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Photo by George Guille, It's going to be a long 300km... Bolivian Amazon

I haven't been everywhere...
but it's on my list!


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It's going to be a long 300km...
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The new RTW bike (just a bit of fun)
Seen this bike where I work, just think about how much luggage you could carry and even sleep in the back

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A friends had something for sale like that,
But now it is sold!
the guy who bought it wantend to drive to brasil with it
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I'm sure it could be made into a great camper.
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I am fairly certain a bike like that would be perfect for some countries. Like the link to the one 'anconda moto' posted, I do believe 250cc would be the optimal engine size (any bigger and I imagine the bikes falls apart).

I could imagine a couple of these would be perfect for a group tour, perhaps ridden by the owners or employees of a tour company, following behind to pick up bits that have fallen, or riders that have fallen. If these can put an entire bike in, it could be something really useful to a tour company.

As far as someone buying one to tour, why not? Seems more reasonable than some of the bikes people purposely ride to make some kind of claim, such as people riding 50cc scooters from New York to Alaska (I am making that up, I think?!)...
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India make them for years. A 350 cc engiene and its called Chakra. The city that manufacture them is Rajkot in Gujarat State - India. They make too much of a noise. Used for transportation in the cities and transporting people to villages. Its though to ride them though.
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Several years ago I made this sidecar body and chassis and mounted it to an old Yammy triple. The chassis was made from some pretty thick walled tube that used to be part of a stairwell in a pub, and body was made from 2mm thick sheet (which is as heavy duty as you'd want to go for sheet unless you're trying to make a tank). The whole job lot was heavy as feck, yet if ridden without cargo it still wanted a couple of breeze blocks in it to handle right. The heavier the better seemed to be true for that rig from a handling point of view (it was a great handling sidecar rig, if such a thing exists, but more by chance than by design). But my point is there was plenty of scope to make a heavier body, maybe some kind of fold out camper setup made of sheet ali with steel framework.

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That`s amazing Nath, there is simply no way I would ride down a road at 70mph on anything that I`d made!
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Several years ago I made this sidecar body and chassis and mounted it to an old Yammy triple. The chassis was made from some pretty thick walled tube that used to be part of a stairwell in a pub, and body was made from 2mm thick sheet (which is as heavy duty as you'd want to go for sheet unless you're trying to make a tank). The whole job lot was heavy as feck, yet if ridden without cargo it still wanted a couple of breeze blocks in it to handle right. The heavier the better seemed to be true for that rig from a handling point of view (it was a great handling sidecar rig, if such a thing exists, but more by chance than by design). But my point is there was plenty of scope to make a heavier body, maybe some kind of fold out camper setup made of sheet ali with steel framework.

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