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Bikes as Dust Collectors: Side Effect of Sidecar Ownership » Ride Three - Ural Sidecar Motorcycles
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Bikes as Dust Collectors: Side Effect of Sidecar Ownership

Filed Under (Bikeography) by Anthony StClair on 28-05-2008

I’ve heard and seen this time and time again. If you have other motorcycles, and then you get a sidecar rig, be prepared for your other bikes to do nothing but collect dust.

Granted, this hasn’t been an issue in our household – our “other bikes” are 2 bicycles, and they get a fair amount of use. But if I’d had another motorcycle before getting my Ural Patrol? Yeah, I think the other motorcycle would’ve been sold by now. Check out this ADVrider discussion, Ural is now my only ride:

“Alas the damned Ural has forced me to neglect my other bikes for the last 3 years”

Do you have any other bikes? Or did you sell ‘em all after getting your sidecar rig?

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