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Hi All Due to an unfortunate "getoff" in Cottonwood Canyon last week at Death Valley Daze, and the associated broken wrist, I have now found myself in need of a car for the first time in 5 years. Yesterday, I acquired a 95 Jeep 4.0L Wrangler with 88k miles. It seems to be in really good shape and it will be my main transportation until the doctor lets me back on my A17. Now that I have this Jeep, I am looking for a motorcyle trailer that I could use to take my Barbie bike out to some OHV parks where I can practice my dirt skills so I won't fall off so much any more. I came across this trailer... http://www.motorcycleinnovations.com/index.html They are asking $1200 for the single bike version. Anybody have experience with this product? Any other trailer recommendations? I am trying to avoid having a trailer sitting outside the house on a permanent basis. TIA Randy from Burbank __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

That's a lot of dough to spend on a little "trailer" like that. I understand your predicament, though, and don't know what else to suggest, except maybe for one of those Kendon trailers that stands on end. It's a lot more heavy duty than what you're thinking of buying. Note that those little wheels (8"?) are gonna have to spin really fast to do any kind of highways speeds. Keep those bearings serviced regularly. --John Kokola

> -----Original Message----- > From: Randall Marbach [mailto:remarbach@...] > > I came across this trailer... > > http://www.motorcycleinnovations.com/index.html > > They are asking $1200 for the single bike version.

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Randall Marbach wrote:

> Hi All > > Due to an unfortunate "getoff" in Cottonwood Canyon > last week at Death Valley Daze, and the associated > broken wrist, I have now found myself in need of a car > for the first time in 5 years. Yesterday, I acquired a > 95 Jeep 4.0L Wrangler with 88k miles. It seems to be > in really good shape and it will be my main > transportation until the doctor lets me back on my > A17. > > Now that I have this Jeep, I am looking for a > motorcyle trailer that I could use to take my Barbie > bike out to some OHV parks where I can practice my > dirt skills so I won't fall off so much any more. > > I came across this trailer... > > http://www.motorcycleinnovations.com/index.html > > They are asking $1200 for the single bike version. > Anybody have experience with this product? > Any other trailer recommendations? I am trying to > avoid having a trailer sitting outside the house on a > permanent basis. > > TIA > > Randy from Burbank

Randy, I looked at that too before I had a pickup truck (Silverado). But for $1200 you can buy a beater Toyoter or Nissan kickup and skip the trailer gig altogether. I cam close to getting a little gizmo for lower speed local towing. http://members.aol.com/handeehitch/handeehitch.htm $50 and you just pull the front wheel and put the front axle through the little hitch thing and away you go. Looks interesting! Buy one and tell us how well it works on KLRs ... Sorry about your wrist, hope you're right handed. In an effort to show my solidarity, I went out last night in the rain and tossed the Orange poser bike down after playing Ricky-racer. The double yellow lines were slicker than snot and after swapping ends about 4-5 times -down I went. The Tourmaster protected the torso but I did get an excellent razzberry on the left cheek. Notched the handlebar gaurds a tad but otherwise the bike was unscathed. And I'm unsubbing later tonight to show solidarity w/ CA Stu. We're both members of the "internet a**holes club", though he is a senior intern and I'm still apprectice intern level 0.4 Hah, Fockers All! Salute, MarkB

At 6:10 PM -0800 2/11/05, Randall Marbach wrote:

>http://www.motorcycleinnovations.com/index.html > >They are asking $1200 for the single bike version. >Anybody have experience with this product? >Any other trailer recommendations?

I dunno... it looks like you could build that beauty from a pile of components picked up at Lowes for about $150. Mark

One things for sure, no suspension and so light, it will bounce around like a puppet on a string, not sure I want to see my thumper in those circumstances --- kdxkawboy@... wrote:

> > > In a message dated 2/11/2005 6:14:15 PM Pacific > Standard Time, > remarbach@... writes: > > > They are asking $1200 for the single bike version. > Anybody have experience with this product? > Any other trailer recommendations? I am trying to > avoid having a trailer sitting outside the house on > a > permanent basis. > > > > > > That is a lot of money to shell out for so little. I > will tell you a couple > of things I absolutely do not like about. No > suspension. That "t" frame looks > to lack some rigidity - I'd like to see a cross > brace running from the end > of the axles up to the tongue. Harbor Freight > offers a folding trailer for > $200 or less. > > Pat > G'ville, NV > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > > Archive Quicksearch at: >

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> And I'm unsubbing later tonight to show solidarity w/ CA Stu. We're > both members of the "internet a**holes club", though he is a senior > intern and I'm still apprectice intern level 0.4 Hah, Fockers All! > > Mark B > I sure hope you were kidding about unsubscribing.You and a few

others are

> what make this such a great site.I will really miss reading about

your trips,and

> knowledge about our great bike. > Dennis A18 > The Big Red 1 > >

What kinda S. Head would I be if I unsubbed over a little name calling. Hah! I know that all too often I treat this like my own personal stage, and I been trying to work some guilt about that, but no luck so far. jest in fun, MarkB

> > Note that those little wheels (8"?) are gonna have to spin really fast > to do > any kind of highways speeds. Keep those bearings serviced regularly. >

the site listed maximum 7500 RPM, so the max speed should be (2pi(r)" / revolution) (in/rev) * 7500 (rev/minute) * 1/12 ft/in * 1/5280 mile/ft * 60 minute/hour =14.204 PI R miles/hour ~=44.62 R miles/hour so assuming 8" wheels theoretical maximum speed of ~178 miles per hour. of course, you're probaly correct that the bearings need regular service to maintain their 7500 rpm max speed. (don't view this as argument, view it as informative... or just an excuse to indulge my perverse enjoyment of unit cancellation. (...probably mostly the latter) erik

That's it. I'm outta here. --John Kokola

> -----Original Message----- > From: erik [mailto:erik@...] > > (don't view this as argument, view it as informative... or just an > excuse to indulge my perverse enjoyment of unit cancellation. > > (...probably mostly the latter)