Can anyone please give me the bike and size and the weights for the front and rear axle as I have the job of making a 3 bike trailer and am working out where to put the coil independent suspension .all the bikes here are stripped getting setup for the Finke Desert Race .I need the weights to place the axle and work out a draw bar length for 10% ball weight. Your help would be greatly appreciated in suppling the info .
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How accurate do you want to be? Most lengths and overall weights are on any specs sheets available on the manufacturers sites. The only thing that may be of concern is a bike setup for finke will have a different weight to a standard item that most will have in there shed. Also what size are the bikes? 240,450? 2-stroke, 4-stroke?
If you know the make and model of the bikes, the weights etc should be available on the net as part of the manual specs. let us know and will see if we can help track it down unless someone else knows without google....
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Thanks nissannewby for replying I want it balanced down to the kg as at this late stage as it might have to be a 2 stage project with the shed left till after the Finke .Bikes are 2 x KTM 300 exe and a Hondog 450 crf . Looking at 2 facing forward 4stroke facing rear and am using cruisemaster 1.2 t suspension. Also water tank in front of axle and jerrys of fuel at rear of axle
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Gecko you can get whole weights but not front and rear this trailer will not be towed slowly on hwy or dirt so am trying for stability plus hence the attention to weight distribution.
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Gecko17 (2nd April 2014)
Wont the weight distribution alter as you use the Fuel and Water ???
Yes Bob but the fuel will be for bikes and go first and the water tank will still be in the 10/20% tongue weight or we can move a spares /tool box back to counter the balance .
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Bob (2nd April 2014)
Are you also taking into account riding gear,tooling and spares or will these be carried in the tow vehicle?
there is a formula for working out draw bar lengths in relation to axle position.
Longer drawbar say 180cm will tow like a dream and allow easy reversing as well
Plus you can fit work box on the front as well
I'll see what a can dig up
EDIT put it {axle} central then its a matter of two facing forward or two facing the rear
to get some weight on the towball
Last edited by threedogs; 2nd April 2014 at 04:29 PM.
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dads tractor (2nd April 2014)
mostly in the tow vehicle mate .Originally Posted by nissannewby
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