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Trailering bikes in an open trailer for about 1,000 miles....good or bad????
 
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Tie it down properly and your good to go!
 
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I pulled one this year on an open trailer for 1,400 miles. When I stopped at a motel overnight, I put a cover on it. It did not rain so I don't know what it would have looked like after road spray covered it.

I have a big covered trailer but I get 10mpg with it. Got 25.5 with the Hylander pulling the open trailer with a 850 lb Rune on it.

 
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Always a chance of the tow vehicle throwing rocks up on the bike.
 
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You Ride in the open air. It's Good
 
Old Jan 7, 2009 | 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by bikerick
Trailering bikes in an open trailer for about 1,000 miles....good or bad????
Uhh? Good or bad for what?
 

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+1 I see it all the time when I am riding.
 
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Depends on the road conditions. Be hard pressed to see ANY thing of mine on an open trailer, with fresh snow and salt on the road. Spray would eat a scoot alive.
Summer, or down sowt, don't see an issue. Do it meself. 2 place snowmobile trailer, 3 chocks, 3 scoots.
 
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