Best Posts in Thread: best local bike for adding a side car

Having used the public Tricycles here extensively here in the past, I have come to the conclusion they are very dangerous units, the Drivers are fighting that third wheel constantly, one day when traveling down to the City from Valencia, I got to thinking what if this Driver has to stop quickly going down this steep hill the fully loaded sidecar would spin us around and I guess the whole unit would overturn and tumble down this steep hill?
I bought a car soon after this, we do have a Motorbike but my young child has never been allowed to travel on this and the reason we used the Trikes, thinking they give a little more protection.
One of my pet hates here is to see a Foreigner with children on his Motorbike especially if he has a car and this is even worse when they do not have Helmets on, how could a man live with himself if anything happened to this child because of his own Stupidity? I'm my view they are just Fecking idiot's.

 

Both nice, until you start thinking about getting a Vespa or BMW serviced here.

 

Well, there are lots of things to say about the subject.
First off, I have never owned a bike with a sidecar, I imagine it basically achieves two things,
a. loss of agility in traffic, and
b. it slows you down anyway, even without the need to overtake.
Then there's the condition of roads in the Philippines, which is anywhere between hopeless and reasonable, with a large majority in the "pretty bad" category. Potholes and the like will regularly force you to slow down seriously.
Then there's the weather, it rains often and sometimes unexpected.
My personal take on the subject of "bike with sidecar" in the Philippines won't surprise, I think it is a choice only for people who definitely don't want to own a car.

But, with regard to the best suited bikes to attach a sidecar, I would say it's definitely a job for a touring type motorbike, such as the Honda CB series (I have owned a Honda 750 f2 like the one in the picture below for a long time before moving to the Philippines)

I'm not suggesting to use a bike that's as heavy as that one in the Philippines, since your average speed will be pretty close to a sobering 40 km/h anyway, a CB 400 or similar would suffice I think. If money isn't an issue you could consider the new CB500, but that sells for around 1 million peso or so. I'm thinking you could pick up a decent secondhand bike around 150-200k.
Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki all have similar models to the Honda CB range.