Sidecar

A sidecar is a one-wheeled device attached to the side of a motorcycle, scooter, or bicycle,^[1] making the whole a three-wheeled vehicle. A motorcycle with a sidecar is sometimes called a combination, an outfit, a rig or a hack.

For other uses, see Sidecar (disambiguation).

Regulation[edit]

The sidecar is normally fitted to the right of the motorcycle in jurisdictions where traffic keeps to the right side of the road; the sidecar's position is reversed in left-side jurisdictions. This matches the usual configuration of driver and front-seat passenger in cars. In the UK, sidecars fitted to the right side are prohibited on motorcycles registered after August 1981.^[10] In Italy, left-mounted sidecars were prohibited in 1924, though the ban was not enforced until 1959.^[11]

In the Republic of China (Taiwan), Article 39-2 of the Road Traffic Security Rules prohibits the registration of new motorcycles with sidecars but does not specifically restrict fitting them later.^[12]

Flexible sidecars[edit]

Several flexible sidecars, not rigidly attached to the motorcycle, have been developed. This can help deal with issues of uneven pavement and allow leaning the bike into turns.^[13]^[14]

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Bicycle sidecars[edit]

Sidecars have sometimes been fitted on bicycles. The "Watsonian" brand was popular from the 1930s to the 1950s in the UK. The Philippine trisikad is a type in current use.

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Cossack motorcycle

Outline of cycling

Motorcycle ambulance

a charity which provides the "Uhuru", a sidecar ambulance, to communities in Africa

Riders for Health

Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling

Tilting three-wheeler

Motorized tricycle (Philippines)

(2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. 1989.

Oxford English Dictionary

Sheldon, J.A. (13 January 1955). "Origin of the Sidecar". The Motor Cycle. 94 (2701). London: Ilife & Sons.

Hal Kendall (2003). (PDF) (1st ed.). The United Sidecar Association (USA).

Sidecar Operation Manual

Onelio García Pérez (2008). (1st ed.). Own work.

Motores Clasicos en Cuba

Onelio García Pérez (2020). (PDF) (1st ed.). Own work.

SIDECAR EN CUBA

Media related to Sidecars at Wikimedia Commons

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