[oldphart]

Yep, my latest lunacy is a sidecar for my Himalayan.
It'll be some time before it's fitted - I want to the fit the TEC cam, then save the money for the fitting, but I've got the sidecar itself.
It's a home made job that was previously fitted to an XT250 so the Himalayan should have no trouble towing it. It should be fun on the dirt roads we get around here.
Roll on my poor man's Ural 

[tooseevee]

Yep, my latest lunacy is a sidecar for my Himalayan.
It'll be some time before it's fitted - I want to the fit the TEC cam, then save the money for the fitting, but I've got the sidecar itself.
It's a home made job that was previously fitted to an XT250 so the Himalayan should have no trouble towing it. It should be fun on the dirt roads we get around here.
Roll on my poor man's Ural 

           Hey, good luck. Ya' know?, that thing, painted right, could be very Mad Maxish

          And when you're tired of slamming and bouncing it around the back roads you could convert it to sell Orange Creamsickles or hot dogs (with a big Foster's) at the beach. Great way to meet girls and influence children 

           I was addicted to orange creamsickles in the late '40s and early '50s. Later it was coffee ice cream.

[oldphart]

           Hey, good luck. Ya' know?, that thing, painted right, could be very Mad Maxish

Thanks.
My first thought was to paint it but having had it for a bit, natural aluminium seems to fit the rough house nature of the Himalayan. We'll see.

[Himalayan Geff]

Phrases I never thought I would hear - "Poor man's Ural". 

[Hog Head]

I too am doing a sidecar project, and currently fixing the Indian crapsmanship on a used Cozy.  Aside from the crude suspension that needed a bit of engineering, I am fixing a Brooklands screen, brake, 18" alloy rim, new stainless mudguard, and proper paint
Still a month or two away

What was apparent is that the stock fork "brace" is woefully inadequate, being a cheap casting with the tensile strength of cheddar cheese.  The lack of an x-brace to resist the torsional load imposed by a sidecar is a big detriment in the stock part, and is more of a mudguard bracket than a proper fork brace.
I made this to cure the problem - note the slotted mount holes to the fork to allow proper fork alignment to reduce stiction.

[AzCal Retred]

OldPhart - if you live in a rural area, see if you can find a failed 60 gallon fiberglass captive air pressure tank. It would be about the right size for the frame, they're tough, waterproof, structurally rigid, and have a lot of interior area for storage of sleeping bags, tent, fishing poles, etc. These used tanks are normally free for the asking, just pop out the interior air bladder, get a few extra cut off wheels for your peanut grinder and sketch out the desired cowl shape on the tank with a marks-a lot. A sanding drum on a 1/4" drill makes short work of radiusing the corners. 

[gizzo]

OldPhart - if you live in a rural area, see if you can find a failed 60 gallon fiberglass captive air pressure tank. It would be about the right size for the frame, they're tough, waterproof, structurally rigid, and have a lot of interior area for storage of sleeping bags, tent, fishing poles, etc. These used tanks are normally free for the asking, just pop out the interior air bladder, get a few extra cut off wheels for your peanut grinder and sketch out the desired cowl shape on the tank with a marks-a lot. A sanding drum on a 1/4" drill makes short work of radiusing the corners.

Good idea! I was thinking the cockpit of a scrapped Blanik would be fun... 😊

[oldphart]

Further on my sidecar build.
No actual building done. I just put my bike on the centrestand, collected some bricks and loosely assembled the chair on them. Nothing's bolted in place, not even the wheel. But it gives an idea of what it looks like.
I'm probably not going to bother with the screen, especially as it'll be used for luggage only to start with. Maybe fit it or something like it later if I start using it for passengers, though if a passenger is wearing a full face helmet, do we need a screen?
Not surprisingly, the attaching rods don't match anything on the bike. So it'll be new rods and a subframe.
Anyway, here are some photos.

Note: the attachments are showing upside down but show upright if you open them