Good Bike Trailer

[BillN]

Can you guys recommend a GOOD Bike Trailer to carry two Airheads...........plus has to have a central rail just in case I just tow one, (I also need to tow a K1 which I think is about approx 250 kgs)

Needs to be good to tow Bikes from UK to SW France = 1000 kms

Are the Dave Cooper Trailers any good?

Anyone got a good secondhand one for sale with 100 miles of Hampshire..............can you PM me if you have

Are BikeLug or MotoLug any good over such distances - if so they would be ideal

Cheers

 

[Mike Wilkins]

trailer

the best trailer I have seen was being used by Pastyman at the wee-kend. Talk to Proff it belonged to him. It had a neat 'over centre' bar arrangement where the whole caboodle could be dropped to the floor for loading

 

[Rob Farmer]

I have a bikelug single trailer it's fine for the occasional short haul "get you out the shit" run but I wouldn't fancy towing along way with it. I've just been to pick up an 1100 GS and bent the one man loading system brackets. It's a bit flimsy for serious work.

 

[BillN]

Thanks Rob

I reckon the best bet is to buy a good solid (fixed) one and bring the Bikes down here to SW France two at a time and then sell it locally and repeat the exercise in order to get 4 or 5 Bikes down, keeping the second one as I have plent of space to store it down here

probably only loose £100 a time and much better (and cheaper) than towing an empty trailer back to the UK.

I have also read that the fittings on the Bikelug type trailers can break and that the holes can elongate if used regularly, (or over long distances)

Cheers

 

[John Armstrong]

Thought about hiring a van with towbar? Two bikes in the van, two on the trailer, and then return back with the trailer inside the van.

Assuming that you can hire / get a van and take it overseas

Or does Fanum maybe have some spare capacity from his Moto Morroco trips?

 

[BillN]

Thought about hiring a van with towbar? Two bikes in the van, two on the trailer, and then return back with the trailer inside the van.

Assuming that you can hire / get a van and take it overseas

Or does Fanum maybe have some spare capacity from his Moto Morroco trips?

Thanks John

I have "costed" out all options - the cheapest is the trailer route as we have to go back to the UK and return here by car twice in the next few months.........so it is only the "additional" costs that I would incur.

I have ridden two Bikes down - big slog in one go as it takes all day - even with the long ferry crossings, say to Le Havre or Caen etc., it still can be 10 hours on the Bike and Autoroutes are not much fun on an R80 Basic and my wife still has to drive the car down anyway.

Someone must have a good trailer at a reasonable price - otherwise I guess that a good 2 Bike trailer is about £600 new
Even with the fall in the £, they are still a little cheaper out here, but I would have to tow it back to the UK empty.

( I can probably wait a couple of months - but I would like to get one this year - I have hired one for next week - £30 a day - I only need it for a day to move a bike around)

Cheers

 

[Rob Farmer]

The problem is is that the components aren't hardened. The wheel clamp at the front bent and twisted as I rolled the 1100 onto it. If I'd let the whole weight of the bike rest on it, as it suggests doing in the handbook, the bike would have been on it's side on top of the trailer. I can easily bend it back into shape but the next time an 1100 or similar bike goes on there the same thing will happen.

They are a good solution for occasional use. I'd sooner have a van though.

 

[BillN]

Rob

BikeLug etc., not sure I would trust one at speed over any long distance

what do you think of the following

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__aKbgmqmzM

Is it safe
Is it legal
£80 off EBay

(must get back on the roof as I need to replace 5 broken tiles - but it is HOT up there plus the odd wasp or two or three)

 

[(RIP) Proff]

FFS Bill
Don't bloody hire one, You can borrow my TRELGO 3 biker for feck all...
complete with ramp, supply your own straps tho'
C'mon pick it up in oke or I'll meet you at Exeter....

I've still got me 1 bike annexe if I need a trailer whilst you've got the Trelgo...

 

[BillN]

Thanks Proff

I can hire one locally for £30 for the day - 15 mins away from me - I need it to collect a K1 that I have just bought

I'm in Winchester - by the time I've driven to Exeter and back to collect it - then Exeter and back to get the Trailer back to you - 3 hrs each way - 130 miles = 12 hours driving and 520 miles of fuel

It makes senses to hire one as much as I appreciate your offer

By the way the Pheonix ones look well made

here

I'm getting a little tied up with French Regs re a small Trailer - over 500kgs they have to be registered with their own reg number and plate - limits most people to 500 kgs and under..........
If you buy one in the UK that has to be registered in France, (because it is over 500kgs), unless it is a Make and MODEL that has been imported and sold in France they will not accepted the Trailer for registration and therefore it cannot be used with a French registered car

Cheers

 

[(RIP) Proff]

Trelgo accepted in France

I thought you needed to borrow it to take bikes TO Frogland..
I can do without for a couple of weeks or so.......
Please remember in future....


My Trelgo is 750 kgs GROSS in uk [600kgs approx load]
500kgs load in Frogland

Neither a problem if you're towing on UK number plates ............

 

[Devon]

I have been using a 3.5t flatbed in france for the last 6 months: the french regulations seemed very complexed and confusing so I ignored them. No one seems that bothered to date.
I only paid £50 to take the trailer behind the lorry on Brittany ferries in the low season so returning with an empty trailer won't break the bank.
Why not pay someone like Fanum to take your m/cs over in one hit: it would probably work out cheaper or if your car will pull my trailer you could borrow that. It's in 17 at the moment, bring it back empty and return with your m/cs

 

[Old Git Ray]

Rob

BikeLug etc., not sure I would trust one at speed over any long distance

what do you think of the following

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__aKbgmqmzM

Is it safe
Is it legal
£80 off EBay

(must get back on the roof as I need to replace 5 broken tiles - but it is HOT up there plus the odd wasp or two or three)

I would guess that it is legal if you attach all the required lighting, plate and triangular reflectors. It is not fundamentally different from an AA/RAC breakdown dolly.

However You will be driving the chain/shaft and gearbox. If some tosser clicks it into gear when you are not looking (pertol station for example) then the consequences could be expensive.