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Old 03-30-2013, 03:14 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ryland View Post
In good weather a trailer would be more streamlined but in the winter the big risk of ridding a motorcycle is slipping on the ice and a side car would help fur sure in keeping you upright in the winter.
I'm not so favorable to trailers for motorcycles, I've already seen a few ones and strongly disliked them. Synchronizing the brakes in a trailer, when they're available, is a hard point...


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A side car is going to reduce your mileage tho, so to be able to give a good answer we need to know by how much!
A carburettor-fed 4-stroke air-cooled 125cc motorcycle, such as a Honda CG 125, with Brazilian gasoline which varies from 20 to 25% ethanol, usually falls from 80 to 58 MPG. But it's definitely not so torquey, so it feels the heavier weight much harder than a 250cc motorcycle.
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