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Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:48 am**

Bad ass.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:42 am**

You mean you don't ride like that yourself?

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:45 am**

Meh, call me when they change the front or driven wheel in the same fashion.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:54 am**

Yeah, totally badass. But I call fake! Yes, I do! For I see what appears to be an open brake-drum, but where are the innards? Or don't CJs have a brake on the sidecar wheel? I seem to remember that many sidecar rigs don't, but I always thought the off-road-ish ones did.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:00 pm**

DerGolgo wrote:Yeah, totally badass. But I call fake! Yes, I do! For I see what appears to be an open brake-drum, but where are the innards? Or don't CJs have a brake on the sidecar wheel? I seem to remember that many sidecar rigs don't, but I always thought the off-road-ish ones did.

would the fact that i picked this off a russian blog and part of the alt text read "kitai" alter your assessment? not being sarcastic or anything.

the blog had no explanation as to the origin of the pic other than that.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:08 pm**

sun rat wrote:
DerGolgo wrote:Yeah, totally badass. But I call fake! Yes, I do! For I see what appears to be an open brake-drum, but where are the innards? Or don't CJs have a brake on the sidecar wheel? I seem to remember that many sidecar rigs don't, but I always thought the off-road-ish ones did.
would the fact that i picked this off a russian blog and part of the alt text read "kitai" alter your assessment? not being sarcastic or anything.

the blog had no explanation as to the origin of the pic other than that.

I'm not doubting that they did the wheel change, I've seen tons of images of that and I believe there are video on the youtube. I just want to know wether that CJ should have a brake on the sidecar-wheel, because if it should, this looks like they pulled our the innards for show. The uniforms look like PLA urban camouflage. Does kitai mean China?

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:09 pm**

Oh, I definitely think its for show. Kind of like the gun-run. Cool, nontheless.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:18 pm**

DerGolgo wrote:
sun rat wrote:
DerGolgo wrote:Yeah, totally badass. But I call fake! Yes, I do! For I see what appears to be an open brake-drum, but where are the innards? Or don't CJs have a brake on the sidecar wheel? I seem to remember that many sidecar rigs don't, but I always thought the off-road-ish ones did.
would the fact that i picked this off a russian blog and part of the alt text read "kitai" alter your assessment? not being sarcastic or anything.

the blog had no explanation as to the origin of the pic other than that.
I'm not doubting that they did the wheel change, I've seen tons of images of that and I believe there are video on the youtube. I just want to know wether that CJ should have a brake on the sidecar-wheel, because if it should, this looks like they pulled our the innards for show. The uniforms look like PLA urban camouflage. Does kitai mean China?

yes, china.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:37 pm**

I've got a Ural sidecar, which, except for the running lights, is exactly the same as the Chang Jiang. The spare wheel will fit any of the three wheels, so even though the sidecar doesn't use brakes, the wheel is ready for any position.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:43 pm**

Pintgudge wrote:I've got a Ural sidecar, which, except for the running lights, is exactly the same as the Chang Jiang. The spare wheel will fit any of the three wheels, so even though the sidecar doesn't use brakes, the wheel is ready for any position.

Okay then, glad that is settled.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:45 pm**

Oh, wait, I see the disc around the axle!

Mine doesnt have that. That is for brakes!

They're cheating!

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:47 pm**

Pintgudge wrote:Oh, wait, I see the disc around the axle!

Mine doesnt have that. That is for brakes!

They're cheating!

but wouldn't it need to be like that to be useable in any position?

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:00 pm**

Yes, the wheel does.

the disc around the axle, on the sidecar, is to mount the brake shoes and cylinders on, so this bike is meant to have brakes on the sidecar,

However, we don't see the shoes and cylinders, so they must have been removed for the show.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:06 pm**

Ha! I knewed its!

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:15 pm**

I wish I could be as analytical as some of you but unfortunately all I see is a cool picture.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:17 pm**

supersweetcoolawesomeMatt wrote:I wish I could be as analytical as some of you but unfortunately all I see is a cool picture.

You all know what you can't spell analytical without!

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:23 pm**

You all know what you can't spell analytical without!

It is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tical_(album)" target="_blank">"tical"?</a>

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:41 pm**

supersweetcoolawesomeMatt wrote:I wish I could be as analytical as some of you but unfortunately all I see is a cool picture.

+1!

but then i'm just a woman, wtf do i know.

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:49 pm**

hhhmmmm,....

while there is a backing plate there, that could conceivably have a braking mechanism attached, do you see any sign that one ever was ?
no shoe pivots, no sign of a cam (mechanical) or slave cylinder (hydraulic).

looks like a simple disc, perhaps meant to keep mud & crap out, more than anything else.

Posted: **Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:24 am**

Solo tire change:

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