Hauling wood on rear hitch
Hey all, Trying to compare my notes to last year camping when we had our hybrid. We now have a travel trailer and I am looking at doing some modifications to make hauling things a little easier. ...
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If you can see the rear of the TT bob up and down in your mirror while travelling, if adding a bike rack at the rear, you might want to consider adding shocks to the trailer. We had shocks installed on ours and now the trailer hardly moves up and down and is almost a steady flatline. I've about about bikes being thrown clear off a rack at the rear...
There are still cautionary notes on a rear bike rack. Suggest a little googling. It depends a lot on how it is attached. Just to the bumper is not good as the bumpers have been known to break right off.
Not trying to be negative, just being the messenger of things I've read on forums. ;)
There are still cautionary notes on a rear bike rack. Suggest a little googling. It depends a lot on how it is attached. Just to the bumper is not good as the bumpers have been known to break right off.
Not trying to be negative, just being the messenger of things I've read on forums. ;)
BurbMan wrote:
BigTime, I was at 14% tongue weight too, so I didn't think that a little added weight in the back would hurt. I mainly wanted a "trunk" to keep the generator out of the weather and a place for the blocks, cords, hoses, etc. I need to get re-weighed at some point and see how the weight re-distributed.
If you are going to haul the bikes on the back of the TT, make sure you have a sturdy structure attached to the frame and not just the bumper. It's not the weight of the bikes per se but the bouncing effect going down the road. If you ever sat in the last row of the school bus on a bumpy road you klnow what I'm talking about.
