Re: Trailer Hitch for Tenere?
The welder has been tied up and hasn't finished his quote for me/us. Design-wise, the original thought was to attach the hitch to the passenger foot pegs and limit the weight to something small like a single wheel UniGo. Unfortunately, that is NOT what people want. From the responses I've gotten, my initial thought was to change the draw point in the design to be like Becoyote's photo. This was because of how much weight people wanted to pull.
I may still build myself a hitch, but am backing out of doing this as a product to sell others. Sorry folks, but too many people are going to over-gross the load. Even if THEY don't want to, sooner or later they will sell the bike and hitch to somebody else who very well may.
The rule of thumb for trailers is 1/3 of GVWR. According to the owners manual, the bike is 575 lbs and may be loaded with 461 lbs, for a GVWR total of 1036 lbs. A third would be a maximum 345 lb trailer.
Using two of you as examples, you wrote that you just want to be able to pull a WR250R and one mentioned using the smallest lightest Harbor Freight trailer, which sounds easy. Look closer and that trailer is an open framework with a 40"X49" flat area, which people put plywood on, rails for motorcycles, etc. That trailer BARE is 130 lbs and a WR250R is 295, for a total load of 425 lbs. That's 23% over grossed, before you add the camping gear, cooler, tent, chairs, gas can, wife, and a half sheet of plywood decking.
Those are things that I can not control and I already know enough litigation attorneys.
Maybe somebody else wants to step up and do this one?