Looking for a motorcycle hauler

[bcp]

About streamlining--think of a fish or airliner--blunt rounded front and pointed tail. But if you tow at supersonic speeds, streamlining gets different.

If I REALLY wanted a streamlined enclosed trailer, I would look for an older, bad interior Airstream or Avion travel trailer and rebuild the interior to suit.

Bruce

 

[JJZ 109]

Well, RallyTime never did respond to me. So I did a little searching. I found an old post from 2007 on a Gold Wing forum where the person stated that he was quoted $6295 back then. I'd hate to ask now.
Looks like this type of trailer is out of the question money wise.

 

[3930dave]

Wow.... crazy money.... I wonder how these companies stay in business ?

Pls let us know what you do end up getting, and how it works out on the road.....

Rgds, D.

 

[JJZ 109]

Wow.... crazy money.... I wonder how these companies stay in business ?

Pls let us know what you do end up getting, and how it works out on the road.....

Rgds, D.

Funny you should say that Dave. I did find a post (but nothing concrete because I didn't care enough to search further) that RallyTime had gone bankrupt. But they do still appear to have a website up so I have no idea about the truthfulness of that post.
I think that maybe they just don't answer inquiries from their website or maybe they only answer pricing questions on the telephone.
Haven't given up the search, but it's looking like I may just have to go with a lower profile trailer similar to my old one and hope for the best. I know it's been stated here that the nose makes no difference, it's the tail. But my experience with a lower profile trailer that has a sharper V nose tells me that it pulls a heck of a lot better than the shallow V, taller trailer that I used to have.

 

[3930dave]

I haven't had the chance to test out different nose profiles, but I could see Tall being an issue.... creates more sail area.

Would take some elbow grease, and shop time, but the best suggestion so far was converting an olde Airstream into a toy-hauler - that would be cool !

Rgds, D.

 

[JJZ 109]

I haven't had the chance to test out different nose profiles, but I could see Tall being an issue.... creates more sail area.

Would take some elbow grease, and shop time, but the best suggestion so far was converting an olde Airstream into a toy-hauler - that would be cool !

Rgds, D.

The Airstream idea would be cool, but way too much time & labor for the few times a year that I actually have a need to haul a bike.

 

[Diamondpilot]

The Airstream idea would be cool, but way too much time & labor for the few times a year that I actually have a need to haul a bike.

So there you have it. Let's say you tow your bikes 4 times a year for a total of 2,000 miles and your current trailer gets 10 mpg and a new trailer can yield 14 mpg that's a 40% improvement. Let's say gas is $4 per gallon.

At 10 mpg for 2000 miles you would use 200 gallons of gas or $800 worth.

At 14 mpg for 2000 miles you would use 143 gallons of gas or about $575 worth.

Not much of a gain for limited use to offset the trailers cost. Now if you towed 10,000 miles a year that's a different story.

Chris

 

[JJZ 109]

So there you have it. Let's say you tow your bikes 4 times a year for a total of 2,000 miles and your current trailer gets 10 mpg and a new trailer can yield 14 mpg that's a 40% improvement. Let's say gas is $4 per gallon.

At 10 mpg for 2000 miles you would use 200 gallons of gas or $800 worth.

At 14 mpg for 2000 miles you would use 143 gallons of gas or about $575 worth.

Not much of a gain for limited use to offset the trailers cost. Now if you towed 10,000 miles a year that's a different story.

Chris

This is why I'm here Chris. All opinions welcome. It'd sure take a long time to recoup the money spent on some trailers discussed here based simply on the improved mileage.

 

[3930dave]

With the costs of those single axle MC trailers, I have to wonder if the owners of the companies were greedy, or just not good at running a business efficiently....

Seriously.... were they trying to recover all their NRE costs on something like 10 trailers ?

Pls post pics of what you pick up Todd, I'm now curious about the height you'll end up with.

Rgds, D.

 

[My Gym]

Is this the type of trailer you are looking for.
First attempt at uploading photos, Courious if it works for me.