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Barefoot Bay, FL United States | As a side note to my No.Carolina trip, I did have to trailer my '08 TP once, a year ago (+/-) when the battery crapped out. The bike fell over in the trailer on the first turn out of the parking lot, but it's an enclosed trailer, so I didn't know it was riding the whole 200 mile trip on the left side tip-overs protectors. It was sliding back and forth, as well as side to side during the ride home. Poor job on my part of strapping it down. Never bothered to look inside once I left for home. END RESULT: Moderately damaged to trailer cabinet from the front fender rubbing, badly scratched left inner sidewall due to flag holder rubbing, moderately damaged floor from the rear tip-over gouging through the floor tile.....my '08 Tour Premium....UNDAMAGED!!! |
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Des Moines | We just bought an enclosed trailer as my wife physically cannot ride long distances or continuously all day long, even as a passenger on the Vision. This will allow us to go places she couldn't go before and take both hers and mine. As much as I would like to ride everywhere we go, it just isn't possible for us. This summer we're heading down to ride the Smokey Mountains and can bring hers as well. She loves that.
Now, the trailering 35 miles into town just to park the bikes, that's crazy. Even my wife would laugh at that. |
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Salt Lake City | My brother, who rides solo, and my bro.-in-law, who rides with my sis on the back - trailer their bikes the 600 mi. from Tenn. to Bike Week every year. Although I have never trailered mine, and have done many 500-600 mi. days, I don't fault them for doing what they do. Me and my buddy, along with our wives, take a week trip every year that routinely creeps into the 2K range. Our gals are real troopers. My sis would consider a 150 mile day a long/laborious one on the back of their beautiful RK. All I wish is that we could see each other more, and have more rides together, even if they were driving the truck w/ trailer and we were driving alongside on the Vision. To each his/her own, dude! As a sidenote, when in Tenn., we usually get out for a short jaunt together, them on his RK, and us on his other scoot, a '92 Softail - with, uh, 13,500 mi. on it. I'd love to make a trek back there on my VV someday.
Edited by wilsondude 2012-03-22 2:49 PM
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| Really? Anti-trailering Nazis on Victorys? Are you even bothering to laser your H-D tattoos? |
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Tifton, GA | Trailered my 07 Electria Glide 3 times. 2 flat tires both from using curved pull through valve stems then my buddy trailered it to HD shop after my wreck. Liandra has never been on or in a trailer. I trailered my Honda Magna to Biketoberfest once due to wife having a medical procedure just before we left. I don't have a camper or motorhome just enjoy traveling on the bike to much to go any other way weather permitting. So looking forward to retirement at end of June |
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Gotha, FL | Anti-trailering NAZI's! Never heard it described that way. LOL |
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Puddle Jumper
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Cicero, Indiana | If I went to Daytona I would have to trailer the bike because my better half has already said no to riding that far. She is getting some arthritis in a hip and can't do it so I'm not going to push that issue because I know she would be in pain. My ex on the other had,her and her BF at the time had CVO HDs and it's all about the image I guess. She told methe group they rode with only rode CVOs and the few that didn't were rode pretty hard. I don't get that mentality and to spend that kind of money on a bike and trailer it everywhere and only ride them into town to be seen on is stupid in my book but to each their own. |
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Tourer
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| Thoughtful of u to trailer to accommodate ur wife. |
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Tourer
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Bay of Gigs, WA | Ride the bike. Trailer the wife. :0P |
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Puddle Jumper
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Dayton, OH | There's aways a justifiable reason to trailer a bike, repairs being a good one. I trailer my ZX12R on trips to save its tires (I get 2K-3K out of a set). My Vision has never been trailered but will if I need to. Might want to take it when I take the entire family somewhere. I'm not too proud to trailerif I need to, but I'm glad I haven't had to. BTW, riding the 12 on the superslab is boring and a ticket waiting to happen!? !? |
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Tourer
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Bay of Gigs, WA | I still get a lot of thumbs up with the Vision on the trailer behind the motorhome. Looks like a spaceship on the backup camera. The colors complement each other, and we're about 49 feet of lookin' good rollin' down the slab. And with the tilt feature, getting on and off the trailer takes longer to describe than to accomplish. And the wife has her shower and blow dryer. Win-win, and uses more of the toys! |
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Iron Butt
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| While I have never made it down to Daytona, I would be one of those trailering at least to Georgia since there can be icy conditions at this time of year when going through the Smokies. Friends of mine from my old Goldwing chapter used to load up the bikes in an enclosed trailer and once they got south of the Smokies they would unload the bikes, park the truck and trailer at a storage lot and ride the rest of the trip on the Wings until they headed home and then reverse the process, on a few occasions some of them rode home once they saw that the weather didn't call for freezing conditions. This makes common sense to me, why risk you life just to prove that you are a rider. BTW, I live in the Chicago area and USUALLY we still have snow during Daytona bike week. |
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