Why Ironhorse Owners Trailer
How many hours a year do you ride? Would you ride more if it wasn’t for: A long-term co-rider with a short-distance butt tolerance, The long distances to scenic, safe, rider-friendly roads, Taking time for vacations with the family, or Short summers and heavy traffic? Was your last trip to Daytona, Myrtle Beach, Sturgis, Americade, ...
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August 28, 2009
Setting Up a Two-Bike Flip-Top for a Dresser and a Cruiser
What combinations of bikes will and won’t fit in our two-bike trailers has been a topic of many lively discussions. Just when we think we’ve got it nailed somebody will come up with something else. For example, we have repeatedly said that you can’t put two Goldwings in a two bike ...
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August 7, 2009
Secrets to Blow-Out-Free Trailering
We live and we learn—especially now that there are enough of our trailers out there that we can start to see patterns and investigate them. It’s clear, for example, from a few blowouts and a lot of background research, that infrequent use is the number one enemy of trailer tires ...
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July 22, 2009
The Widebody is Here At Last!
Currently on its way to Laconai, the first Widebody rolled out of Ironhorse headquarters on June 3rd. Over two feet wider at the handlebars than our standard two bike trailer, Nearly a foot and half wider and half a ...
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June 17, 2009
Why is Your Box Trailer so Hard to Tow? Part III
When it comes to towing ease and fuel economy, it’s hard to over-emphasize the importance of the frontal area and the drag coefficient of a particular trailer design. The frontal area of a trailer is simply how tall it is multiplied by how wide it is. But the drag coefficient can ...
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April 16, 2009
Why is Your Box Trailer so Hard to Tow? Part II
The force required to overcome wind resistance is given by: Air density factor (another constant) X Trailer air speed squared (a variable) X The frontal area of the trailer (a variable) X Trailer drag coefficient (a constant) ------------------------------------------------------------------ = Force required to overcome wind resistance If you look closely at the arithmetic above, a couple of things ...
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March 31, 2009
Why is Your Box Trailer so Hard to Tow? Part I
Since we’ve been in this business we’ve met some interesting characters and heard some pretty wild trailer towing stories. My favorite was the guy who couldn’t believe the gas mileage he didn’t get pulling his shiny new low hauler box trailer from Tennessee to Sturgis with a Suburban. I asked ...
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March 16, 2009
WILL MY RIDE FIT?
This question seems to be coming up more and more often, especially since the introduction of the new Harley motorcycle trike. There are three issues—length, width and height, and we have three different fliptops—a one bike, a two bike, and a widebody. Our WideBody is our widest, longest and tallest motorcycle ...
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February 13, 2009
Ironhorse WideBody Progress Report—1/27/09
At Americade in 2003, if we were asked once, we were probably asked a few thousand times if our trailers would hold two Wings, which they wouldn’t. Since then, a lot of Harley owners, hungry for something aerodynamic and lightweight, bought Ironhorse Fiptops to haul one Ultra and one other ...
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January 30, 2009
Saving gas with a trailer!
60% increase in gas mileage achieved As a now proud and cash rich owner of a Iron Horse trailer I cant stop talking about it. I recently sold my old box trailer that was used to carry my 2003 Gold wing and bought a Flip Top Single Motorcycle trailer ...
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January 5, 2009
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