Get a suspension ! You will take up 3/4 of the bike suspension travel with your tie downs anyway so they are close to rigid to the trailer.
Frank and I damaged our trailer once with our two cruisers on it... over a rough road with tires that had a funny wear pattern that made a regular small (undetectable to us) bounce of the tires.... when we stopped at night it wasnt evident of course. Anyway, we went about 1000 mi and then took the bikes off the trailer and discovered they had bounced up and down enough to puncture thru the diamondplate !! bent it all to hell. The trailer had shaken its LED taillights to death too.
you need a good suspension !
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Originally Posted by rathr-b-cruisin  I've recently acquired an old 56 ford pick up box that was converted to a trailer. I am going to strip this down to the frame, make it a flat bed trailer for the motorcycle. I do not want to use the original axel for this so I'd like to get a straight tube type axel and put it on instead. I've seen some 2,000 lb axels for like 89 bucks with out any type of leaf springs. Here's the question. If this trailer is for motorcycle hauling only, do you think i need any type of suspension on this trailer? I mean the bike does have it's own suspension after all. |