anyone relocate their spare tire?

One trailer the tire came mounted under the A frame but I had to remove it as it would drag on the ground. I left it in the truck all the time.

I moved my spare tire and carrier to the Tongue (A frame). I had to modify the carrier to fit around the frame. I also carry 4 bikes on my bumper. The thing is you need to do something to keep the bikes from bouncing up and down. This is what tears the bumper away from the frame. I'll get a couple pictures posted later.

RoyBell wrote:
Putting in front storage will only add to the tongue weight which I am trying to reduce.

Why? Have you actually measured your trailer's gross tongue weight so you know what it's average gross tongue weight to gross trailer weight is? When you add a bike rack and bikes so far to the far rear of any trailer, even a longer one, it's going to want to unload the tongue so in most cases you'd want to be adding weight to the tongue, not subtracting from it. Years ago I ditched the rear bumper bracket on our Spree and moved the spare tire to the front storage compartment and in doing so managed to achieve just under 14% gross tongue weight. Our current Freedom Express came with the spare mounted under the A frame so I moved it back slightly to the front storage compartment and this time lost a bit of gross tongue weight which is now running a bit lighter than I'd like, most often ~ 13%. Weighing both the trailer and measuring it's gross tongue weight with the trailer loaded as it typically would be for camping is key when making any changes that could affect the trailer's gross to gross tongue weight balance.

coolbreeze01 wrote:
Search Bal-hide-a-spare.

Now that is slick:C and looks like an excellent solution IMO.:B

Larry

Search Bal-hide-a-spare.

samsontdog wrote:
I put my spare under the bed. Another TT I put spare in the p/up beed

LOL, ditto here!
One spare under the bed, another spare in the bed of the truck.
Two is one, one is none.

I put my spare under the bed. Another TT I put spare in the p/up beed

a guy I worked with had no idea that back bumpers were not solid. lost two bikes. that is why you see spare tires mounted near the frame of the TT were the bumper meets it.

It happens. Our welded on bumper was nearly torn completely off by a bike rack - and that was without the spare tire. I replaced it and installed a piece of angle iron that spans from under the frame to under the bumper to support and keep it from rotating downward.