Author Topic: Motorcycle Trailers, What should you look for?  (Read 15045 times)

Offline alans1100

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Re: Motorcycle Trailers, What should you look for?
« Reply #25 on: August 05, 2013, 09:00:20 PM »

..... tyre pressures were supposed to be 12-15 psi ..... they reckon if I paid more than $500 then I was being ripped off.

The guy I bought my Classic from said the same thing.  I tired combinations of weight on towball and tyre pressures, and came to the same conclusion as you - 12 psi.


Because of the rubber torsion bar suspension used on Classic trailers the tyres have dual role. The low air pressure causes the tyres to act as shock absorbers as well.

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Offline Rodd

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Re: Motorcycle Trailers, What should you look for?
« Reply #26 on: August 07, 2013, 10:58:57 AM »
My old Classic developed the waggles on one test run. I looked at the hitch and saw that the centreline of the drawbar was below the towball height and assumed that was the cause (360 degreee swivel hitch). I tried simply bolting a bit of plate between the hitch and drawbar to take the 'swivel' out of the hitch and never saw the problem after that. But then I didn't take it far after that.