Recent content by Petrus

I appreciate you taking them off and they áre eye sores. Point is that they are mandatory. Just for if you happen to have periodic inspection in your count(r)y or get an overachieving cop. My sidecar was just refused because the reflectors had the wrong homologation numbers on the side and rear...

today had an appointment in Málaga for brake tests by a certified institution for the homologation. Combined with a tech analysis for said homologation. It was for sure not quick and dirty. All in all little change from 4 hours.

Not shooting is a guaranteed miss so... ;):ROFLMAO:

Thát´s the spirit @R2K (y) and thanks for sharing. Hope you have had good enough weather for the R18 rig.

So now the usual magic solution: Throw some money at it and it will run ok again Farming it out as for one I am less good a mechanic than a good friend of mine whereas I have more slush fund than him. So we made an exchange deal: He will start on it when I am off on the Vespa trip deep into...

Have not taken the R18 rig out because was sorting the Vespa 150CL rig. Last week had some marvelous drives with that rig. A notable one was coming back up over the mountains from Vélez Málaga at the coast. Highest pass 1200 meters. What a joy! Since the chair is fitted as was customary on NSM...

Wonderful ride out with some members of the classic vehicle club. With ideal weather form one village Fiesta on the north side of the mountain range to another village fiesta on the south side to another on the north side again :love:

About the tire pressure. The front tire of a sidecar rig is the critical one. Higher pressure is less understeer and vv. As such higher pressure results in more direct steering response. Less pressure, thus more drift angle, reduces the sidecar wobble and vv. This does not mean more amplitude...

The inner tube was in Friday but I had other obligations so went at opening hour this morning. Took the wheel out, the mechanic took the tire off. The inner tube had a 1 cm slit. Nothing in the tire. Weird. The 120/70 inner tube ís a bit small for the 4.00 tire. The new extra heavy duty...

Thanks for sharing @R2K Looks much like yours. Not my first choice of color though. Over here it is the Correos (Post) color :oops: Me, I am planning to go hands on tomorrow morning with the new inner tube. Want to get to the root cause. Miss the rig: It is rather in my face in the apartment...

Most likely not perfectly mounted inner tube with possible for this tire to low OEM spec pressure. There is a rip at the valve in the inner tube.

wow that was scary.... Nice weather... dûh... so out with the R18. On a réaly tricky section, narrow with tight blind corners where nigh everyone goes though too fast and the berms look like a bumper plastic cemetery, had a blow out of the front tire. One of those moments you are saved by...

As observed yesterday, on the road again with the Nimbus; with man´s best passenger. Tomorrow the R18 is planned.

This afternoon out on the Nimbus sidecar. CanalSur TV was making a report on the colecionista event and I had organised about a dozen of classic vehicle to promote out event tomorrow. Resulted to be a líve airing. The lady journalist started with the Nimbus (with the valves dancing of course...

and... relief... received the 5 l. metal German made thus réal Jerry-can. The autonomy is nothing much riding solo and it goes down come 20% with the rig. Even though the fuel light pops up plenty early it does give range anxiety.