Bike Trailer

[Silver]

This morning I made the hour drive to Trailertek to have a towbar fitted and buy a bike trailer (just in time for next weekend's trackday at Brands).

Cost me £170 for the towbar and fitting and about £440 for the trailer by the time I added a spare wheel, holder, hitch lock, ramp and jockey wheel.

It seems pretty stable and isn't too big, although there is no way I can get it on it's end and into the back garden (which was the plan) as the bugger weighs 350kgs. So with that plan out of the window some reorganising was called for in the garage. We were never going to fit four bikes and a trailer in there so Jeanette kindly volunteered to put her NC30 in the back yard. I'm now glad that I decided against the two bike trailer as it was even bigger!

Anyway, roll on next Saturday (and can we have sun please!)

[Scotsman37]

Wouldn't it have been a lot cheaper to hire a van for a day or two for when you need it ?

[Silver]

[Scotsman37]

Well, at least you're going to make regular use if it and just remember when you're going around corners that you've got a greater overall length now with the added bike trailer.

Doesn't it require a stabiliser with it to avoid it potentially swaying/flipping over when you're on a motorway/dual carriage ways if it happens to be windy with the bike onboard. Added to that the stabiliser will keep the trailer from bouncing along the road when it's not loaded too.

[Bendy]

Tss, that's not a trailer.

THIS is a trailer.

https://www.evilbendy.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_trailerthree.jpg

[Scotsman37]

Nice computer air brushing of the plates !

[Bendy]

Ey, those are real :B


As for stabilisers, worth looking at. Korn had one on the Mundaneo and we were coming back from Croft with 2 bikes on his trailer at over a ton - solid as a rock. Not essential though - wait and find out your trailer's natural snaking speed when loaded and take it from there.

[Silver]

[Bendy]

Pretty much like a steering damper - have a look at https://www.towingandleisure.co.uk/Frames/Caravan_Stabiliser.htm

[mchaggis]

A torsional friction damper rather than a hydraulic longitudinal one though?
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[Sparks!]

What's the quality of those like Silver? I'm going for the TwoTek 2 bike one in a few months time..
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[Bendy]

[Silver]

They seem very good. I'll be able to give you a better idea next week with I've driven with the bike on the back, but it was pretty easy to forget it was there when I was driving back (not always a good thing!) At 350kgs it's pretty solid too.

I was looking at the TwoTek one as well. That's a bit wider and heavier again. To give you an idea, I can get the trailer in the garage and it leaves enough width to get a bike (or bikes in this case) down the side of it. You wouldn't be able to do that with the TwoTek though.

If you go down to their warehouse they had loads of trailers so you can look at them all which helps.

[mchaggis]

[Korn]

If anybody else is looking for a trailer I'm selling mine (stabiliser included) as I've now bought a van - shameless plug:
https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=41147


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[mchaggis]

Forgive my ignorance, but what's indispension?

Edit: Feel free to laugh at me if it's just independent suspension.
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[Zoffo]

www.bikelug.co.uk

Guy that makes these is a member on here.

[Korn]

[mchaggis]

[BLOFLY 636]

thats what I would love to get for my bike but I am using a JET SKI trailer converted into a bike trailer for my trackday in 8 days time over here a bike trailer like that costs $1000 how do you go loading your bike onto it? here is a couple of pics from my trip to the drag races with 3 bikes, two on a trailer and mine in a van!
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[Korn]