Thread: camping trailer to carry dirtbikes

uploadfromtaptalk1436682595141.jpgchassis all tacked together, need a new bottle of gas so i can weld it all. So now i just need to work out how i should do the frame for the roof top tent and 2.5m supapeg rapid wing awning. Will need to be on some sort of hinge to flip the frame up out the way to make loading and unloading of the bikes easier.
Idea's anyone?

Originally Posted by Vern

uploadfromtaptalk1436682595141.jpgchassis all tacked together, need a new bottle of gas so i can weld it all. So now i just need to work out how i should do the frame for the roof top tent and 2.5m supapeg rapid wing awning. Will need to be on some sort of hinge to flip the frame up out the way to make loading and unloading of the bikes easier.
Idea's anyone?

What about a boat loader type setup, only forward opening, like an enclosed bike trailer.



Baz.

Was thinking something.like that baz!
Current drama is the axle and brakes. Was going to use the overide disks off our cub camper and upgrade its brakes to electric with land rover pattern. Simple i thought! But due to the bearings used on the stub axle (holden outer bearing) i have to go to a 12" electric drum ($400 each with bits) and then the axle i have to get to use the overide discs on the bike trailer is around $380!😠. Ahhhhhh

Originally Posted by Vern

Was thinking something.like that baz!
Current drama is the axle and brakes. Was going to use the overide disks off our cub camper and upgrade its brakes to electric with land rover pattern. Simple i thought! But due to the bearings used on the stub axle (holden outer bearing) i have to go to a 12" electric drum ($400 each with bits) and then the axle i have to get to use the overide discs on the bike trailer is around $380!��. Ahhhhhh

I know override discs seem like a good idea, but wait till you try and find replacements if you should need to on the road, I can tell you from first hand experience, it's impossible and the disc hubs were HQ Holden, heaps of drum and non braked hubs(which I had to settle for) but no disc hubs to be found, at the time we were camped near Mansfield, even Wodonga had none in stock.

I'd stick with override drums if I were you, that's what I went back too.

Baz.

In that case i should just go a 10" electric drum with handbrake!

Next step for us is 10" electric for our currant camper, or new one if we change.

I still carry the non braked hub for emergencies in remote areas, just in case.

Baz.

Yeah unfortunately i have to go 12" on our camper due to the stub axle size.

12" on a camper
wow,, serious brakes!