Re: Trailering

[RSRiding@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 1/21/2004 7:41:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, Bmsdcr@xxxxxxx 
writes:

> Who here has pulled a trailer with their R1100? I have an R27 I would like 
> to 
> shuttle to nicer locals but don't want to use the pickup truck. So 
> mid-winter 
> blues dictates I design a trailer to pull the R27 behind the RS. The bike 
> weighs about 350lbs. Outside a hitch I figured I would install a 33:11 rear 
> drive 
> to help out. Anybody have any recommendations for which hitch to buy or any 
> other wisdom.

I was considering trying to trailer a 1980 Suzuki 450 (< 380#) from Oklahoma 
to Tennessee with a GL1200/Goldwing (>800#). A good friend who has been around 
bikes since he was a kid (neither of us are now) practically begged me to not 
do it. He would have loaned me a truck for the 1800 mile round trip rather 
than me try to pull a small bike with a larger bike. I took my truck.

I've seen people pulling things like canoes as well as the standard trailer. 
I guess there must be a cutoff somewhere that is considered unsafe (some might 
say ANY trailer is unsafe, but I guess we'll save that for another day). I 
don't know where that cutoff is.

Geoffrey Greene
R100RS Big
R1100RS Bigger
GL1200A Biggest
R80G/S Small
NT650 Smaller
GS450E Smallest

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