| Author | Message | ||
     Corporatemonkey |
http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/motorcycle -trailering-in-style.htm  | ||
| Irideabuell |
Zer gut! | ||
| Tramp |
"Motorcycle trailer"...? what does this mean? | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
what does this mean? Don't you have some traffic to go play in???  | ||
| Tramp |
Every day...with my scoot beneath me, not behind me. | ||
| Danger_dave |
Yeah, it's a repost.  | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
http://www.aerostich.com/catalog/US/Stolen-Sticker -p-17053.html | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
Very stylish indeed. I like the whitewalls on the Lambretta , looks to be a late 50's 150 LD or such like. I owned one of these, it was my first motorbike, if I recall correctly. I think I traded a ten speed Italian racing bike for it. A Bottechia. Not sure which was faster. Naturally I had a couple of VW Beetles as well. This one looks a bit newer than the Lambretta. I guess I have been an air cooled guy from the git-go. Thanks for posting, Monkey. Curiously enough, I was just working on a trailer concept myself : The Public Transit version of the smart car. Top Secret of course, shouldn't really be posting it, but what the hell. Likey?   | ||
| Nevrenuf |
the middle part looks like the beginning of the micro bus jon. | ||
| Danger_dave |
Drop a few hyabusa motors in it and it could be fun. | ||
| Tramp |
Very few microbuses had johns. | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
OK, guys, since everyone on this board knows how to keep his mouth shut, here are some specifics. Been working on it for about a year. Think we are going to get the go ahead from the board soon. They are working out a deal with the Iceland Public Transit for 150 of them. They are killer in the snow. IPT really liked the idea that you can always drive forward out of a snow bank. Seats 8. Small country. The center doors hinge in the middle. A nice feature is that the optional eight seater center section, ( not shown), can be coupled up in less than a half hour, increasing capacity by 50%. Try doing that with your Greyhound! Since there are four engine compartments, it is rather powerful for a eight passenger vehicle with 4 x 70HP = 280. Top speed is around 140, on the Autobahn, electronically limited. The electronics allow the use of one, two, three or four motors simultaneously. Bit of an engineering first there, if I don't mind saying so myself. The vehicle is steered by the forward facing driver, but the rear steering wheels are computer controlled for a smaller steering radius in urban use. Kind of a small step forward in the war on Global Warming. Savy? | ||
| Tramp |
"Global Warming"? | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
I know exactly what you mean, Tramp. | ||
| Igneroid |
Me Too!! Its friggin June-uary up here.... | ||
| Tramp |
i think more people are getting rich on terms like "global warming" and "green" than most of us realize. Whether or not some degree of provenance may be out there for or against the hypothesis of Global Warming, a huge set of folks are cashing in on the concept. Greenwashing is America's fastest-growing disease, at present. | ||
| Hootowl |
My Jetta gets better gas mileage than those "smart" cars. | ||
| Tramp |
you sure about that? I've driven both, and the real-time mileage afforded by the Smart is unlike any other car I've driven, outside of the Trabant | ||
| Ratbuell |
Yes, but the Trabbie burns as much motor oil as it does gas.... | ||
| Tramp |
yes, it certainly does- gotta love driving in a fiberglass shell powered by a tiny 2-stroke. | ||
| Hootowl |
http://www.greencar.com/features/smart-car/ 33/40 I get 40/45. And I have leg room. And a huge trunk. | ||
| Hexangler |
I was looking for a more elegant example, but this one gets the idea across. I first saw use of the motorcycle flatbed sidecar at Munroe Motors in San Francisco in the late '80s. It was a pre-unit Triumph twin with a flatbed hack. The mechanics used it to go fetch stranded bikes. I since made one myself for speedway racing, but didn't take pictures.  | ||
| Jaimec |
I sat in a Smart4Two this past weekend. VERY roomy inside, but it is just a two seater, and the Jetta trunk could probably hold a Smart4Two if you leave it open... | ||
| Tramp |
Munroe used to pick up and deliver (before BMW/SF decided to take on the two-wheel line in '98) at our Mountain View shop (I was service mgr. for m/c collision) with a flatbed hack. There were also a few cool BMW indy techs who had fashioned them, for their own shops. I think this is the coolest idea...reminds me of a cat in my neck of NY who used to use a customized servi-car for same. | ||
| Tramp |
Does the owner of the pictured hack go by the name Brian Coggins, from S.Jose? | ||
| Cowtown |
I agree trailers are for whimps.  | ||
| Cityxslicker |
look, if there is soo much damn global warming, somebody explain to me, (hell get Al Gore to do it) as to why we had SNOW two weeks ago in the puget sound. We are 12-18 degrees of of temperature averages from ten years ago. Maybe if he wasnt spending so much time on engineering the internet, Al could fix his Global warming thesis. Bikes dont belong on trailers, though I might put one of those new MADASS scooters across the back of the truck for some campground trail time. | ||
| Rainman |
My bike would sure look good on the VW trailer when I go to trailer week at Sturgis! | ||
| Jaimec |
I thought the best use of trailers was something I used to see every year at the Lake George Americade. There were a bunch of Blue Knights with full dresser Electra Glides, each pulling a single-bike trailer behind them. On top of each trailer was a color-matched Sportster. I've often wondered about where they got those little trailers. I could see using my K1200LT to trailer my XB12Ss from Long Island down to Tennessee and back... | ||
| Tramp |
Blue Knights...  |
