Hello Hacksaw,
your drawing is good to explain, but there is a small important difference between your sketches and what I tried to explain. The hook is located like on the right sketch, the trailers beam is formed like a S so that the trailers wheels run centred behind the rig like in the left sketch.
That way actually the trailer will try to pull the back wheel to the right, so that when you accelerate on gravel or ice your front might get twisted to the left. And at breaking the opposite might happen, means the back wheel might get pushed to the left and you face to the right.
On dry road you shouldn't have additional right pulling effect from this setup.
Regards, I head now for my wife's 49th birthday, The last birthday I can sing the song, "Señora de las cuatro decadas" - Lady of 4 decades...
Have a nice spring.
Sven Peter
We have towed trailers that were totally overloaded beyond sanity and with a rig that had no sidecar brake all over the northeast with no real problems at all. Braking coudl hav ebeen better but it was not much different than pulling a trailer behind a pickup. Hitch was between bike and sidecar. It actually added some stability in right handers above what just the sidecar rig alone had.
This discussion is nothing new.
Answer? Do whatever you feel good about.
Most today have went to sidecar hitch in or near the middle though. In fact some manufacturers offer a hitch as an option and it is in the middle.
To me the ideal thing woudl be a trailer centered on the rig with the sam etrack width as the sidecar rig. Coudl be wrong of course.
Watch out for potholes either way.
Originally written by Peter Pan on 5/6/2008 6:27 PM
Hello Hacksaw,
your drawing is good to explain, but there is a small important difference between your sketches and what I tried to explain. The hook is located like on the right sketch, the trailers beam is formed like a S so that the trailers wheels run centred behind the rig like in the left sketch.That way actually the trailer will try to pull the back wheel to the right, so that when you accelerate on gravel or ice your front might get twisted to the left. And at breaking the opposite might happen, means the back wheel might get pushed to the left and you face to the right.
On dry road you shouldn't have additional right pulling effect from this setup.Regards, I head now for my wife's 49th birthday, The last birthday I can sing the song, "Señora de las cuatro decadas" - Lady of 4 decades...
Have a nice spring.
Sven Peter
Ever seen a Dnepr trailer? I remember seeing one that had a straight tongue, but the tongue was off center on the trailer. The hitch attached to the bike but the trailer was centered behind the rig.
Mike,
that comes out at the end to what I told.
Regards
Sven
