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Offline Fat Rat

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« on: August 27, 2008, 18:02:17 »
At the Wales meet last weekend a couple of people arrived in cars with their bikes on a trailer, now I am forced to take the piss out of them for being lightweights but between you and me it's not a bad idea when driving/riding hundreds of miles..

Anyone else partake in this gay behaviour?
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Re: Bike Trailers
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2008, 18:16:12 »
I once went to a bike rally with the caravan but only because the missus was to pregnant to fit on the bike.

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Re: Bike Trailers
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2008, 19:29:20 »
Quote from: "Andy V-Strom"
a couple of people arrived in cars with their bikes on a trailer,
Anyone else partake in this gay behaviour?

NOW.....you're definately crossing into Faggot territory there!!!
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Re: Bike Trailers
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2008, 19:31:55 »
Quote from: "andyberg"
Quote from: "Andy V-Strom"
a couple of people arrived in cars with their bikes on a trailer,
Anyone else partake in this gay behaviour?

NOW.....you're definately crossing into Faggot territory there!!!
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Re: Bike Trailers
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2008, 19:44:16 »
Slightly different but I used to tow a trailer with my BMW R80/7, was great turning up at rallies with a bloody great walk-in gin-palace while everyone else was crawling into their little tent. One thing you had to watch was that you remembered you were towing - easy to let your speed build up.

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Re: Bike Trailers
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2008, 20:44:10 »
Quote from: "Andy V-Strom"
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This is what's waiting for you Andy when the 'trailerboys' hear what your insinuating!! :shock:  


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Re: Bike Trailers
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2008, 21:52:40 »
I usually stick the bike on the trailer when I head up home to Scotland saves me doing loads of boring motorway miles

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Re: Bike Trailers
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2008, 22:19:11 »
What a lovely pair of girly  PINK  boxing gloves ;)  ;)  :rofl:

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Re: Bike Trailers
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2008, 21:05:47 »
I trailer the Strom to the South of France when I go there for five or six weeks in the summer.  It saves two lots of fuel and my wife driving our estate car on her own all the way. We need the estate car to bring all the essentials back, like wine. I don't have to pay any extra on the autoroute as the trailer is small enough to go free.  Also the trailer tows well at 90mph and I am too old to ride for hour after hour at 90 on the bike.  OK I have to pay extra for the trailer to get it over or under the Channel but on the whole it's worth it for a journey of 900miles plus each way.  Saves on tyres on the bike but those little trailer tyres soon wear out at the speed I pull it.  The limit for towing in France is the same as when not towing so I'm only being a little bit naughty if I get up to 90mph.  Makes sense to me but if I was going to Wales from Lincolnshire I'd go on my bike.

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Re: Bike Trailers
« Reply #9 on: September 14, 2008, 08:09:52 »
I was a trailer hater until recently.

Me and Mrs WD have just done a charity ride around the UK and had already decided to go back up to the Highlands for a well earned break so we borrowed a trailer and ferried them up there behind the WonkyDonkey Wagon.

What a change and it was a pleasant one. As much as we enjoy riding out Stroms we have found it better to do this and then to ride the roads you actually go there to ride. So much so we're now looking for WonkyDonkey Wagon 2 which will be a camper and also a covered trailer so we can take the toolbox and some spares.

WD Wagon 2 won't be appearing anytime soon - not until the little WD's havve flown the nest in the next couple of years but then it's full steam ahead.

After the charity ride which was that wet that I grew webbed feet we feel it's a good idea to know that after a hard days riding we can come back to a home from home that is warm, dry and stocked with the things we like. The only modification I'll be making is trying to knock up some kind of drying room to dry the kit if it's wet.

A mate of mine recently went to the "Ring" in his camper with 3 bikes on a trailer and loved it - he would normally have ridden but loved it that much he's making plans to return before the end of the year.

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