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stutterin' sam
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PostPosted: 15:20 - 25 Aug 2009    Post subject: Japanese Tow Truck Reply with quote
https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/3855650267_1861d196dd.jpg
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Wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it!!
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wizzzard
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PostPosted: 15:23 - 25 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Genius! I wonder what kind of weight they can pull.
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PostPosted: 15:40 - 25 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I thought the RAC/AA were looking at these a few years ago?

Wizzzard, I reckon they could easily pull a car Wink . I think the idea was to use them just to get you off the road where you would have to wait for a big 'un to come along and take you home.
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PostPosted: 15:42 - 25 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
There was a video a couple of years ago on youtube showing these bikes at work, the idea seems to be that you're able to filter through all of the traffic that the broken down car has caused and then to be able to move it out of the way asap.
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PostPosted: 16:39 - 25 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wonder how many of them have had a shit day and forgot they were towing and gone to filter ?...
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PostPosted: 16:45 - 25 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
There was someone on here that did or was looking to do this California, if I remember.
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PostPosted: 16:45 - 25 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Now thats pretty damb cool
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PostPosted: 21:06 - 25 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
atleast if you had one of those you'd no longer get annoyed by those who park in bike bays .... 'im not having this sh*t....click....drag....dump...smile'
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chris-red
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PostPosted: 22:39 - 25 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
wizzzard wrote:
Genius! I wonder what kind of weight they can pull.


I would be more concerned about stopping than going. A pan must weight what 250kg?, your average car weights 1000-1500kg. Thats trying to stop Say 1750kg mainly stopping through a front bike tire Laughing
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PostPosted: 23:24 - 25 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not just the poor brakes, what about the clutch and drivetrain?

That amount of weight must cause long term problems.
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chris-red
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PostPosted: 23:29 - 25 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I imagine the shaft drive is up for it, I bet it is downgeared but they must eat clutches.
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PostPosted: 23:32 - 25 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Its a Goldwing, not a pan. And having had wings as trikes, pulling trailers etc, I have never heard of a drive train failure. I recon thats a shit hot idea.
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chris-red
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PostPosted: 23:35 - 25 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Polarbear wrote:
Its a Goldwing, not a pan. And having had wings as trikes, pulling trailers etc, I have never heard of a drive train failure. I recon thats a shit hot idea.


I'm fairly sure a trike or a trailer will not increase your bikes weight by a factor of 7.

Edit, Goldwings weight 400kg so it is more like factor of 5 if it was pulling say a Mondeo.
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PostPosted: 23:37 - 25 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
You havn't seen some of the fat bastards in the Goldwing owners club
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PostPosted: 07:46 - 26 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nothing new there.
I remember this link from My-MC.com in 2005 (ok, I had to search for exact url but I knew it was in there).

It has a link to Coming Through - Retriever.

https://www.comingthrough.se/download/gallery/images/b%E4rgaren%20aug2007%20028.jpg.

https://www.comingthrough.se/download/gallery/images/b%E4rgaren%20aug2007%20025.jpg.

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Ichy
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PostPosted: 07:59 - 26 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
chris-red wrote:

I would be more concerned about stopping than going. A pan must weight what 250kg?, your average car weights 1000-1500kg. Thats trying to stop Say 1750kg mainly stopping through a front bike tire Laughing


Damn, you would think with all the work that went into the hydraulic deployment that they might of thought of fitting hydraulic brakes to the trailer. Wink
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PostPosted: 08:04 - 26 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ichy wrote:
chris-red wrote:

I would be more concerned about stopping than going. A pan must weight what 250kg?, your average car weights 1000-1500kg. Thats trying to stop Say 1750kg mainly stopping through a front bike tire Laughing


Damn, you would think with all the work that went into the hydraulic deployment that they might of thought of fitting hydraulic brakes to the trailer. Wink


Coming Through wrote:
The Retriever is designed to minimize forces to transfer from the towing unit to the motorcycle. This is managed in an efficient and sophisticated manner by the patented brake and steering system. The systems works together to eliminate the transfer of forces, as the rider turns or brake the systems ensures that the steering and/or brake forces are, in largest possible extent, managed by the towing unit. The systems are operated fully with hydraulic and mechanical components and are independent of the motorcycle. This will result in the Retriever to be ridden like any other motorcycle even though it is actually recovering a car.

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Ichy
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PostPosted: 08:10 - 26 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I guess the sarcasm didn't work Laughing You can see the brakes in one of the photos.

I would be interested in any work, if any, they did to the clutch though.
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