A quick ride up to Edy Texas to pick it up and back home to unload it.

Of course pretty women cannot resist a ride in a sidecar.

As it was the motorcycle was quite welldone already.

more initial photos...

more initial photos...

more initial photos...

George the cat approved of the new sleeping spot too...

The labeling was well done...

labels...

labels...

labels...

labels...

Since I was planning to ride the bike on the street as well as in reenactments I added turn signals as low profile as possible... safety first. I will cover the front ones with a zelt. The licensing process was a bit of fun... as dealing withe government usually is, but the bike is licensed and titled in Texas now. Creates a stir wherever I go.

The signals are from a 1973 Honda. The handlebar switch is from a Honda 80. As I wired in the signals I found that the original wiring on the bike was done pretty sloppily with a huge splice in it to relocate the regulator and rectifier under the sidecar. There was also no fuses, creating a potentially dangerous situation. You can see the kneepads on the gas tank are also positioned incorrectly.

Another thing that I needed was to have a way to get the bike back and forth to events as borrowing a trailer would be pretty hard. I went to the 'trailer man' out on highway 290 and picked out a healthy trailer. I plan to add a kubelwagen later on so I needed a little more capacity than just for the bike. The dual axle 18 footer should work fine.

In addition to fixing up the wiring problems I wanted to relocate the battery from where it was to inside the sidecar boot. It had been spraying acid overflow onto the rear shock and axle, not good. In the boot I could route the drain hose out the bottom and away from any of the parts of the bike. I could alos hide the large battery and the regulator board. You can see here the spliced wiring harness after I removed the ball of electrical tape.

Another view of the splice ball...

Removing the fuel tank allowed better access to everything. Also replaced the fuel lines to the carbs, the tank crossover and my friend Bill took the tank to reweld the kneepads in the correct location.

Opening the headlight shell, removing old lines and starting to add fusing for some circuits.

I took the regulator board out, removed all the old nasty splices and soldered the connections covering the joints with heat shrink tubing.

The completed regulator board was mounted to the back of the sidecar seat.

Regulator board in its new location awaiting wiring harness connection to the motorcycle and the battery.

Relocation completed; battery installed and connections made.

Fuel tank reinstalled with kneepads in the right place and new fuel lines to the carbs.

Last of the wiring being completed in the headlight shell. Also I installed a container and mount on the left side of the sidecare nose. Still have to find panniers.

At the Camp Mabry reenactment, signals covered by a zelt.