Towing Motorcycle and car or truck

We put our bicycles on a hitch carrier on the truck, too.

JetAonly wrote:
I put my R1200GS in the bed of our Silverado 1500. Works great, tow like a dream.

Yep, we do the same thing only with a 900 lb. Honda GL 1800 Goldwing. The toad is a 2011 GMC Sierra 1500 4x4 Extended Cab. The bike is carried via the "Rampage" lift/carrier. We purchased the Rampage off of Craigslist at less than half the original price and, it had been used twice. I did the install on the truck and set it up so that, the lift is removable in about 1-2 minutes.

The truck handles the weight of the lift and the bike, ultra nice. I've even got room for two bicycles too. Just some info here for the OP.
Scott

Recommend a small truck also!

explorenorth wrote:
Looking at doing a similar thing, but my thought is putting both our Chevy Tracker and Vstar 1100 bike on a trailer. Solves all sorts of possible issues if your rig will handle the weight.

A friend had a custom trailer built with a 4-wheeler on the front cross ways with pull out side ramps and the car on the back, I think it was a S-10 chev pick-up 4WD with a small pop up camper. He would
park the MH at a base camp, unload the truck, hook it to the trailer and take off 4-wheeling and camping to places like the Moab, etc. It was a real nice package.

Hook

Looking at doing a similar thing, but my thought is putting both our Chevy Tracker and Vstar 1100 bike on a trailer. Solves all sorts of possible issues if your rig will handle the weight.

I put my R1200GS in the bed of our Silverado 1500. Works great, tow like a dream.

I'm not sure your Jetta would stand up to several hundred pounds of weight bouncing up and down on the the back while being towed
My scoot weights 300# , but it's on the back end of a 22,000# DP
Go with the truck or use a trailer, unless your bike is less than 200#

Do Not confuse hitch "tow weight" rating , with dead weight cargo bouncing over bumps, tt tongue weight does not have the bouncing and vibration of dead cargo which is a dynamic bouncing load

That would be more practical but what are you towing with? You need to be careful you don't exceed the towing capacity.