I love redheads! I dated almost exclusively gingers for, well, oh ya! I still do! So I know it takes some work to satisfy a amber girl good enough for her to cum back! It takes some work to learn to pilot a rig, find a big empty parking lot very near you and don't hit any police cars or people! Practice getting on and off, starting from on ground and on pegs. This bike and a lot of beemers kick "sideways" out from center on left side, ya its weird to Harley and honda riders alike. Get used to it, there's more weird than normal on a Dnepr!
Always do a preflight inspection and pick up any bits that you see around the area that may have came from your bike and figure out where that came from. You will notice that even when properly aligned the rig surges right under acceleration and left under deceleration, and only God knows where under differant braking. After you adjust the sidecar brake and driven wheel brake you can actually get it to stop well enough for 40mph.
Turning right with a right sidecar is interesting in that you can inadvertently "fly the chair" fun, but very dangerous until you get better at just going around in circles. Turning left is more forgiving as your actually putting the most sideways pressure on the sidecar wheel taking advantage of the triangle effect. Turning is much better with a monkey (sidecar passenger), and if you get a trainable one get them to move around to counter balance, communicate with your monkey what your doing, it can make it a piloting experance for them too! Go play in the dirt, a little sand in a parking lot can be a blast! Use your steering damper!! If it doesn't work fix it! I have had many bikes with dampers and most could be driven without it, not driven hard but... A sidecar bike really really needs one, think about how heavy and off center the forces are pushing, pulling, surging....adjusting your alignment is vital if its not right you will know. I did mine by eye, but it was close to begin with.
A Dneprglide is actually a clutch activation linkage that works with the shifter peddle, when you start to move the peddle a short rod protrudes from the rear of the transmission and pushes the clutch lever on the rear of transmission opposite the clutch cable, when its adjusted right you can shift up easily without pulling the lever! Think about it, you can keep your hands on the grips and just shift into second in the middle of a turn, on rough terrain, drinking coffee....
It takes some practice but can be useful. The flywheel in these bikes is HUGE for a motorcycle, more Volkswagen size so when you let go of the clutch after shifting into second it can be violent if your to high in the rpms! Reverse is really cool, useful, and just plain weird! When hot to get it into reverse can be tricky, put in 1st, apply slight pressure on reverse lever with your hand not your foot,now shift into neutral while still holding slight pressure on reverse lever it will just pop into reverse just as it slides out of 1st, before the secondary shaft has time to start spinning again. Watch out! I swear you could 25mph with that gearing! Keep hand on clutch lever and foot on brake peddle!
Turning right with a right sidecar is interesting in that you can inadvertently "fly the chair" fun, but very dangerous until you get better at just going around in circles. Turning left is more forgiving as your actually putting the most sideways pressure on the sidecar wheel taking advantage of the triangle effect. Turning is much better with a monkey (sidecar passenger), and if you get a trainable one get them to move around to counter balance, communicate with your monkey what your doing, it can make it a piloting experance for them too! Go play in the dirt, a little sand in a parking lot can be a blast! Use your steering damper!! If it doesn't work fix it! I have had many bikes with dampers and most could be driven without it, not driven hard but... A sidecar bike really really needs one, think about how heavy and off center the forces are pushing, pulling, surging....adjusting your alignment is vital if its not right you will know. I did mine by eye, but it was close to begin with.
Piloting with the Dneprglide simi-automatic transmission
It takes some practice but can be useful. The flywheel in these bikes is HUGE for a motorcycle, more Volkswagen size so when you let go of the clutch after shifting into second it can be violent if your to high in the rpms! Reverse is really cool, useful, and just plain weird! When hot to get it into reverse can be tricky, put in 1st, apply slight pressure on reverse lever with your hand not your foot,now shift into neutral while still holding slight pressure on reverse lever it will just pop into reverse just as it slides out of 1st, before the secondary shaft has time to start spinning again. Watch out! I swear you could 25mph with that gearing! Keep hand on clutch lever and foot on brake peddle!
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