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[Tommo]

Assorted Harley sidecar wheels

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Goulding sidecar wheels, both Australian and American

[Tommo]

Indian sidecar wheels

[Tommo]

Clyde,
To avoid confusion I purposely tried to keep my comments to "straight axle" chassis and left "dropped axle" types out of the discussion as the reason for the thread was to identify what Cory had acquired.
The dropped axle chassis you posted and then assumed that it had a parallel axle with like size bearings at both ends led me to pull some of my stuff out of the shed and photograph to try and help resolve this problem.
In the photo are sidecar wheels off Goulding, Indian Princess, Indian Standard, Montgomery, Harley-Davidson and Henderson, all but one of which have bigger inner bearings than those on the outside.
There is both tapered and parallel hubs in the photos with the Montgomery wheel being the only one having the same size bearings at either end.
What I'm saying here is just because you see a parallel hub don't make asumptions that it has like size bearings at either end when generally that will not be the case.

[c.o.]

Sorry c.o., I took my Granddaughter to terror town last night, by the time I got back I was worn out. The point I was trying to make is, The expandible axle that tommo pointed out in an earlier post, does not go directly into the wheel hub on all models, notice the bracket or mount I have circled in red, also notice the hub is not a tapered hub, same size bearings on both ends. Trying to find good clear photos is tough at best.
but this one gives one something to think about.


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O.K. that was a what I meant by a chassis difference. I'm very new to sidecar talk and this thread is been a great help. Thanks for providing the visuals... I will indeed ponder it...

I believe the answer to all our questions can be found somewhere in this photo, now if we could just walk into that photo and talk with these fellows, maybe even take a spin
in a couple of those rigs, all would be right.


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O.K ........ finally another daydreamer that thinks about time travel... I mention it once in awhile and it goes by the wayside....I'm thinking it's viewed as pure nonesense... well of course it is but isn't the pursuit of the past just plain old fascinating??? I've always thought of a time machine of sorts. It never occurred to me to just walk into the picture.........

[exeric]

Clydeflathead, your most recent pic of the Indian sidecar got my attention. Did Indian often use rivets to mount the top body skin? Or; do you think that was owner done.

[Clydeflathead]

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As for all that nonsense about me in earlier posts, I am a whole lot closer to Three Stooges than Einstien. I 've learned allot from this thread and have enjoyed it very much. Thanks Guys !!

[Clydeflathead]

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I'm dumb as a box of rocks, but isn't this an old ***** sidecar rig ?


geez I did'nt know indian in short form, was a bad word ? sorry I will never use it again.

[Clydeflathead]

early sidecar

I believe the answer to all our questions can be found somewhere in this photo, now if we could just walk into that photo and talk with these fellows, maybe even take a spin
in a couple of those rigs, all would be right.

[Clydeflathead]

early sidecar

Sorry c.o., I took my Granddaughter to terror town last night, by the time I got back I was worn out. The point I was trying to make is, The expandible axle that tommo pointed out in an earlier post, does not go directly into the wheel hub on all models, notice the bracket or mount I have circled in red, also notice the hub is not a tapered hub, same size bearings on both ends. Trying to find good clear photos is tough at best.
but this one gives one something to think about.

[c.o.]

The chassis is close but not the same as mine. The rear of the tub looks about right and the fender is mounted as Tommo said it should be. I tried to enlarge the photo but it blurred out on me so I couldn't make out the details on the hub other than it looks like it is roughly the same diameter as a rear wheel hub. Another cool looking hack!!!

[Clydeflathead]

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look this over, what do you see?

[c.o.]

I was wondering Eric if you had a positive I.D. on your friends' sidecar wheel.

[c.o.]

Glad you enjoyed it Cory. I've got a couple more videos to edit if I could just get some time to work with them. We've got a good start on it but a lot left to do.

O.K. that's right you are involved in http://www.gouldingsidecars.com too. I should have remembered that. Great work... everything is lookin' pretty good!!! I can't wait to see more old time footage....

[Chuck#1848]

Clyde is being modest. He is the "King" of the Goulding Nuts! We were going to crown him but he'd just swap it for more Goulding stuff.....

And that would be a bad thing?