21st Motorcycle

[Jim Fowler]

Falkner,

This is a great build! I have hoped for year Dragon would make a kit of a BMW with sidecar - I know it would be popular and sell as a kit. Honestly, I have also wished they would makw a WLA as well...even more so. I like motorcycles, as do other 1/6th collectors.

Anyw, please keep us posted on your progress - I love to read them!

Jim

[Falckner]

Thanks Henrik and Jim I also wish that DML would do a real plastic/metall BMW
and not that polystone crap.
Henrik I know my mental state is somewhat disturbed .

One off the biggest problem with
this 21st bike is that its not any certain brand. DKW is the bike
that I have found to be the closest to it. But there is to many
faults to reproduce a proper DKW.So what I will do is to pick
some goddies from here and there and put on my bike.

I got a crazy input yesterday to try to reproduce a light switch.
I used a 1/72 rund head slotted bolt,solder a piece off brass sheet
on it some file on that and voila pretty good I think.
And as it is tapped in it can be moved what do think Henrik?

[Falckner]

Some work done to the gastank so
that it could be refill :-) and I also
moved the locking cylinder to the left
insted off top and made a key for it.

[Germanbilly1]

Now you have to put a small switch inside the light so you can use the switch to turn on the light.
GB

[Falckner]

Originally Posted by Germanbilly1

Now you have to put a small switch inside the light so you can use the switch to turn on the light.
GB

LOL I knew someone would suggest this .

[Falckner]

After looking at a lot off different picture
WW2 and renovated motorcycle I found
some more details I could do .

The first one was to fix another error from 21st
the sidecar wheel was mounted in wrong position
with the brake drum outside,couldn´t be left that way?

Another thing was those stabilize rods betwenn bike frame
and sidecar frame. So I used coppertube that I tapped 1/72
and some brass bolts that I solder to some brasssheet that I
try to make some decent u-hinges to.

End result was like this,some more cleaning up to do on them.
Did some dry fit yesterday.

[Pangaea95]

Wow, this is going to be the nicest TUS/21st Century Combo ever! Truly an inspiration, looking forward to seeing this project evolve!

[flyboy_fx]

After your done you will be able to start it.

[Kapernakis]

That is some excellent work there, make's me want to do mine now.
Never seen the water carrier before, pretty neat.

[johnro6659]

I love this thread. I got several of these 21st Bikes W and W/O side cars and they are pretty much indestructible but always lacked detail. All the mods your doing are great. I will be referring to this thread quite a bit in the future.