• Over two feet wider at the handlebars than our standard two bike trailer,
• Nearly a foot and half wider and half a foot longer at the floor level,
• A couple of inches more clearance for your bike(s) windshield. and
• Standard non-slip flooring inside and on the tailgate–the kind of
• User-friendly changes that create more usable space and
• Make loading and strapping your bikes down a breeze.
• With 15 inch wheels and only 200-300 more lbs,
• You can still move a loaded Widebody by hand
• And drive right on by most gas stations.

It’ll even hold two Goldwings side by side without staggering them and with plenty of room between the mirrors.  All this and it still sells for only $7995.

Many, many of you asked for a trailer with these capabilities.  We believed in your vision enough to spend the $100,000 up front that it took to develop the Widebody and sincerely appreciate the input you provided along the way.  Now’s your chance to see for yourselves how well we followed your advice.

Since all of all of June and most of July’s Widebody production is already sold, you might want to call and reserve yours before the waiting list gets any longer.

Our WideBody is our widest, longest and tallest motorcycle cycle hauler and will accommodate two Goldwings, Ultra Classics or Visions, the largest motorcycles around except for the Boss Hoss and V-8 Choppers.  With a tailgate opening that is 90+ inches wide, a usable internal width at the handlebars of 101+ inches, an internal height of almost 64 inches, a usable internal length of 132 inches and a top that flips up from the rear, it’s very usable.  Goldwings with Tulsa windshields, Smart cars and T-rex’s are well within its limits, not to mention sidecar motorcycles, Can-Am Spyders, Thoroughbred motorcycle trikes and even some VW trike conversions and ATV’s.

Our two-bike flip top can handle pairs of bikes up to and including one touring bike like an Ultra Classic, Goldwing or Victory and one cruiser bike.  It’s important to remember that even though a particular motorcycle trailer has the internal width to accommodate your ride, you’ve still got to get it through the tailgate opening.  Surprisingly, this is not as simple as it sounds.  The tailgate of our two bike cycle hauler is 72 inches wide but the door jambs reduce the available width by another three inches.  Not to mention the stabilizer jack housings which reduce the opening by another two inches.  So the actual tailgate opening is only 67 inches wide.  Nevertheless it can easily accommodate Honda and Harley trike conversions and Can-Am Spyders, but side-car motorcycles and the exotic T-rex are still out of the question for our two bike fliptop, as are VW trike conversions.  .

In some cases, width isn’t an issue, it’s the length. For example, while the Thoroughbred will fit through the door of our two-bike cycle hauler, it’s a little too long for it.  While the trailer appears to be long enough, the proprietary hinge which enables the top to flip up is mounted exactly in the middle of the front of the trailer and is about a foot and a half wide.  The hinge combined with the rearward slope of the front of the body limits the usable length at the two foot level to 119 inches—one inch less than ten feet.  By contrast, the same two-bike trailers are routinely used for choppers nearly eleven feet long—as long as they are carried on the side, not in the middle of the trailer.

With a tailgate opening that is only 49 inches wide, our one bike fliptop motorcycle trailer is too narrow for anything except motorcycles, scooters and small atv’s.   It’s one heck of a single motorcycle trailer but it does have its limits.  A Boss Hoss really fills it up and if you want to haul a Goldwing or an Ultra, you or your traveling buddy better be thin enough to tie and untie the bike.  Nevertheless the one bike is wide enough for two scooters or motocross dirt bikes and, although we don’t recommend it, because it’s pushing the 2000 lb capacity limit, some people even use them to haul two Harley Sportsters.

Our one bike and two bike open chariot bike haulers share the same footprints as our one and two bike enclosed flip tops.  But since they are topless, there’s no flip top hinge to limit their effective length.  Likewise since there are no walls at handlebar height, each has a wider effective internal width than its enclosed trailer counterpart.  But the tailgate openings are identical.  All Ironhorse trailers are aerodynamic, fiberglass, lightweight, beautiful, fuel efficient and extremely easy to use.  Towing will never be as much fun as riding, but Ironhorse motorcycle transport trailers make it a heck of lot less painful.

Hopefully this answers your capacity questions.  If not, get the specs for what you want to haul and call us at 931-668-8860.

How do you get serious about bringing a brand new fiberglass trailer  to market?  There are two ways.   One way requires someone to sit down at a high end 3-D CAD station for countless hours and design and redesign until you have a shape that appeals to you.  Then the computer takes a series of vertical slices through the 3-D image, scales the dimensions up to actual size, and produces drawings for each slice.  Drawings which can be used used to fabricate a skeleton out of plywood, a skeleton which can be overlaid with foam or wood to build a rough facsimile of your design.   Gallons and gallons of bondo and primer, many square yards of sandpaper, and hundreds of hours of hand sanding later, you wind up with a facsimile so precise that you can take a mold directly off it.  This is the high budget way that many well known high volume boats companies currently use to design boats.

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But after a year of doodling, we had a pretty good idea of what we wanted the WideBody to look like and what its dimensions would be.  What we didn’t have was the kind of capital that today’s high volume boat manufacturers have.  So we took a much more direct route, much like boat manufacturers before 3-D CAD came along.  First we fabricated a metal chassis.  Then we built a wooden box on that chassis the length, width and height of the motorcycle carrying part of the trailer.  Next we took a top from one of our fliptops, split it down the middle and inserted a new panel a couple of feet wide between the two sides of the top and front.  At that point our approach and the CAD approach converged.  We glued foam on the fender and handle areas we wanted to add bulk to and shaped it with knives and sandpaper.  After that, we bondo’d and sanded until we wound up with a facsimile for the body, top and tailgate that met our dimensional requirements and looked like the picture we had in our heads.  We colored the actual photos of the facsimile we’re using to announce the WideBody simply because Bondo isn’t all that attractive.

We’ve had our about 2.5 people committed to this project since Sturgis but the end is finally in sight. As soon as the eight gallons of special purpose primer we ordered a couple of weeks ago arrive, we will spray it on the facsimile—then sand it with progressively finer sandpaper until its surface is mirror smooth. Then and only then will we be able to apply the tooling gelcoat, fiberglass and superstructure that we’ll use to make the actual mold.