bike rack options for a TT / TV
2007 Aerolite 718fd ( 4000lbs loaded ) pulled by 2013 F150 Eco Boost We are currently carrying our 2 bikes in the truck bed which is ok but inconvenient. wondering if someone has a good option out ...
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ah64id wrote:JJBIRISH wrote:
There is no good way to haul bikes on the rear of a TT, it doesn’t matter how many do it and get away with it, or how you strap them down… mount them close enough for the handlebars to poke holes in the back of the trailer and the weight is still cantilevered far behind the axle and dynamically over stresses the chassis and suspensions…
Five bikes, a 4 wheeler and fire wood sound like it’s time to get a toy hauler that’s why the make them, to fill those needs…
I think you are far exaggerating the possible stress. 5 bikes just past the bumper is nothing compared to a full black tank at the back of the frame in terms or stress on the suspension and frame, yes it's closer, but far heavier and it sloshes..
Toy haulers are over priced for poor quality, see it time and time again. I would love one, if you didn't have to spend 2x the cash to get the same quality.
mine may be a minority view but I don’t believe I am exaggerating at all... take it for what its worth or ignore it…
I have seen many chassis full of stress cracks to completely broken (so called) I beams… all most all of them were used for hauling something on the rear… evidenced by the crudely to commercially made hitches and bumper receiver riggings… those stresses effect the entire chassis even the tongue… I have hauled millions of gallons of liquid loads and would argue a normal RV black tank near the rear is a bogus argument in making comparisons here… but thats for another day...
Sure it always blamed on something else… Of course no respectable owner would ever admit to overloading anything… it will always be Lippert's fault or the trailer mfg.’s. fault, never something self-inflicted… :B
You have made some good recommendations to others about TV’s maybe you need to read your own words you have suggested to another poster, just invert the words trailer and truck…
“You got a trailer for the future, get a truck for the future too.
Way too many people do way too much with 1/2 tons.”
If only these 1950’s trailer chassis and running gear could compare with that of the ½ ton trucks on the road today… While I wouldn’t argue the cost of the toy hauler, like the truck you should have a trailer for the future to, or at least for the present…
Way to many people do way too much with these light duty trailers…
