| Author | Message | ||
     Santa |
I bought a very lightly used folding trailer imported and sold on e-bay by T-Motorsports. The trailer says it can hold 700 lbs and I thought it would be great behind my motor home. I bought it from a Air force serviceman. Halfway into my trip to PA the rear rail started to bend and crack. I took the rear rail to a welding shop and had it straightened and re-enforced. On my way home a fender cracked and bent into the wheel stopping the tire and it drug for a while before I was made aware if it by a trucker. The wheel ground down into the hub nearly to the bearing race. I was lucky I didn’t loose my Ulysses. I've been trying to get help from T-Motorsports for parts and believe the trailer's specs are miss-represented. They say they don't have parts and I should go to the guy I bought it from. I can't see why he would have parts. T-Motorsports costumer service department have not been willing to help with a product they sell. Here are their replies; I am very sorry but i would suggest you to contact your seller, which is the US serviceman for this issue as he is the one who sell you the item. KN All the parts are manufactured in China, and we get them all in one piece, we do not have any parts for sale on this item. We also do not know if there's parts you can get in the hardware store. We do not know what the previous owner has done to this trailer, especially after he has used it for long transportation. He may have mis-use it or something as we sold thousands of this item and never have such problem. As I said earlier, since that US service man is the seller, he will be the one who is responsible for this. Sorry about that. KN I would recommend fellow riders stay away from T-Motorsports as they don’t service what they sell. They don’t even have parts for what they sell. The company doing business as T-Motorsports is CALHOME INC. 2550 Fulton Road Unit A Pomona CA. 01767 | ||
| Swampy |
That is why chinese things are so cheap, you can't get parts for them. Some of the china pocket bikes have parts availability on the internet, and some of the things you can adapt over to a more commonly available part or a part that won't break when they are used at their working capacity more than once. BTW, just last night I was using some cheap clamps to position some legs to a loft bed I was leveling, one of the cheap china crap clamps broke, fortunately it broke when I was releasing the clamp, I handed it to the wife and said, well, I got my one use out of it, you can throw it away now. | ||
| Larryjohn |
Just to be clear what you are calling "Trailer in a bag" is not the real trailer in a bag, but a cheap knock off? http://trailerinabag.com/index.html | ||
| Ourdee |
At 1200 bones for a real trailer in a bag. I think I'll wait. | ||
| Froggy |
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Motorcycle-Folding- Trailer-Carrier-fits-Trunk-Bag-/150650264612?pt=Mo torcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2313749c24#ht _6783wt_1002 Is that it? Looks like its a knockoff of the Trailer In A Bag. | ||
| Brucespoint |
Git Whatcha Pay for... How much is your bike worth? ... somebody Else's life??? Could you even check it Visually behind your Motorhome? Cheap Lesson, Nobody hurt. Had a Jeep being towed behind a MH come Loose on the 5 north through San Clemente, Ca, in front of Me years back... Drove right through, Audi Wagon, Sweet Ride... Never hit the brakes, semi sideways in front of us, it took out a couple of cars, no idea bout casualties. Never Stopped. Too much traffic behind. Fiance@time Never bitched bout My Driving style again.  but... Never have trusted towed things, by amateurs since. Potential for Bad Consequences for cheaping out.... Golden. Your a Lucky Fellah. b. (Message edited by brucespoint on August 25, 2011) (Message edited by brucespoint on August 25, 2011) | ||
| Dutton |
trailers with small wheels should be banned from the highways ,very dangerous. way to many rpms . | ||
| Santa |
Froggy found the trailer on e-bay. It is a Knock Off and by the costumer service department of T- Motorsport there are 1000s of them out there. Buyer beware. | ||
| Buewulf |
700lbs is not a solid enough rating for the Uly anyway. Weight ratings are often for the axle, especially with cheap, overseas trailers, so the total capacity is probably 700lbs minus the weight of the trailer. Even that is optimistic just looking at picture of it in the ebay link. I wouldn't be surprised if the frame design itself never made it past stress testing on a computer simulation, so who knows what its weight rating actually is. Thanks for putting the warning out though. Glad you didn't lose your bike! Could have been worse!  |
