Motorcycle trailer/carrier.

[Dodgy69]

Just browsing and saw this. What u reckon. ???

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/303859222607

[weeksy]

Hmmm I dunno. It's not for me.

I use an Erde pm 310

Had it a decade and only needed an odd wheel bearing.

[KungFooBob]

Great if you want to square off your rear tyre and wear the drive chain, sprockets, shaft, etc...

It's the 'towing' of last resort, imho.

I'd also be surprised if it was legal without a number board.

[scottyuk]

No good if you have an issue with the rear tyre, wheel, swing arm, etc etc etc

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I've got a motolug, does the job

[Mussels]

Interesting photo in that ad. A Citroen Picasso has a maximum nose weight of 50-85kg for towing, anyone know how heavy a Goldwing is on the front wheel?

[Dodgy69]

Quite like the motolug. Easy loading. Trailer issues for overnight parking are always gonna be security i imagine.

[weeksy]

Quite like the motolug. Easy loading. Trailer issues for overnight parking are always gonna be security i imagine.

One of the lads who'd used a PM310 also tried a Motolug and hated it. I've done hundreds upon hundreds of trips with my PM310, from a Multistrada to a Harley, to KTMs and dirt bikes, Crust took it to Spa, it's done god knows how many miles and is still spot on. I've got a front wheel chock installed in mine to help with loading.

You're right though, security is an issue, i use a towball mounted lock when out and about overnight and i also Almax the bike to the trailer. However, of course it's still out in the open rather than enclosed in a van.

I see a van as my longer term solution to this, but that's a few years away at the moment.

[Dodgy69]

Unless the van becomes the new car.

[weeksy]

Unless the van becomes the new car.

Vans in some ways can never be cars. But depends how much you want to compromise as cars can never be vans either.

I drove a Nissan NV300 yesterday and it was nicer than I expected. Bit it wasn't as quiet as the car or as refined as it either. But it was a long long way from terrible. Handled well, easy to load bike in, yeah, ace really.

[DefTrap]

I'd have a van if it was also a big part of my daily life (business venture; murdering hitchhikers; solving mysteries with my talking dog etc) but other than that they make terrible daily drivers.

[Mussels]

For a few years a lwb twin cab Transit Custom was our family car. It was pretty nice to drive and not much different to a Focus or Mondeo, car parks could be interesting but not a huge problem unless you go to a multi storey and the roof mounted signs hang down lower than the height warning on the way in. Park next to a Range Rover and they are a similar size, just go for one under 2m high as height barriers are rarely lower than that.
Circumstances changed and I chopped it in for the Jag, I was a bit meh and would happily have carried on driving the van.
What didn't make this the perfect family car was the load bed with a twin cab, even in the lwb it was only 1.8m.

[weeksy]

2018-01-18_08-26-17 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

[Yorick]

I have a fantastic bike trailer and giving it away free.
Collection only.

[David]

No good if you have an issue with the rear tyre, wheel, swing arm, etc etc etc

or if the towed vehicle is not road legal and insured.

[Scotsrich]

Won’t your gear cluster still be rotating without either the oil or water circulating for lubrication and cooling?

Is this going to happen/ be a bad thing or am I just creating a problem where there isn’t one?

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Quite like the motolug. Easy loading. Trailer issues for overnight parking are always gonna be security i imagine.

One of the lads who'd used a PM310 also tried a Motolug and hated it. I've done hundreds upon hundreds of trips with my PM310, from a Multistrada to a Harley, to KTMs and dirt bikes, Crust took it to Spa, it's done god knows how many miles and is still spot on. I've got a front wheel chock installed in mine to help with loading.

You're right though, security is an issue, i use a towball mounted lock when out and about overnight and i also Almax the bike to the trailer. However, of course it's still out in the open rather than enclosed in a van.

I see a van as my longer term solution to this, but that's a few years away at the moment.

Motolug isn't the greatest thing to load of you do it the way Motolug say, if you use a 2ft ramp to get the bike onto the trailer it makes life a lot lot easier. Mine tows fine but I've replaced all the rattly pins with nuts and bolts.