Manky Monkey Motors

Posted by Kapri on FaceBook.
VW Beetle engine hidden in the arse of the sidecar & ridden from the bike. VW wings used to create the rear bodywork with cut n shut bonnet up front? Presumably 2 wheel drive with shortened driveshafts. Gear lever in the side car. Leaf-sprung seat.
Clever stuff.

If it didn't look like Beyoce's bum I would say it looks nice....
 Clever though, as you say.

Would look better in purple.  And it's fugly.  Apart from that it's lovely!

That's cool,brill and cleverly done and funky .. 8)

Real wheel drive standard width as the seat forks are simply offset to the centreline .Doesn't qualify as a trike as wheels not equidistant from front :(

That's brilliantly bonkers  :D
Could get interesting with a passenger in the chair.........
"Brace yourself Dorris I'm going for forth gear"
 ;D ;D ::)

 :D So how would that be registered Kev? Wonder how it handles?

In a similar vein........


Smokey Yunick had this race car back in 1964

http://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/2014/04/29/another-look-at-smokey-yunicks-capsule-car/

Never seen that one by smokey ?..he certainly was ahead of most in his day ? Look at the front A Arms..

Was he Living Next Door To Alice when he built that?

Alice ? Who the <#%¥ is Alice ? ::)

 ;D ;D ;D

Surely the wheels  - ah, now I get it, they are equal distance behind the front wheel centreline, but not from the front wheel itself. So this is a sidecar/combination then?
Either way it's ingenious, and were it not the colour of Beyonce's bum (purple metallic would be my choice too BG), i would like it very much.

It wouldn't in this country as it's left hand drive combo . I'm guessing it would be hard work to ride , pretty much like a combo from the tales I've heard ie different techniques to go left or right

Speed up to go left, slow down to go right.

Yeah but it's more throttle one way, brake the other?   This is why I went the trike route though I'd rather have had an outfit really.

With a uk sidecar it was throttle left, brake right. A real pain on big fast roundabouts. With this thing with it's 2WD and offset front wheel. who knows how it will steer.

On a conventual outfit the sidecar wheel should lead the rear wheel by a few inches so that it will go round a right handed without lifting the rear wheel and dropping the chair nose to the deck.
Stix

This will steer like a normal trike, don't see any reason why not? So long as the driver doesnt get too close to the verge...