My new trailer
 

Got her loaded up and heading to Tally tonight. This is the trailer that I had the kids in the local high school shop class build.

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...80032956_0.jpg

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...80071565_0.jpg

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And the stow away ramp on the side. It slides out and attaches to the rear of the trailer

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...80077739_0.jpg

Looks pretty sturdy, but those wheels look pretty far back, how much weight or percentage of weight in on the hitch?

I noticed the same thing. It looks like almost all the weight will be transfered to the hitch. One bike should be fine with your full size, but a couple bikes and some gear could put you over your max tongue weight.

It looks clean though. I like the ramp idea. The delinquents did a pretty good job.

I designed it that way. It pulls like a dream with more hitch weight. As you can see in the first pic, it's not squatting the back end of the truck at all.

I was thinking about the max tongue weight that a class 3 hitch is designed to hold, which is 500 lbs. Between the bike and the trailer I bet that you are at or over 500 lbs. I'm not concerned about your suspension, or the truck squating, the concern I would have is that the hitch itself is designed for pulling front to back, not movement up and down.

In all reality will any thing ever happen? Probably not, but the design does warrent a second look.

I like it, looks cool.

I can relate, I just had my old one revamped, she looks sweet now with a removable mounted full size tool box, spare tire mount and full gate on the back plus her shiny new paint job.

Gotcha. Good point

OMFG I think this is the first time I ever saw an internet discussion finish without anyone calling each other nazis or homos





(You are a nazi jew homo)

You have a pickup, why are you using a trailer?

Thats because Ontwo is special. The rare "niceguy". He's even nicer in person.

Not like a bunch of assholes I'll be seeing in a week...Kev, you sure you cant make a quick jump over? Liven things up a bit? Im thinking we cant be that far from ya...