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I didn't know until recently that Terraplane's were setup for specific bikes. The two lower mounts are all the same but the adjustable strut was placed at differing points along the side depending on the appropriate attachment point of the motorcycle's frame. From what I understand you can't...

He's going to kick himself for selling it all once it's all gone.

That's why they call it the "Harley Tax". Everything with Harley Davidson printed on it comes with a higher cost. Like $21T-shirts will cost $52 with the Harley Tax added on to the sale price.

I actually have a sidecar rig now. It's an old Soviet Union Military Dnepr MT-11 sidecar motorcycle. It's great for local riding but it's slow, as all military vehicles are. The manual says 100Km is top speed but that's only for a very short time as that's the engines red line. They don't last...

I'd love to have a Vetter Terraplane sidecar but the only one I've found is 300 plus miles away from me, you can tell from the pictures it's a pile of junk, and he wants $2,200 firm for it. It's also missing the hardware for connecting it to a bike and the adjustable strut as well. That stuff...

I buy that premixed 2-cycle fuel in a can for my weed eater. I use those cans after I use the fuel in them for spare fuel too. I got tired of ethanol eating up the carburetors buying pump gasoline and mixing 2-cycle oil in it. I found a web page that details how to test gasoline for ethanol...

That's one of the reasons I stopped buying anything on Ebay years ago. You never know what's actually going to show up in the box they send you. I ordered a widget and got a whatsit despite the picture of the widget I wanted being posted on the page. I attempted recourse with no luck and no help...

The reason it's not possible to mount a Windjammer on most modern bikes is due to fork width and wide gas tanks. When Craig designed the Windjammer nearly all motorcycles had drum brakes so the forks could be a lot narrower than bikes with disc brake rotors bolted to the side of the hub. I only...

Those stator wires and connector are an issue on all GL-1100 and GL-1200 Goldwings. The fairing and bags have no impact on that common problem. Most of them burn up at around 50,000 miles + or -. Back in the day their was a "Poor Boy alternator kit" you could purchase on Ebay that would allow...

You'll want a Windjammer to go with those bags and trunk. I did a lot of work to mount a Windjammer fairing, bags, and trunk on my 2006 Honda VLX 600. I ride mine year round which is a lot easier to do with a bike fitted out with Vetter Touring gear. That stuff is still better than the factory...

I had to design and fabricate brackets for the fairing, bags, and trunk. If you go to Craig Vetter's Windjammer page he describes how to do that for modern bikes like the VLX Shadow. There are lots of pictures showing how others have done it on lots of bikes made after production of Windjammers...

I put a Windjammer 4 fairing, bags, and trunk on my 2006 Honda VT600 Shadow. I did it in 2015 and love it! Back in the late 70's I had a CX500 setup the same way. I had both the common problems the CX500 bikes had. Stators and water pump seals going bad. The VT600 Shadow is a much better...

Last year about this time I found a Soviet Union era Dnepr military sidecar motorcycle in a barn where it had sat 27 years. According to the import paperwork that came with it, it had sat in the back of a warehouse in Ukraine for 20 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. The person that...

That's a nice setup! Welcome to the Forum also. I can't imagine any motorcycle sold at an estate sale that does not need work. I found a BMW K750 at an estate sale I had to pass up. His Widow could not give up her husbands motorcycle until it was past saving. I told my wife not to do that. I...

That's normal. It only dampens rapid motion which is a lot faster than you can push and pull it by hand. It would take care of rapid oscillation of the handlebars ( tank slap) or a VW steering wheel but still allows normal steering action without resistance. Years ago when my hobby was air...

Those "hammer nuts" are just hubcaps. After you remove them like any other hubcap you find a self locking nylock nut on the end of the axle holding the wheels on.

You don't really need a full size DIN opening. My Cycle Sound enclosure was not large enough to stick a DIN metal frame in it for the radio. Someone had started cutting it and then realized that was not going to work. My solution was to go with the rough cut opening already there and made a...

It's too far away for me. Otherwise I would be on it like white on rice! I'd buy it and then find a Motorcycle I could mount it on.

Windjammers are too big to ship via USPS or any of the other carriers. It would need to be on a standard truck forklift pallet and freight truck shipped. What you do is get a standard wood pallet and build a plywood box on it with everything well padded inside. It's going to be expensive. In...

I used a Dollar Tree floor mat. I cut it to fit and it's worked well for several years now. If you don't know what Dollar Tree is it's one of those stores where everything is a Dollar ($1). I also lined the pockets in my Windjammer fairing with the same stuff. It's easy to cut with sharp scissors.