Traveling with a scooter on Class C
We are thinking of attaching a Honda Reflex 250 on our Sunseeker as we travel around. Any folks out there with scooters or motorcycles that can tell us how that works out? Thanks, Lee
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2500TS has wheelbase:length of 56%, decent for a Class C. Still, two of its three slides are behind the rear axle. Another few hundred pounds...?
Is the chassis a Ford E450? If so, I doubt the rear axle with its 9500 pound rating will actually be overloaded.
But still, if the wheelbase and rear overhang combine to make a light FRONT end, it won't handle well with extra weight hung farther out back.
You really need to weigh the coach! As loaded for travel, people and all. Ford expects to see 1/3 of loaded weight on the front axle. Many here use a bogey 75% of front axle capacity. That'd be 3750 pounds. Weigh it and come back.
So... I say we don't have enough facts to say you'll be happy with a scooter back there.
I can offer what IS fact however. The weight carrying rating of a hitch is based on an ordinary drawbar in its ordinary position in the hitch receiver. So a rating of xxx pounds means placed on a ball less than a foot from the hitch pin in the receiver. NOT on a lever a couple feet longer.
Is the chassis a Ford E450? If so, I doubt the rear axle with its 9500 pound rating will actually be overloaded.
But still, if the wheelbase and rear overhang combine to make a light FRONT end, it won't handle well with extra weight hung farther out back.
You really need to weigh the coach! As loaded for travel, people and all. Ford expects to see 1/3 of loaded weight on the front axle. Many here use a bogey 75% of front axle capacity. That'd be 3750 pounds. Weigh it and come back.
So... I say we don't have enough facts to say you'll be happy with a scooter back there.
I can offer what IS fact however. The weight carrying rating of a hitch is based on an ordinary drawbar in its ordinary position in the hitch receiver. So a rating of xxx pounds means placed on a ball less than a foot from the hitch pin in the receiver. NOT on a lever a couple feet longer.
