[Hog Head]

While not legal, as with a lot of things in Thailand there is zero enforcement, and sidecars are very common. Almost without exception, they are locally made contraptions mounted on Honda Waves, and used to haul about noodle vendors and the like.  There is one local manufacturer of canoe style fiberglass hacks in Bangkok, but not that well engineered nor proportioned.  I was lucky enough to find a used Cozy for my 650.

I had to fix it first including:
Custom brake
Interceptor 18" alloy rim, on a Honda hub, with stainless spokes and tubeless tire conversion
Replaced all the bolts with stainless
LED head and spot light - LED to match on the bike since the pic
Proper bare metal re-paint that does not fall off and uses primer
Raptor liner inside and on the belly pan
Brooklands screen on a bespoke mount
Tenax fasteners on a Sunbrella tonneau
Seat with gel pad insert to match the custom bike saddle since the pic
TIG over the bird shit stick welds
YSS steering damper
Fork brace
and a few other small mods......

Pipe on one side, and centre stand removal simplified the mount, but still not happy with the 2 sliding joints and am going to change that next.
This weeks job is a larger front brake

A LOT different than riding a bike!

[Haggisman2]

Beautiful looking set up, I may eventually attach a chair to my Interceptor.
Did you have to lower you gearing at all, I would have expected 1 tooth of the front sprocket.

[gizzo]

That looks great!

[Hog Head]

Beautiful looking set up, I may eventually attach a chair to my Interceptor.
Did you have to lower you gearing at all, I would have expected 1 tooth of the front sprocket.

No I have not geared it yet and still in the test ride and more importantly the learning mode on how to drive an outfit.
Wife is only 50 kg at most and sidecar weights about 85 kg

[Haggisman2]

It is a very different way to get around. If your rig is set up well it will travel in a straight line on normal roads. Handling will change depending on road camber, load in the sidecar, wind and speed. Just take your time learning how to pilot your new ride, I  used to have a great time with the 2 sidecar rigs I had years ago. I had a Suzuki GS750 outfit for about 3 years, then a Yamaha RD250LC with a light weight chair attached for 2 years.
Enjoy

[CPJS]

Probably based on this.
https://www.watsonian-squire.com/royal-enfield-overview/royal-enfield-sidecars/

[Hog Head]

The other side with TEC pipe.  That moved all the exhaust from the hack side (RHD here), and allowed the now unneeded centre stand mount as a pick up point for the hack mount

[Hog Head]

Probably based on this.
https://www.watsonian-squire.com/royal-enfield-overview/royal-enfield-sidecars/

More likely Steib - Cozy has distant connections to Stieb, not Watsonian
http://sidecarestonia.weebly.com/sidecar-history.html

[Hoiho]

Looks like they were made for each other.
Does the  bike handle better with a passenger than without?

[NVDucati]

I'm very impressed with the depth and reflection of the paint and polish. Black is so hard to do right.

[Hog Head]

I'm very impressed with the depth and reflection of the paint and polish. Black is so hard to do right.

Thanks

Cozy paint was pretty shoddy
I bought a decent Iwata gun and painted it in the driveway.  Local made basecoat + clearcoat, wet sanded and polished.  Chassis is acrylic mono-coat in case I need to touch it up, or moify the mount to the bike.  Truck bed liner inside and the under belly
Mudguard was matched to the bike guard.

Should have polished the bike for the pic, and have done so now!

[Hog Head]

Looks like they were made for each other.
Does the  bike handle better with a passenger than without?

I hope so as lifting the wheel is a sphincter puckering experience so far.  The wife has only been slowly around the golf course on it but I will put a sandbag in the hack for the next test ride
Can't wait to get good enough to lift the chair at will!

[Haggisman2]

If you think the chair wheel lifting is scary, wait till overcook it on a right turn, use the front brake too hard lifting the rear wheel of your bike.
I had to pull over and stop after doing that, took a little while for my heart rate to stabilise. Another lesson learned never to be repeated.

[gregrb41]

Enjoy the ride, like you say it's nothing like riding a bike (or driving a car for that matter) but once you've cracked it you'll find you can really hustle things along.

[ideola]

That looks right proper!