptions are perfectly okay and are extremely commonplace in Amdavad/Gujarat in general. THey can find out locally about RTO.

And its as safe as them riding with you on bike, but more comfortably, and lower to diesel truck fumes. Else chill.

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@Sasen-I guess you had a Karizma.What happened to that?

haxor

man better to get a nano rather than crush by the psycho bus bus drivers of kolkata..and yeah the fumes from the age old buses will leave you suffocating

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sasen

I know the sidecar idea was bit crazy.. but just wondering if this is possible. @MG Biker. you are right I had this beautiful yellow Karizma on which I toured and had many happy memories. But as I had seen in an classified ad for selling a bike where the advertiser mentioned the reason of selling as 'the motorcycle was bought without proper consent of a loving wife'. Mine is exactly the same case and now I have ended up driving/touring around in my Ford Ikon only with family in tow. However as a last resort I managed to buy a Suzuki Access as I had to run errands and taking out the car for a half a kilometre trip to the local market is a pain. Whenever I had asked my wife to ride pilion she freaked out and is damn sure I will get both of us killed(with the kid in tow)on that puny machine. Damn those crazy bus drivers of Kolkata. Hence I was looking at a kind of compromise. I will get some fresh air, sacrifice most of the riding fun but buy some safety in the process.

But then you know the Access is a real fun scoot to ride, On an open stretch given the stick the machine did in excess of 90kmph (on speedo) with my 81 kg on board. It also did not seem that it will rip apart at the sims at that speed and was doing that speed quite gracefully.

EL LOCO DIABLO

I would stick with the naysayers on this one, Sidecars were stopped when 100cc entered the market because the frame was built as a homogenous structure meaning they were bulit only with the rest of the bike in mind and not for accessories like a sidecar therefore your bike would'nt kindly take to excess load in the form of an sidecar, the bikes with sidecars as you would have noticed atleast had 350cc mill which had enough torque to pull ten plus people (for those who are cynical the Army motorbike acrobatics are all done only on a Enfield), therefore even if you manage to get a side car designed and fit it onto your bike you still would'nt be able to guarantee your co-passenger's safety. IMO bike's are for A person at the maximum 2 provided the pillion is properly geared. If you still want to go with the sidecar, ditch your current bike and get yourself a nice torquey Enfield and then continue with the project, hope you understand

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Samarth 619

Dude, Think about it seriously, we know Suzuki won't offer such an option ... Your only choice: Get it done via a Street Mechanic/ Welder ...

Will that Street Mec. produce a reliable Sidecar?? Can it be even safe @ 30 kmph, leave alone 75+ ??

I mean, we the bikers, are NOT fully safe on 2 wheels, how do you imagine carrying a sidecar along ??

You are much safer on ZMA, or much better a Nano ... Kindly be Safe, that's the biggest priority of Xbhp, we have heard of members dying too earlier...

Haroon

As some of you suggest Enfield. Is there any person/company in India that makes sidecars for Enfield?
I mean like the one seen in Bunty aur Bubly OR Lage raho munnabhai.?

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