I bought an enclosed trailer about a year and a half ago, with the intention of mostly using it for motorcycle trips, since to get to most ride locations from here it's a pretty decent drive on the highway. When I first got it, I had a few ideas of things I'd like to do, but really wasn't sure what to do and didn't find as much as I expected to online, so I figured I'd throw together a thread about what I'm doing with mine in the hopes that it'll be helpful to someone else at some point.
So, for starters, it's a 12' US Cargo Snomate trailer, about 5' tall inside and roughly 8' wide, 8' of its length is a rectangle, and the remaining 4' is a V-nose on the front. As the name implies, it's really a snowmobile trailer, so I've been trying to re-purpose it for motorcycles. I hope to get back into snowmobiling in the next couple years, and then I'll be trying to get it setup to accommodate both, but I expect motorcycle trips to continue to be the bulk of its usage.
Here's a few pics from when I bought it:
The first thing I did was ripped out the guides for the sled skis, and ended up pulling out the mats for the tracks. Since I ride with a number of friends with completely different styles of bikes, I was trying to figure out how I could best setup the trailer to be "flexible" for different bikes. I ended up using e-track, which is basically a long slotted track, with different tie down connectors that you can move from slot to slot. I added tracks running down each side of the trailer, as well as two down the center and two smaller ones up in the V-nose, so my tie down points are pretty much unlimited.
The cabinet you see in there fell down on one of the first trips after I'd put the etrack in (after looking at how the guy installed it, I'm shocked it stayed up there at all, but I got the impression the guy I bought the trailer from didn't use it that often, as he was keeping it at his neighbor's, and his neighbor had an even larger trailer, so I bet they used that more). I ended up with an extra length of etrack and couldn't figure out where to put it, so after it rattled around the bed of my truck for a while, I figured it'd be good to put it on one of the walls of the trailer and use it for storing the connectors/tie downs, since I got tired of kicking them around the floor when they weren't holding a bike in place.
Here's some pics of how I have it setup:
So, for starters, it's a 12' US Cargo Snomate trailer, about 5' tall inside and roughly 8' wide, 8' of its length is a rectangle, and the remaining 4' is a V-nose on the front. As the name implies, it's really a snowmobile trailer, so I've been trying to re-purpose it for motorcycles. I hope to get back into snowmobiling in the next couple years, and then I'll be trying to get it setup to accommodate both, but I expect motorcycle trips to continue to be the bulk of its usage.
Here's a few pics from when I bought it:
The first thing I did was ripped out the guides for the sled skis, and ended up pulling out the mats for the tracks. Since I ride with a number of friends with completely different styles of bikes, I was trying to figure out how I could best setup the trailer to be "flexible" for different bikes. I ended up using e-track, which is basically a long slotted track, with different tie down connectors that you can move from slot to slot. I added tracks running down each side of the trailer, as well as two down the center and two smaller ones up in the V-nose, so my tie down points are pretty much unlimited.
The cabinet you see in there fell down on one of the first trips after I'd put the etrack in (after looking at how the guy installed it, I'm shocked it stayed up there at all, but I got the impression the guy I bought the trailer from didn't use it that often, as he was keeping it at his neighbor's, and his neighbor had an even larger trailer, so I bet they used that more). I ended up with an extra length of etrack and couldn't figure out where to put it, so after it rattled around the bed of my truck for a while, I figured it'd be good to put it on one of the walls of the trailer and use it for storing the connectors/tie downs, since I got tired of kicking them around the floor when they weren't holding a bike in place.
Here's some pics of how I have it setup: