A quad and a harley

[PickupMan04 FX4 L2]

unless u have a suzuki lt 80 and a sportster i dunno my honda 450 is a tight squeeze

 

[michowski]

That is the absolute worst idea for hauling a motorcycle, sorry to say. Harley's are around 700-800 pounds for the smaller ones. Get the harbor freight trailer as mentioned before and your good to go. Thats actually what I got and with a truck bed tool box on it, and a quad strapped down to her I cant even tell I have a trailer behind me. Maybe the ones you had before were poorly maintained and just beat on and not fixed? I guess if you try to just stack this all in your bed il be looking for the thread of pics of it all on the side of the road lol. Id say you looking at least 1000 pounds just based on average weight for each toy.

 

[odie1969]

New River

Just wondering Why New River, HAve you Been there yet.

 

[Will]

Everyone I've ever towed has never tracked straight and bounces all over the place.

Just loaded poorly--I've had then do that too. After I got married we moved using an enclosed single axle U-Hual. My brothers loaded it while I was doing wedding things. We got out on the road dragging cans and shit and suddenly we are weaving all over the place and I can barely steer. Finally, we stop for the night and I unload the trailer. They had shoved the couch in first--which weighed about 200# and took up 1/4 of the trailer. The last things they had put in were cartons of books and my tools--like a thousand pounds right inside the rear door. So we reloaded it putting the couch in last and the heavy stuff forward and the trailer was fine.

Really, a tandem isn't a lot different. There is still only a single fulcrum--unless you have torflex axles--which are pretty forgiving though still not good if misloaded. The fulcrum with a an equalizer bar is at the equalizer bar. I've bought a 30' trailer that had the axles almost centered and these huge ramps that slid under the rear--they were 150# each. With a 3/4 pickup I was across both lanes of traffic and scared out of my mind. That was outside of Memphis and that's a long haul to Indianapolis. SO I got off at the next exit, pull the ramps out and strapped them to the front of the trailer and then I could drive, but it was still swinging back and forth. When I got home I cut the hangers out and moved the axles back a good three feet and then it tracked like it was on train rails.

 

[stlboarder]

Just wondering Why New River, HAve you Been there yet.

Yeah... my wife's parents live there and my best friend from when I was in the Marine Corps lives there with his wife.

Why... do you not like living out that far?

 

[odie1969]

Yeah... my wife's parents live there and my best friend from when I was in the Marine Corps lives there with his wife.

Why... do you not like living out that far?

No its not that at all. Just if you are able to get the quad and the harley in the bed of the ranger, You will fit right in out there. Hell you might get promoted to the King. J/K.

But all my coworkers that live out there are Kinda on the hillbilly side of redneck. But still good people.

 

[stlboarder]

Oh yea... there are definitely some "colorful" people out there. A lot of them spent too much time out in the sun. lol

 

[Mar]

You're pulling my leg right?
Ranger and quad and Harley...Haahaahaa

Haahaahaahaahaahaahaaahaaaaaaaa

Get serious.

 

[Legend]

You're right on with the Tetris hint. The real problem is the shape of the objects to be moved. No matter how you arrange them with only 2 pieces, they are gonna hang over and have lots of unused space. Disassemble them completely - every nut and bolt. When you have a big pile of little pieces they will fit just fine and leave enough space to pack the wrenches to reassemble.

 

[odie1969]

Shyt if I was thinking I would have taken a pic of my 78 yamaha 650. it took a good bit of the truck bed. O and I hate going through a bond process to get a title of a motorcycle that is from another state.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I would put the Harley in the bed and the quad on a little trailer like Will mentioned.

With the heft the Harley in the back of your truck, you should be able to control the quad just fine, it would sort of be like free tongue weight.

I would put the Harley in the truck no matter what so it won't be getting hit by rocks thrown up by the truck.

 

[stlboarder]

Yeah, I think I'm just going to buy one of those trailers from Harbor Freight. It costs the same to rent one. Might as well keep it.

Does anyone know what I need to do to register it?

 

[stlboarder]

Disassemble them completely - every nut and bolt. When you have a big pile of little pieces they will fit just fine and leave enough space to pack the wrenches to reassemble.

hahaha... funny guy. Then I'll be mixing up parts between the two and I'll end up with a vtwin in my raptor somehow. lol

 

[Cheaplabor]

I bet if you took the passenger seat out of the ranger and took the wheels and forks off the Harley you could put it there and the rest in back with the quad. May get some funny looks with the bike there thought.

 

[crawlin91]

Haha, that reminded me of this pic

I'd def. say go with a trailer, better safe than sorry.

gotta be photoshop