harbor freight klr trailer for sale
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 12:20 pm
--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Randall Marbach wrote:
Hi Randy! and those considering a trailer-- Absolutely ++1 on trailers! How big a trailer do you need? Always, 20% larger. smile. Trailers: They are the cheapest pickup truck you can buy. I got a killer deal on a used 5x8, 14" wheel, expanded-wire bed trailer before a KLR ever owned me,(which comes first, the trailer or the bike; chicken or the egg?) buying it as a utility trailer knowing a good deal when I saw one. Line it with cardboard and you have a 'tight' container for yard mulch, etc. The downside of a trailer is their 'foot-print' when not in use. I know some of you live where you have covenant agreements where you are not allowed to have a car on the street! It must be in the driveway, and a boat/toys/trailers cannot be seen from the street. all of which is nuts. anyway-- After the KLR arrived, I added 3 pieces channel iron vertically to the front cross beam (wheel positioner)so that it will take a variety of motorcycle combinations. I have added 40+ tie down points on this trailer, initially using commercial D-Rings, then, used single chain-links from a log chain welded to the frames. Initially, it had some 6 tie down points, then I added some to give better fairing clearance, then some at the rear to keep the back of the bikes from bobbling around. The Chain Links: I laid out a length of chain (1/4 or 5/8 inch) on the floor of the tractor-supply store/Lowe's/Ace, etc and started to break every other link with their furnished bolt cutters to obtain whole links for welding onto the trailer. If you are careful where you cut the links, the cut link can also be added as a tie down point. If the link is cut 'in the middle' to obtain a full link for a tie down point, the middleish cut link is just waste. Cut it close to the end and it gives enough to also be useful as a welded tie down point. These chain links are about 20%/cost of a commercial D-ring. On a 5x8 trailer: I can load 4 dirt bikes of various sizes (presently = 300/225/100/100) on this trailer if carefully loaded--three pointed forward, one pointed aft; but only two KLR 650 at a time plus a small dirt bikes if the KLR's are not decked out with saddle bags. (I don't trailer the KLR a lot--but if we are doing night transits--the bikes go on trailers due to deer strikes, etc.) so, How big a trailer do you need? Always, 20% larger. smile. Randy--Hopefully your new trailer will be big enough for the sidecar and a solo dirt bike as well. if not, shrug, you might be wishing for 20% larger! revmaaatin.> > Hi ALL > > My Harbor Freight Folding Trailer set up for 2 motorcycles is for sale. > My new KLR/Enduro sidecar will not fit on it so I am buying a bigger trailer. >