Toy Hauler w/ Spyder & RoadGlide Setup

[Smylinacha]

Well we got them in there! Took some doing but HDX knows how to make it work :2thumbs: We've taken the bikes tent camping but after the :cus: bullfrogs going all night long, I won't be camping in a tent anymore. Glad we made this work because we thought both bikes wouldn't fit and we never used our Toy Hauler this summer so we are really looking forward to VT!

 

[NancysToy]

Thanks to you and HDX for the layout, pics, and measurements. If it will fit in there between the wheelwells, I should be able to squeeze two side-by-side in my trailer. Still seems impossible, but I'll have to play around and try it, even if I have to put in some more chock mounts. First I have to empty the trailer. Furniture from the porch in there while I remodel. Handy to have a rolling storage shed.
-Scotty

 

[Smylinacha]

Thanks to you and HDX for the layout, pics, and measurements. If it will fit in there between the wheelwells, I should be able to squeeze two side-by-side in my trailer. Still seems impossible, but I'll have to play around and try it, even if I have to put in some more chock mounts. First I have to empty the trailer. Furniture from the porch in there while I remodel. Handy to have a rolling storage shed.
-Scotty

No problem! The one thing HDX had to do was put an extra tie-down thingy in the left wheel well (for the Glide) - when you are looking into the camper from the back. The way the straps went when he was tying them down - went too vertical so he bolted another tie down thing to the left wheel well to give him more of an angle to get the bike secured tightly. First we strapped it all down w/out that and took the camper for a test ride down the highway a few exits and came back. We noticed the Glide, although strapped down, it could rock back and forth slightly. So off to Sears Hardware and we got another tie down - seems okay now.

Also, the ramp was a little steep for the :spyder:so HDX ran put two wooden tapered planks before the ramp and then ran the :spyder:up into the toy hauler. The front lip of the bike would have nose-dived right into ramp if he didn't use those.

 

[Monique]

Thanks for the information and the photos :thumbup:.
The dimension prove it...I need a new trailer !
BTW nice toy hauler :2thumbs:

 

[Roaddog2]

Nice but thats were I used to Sleep

 

[Roaddog2]

Well we got them in there! Took some doing but HDX knows how to make it work :2thumbs: We've taken the bikes tent camping but after the :cus: bullfrogs going all night long, I won't be camping in a tent anymore. Glad we made this work because we thought both bikes wouldn't fit and we never used our Toy Hauler this summer so we are really looking forward to VT!

Was it the :cus: Frogs or the constant Down poor or me :cus:in all night nextdoor that kept you up all night that was one muddy dirt road up there :spyder:

 

[Smylinacha]

Thanks for the information and the photos :thumbup:.
The dimension prove it...I need a new trailer !
BTW nice toy hauler :2thumbs:

Thanks! It's home away from home. We were very worried that once I got the :spyder:we couldn't fit both the Harley and that in there but with some ingenuity from HDX we can now do this! I'm so glad because I really hate tent camping after the last trip.

 

[Smylinacha]

Was it the :cus: Frogs or the constant Down poor or me :cus:in all night nextdoor that kept you up all night that was one muddy dirt road up there :spyder:

All of the above LOL!!!!!!!!! It was almost as bad as in NH during the hurricane when I thought the trees were going to come down on the tent. I should have asked the beavers to build me a log home those nights! They were too busy building that :cus: stoned walk across the river :yes:. Plus you kept crying Land Squid!

 

[Roaddog2]

All of the above LOL!!!!!!!!! It was almost as bad as in NH during the hurricane when I thought the trees were going to come down on the tent. I should have asked the beavers to build me a log home those nights! They were too busy building that :cus: stoned walk across the river :yes:. Plus you kept crying Land Squid!

I wonder if there are any Land Squid in Pownal VT.:yikes:

 

[Smylinacha]

I wonder if there are any Land Squid in Pownal VT.:yikes:

There very well could be

Well if Steve comes, he will eat them.

 

[cisaacs]

Love it. :2thumbs: Beat sleeping on the ground.

 

[Smylinacha]

Love it. :2thumbs: Beat sleeping on the ground.

I will NEVER EVER sleep in a tent EVER again! I was never much of a "camper". I don't like public restrooms/showers - I will rather stay dirty for the entire trip than take a shower at some nasty fungus/bacteria riddled bathroom (except for a few private campgrounds that I've been to that are very nice). I camp the easy way - TV, Wireless Internet, hot Shower, hot bath, Oven, Microwave, freezer, fridge, 2 queen beds and 2 more bunks plus a porch, detached portable garage for the bikes, oh yeah, forgot to mention tunes and chilled wine.

 

[NancysToy]

I do enjoy tent camping via motorcycle. Much better equipment and comfort now than when I was a pup 40 years ago, with only a bedroll. My wife, on the other hand, refuses to tent camp on a motorcycle. She was a Boy Scout leader for many years, and says she has had her fill of sleeping on the ground. We did use a huge tent (with cots) at events like Mid-Ohio Vintage Motorcycle Days, but bought our enclosed trailer a couple of years back, and now just use that. Not as many comforts of home as Smylinacha and HDX, but liveable. Many of the bigger events have real nice shower and toilet facilities these days.
-Scotty

 

[Smylinacha]

I do enjoy tent camping via motorcycle. Much better equipment and comfort now than when I was a pup 40 years ago, with only a bedroll. My wife, on the other hand, refuses to tent camp on a motorcycle. She was a Boy Scout leader for many years, and says she has had her fill of sleeping on the ground. We did use a huge tent (with cots) at events like Mid-Ohio Vintage Motorcycle Days, but bought our enclosed trailer a couple of years back, and now just use that. Not as many comforts of home as Smylinacha and HDX, but liveable. Many of the bigger events have real nice shower and toilet facilities these days.
-Scotty

I am sure HDX thinks I'm a weanie! :yes: We spent so much money on expedition gear and I can't even handle that (only good thing I like about expedition gear is Mountain House food). Gotta be the Toy Hauler for me!

HDX can sleep on the ground w/ no tent and nothing! So long as he's riding, he don't care. Dang, during hunting season he sleeps in a tent in blizzard conditions in the mountains in NY. I don't know how he does it. Something I will NEVER understand and don't wanna ever try.:dontknow: And when he's hunting I am home, nice and toasty warm, watching TV or on the phone with a nice glass of wine! Then off to a warm toasty comfy bed. I like being out doors but I can't swing a tent and the wild life that manages to keep me up all night long.