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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 flip top without running them through a grinder first. But then along comes somebody who owns one of our two bike flips who says “yes you can”. Turns out he was not only staggering them, he was taking both mirrors off one and one mirror off the other. Then when he loaded the forward one, he was picking up the ass end and moving it as close to the wall as was practical, before loading the second one.
Here’s a staggered setup that will work for an Ultra and a Street Glide:
Street Glide Wheel Chock Positioned to Allow:
- 100 inches from the tailgate to the leading edge of the front tire
- and centered 18 inches to one side of the center of the trailer
Ultra Classic Wheel Chock Positioned to Allow:
- 112 inches from the tailgate to the leading edge of the front tire
- and centered 16 inches to the other side of the center of trailer
One of our two bike flip top owner routinely uses this setup to haul his Ultra and his wife’s Street Glide. But he took it two steps step further. First he had us install Cargo Buckles–automatic retracting ratchet straps. Second, after we explained that with his drive-in step-off wheel chocks and his Cargo Buckles properly located, two-strap towing was a real possibility. So he tried it! Now when somebody asks him how he gets up front to tie the bikes down. He has a very simple answer, “I don’t”. Recently he won a bet that he could unload the two bikes and have them on the ground ready to ride in three minutes—talk about pain-free trailering!!!
