Carrying a cycle/bike

there are lot of us with (2) wheel 'motors'
instead of toads
my 'scoot' is carried on a hitch mounted carrier on the rear of the MH

I have carried a Harley fuller dresser on a lift welded to the back of a MH, on a Rampage truck bed lift and Cruiser Caddie truck bed lift and a trailer. I've also carried the wife's motorcycle in our front bay.

If had a choice, I'd use a Cruiser Caddie in the truck bed. Second choice would be a lift on the back of the MH. Third would be a trailer. The Rampage would be last due to it's weight, complexity and the fact it scared me every time I used it.

We've have a 31" class C and we've carried 2 Harley's on an Aluma trailer for years now.

Dave

We carry a KLR650 on an Overbilt lift. We got the Overbilt because it’s the only hitch carrier that you don’t have to remove the towbar in order to lower the bike.

We are contemplating a Yamaha TW200, we tow the jeep so that kinda eliminates a truck bed carrier, but the overbuilt lift looks good.
Anyone carry their M/C on the front of the coach, my front axle has the ability, it's no where near the weight limit for the axel?

Great little bike. That was our first option, but hubby wanted something for 2 up riding. We considered doing the front mount, but we would have to cut into the body, so no way Jose!

Tw’s only weigh 278lb. Maybe check the specs on your jeep, and see if you could do a hitch mount, reinforced of course, on a good carrier/ ramp. We were gonna do the tw on the back hitch of our truck, but DH wanted the bigger bike.

Just an option to consider.

Edit... A great ramp for your Jeep is the Tilt-A-rack. Seems to be the better made, easiest to load, and lightest one out there.

Nutinelse2do wrote:

Tw’s only weigh 278lb. Maybe check the specs on your jeep, and see if you could do a hitch mount,

I have posted questions to that on several jeep web pages. we will see what they come up with.

I have carried bicycles on a hitch mounted rack on the back of my diesel pusher with a rear radiator. A few plastic parts on the bikes got distorted, presumably from the heat. I am not sure that I want to expose a motorized device to that heat. Just something to think about.

My rig a has small generator hatch on the front like the one in the op's profile. I put a front hitch in between the front tag and the generator hatch and can carry two scooters on a rack up there and still tow a boat or horse trailer. The main problem is that anything larger than a Honda Elite 110 blocks the headlights.

Tom/Barb,
I have done exactly what you're thinking about. The coach we did it with at the time was a '99 Fleetwood Bounder 34V with the F-53 chassis and the 275HP Triton V-10. The V-10 had the Banks kit on it when we bought the coach. We'd towed Jeeps all over the planet for years and had zero issues with three different coaches, up to that one. But, I acquired two TW 200s and wanted to take one with us when traveling.

So, I built a hauler for it, to be attached to the receiver of the coach. While it was a tad crude for my normal fabrication, it worked, and worked very well. I designed it not only for carrying one TW, but also to tow our '04 Jeep Rubicon. It was a good system all except for what it took to get the bike up on to the rack and back off. That rack was a bit high for manual loading of the bike and, it was impossible to ride it up. But, we did it and survived.

Since Photobucket robbed us all of being able to post pics, I can't show you the system. It was not hard to build. One thing you want to make sure of, (there's actually more than one) is, making sure you have adequate tie-downs for the bike. You don't want that bike rocking around.
Scott

FIRE UP wrote:
Tom/Barb,
I have done exactly what you're thinking about. The coach we did it with at the time was a '99 Fleetwood Bounder 34V with the F-53 chassis and the 275HP Triton V-10. The V-10 had the Banks kit on it when we bought the coach. We'd towed Jeeps all over the planet for years and had zero issues with three different coaches, up to that one. But, I acquired two TW 200s and wanted to take one with us when traveling.

So, I built a hauler for it, to be attached to the receiver of the coach. While it was a tad crude for my normal fabrication, it worked, and worked very well. I designed it not only for carrying one TW, but also to tow our '04 Jeep Rubicon. It was a good system all except for what it took to get the bike up on to the rack and back off. That rack was a bit high for manual loading of the bike and, it was impossible to ride it up. But, we did it and survived.

Since Photobucket robbed us all of being able to post pics, I can't show you the system. It was not hard to build. One thing you want to make sure of, (there's actually more than one) is, making sure you have adequate tie-downs for the bike. You don't want that bike rocking around.
Scott

Thanks for that, we know that the longer the rear over hang is the easier to exceed the turn radius of he Jeep, and we are pretty long now.
There is no easy answer, But we know the trailer hitch on the jeep will not carry the weight with out major modification.