Who has experience with sidecars?

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Rossdog

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A guy here in Struisbaai has just bought a GS1200 with a Smiling Wind (SW) sidecar. I have no experience with sidecars, so I'm appealing to the wise dogs who do for some advice.

The owner is a very lightly built slightly senior guy, and he complains that the bike tracks to one side when riding, then tracks to the other while braking. He finds it exhausting to ride. Now, without having ridden the bike myself, and with no sidecar experience as mentioned above, I would imagine this is just par for the course with a sidecar? Or is there a way the sidecar could be set up to lessen the side-pulling effect?
 
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