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New Toys!

Smutyanka has gotten quite a few new toys recently!  Some are more necessary than others.  In order of installation:

Duck Boards
Urals come with a rubber mat that fits in the floor of the sidecar.  It provides some nice traction, but water gets underneath and if you don’t air it out regularly, you can get some pretty [...]

The first casualty of the parking lot…

In true Russian fashion, now that we have gotten Smutyanka running, she has started dropping parts.
I was driving around the parking lot this afternoon, practicing my right-hand turns (which are difficult on a sidecar, because 70% of the weight of the bike is on the left, where the centrifugal force is on a RH turn) [...]