Motoring Discussion > RHD racing motorcycle combinations in USA Miscellaneous
Thread Author: bathtub tom Replies: 5
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New Fri 18 Nov 16 19:47 
 RHD racing motorcycle combinations in USA - bathtub tom
Watching an episode of Jay Leno's garage on Dave (or something similar), I noticed the item on racing motorcycle combinations showed all the outfits as being RHD.

Can anyone explain the reason for this?

I wonder what they are in the rest of Europe?
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New Fri 18 Nov 16 21:38 
 RHD racing motorcycle combinations in USA - Runfer D'Hills
Is it, and I really don't know if this is the case, but is it maybe to do with more racing circuits being set up to run clockwise and there being some dynamic advantage in the sidecar being on the left?

That could of course, indeed probably is, complete nonsense. But I suspect if you said it confidently enough, some would believe you.

;-)
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New Sat 19 Nov 16 00:29 
 RHD racing motorcycle combinations in USA - Ted

On our last camping trip by bike to Southern Germany, one of our party, Fred..75 yrs, came on his combination. handy for some of the tents but he didn't like the Autobahns very much, feeling very unsure of the camber.
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New Sat 19 Nov 16 09:18 
 RHD racing motorcycle combinations in USA - bathtub tom
A colleague has a Chinese copy of the Russian copy (Ural) of a BMW combo, it's LHD. I've ridden it and it doesn't 'feel right'. I understand it's not possible to register a LHD combo in the UK after a certain date of manufacture (1991?).
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New Sun 20 Nov 16 13:07 
 RHD racing motorcycle combinations in USA - Harleyman
>> I've ridden it and it doesn't 'feel right'. I understand it's not possible
>> to register a LHD combo in the UK after a certain date of manufacture (1991?).
>>

Not certain of the cut-off date but you're correct on the prohibition.

Having regularly driven a LHD vehicle over here I can understand why; it's relatively simple to swap a sidecar over whereas it isn't with a four-wheeled vehicle.
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New Sun 20 Nov 16 17:09 
 RHD racing motorcycle combinations in USA - R.P.
Some Ural models have a shaft drive to the "chair" side, more or less impossible to convert. They come in RHD form from the factory in recent years.
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