Riding two up ain't always what it's cracked up to be. Don't get me wrong, I love riding with my wife as my backpack. But sometimes, when you head off pavement, what you really want and need is an actual backpack and not a person who subtly shifts their weight around or who can't stand up on the rear pegs. It's not a knock against our partners; it's just physics.
And what happens when you need to make a technical in a battlefield situation? Are you really going to go for something along the lines of a Honda Cub or do you want something with some triangulation to ensure your fortification reduces the felt recoil of your machine gun? Exactly, you want the three points of contact! What the hell am I talking about, you ask? Motorcycles with sidecars, folks, that's what.
As of recent years, the only production motorcycle equipped with a sidecar has been from our friends at Ural, as everything else was an aftermarket afterthought and couldn't really survive the realities of sidecar duty. But Ural's dominance in the sidecar space could be changing, as China's Lifeng just patented what is clearly a Ural-fighting motorcycle and sidecar setup. And it's powered by a CFMoto UTV engine.
