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V-Rod Sidecar Adventure Rig

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V-Rod sidecar adventure rig
V-Rod sidecar adventure rig

Built to be just like the Hog Wild Racing desert racing sidecar we covered a few years ago, here’s a 2005 Harley Davidson V-Rod outfitted for adventure sidecar racing off road, though it is fully street legal.

V-Rod sidecar adventure rig
V-Rod sidecar adventure rig

There are Bridgestone and Michelin off road tires, Keizer wheels, Ohlin shocks, Kosman hubs, rotors and sprockets plus a 12 gallon Fuel Safe tank to get you there and back.

Who say Harleys can’t go off road?

Link: V-Rod sidecar rig for sale on eBay

V-Rod sidecar adventure rig
V-Rod sidecar adventure rig

Comments

  1. WOW. No expense spared. This thing looks like it’s ready for Arnold. It looks like the passenger will be put on active (monkey) duty with occasional breaks on either seat. I’d love to take this to Baja.

    -todd

  3. It would be an interesting bike to try without the sidecar, too. So many adventures, so little wealth (*sigh*)!

  5. The proportions of the tires and engine make the whole thing look like a minibike in the first pic. Sweet

  6. The world’s biggest, baddest minibike! As a former hack pilot, I have to say I WANT THIS RIG!

    • Good question! I’m thinking a Thompson submachine gun mounted to the triple clamp via a swivel like on the military Norton singles during WWII. It was nearly impossible to steer the bike and fire that machine gun at the same time, but it sure looked right, like a squad of Tommys on their Nortons could win the war on their own. Sadly, it didn’t work very well, and they had to stop the bike to fire, which defeated the purpose. Soon enough, most of them were stuck at Dunkirk. They bashed the cylinders off with their rifle butts so Fritz couldn’t use those fine Nortons. I’m sure many a Tommy wished he could take his Norton back to England, but it was a miracle that so many Tommys got back at all. My uncle was among them and he didn’t know which was more harrowing, being strafed and bombed on the beach by the Luftwaffe or sailing for home in a small, leaky boat the was made for quiet rivers, not the stormy English Channel.

      • When I was a young guy on a road trip with my Triumph (fixing it in a parking lot, of course) a couple of old fellers walk up and started chatting me up about the Nortons they used to ride in the war. Brit bikes and war stories – turned out to be a pleasent afternoon.

        • Paulinator –

          Isn’t it great to have chance meetings with old veterans who also were riders?

          Sadly, we’re losing those old veterans at an alarming rate. My dad served as a mess sergeant with the U.S. 94th Army Field Hospital in England and then France — he was among the younger of the men and he will be 90 in November. His older brother fought across North Africa and into Sicily under Patton, and he has been gone for 10 years. My English uncles who served with His Majesty’s Army all are gone. My neighbor who served in the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific died long ago, and the older men who were my co-workers and also served are mostly gone. We’re losing all our first-hand witnesses to the war, and soon it will pass from living memory. Thankfully, it was the best-recorded war in history, and there is enough information in print, audio, and movies to keep historians busy for the foreseeable future. Still, there’s nothing like talking to someone who was there. I grew up hearing stories about the war, and I’ll miss that.

          • I agree completely. Target neutralized. Objective met.

            I hurts me to see the human toll on our young returning soldiers today. The enemy is an ideology that entire branches of our government won’t even acknowledge. At politic, not war.

  9. I would like to see a Video of this Machine in differant Off Road conditions without the Sidecar! It would be nice to put it through some Dual sport Chalenges!