Dear Kalbaern,

[Wids]

Seeing as you're our resident motorcycle expert — and seeing as everything I know about motorcycles could fit inside a sippy cup with room to spare — here's an animation-inspired question for you:

How many sidecars could you attach to a motorcycle before bad things started to happen?

(...you know...motorcycles and sidecars in general.  Not necessarily Dethklok's Murdercycle, or the off-chance that the Murdercycle could become reality.  Or whatever.  )

Thanks!  And how are you today? 

[Wids]

(...and by "bad things," I mean design flaws, mechanical problems, incompatibilities with the laws of physics and such. I don't mean problems directly caused by the decisions of the motorcycle's rider and/or its passengers.

...yeah, not problems like that.  Definitely not.  Just the mechanical physics sciencey stuff, thanks.    )

[kalbaern]

Jul 11, 2018 20:54:36 GMT -5 Wids said:

Seeing as you're our resident motorcycle expert — and seeing as everything I know about motorcycles could fit inside a sippy cup with room to spare — here's an animation-inspired question for you:

How many sidecars could you attach to a motorcycle before bad things started to happen?

(...you know...motorcycles and sidecars in general.  Not necessarily Dethklok's Murdercycle, or the off-chance that the Murdercycle could become reality.  Or whatever.  )

Thanks!  And how are you today? 

One.

[Wids]

Only one? Not even two?  

But how can you carry a family of four — or a five-man band — around in one sidecar?  Besides leaving the motorcycle in the garage and renting a four-door sedan, I mean. 



(...and what do you suppose happened to those four sidecars and their passengers after Nathan Explosion used his Death Metal voodoo to magically detach them from the motorcycle and take off like he did?    )